yokel
GRE,1
英['jəʊk(ə)l]
|美[]
日语:芋
法语:rustre
德语:Idiot
韩语:시골뜨기
俄语:patán
牛津词典
noun
- 乡巴佬;乡下人
if you call a person a yokel , you are saying that they do not have much education or understanding of modern life, because they come from the countryside
词形变化
双语例句
- Local yokel: Nothing& I was born here.
乡下佬:没什么&我就出生在这个地方。
- Listen, you yokel, I've had it with you.
听着,智障,我受够你了。
- His mouth was Agape in yokel fashion.
他张着口,一副土包子的样子。
- Listen to the local yokel yodel!
听本地庄稼人唱的岳得尔歌!
- But George Bailey is not a common, ordinary yokel.
可是,乔治·贝利不是一个普通的粗人。
语源
early 19th cent.: perhaps figuratively from dialect yokelgreen woodpecker