gimmick

英 ['g?m?k] 美['ɡ?m?k]
  • n. 暗機(jī)關(guān);騙人的玩意;花招
  • vt. 使暗機(jī)關(guān);搞騙人的玩意

TEM8IELTSGRE低頻詞擴(kuò)展詞匯

詞態(tài)變化


復(fù)數(shù):?gimmicks;形容詞:?gimmicky;

助記提示


1. perhaps an alteration of gimcrack, or that it began as gimac, an anagram of magic.
2. gimmick 音“機(jī)密客”→機(jī)密客的花招.
3. game + trick => *gammick => gimmick.
4. game + magic => gimmick.
5. 諧音“機(jī)迷客、給迷客”。

中文詞源


gimmick 花招,把戲

來(lái)自gimcrack的拼寫變體,花里胡哨的,花招,把戲。

英文詞源


gimmick
gimmick: [20] Gimmick originally meant ‘dishonest contrivance’ – indeed, in the first known printed reference to it, in George Maine’s and Bruce Grant’s Wise-crack dictionary 1926 (an American publication), it is defined specifically as a ‘device for making a fair game crooked’. The modern sense ‘stratagem for gaining attention’ seems to have come to the fore in the 1940s. The origins of the word are a mystery, although it has been suggested that it began as gimac, an anagram of magic used by conjurers.
gimmick (n.)
1910, American English, perhaps an alteration of gimcrack, or an anagram of magic.
In a hotel at Muscatine, Iowa, the other day I twisted the gimmick attached to the radiator, with the intention of having some heat in my Nova Zemblan booth. ["Domestic Engineering," January 8, 1910]

雙語(yǔ)例句


1. He dismissed the event as just a publicity gimmick.
他不理會(huì)這件事,只當(dāng)它是一種宣傳手法.

來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》

2. The tax cut is widely disparaged by senators from both parties as a budget gimmick.
兩個(gè)黨派的參議員們普遍對(duì)作為預(yù)算噱頭的稅收削減嗤之以鼻。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

3. It is just a public relations gimmick.
這只不過(guò)是一種公關(guān)伎倆。

來(lái)自辭典例句

4. The basic gimmick was the distinguishing of one bank from the others.
基本決竅是區(qū)分某一銀行與其它銀行的標(biāo)志.

來(lái)自辭典例句

5. The advertisement is just a gimmick to make consumers buy their products.
宣傳只是一種使消費(fèi)者買他們產(chǎn)品的花招.

來(lái)自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)