newfangled
newfangled 英 [ˌnju:ˈfæŋgld] 美 [ˌnuˈfæŋgld]
adj. 新奇的；新流行的；最新式的 v. 使流行（newfangle的过去式及过去分词）
- Something newfangled is new, like a fancy new gadget or invention. This is a folksy way of describing a fashionable (and often too fashionable) thing.
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- adj. 新奇的；新流行的；最新式的
- v. 使流行（newfangle的过去式及过去分词）
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1. The only real newfangled thing that has come online since I started translating was Google Translate.
我从事翻译工作以来，网上唯一真正新奇的事物就是 谷歌翻译。
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2. We shouldn't judge any activism -- online or off, old-fashioned or newfangled -- by its medium or by how much it requires of us.
我们不应该以某种行动主义所倚靠的媒介或者对人们要求的多少来加以判别——无论线上或者线下，传统或者新奇。
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3. We often ignore these newfangled electric-powered ovens and the two ovens in the outdoor kitchen, opting instead for cooking with the power of direct sunlight.
我们经常忘记了这些新奇的电力炉灶和那两台户外厨房的炉灶，而选择用太阳能来煮食。
- newfangled (adj.) late 15c., "addicted to novelty," literally "ready to grasp at all new things," from adjective newefangel "fond of novelty" (late 14c.), from new + -fangel "inclined to take," from Proto-Germanic *fanglon "to grasp," from nasalized form of PIE root *pag- "to fasten" (compare fang). Sense of "lately come into fashion" first recorded 1530s. Fanglement "act of fashioning; something made" is from 1660s. Middle English had gar-fangel "fish-spear."
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