kibitz
英['kɪbɪts]
美['kɪbɪts]
- vi. 多管闲事；乱插嘴
词态变化
第三人称单数: kibitzes;过去式: kibitzed;过去分词: kibitzed;现在分词: kibitzing;
中文词源
kibitz 乱出主意，多管闲事
来自依地语kibitsen,乱发表意见或提供建议，来自德语gibitz,田凫，凤头麦鸡，拟声词，模仿这种鸟的叫声。引申词义叽叽喳喳，乱出主意，多管闲事。
英文词源
- kibitz (v.)
- 1927, from Yiddish kibitsen "to offer gratuitous advice as an outsider," from German kiebitzen "to look on at cards, to kibitz," originally in thieves' cant "to visit," from Kiebitz, name of a shore bird (European pewit, lapwing) with a folk reputation as a meddler, from Middle High German gibitz "pewit," imitative of its cry. Young lapwings are proverbially precocious and active, and were said to run around with half-shells still on their heads soon after hatching.
双语例句
- 1. Workers gathered to munch, gossip, kibitz, laugh.
- 员工们聚拢来,大嚼, 闲话, 抢话,大笑.
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