單詞
milquetoast
英 ['m?lkt??st]
美['m?lk,tost]
基本信息
- n. 意志薄弱的人；膽小者
英文詞源
- milquetoast (n.)
- "timid, meek person," 1938, from Caspar Milquetoast, character created by U.S. newspaper cartoonist H.T. Webster (1885-1952) in the strip "The Timid Soul," which ran from 1924 in the "New York World" and later the "Herald Tribune." By 1930 the name was being referenced as a type of the meek man. The form seems to be milktoast with an added French twist; also see milksop.
雙語例句
- 1. Foreign policy planners fear the U.S. A gets a Milquetoast reputation abroad.
- 制定對外政策的人害怕美國會在國外落得個膽小怕事的罪名.
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