yenta

英 ['jent?] 美['j?nt?]
  • n. 長舌婦；好管閑事的女人；搬弄是非的女人

詞態(tài)變化

復(fù)數(shù):?yentas;

英文詞源

yenta (n.)
"gossip, busybody," 1923, from Yente Telebende, comic strip gossip in 1920s-30s writing of Yiddish newspaper humorist B. Kovner (pen-name of Jacob Adler) in the "Jewish Daily Forward." It was a common Yiddish fem. proper name, altered from Yentl and said to be ultimately from Italian gentile "kind, gentle," earlier "noble, high-born" (see gentle).

雙語例句

1. She is well known as a yenta in this neighborhood.
她是這一帶遠(yuǎn)近聞名的長舌婦.

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2. Thanks, but Harvard doesn't give a degree in yenta.
謝謝你的稱贊, 但是哈佛不提供雞婆學(xué)位.

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