feisty 基本解释
- adj. 活跃的；好争吵的；烦躁不安的；坚决而据理力争的
feisty 词态变化
比较级: feistier;最高级: feistiest;
feisty 中文词源
feisty 坚决而据理力争的缩写自fysting curre, 臭狗，词源同fart, 拟声词，放屁。后词义褒义化。
feisty 英文词源
- feisty
- feisty: [19] Feisty, nowadays a colloquial Americanism for ‘quarrelsome’ or ‘spirited’, originated in Middle English as a term for a ‘farting dog’. It goes back to the now obsolete English verb fist ‘fart’, which came ultimately from Indo-European *pezd- (source also of Latin pēdere ‘break wind’, whence English petard ‘small bomb’ [16], as in ‘hoist with one’s own petard’); like *perd-, the Indo-European ancestor of English fart, this was probably of imitative origin.
In the 16th and 17th centuries the expression fisting dog, literally ‘farting dog’, was applied contemptuously to a ‘mongrel’ or ‘cur’. This eventually became shortened to feist, and (mongrels being notoriously combative) feisty was born.
=> fizzle, petard - feisty (adj.)
- 1896, "aggressive, exuberant, touchy," American English, with -y (2) + feist "small dog," earlier fice, fist (American English, 1805); short for fysting curre "stinking cur," attested from 1520s, with present participle of now-obsolete Middle English fysten, fisten "break wind" (mid-15c.), from Proto-Germanic *fistiz "a fart," said to be from PIE *pezd- (see fart), but there are difficulties.
The 1811 slang dictionary defines fice as "a small windy escape backwards, more obvious to the nose than ears; frequently by old ladies charged on their lap-dogs." Compare also Danish fise "to blow, to fart," and obsolete English aske-fise, "fire-tender," literally "ash-blower" (early 15c.), from an unrecorded Norse source, used in Middle English for a kind of bellows, but originally "a term of reproach among northern nations for an unwarlike fellow who stayed at home in the chimney corner" [OED].
feisty 英文释义
- 1. showing courage;
- "the champion is faced with a feisty challenger"
- 2. irritable and looking for trouble;
- "too touchy to make judicious decisions"
feisty 双语例句
- 1. At 66, she was as feisty as ever.
- 66岁的她还和从前一样精神矍铄。
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- 2. The soldier looked incredulously at the feisty child.
- 士兵难以置信地看着这个异常顽强的孩子。
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- 3. He was a strong and a feisty old man.
- 他是个很坚强的倔老头.
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- 4. Ms Madlala - Routledge was certainly feisty.
- 马德拉?若勒基的确精力充沛.
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- 5. A feisty girl always wins arguments.
- 一个好拚斗的女孩子时常赢争吵.
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feisty 实用场景例句
- At 66, she was as feisty as ever.
- 66岁的她还和从前一样精神矍铄。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- The soldier looked incredulously at the feisty child...
- 士兵难以置信地看着这个异常顽强的孩子。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- From the start, he'd liked her long , thick hair, feisty sense of humor and fearlessness.
- 从一开始, 他就被她那浓密的秀发, 泼辣 、 幽默、无所畏惧的性情所打动.
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- A feisty girl always wins arguments.
- 一个好拚斗的女孩子时常赢争吵.
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- He was a strong and a feisty old man.
- 他是个很坚强的倔老头.
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- He was a strong and a feisty old man, considering that life is so hard.
- 他是一个这么强壮和活跃的老人, 生活却是如此之艰难.
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- A feisty old lady had to call the electric company for a repairman.
- 一位火爆脾气的老太太给供电公司打电话要个检修工.
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- Mr Hatoyama's feisty partners made life tough for him over the air base.
- 鸠山的政治伙伴在冲绳岛美军基地上喋喋不休让他的日子着实难过.
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- Glogg : You're a feisty bloke , aren't ya?
- 你是一个容易激动的家伙吧?
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- So it'll be a feisty game.
- 所以这将是一场艰苦的比赛.
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- Our encounters are generally feisty affairs too.
- 我们的对碰一般也是轻易出现吵架的.
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- The feisty, ambitious wannabes, grew bored and restless.
- 这群不安分的 、 野心勃勃的“想要”们变得烦躁不安、心绪不定起来.
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- The champion is faced with a feisty challenger.
- 冠军面临着一个勇敢的挑战者.
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- Team mate Takuma Sato drove a feisty race.
- 队友佐藤琢磨完成了一场活跃的比赛.
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- How about a name for this feisty lady?
- 该替这位勇敢的女士取一个什么样的名字 呢 ?
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- At 66, she was as feisty as ever.
- 66岁的她还和从前一样精神矍铄。
柯林斯例句
- The soldier looked incredulously at the feisty child.
- 士兵难以置信地看着这个异常顽强的孩子。
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