ballyhoo: [20] Ballyhoo remains an etymological mystery, but there is no shortage of suggested candidates as its source: an Irish village called Ballyhooly; an old nautical slang word ballyhoo meaning ‘unseaworthy vessel’, which seems to have been an anglicization of Spanish balahú ‘schooner’; and the bizarre late- 19th-century ballyhoo bird, a fake bird made of wood and cardboard and intended to fool a birdhunter. None of them, alas, seems remotely relevant to ballyhoo’s original American sense, ‘barker’s patter outside a circus tent, to encourage people to enter’.
ballyhoo (n.)
"publicity, hype," 1908, from circus slang, "a short sample of a sideshow" (1901), which is of unknown origin. There is a village of Ballyhooly in County Cork, Ireland. In nautical lingo, ballahou or ballahoo (1867, perhaps 1836) meant "an ungainly vessel," from Spanish balahu "schooner."
雙語例句
1. They announced, amid much ballyhoo, that they had made a breakthrough.
在一通大吹大擂中，他們宣布自己取得了突破。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The candidate's campaign was attended with too much ballyhoo.
對候選人的競選宣傳得太過分了.
來自《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》
3. I have never heard so much ballyhoo for such lousy movie.
對這樣一部糟糕透頂的影片進行如此的夸大其詞的大吹大擂的宣傳,我還從沒聽說過.
來自互聯(lián)網
4. In Taiwan, many candidates ballyhoo their campaigning in the street.
在臺灣, 許多候選人在街上為他們的競選活動大舉造勢.
來自互聯(lián)網
5. The company was too conservative to indulge in ballyhoo in its advertising.