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To kvetch is to keep complaining in a small, ongoing way — not a big angry protest, but the kind of moaning that never quite stops. You kvetch about the weather, the coffee, the queue, your back. In American English, especially Jewish American talk, it is a familiar, slightly comic word; it still feels in the mouth. As a noun, a kvetch is either the complaint itself or the person who is always doing it. People often say it with a half-smile, though actually if you call someone a kvetch to their face it can sting. It is informal. You would not put it in a school essay. It sits closer to “whine” or “gripe” than to “protest”.
碎碎念、發牢騷(美式口語,帶意第緒語味道;台灣沒有對等的外來詞)
組成From Yiddish קוועטשן (kvetshn, literally “to squeeze, pinch”), from Middle High German quetschen (“crush, press”). English borrowed the complaining sense, not the squeezing sense.
同家族的字
- kvetchythe adjective: always complaining
原始詞典資料3 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。
kvetchverb/kvɛt͡ʃ/
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To whine or complain, often needlessly and incessantly.
- Is this truth I’m delivering up, or is it just plain kvetching? Or is kvetching for people like me a form of truth?
- Make a commitment, Charlie. Go with life or go with death, but quit the kvetching. Don’t keep us all in suspense.
kvetchnoun/kvɛt͡ʃ/
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A person who endlessly whines or complains; a person who finds fault with anything.
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An instance of kvetching; a complaint or whine.
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。