yokel
yokel 英 [ˈjəʊkl] 美 [ˈjoʊkl]
n. 乡巴佬；庄稼汉
名词复数:yokels
- Yokel is a disparaging name for someone from a small town or the countryside. To call someone a yokel is to imply that they are unsophisticated, uneducated, and probably dim-witted.
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- n. 乡巴佬；庄稼汉
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1. Local yokel:Nothing---I was born here.
乡下佬：没什么--我就出生在这个地方。
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2. The clothes makes him look like a slack - jaw yokel .
这件衣服让他看起来像个土包子。
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3. Before that, a "butter-and-egg man" was slang for a visitor with a lot of money, a yokel ready to be separated from his funds.
在那之前，一个“黄油和鸡蛋人”是对有钱拜访者的俚语，一个将要和他的资金分离的庄稼汉。
- yokel (n.) 1812, perhaps from dialectal German Jokel, disparaging name for a farmer, originally diminutive of Jakob. Or perhaps from English yokel, dialectal name for "woodpecker."
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