喜樂美語
  1. 1n/ˈtʃɑːrli/ · /ˈtʃɑːli/傻瓜／呆子

    口語A silly or foolish person; a British, informal word often used about yourself after you do something a bit silly.

    「charlie」是英式口語裡半開玩笑說「傻瓜、呆子」的詞，多半用在自己身上——做了蠢事後笑自己「我真是個 charlie」，語氣輕鬆、帶點自嘲。最常見的說法是 feel a right/proper charlie（覺得自己好糗）。跟兇兇罵人的 idiot 不一樣，charlie 比較可愛、不傷人。

    示範例句 · Example

    I wore my shirt inside out all morning and felt a right charlie.

    中文翻譯我整個早上把襯衫穿反了，覺得自己是個十足的傻瓜。

    常見搭配

    • feel a right/proper charlie

      覺得自己好糗、好蠢

      to feel very silly or embarrassed about something you did

      I forgot my own phone number and felt a right charlie.

    • a bit of a charlie

      有點呆呆的人

      a slightly silly person

      He's a bit of a charlie, but everyone likes him.

    意思相近

    fooltwitgooseclownsilly billy

core核心畫面

You can picture charlie as a very ordinary British first name borrowed as a label for whoever just did something daft — and most often that person is you, saying it with a laugh: 'I felt a right charlie.' The tone is light. It points at the silly moment, not at what the person is worth.

charlie 可以想成：英國人拿一個再普通不過的英文名字，用來叫「剛剛做了蠢事的那個人」。這個字長得就是一個常見的男生名字，被當成普通名詞來用之後，語氣反而變得很輕。它最常出現在講自己的時候——推錯門、對著已經關掉的麥克風講了五分鐘，然後笑著說 I felt a right charlie（我覺得自己像個呆子）。指的是那個好笑的當下，不是在評價一個人。

charlies

意思相近

fooltwitgooseclownsilly billy

原始詞典資料12 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Charliename/ˈtʃɑɹli/

  • 1

    A unisex given name.

    • Heaven only knows why a man with a strong biblical name like James wants to be a president named Jimmy. I'm certain that if he were called Charles, he wouldn't fool around that way. Charles is not so bad, but Charlie is a terrible burden to bear.
    • People were seen exiting a building on Utah Valley University after Charlie Kirk, the CEO and co-founder of the conservative youth organization Turning Point USA, was shot Wednesday at an event on campus.
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    A unisex given name.

    • 'Can I call you Charlotte?' 'No. I hate the name, makes me sound like a Victorian aunt. I'm Charlie, and no, you can't call me that either.'
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    A name for a fox in fables and folk literature.

    • [I]t is a land of large, rich pastures bounded by ox-fences, and covered with fine hedgerow timber, with here and there a nice little gorse or spinney, where abideth poor Charley, having no other cover to which to betake himself for miles and miles, when pushed out some fine November morning by the old Berkshire.

Charlienoun/ˈtʃɑɹli/

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    radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter C.

  • 2

    slanggovernmentmilitarypoliticsThe Vietcong (Victor Charlie); (by extension, sometimes) any enemy.

    • I learned a thing or two from Charlie, don't you know? You better stay away from Copperhead Road.
  • 3

    slangCocaine.

  • 4

    slangA fool.

    • You look a right Charlie in that clown outfit! — Yes, we make a right pair of Charlies.
    • He looked a right Charlie in those tails and striped trousers.
  • 5

    slangA woman's breast

    • There's not a man she won't go with. She lets even the small boys feel her charlies.
    • […]being turned on by a woman who was also a person and had stuff going for herself, and knowing that even if my Wurlitzer rotted and fell off, even if her Charlies sagged and turned to empty baggies, we'd still be buddies and craft companions
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    archaicslangA nightwatchman.

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    A short, pointed beard, like that of King Charles I.

    • […] the sons are adorned in the very height of the fashion, with white pantaloons, watch chains and Wellingtons, and a charley at their under lip […]
    • That square, short man... wearing a moustache and Charlie is William Laud [F&H].
  • 8

    blackjackgamesThe situation in some blackjack variants where a player wins automatically by showing a hand with the correct number of cards.

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