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A doddle is something that is very easy to do. In ordinary English you almost never hear it as a verb, though "to be very easy" is the idea: people say "It's a doddle" or "That exam was a doddle." It is informal British English. Americans are more likely to say "a piece of cake" or "a breeze." You use it about a task, a test, a form, a job — not about a person. If you call a person a doddle, it will sound odd. Teachers may use it to calm a class ("the first question is a doddle"), and friends use it to boast a little. The origin is not certain. It possibly comes from a dialect word doddle, "to toddle, to sway, to nod drowsily" — the picture being that the job is so easy you could do it while wandering along. Treat that as a "possibly," not a fact.
小菜一碟、輕而易舉的事(英式口語;美式較常說 a piece of cake)
組成Uncertain. Possibly from dialectal English doddle (“to toddle, to sway, to nod drowsily”).
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。
doddlenoun詞源 1/ˈdɒdl̩/
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informalA job, task, or other activity that is easy to complete or simple.
- Centurion: Have you ever seen anyone crucified? Matthias: Crucifixion's a doddle.
- [Dr Bullard]'s on his hols. I'm standing in. Anyway, this one's a doddle. Death by strangulation, about five or six days ago at a guess.
doddleverb詞源 1/ˈdɒdl̩/
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To dodder.
- […] a doddling old grandfather to act as sheep-dog, as a toothless, barkless, harmless guardian.
doddlenoun詞源 2/ˈdɒdl̩/
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A hornless animal; a pollard or doddy.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
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。