hotchpotch
英 ['h?t?p?t?]
美['hɑt?'pɑt?]
助記提示
1. Hotchpotch is an alteration (for the sake of the rhyme) of an earlier hotchpot.
2. This was borrowed from an Old French compound made up of hocher 'shake' and pot 'pot'.
3. So originally the word meant literally 'shake the pot' – presumably to blend an assortment of ingredients.
中文詞源
hotchpotch 大雜燴，雜亂無章來自古法語hochepot,熱罐，來自hocher,搖，pot,罐子。原指把肉，草藥，香料，酒和其它調(diào)料加在一起燉的燉鍋菜，引申詞義大雜燴，雜亂無章。
英文詞源
- hotchpotch
- hotchpotch: [15] Hotchpotch is an alteration (for the sake of the rhyme) of an earlier hotchpot. This was borrowed from an Old French compound made up of hocher ‘shake’ (perhaps from Frankish hottisōn) and pot ‘pot’. So originally the word meant literally ‘shake the pot’ – presumably to blend an assortment of ingredients, although it is not certain that the allusion was in the first instance culinary. (Old French hocher, incidentally, may well have been the source of the Scottish verb hotch ‘shake, fidget’ [14].)
雙語例句
- 1. Garton pensively stirred the hotchpotch of his hair.
- 加頓沉思著攪動自己的亂發(fā).
來自辭典例句
- 2. His essay was a hotchpotch of other people's ideas.
- 他的文章是把別人的想法拼湊在一起的大雜燴.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
- 3. They are all a hotchpotch of outstandingness and of virtue and vice, of nobility and baseness.
- 她們皆是偉大與渺小,善良與邪惡, 高尚與低俗的混合體.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
- 4. This suggests that a carbon tax would be more efficient than the current hotchpotch of policies.
- 這說明,一條碳稅政策就比當前一堆亂七八糟的政策更具實效.
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