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To doodle is to draw while your mind is somewhere else — little shapes, boxes, flowers, faces in the margin, lines that go nowhere. You are not trying to make a picture.
To doodle doodle is to draw就是畫畫while your mind is somewhere else但心思在別的地方little shapes, boxes, flowers, faces in the margin一些小圖形、方框、花朵、頁邊的臉lines that go nowhere還有不知道要畫去哪的線條You are not trying to make a picture你並不是想畫出一幅畫
You are waiting, listening, or thinking about something else, and the pen keeps moving. The drawing you get is also called a doodle.
You are waiting, listening, or thinking about something else你在等待、聽別人講話，或想著別的事and the pen keeps moving而筆卻一直在動The drawing you get你畫出來的東西is also called a doodle也叫做doodle
Children doodle. Adults doodle in meetings.
Children children doodle會doodleAdults成人doodle in meetings會在開會的時候doodle
It is an ordinary, informal word, fine in speech and in relaxed writing.
It is an ordinary, informal word它是一個普通、非正式的詞fine in speech and in relaxed writing用在口語和輕鬆的寫作裡都可以
Though actually, the word is older than this drawing sense. A few hundred years ago, a doodle was a fool — a simple person — and that is the joke in the song “Yankee Doodle.” The “draw without really thinking” meaning came later.
Though actually不過the word is older than this drawing sense這個詞比這個『畫畫』的意思還古老A few hundred years ago幾百年前a doodle was a fooldoodle指的是一個傻子a simple person一個單純的人and that is the joke in the song "Yankee Doodle."這就是歌曲『Yankee Doodle』裡的笑點The "draw without really thinking" meaning came later『不專心亂畫』這個意思是後來才有的
People also stretch the word: a Google doodle is a special picture on the Google page, made on purpose, so that is doodle as a fun label, not the original “I wasn’t really drawing” idea.
People also stretch the word人們也會把這個詞的用法拉大a Google doodle Google doodleis a special picture on the Google page是Google首頁上的特別圖案made on purpose是刻意設計的so that is doodle as a fun label所以這是doodle當作一個有趣標籤的用法not the original "I wasn't really drawing" idea而不是原本『我根本沒認真在畫』的意思
Doodling is not the same as designing, and it is not the same as graffiti on a wall.
Doodling doodling is not the same as designing不等於designingand it is not the same as graffiti on a wall也不等於牆上的塗鴉
組成Originally a dialect word from Low German dudeldopp, “simpleton,” and influenced by dawdle. Compare German dudeln, “to play the bagpipe.” In the early 1600s a doodle was a fool; that old meaning is the joke in “Yankee Doodle.” American dude may come from this, but that is only a maybe. The “draw without thinking” sense came later.
原始詞典資料7 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。
doodlenoun詞源 1/ˈduːdl̩/
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obsoleteA fool, a simpleton, a mindless person.
- Mrs. Sneak. Why doodle! jackanapes! harkee, who am I? Sneak. Come, don't go to call names: am I? vhy my vife, and I am your master.
- Perceval. Weep on! weep on! thou flouted loon, Weep on! weep on! thou gowky doodle!
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A small mindless sketch, etc.
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slangThe penis.
- His doodle hung as limp as last month's celery.
- Her favorite had been when she'd convinced the lascivious guards that Dinah's red hair meant she was a witch, and if they molested her, their doodles would shrivel up between their legs and fall off. Daisy had assured her that no man would risk losing his doodle.
doodleverb詞源 1/ˈduːdl̩/
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To draw or scribble aimlessly.
- The bored student doodled a submarine in his notebook.
- The managing director doodled.
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To engage in something non-seriously; fiddle.
- I've been expecting women's music finally to discover New Wave and technopop, and this album is the evidence that someone has been peaking ^([sic]) at music videos and doodling around with sythesizers.
- I can tell you that he does indeed spend a lot of time on business and social calls, social chats, doodling around on AOL, and skimming the daily paper while those patients are piling up.
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To drone like a bagpipe.
doodlenoun詞源 2/ˈduːdl̩/
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Any crossbreed of a poodle with a different breed of dog.
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。