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    A crackpot is someone with wild, not-sensible ideas — slightly crazy in a comic, everyday way, not a medical way. People also stick the word in front of a noun: a crackpot theory, a crackpot inventor, a crackpot plan to live on a boat and never work.

    A crackpot is someone with wild, not-sensible ideascrackpot指想法很瘋、不太合理的人 slightly crazy in a comic, everyday way, not a medical way是一種帶點好笑的日常瘋狂，不是醫學上的那種 People also stick the word in front of a noun這個字也常放在名詞前面用 a crackpot theory, a crackpot inventor, a crackpot plan to live on a boat and never work像a crackpot theory（瘋狂理論）、a crackpot inventor（瘋狂發明家）、a crackpot plan to live on a boat and never work（住在船上永遠不工作的瘋狂計畫）

    It is informal and a little old-fashioned, and it often smiles as it insults. Newspapers use it when they want to wave an idea away as ridiculous.

    It is informal and a little old-fashioned, and it often smiles as it insults這是個口語、有點老派的字，罵人時往往還帶著笑 Newspapers use it when they want to wave an idea away as ridiculous報紙想把一個想法當成荒謬打發掉時會用這個字

    Though actually, it is kinder than some other crazy-words because it points at odd beliefs more than at illness — but it can still sting, and it is not a fair name for someone who is .

    Though actually, it is kinder than some other crazy-words不過其實這個字比一些其他形容瘋狂的字溫和一點 because it points at odd beliefs more than at illness因為它指的是奇怪的信念，而不是疾病 but it can still sting, and it is not a fair name for someone who is unwell但還是可能刺傷人，用在生病的人身上並不公平

    Originally it was crack + pate, and pate is an old word for the head: a cracked head. Later people heard the second half as pot, which is how the spelling looks now.

    Originally it was crack + pate, and pate is an old word for the head原本這個字是crack加pate，pate是頭的舊說法 a cracked head意思是裂開的頭 Later people heard the second half as pot, which is how the spelling looks now後來大家把後半聽成pot，所以現在拼成crackpot

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組成Originally crack + pate (an old word for the head). People later re-heard it as crack + pot, which is the form we write today.

同家族的字

  • crackhere in the old sense of something broken — a cracked head
  • patean old word for the head; this was the original second half, before people started hearing pot

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。

Crackpotname

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    A small village in Grinton parish, Swaledale, North Yorkshire, England, previously in Richmondshire district (OS grid ref SD9796)

crackpotnoun/ˈkɹæk.pɒt/

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    informalAn eccentric, crazy or foolish person.

    • Time will tell whether he is a crackpot or a genius for promoting that sort of idea.
    • The Police Commissioner sat studying Frank the Flower for several minutes. Then he called the policeman who had arrested Frank. “You will have to lock this man up,” he said. “But treat him gently. He is a harmless crackpot.”
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    informalSomeone addicted to crack cocaine (i.e. a drug addict).

crackpotadj/ˈkɹæk.pɒt/

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    informalEccentric or impractical.

    • a crackpot idea
    • While all this was happening Mr. Dies on February 1, 1943, in a long speech on the floor of the House attacked thirty-nine named Government employees as 'irresponsible, unrepresentative, crackpot, radical bureaucrats' and affiliates of 'communist front organizations.'

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。