booby
booby 英 ['buːbɪ] 美
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
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- n. 呆子;傻瓜;塘鹅;(在比赛或游戏中)成绩最差的人
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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。
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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)”。
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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).
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