wonk
英式音标[wɑŋk]
美式英标[wɒŋk]
基本解释
英文词源
- wonk (n.)
- "overly studious person," 1962, earlier "effeminate male" (1954), American English student slang. Perhaps a shortening of British slang wonky "shaky, unreliable," or a variant of British slang wanker "masturbator." It seemed to rise into currency as a synonym for nerd late 1980s from Ivy League slang and was widely popularized 1993 during the presidency of Bill Clinton. Tom Wolfe (1988) described it as "an Eastern prep-school term referring to all those who do not have the 'honk' voice, i.e., all who are non-aristocratic."
实用例句
- 1. the President's chief economic policy wonk
- 总统的首席经济问题策士
来自《权威词典》
- 2. But a new breed of policy wonk is having second thoughts.
- 但是,新生代“政策专家”又有了新的想法.
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