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Jackass is a rude word for a person you find stupid and . You say it when someone is being foolish, loud, or on purpose, not when they simply made a small mistake. It is an insult, informal, and too rough for class, for a teacher, or for anyone you need to stay polite with.
Jackass Jackass is a rude word是個粗魯的字 for a person you find stupid and annoying用來罵你覺得又蠢又煩的人 You say it你會這樣說 when someone is being foolish, loud, or thoughtless on purpose當某人故意耍蠢、大聲吵鬧,或不顧別人 not when they simply made a small mistake而不是他們只是犯了個小錯的時候 It is an insult這是個罵人的字 informal很口語 and too rough for class而且對課堂來說太粗魯 for a teacher, or for anyone you need to stay polite with對老師,或對任何你需要保持禮貌的人也是。
The picture underneath is an animal: a jackass is a male donkey (jack for the male, ass for the donkey). Calling a person that is calling them a stupid donkey. English still uses the animal sense in farming talk, but what most meet is the insult.
The picture underneath背後的畫面 is an animal是個動物 a jackass jackass就是 a male donkey一頭公驢 (jack for the male, ass for the donkey)(jack指公的,ass指驢子) Calling a person that把一個人這樣叫 is calling them a stupid donkey就是在說他是隻笨驢 English still uses the animal sense英文在農務用語裡 in farming talk還是用這個動物上的意思 but what most learners meet不過大多數學習者遇到的 is the insult是罵人的用法。
A TV show later made jackass familiar as reckless stunt-foolery; that flavour sits on top of the older “foolish person” meaning. There is also a body-part word ass in English; in this compound the old meaning is the donkey, though speakers hear the roughness of both.
A TV show later一部電視節目後來 made jackass familiar as reckless stunt-foolery讓jackass變得跟不要命的整人特技扯上關係 that flavour這種味道 sits on top of the older "foolish person" meaning疊加在較舊的「笨蛋」意思上面 There is also a body-part word ass in English英文裡還有一個身體部位的字ass in this compound在這個複合字裡 the old meaning is the donkey舊的意思是驢子 though speakers hear the roughness of both不過說話的人會同時聽出兩者的粗魯感。
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。
jackassnoun詞源 1/ˈd͡ʒækæs/
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A male donkey.
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A foolish or stupid person.
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An inappropriately rude or obnoxious person.
- Bobby, only jackasses go around saying how much money they make.
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slangA kind of bootleg liquor.
- As the vintner Louis Foppiano recalled years later, Sonoma County during Prohibition became a center for bootlegging, not of wine, but of spirits. 'There were some big stills hidden up in the hills of Sonoma, some producing five hundred gallons of Jackass [spirits made from spring water and sugar] a day.'
- By now the wine counties were rife with the activity of the illegal wine trade and the force of the Prohibition Unit was hustling to keep up. At the start of the year, Officer William Navas had staged a raid on the dining room at Healdsburg's Hotel Sotoyome and discovered 'jackass' brandy […]
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obsoleteThe laughing kookaburra.
jackassverb詞源 1/ˈd͡ʒækæs/
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rareTo behave very obnoxiously.
jackassnoun詞源 2/ˈd͡ʒækæs/
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slangcard-gamespokerA jack and an ace as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
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。