booby 英 ['buːbɪ]  

booby

booby  英 ['buːbɪ]

n. 呆子;傻瓜;塘鹅;(在比赛或游戏中)成绩最差的人 

名词复数:boobies 

Females are attracted to the male booby’s brilliant blue boots, so it’s lucky for them that they get even brighter if they miss a mating season. 雄性鲣鸟用它们亮蓝色的爪子来吸引雌性,而如果它们错过了交配季节,那对蓝爪子会变得愈发耀眼,这也可以算是一种幸运吧。
If there was a (booby) prize for the most misused design cliché, a firm favorite would be “form follows function, ” with “less is more” coming a close second. 如果给设计界最常用的陈词滥调设立一个奖项的话,毫无疑问第一名肯定是“功能决定样式”,紧随其后的就是“做减法(少即是多)”。

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  • n. 呆子;傻瓜;塘鹅;(在比赛或游戏中)成绩最差的人
  • 1. Females are attracted to the male booby’s brilliant blue boots, so it’s lucky for them that they get even brighter if they miss a mating season.

    雄性鲣鸟用它们亮蓝色的爪子来吸引雌性,而如果它们错过了交配季节,那对蓝爪子会变得愈发耀眼,这也可以算是一种幸运吧。

  • 2. If there was a (booby) prize for the most misused design cliché, a firm favorite would be “form follows function, ” with “less is more” coming a close second.

    如果给设计界最常用的陈词滥调设立一个奖项的话,毫无疑问第一名肯定是“功能决定样式”,紧随其后的就是“做减法(少即是多)”。

  • 3. Will the Tasman booby survive being discovered for the third time?

    在第三次被发现之后,塔斯曼鲣鸟还能存活下来吗?

  • booby (n.) "stupid person," 1590s, from Spanish bobo "stupid person," also used of various ungainly seabirds, probably from Latin balbus "stammering," from an imitative root (see barbarian).
booby / ˈbuːbi ; NAmE ˈbuːbi / noun ( plural boobies ) 1 ( informal) a stupid person 笨蛋;傻瓜 Don't be such a booby! 不要那么傻! 2 [usually plural ] ( informal) a word for a woman's breast, used especially by children (女人的)乳房(多见于儿童用语) 3 a large tropical bird with brightly coloured feet that lives near the sea 鲣鸟(大型热带海鸟) booby boobies booby / ˈbuːbi ; NAmE ˈbuːbi /
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