ballyhoo
英 [b?l?'hu?]
美['b?l?hu]
- n. 大肆宣傳；大吹大擂
- vi. 大肆宣傳；大吹大擂
- vt. 大肆宣傳；大吹大擂
詞態變化
復數:?ballyhoos;
中文詞源
ballyhoo 大吹大擂
可能來自擬聲詞。
英文詞源
- ballyhoo
- ballyhoo: [20] Ballyhoo remains an etymological mystery, but there is no shortage of suggested candidates as its source: an Irish village called Ballyhooly; an old nautical slang word ballyhoo meaning ‘unseaworthy vessel’, which seems to have been an anglicization of Spanish balahú ‘schooner’; and the bizarre late- 19th-century ballyhoo bird, a fake bird made of wood and cardboard and intended to fool a birdhunter. None of them, alas, seems remotely relevant to ballyhoo’s original American sense, ‘barker’s patter outside a circus tent, to encourage people to enter’.
- ballyhoo (n.)
- "publicity, hype," 1908, from circus slang, "a short sample of a sideshow" (1901), which is of unknown origin. There is a village of Ballyhooly in County Cork, Ireland. In nautical lingo, ballahou or ballahoo (1867, perhaps 1836) meant "an ungainly vessel," from Spanish balahu "schooner."
雙語例句
- 1. They announced, amid much ballyhoo, that they had made a breakthrough.
- 在一通大吹大擂中，他們宣布自己取得了突破。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. The candidate's campaign was attended with too much ballyhoo.
- 對候選人的競選宣傳得太過分了.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》
- 3. I have never heard so much ballyhoo for such lousy movie.
- 對這樣一部糟糕透頂的影片進行如此的夸大其詞的大吹大擂的宣傳,我還從沒聽說過.
來自互聯網
- 4. In Taiwan, many candidates ballyhoo their campaigning in the street.
- 在臺灣, 許多候選人在街上為他們的競選活動大舉造勢.
來自互聯網
- 5. The company was too conservative to indulge in ballyhoo in its advertising.
- 這公司太過保守以至于在它的廣告上沒辦法盡情大舉造勢.
來自互聯網