jay

英 [d?e?] 美[d?e]

低頻詞擴(kuò)展詞匯

復(fù)數(shù):?jays;

jay 松鴉，多嘴的人，粗魯無禮的人

來自古法語jai,喜鵲，松鴉，來自拉丁語gaius,松鴉，可能來自擬聲詞。引申詞義多嘴的人，粗魯無禮的人。

jay: jay: [13] Like the robin, the jay may have been christened originally with a human name; Latin Gaius. At all events, the term for it in postclassical Latin was gaius, which passed into English via Old French jay. The term jaywalker for ‘one who crosses the road illegally’ originated in the USA around the time of World War I; it was based on an American use of jay for a ‘fool’ or ‘simpleton’.
jay (n.): c. 1300, common European bird (Garrulus glandarinus), from Old North French gai, Old French jai "magpie, jay," from Late Latin gaius "a jay," probably echoic and supposedly influenced by Latin Gaius, a common Roman proper name. For other bird names from proper names, compare martin and parrot. Applied to the North American blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata) from 1709. Applied to humans in sense of "impertinent chatterer, flashy dresser" from 1620s.
jay (adj.): "fourth-rate, worthless" (as in a jay town), 1888, American English, apparently from some disparaging sense of jay (n.). Perhaps from a decaying or ironical use of jay "flashy dresser."

1. Jay had always tended to keep his girlfriends at a distance.: 杰伊一貫和他的女朋友們保持距離。

2. I thought at first that Jay had been stirring things up.: 我起初認(rèn)為杰伊一直在挑起事端。