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Loadsamoney is a comic British television character created by Harry Enfield in the 1980s. He is a loud young working-class man who wads of cash, boasts about what he earns, and shouts a that sounds like ‘loads of money’. The joke is not just ‘he is rich’. It is the flash, the showing-off, the idea that some people in that decade — under , in a boom for a few — wanted everyone to see the notes. The character (and the cry) became a shorthand in British talk for that vulgar, newly-rich, look-at-my-wallet mood. You may also see loadsamoney written like an ordinary noun or shout, still pointing back to that sketch. It is informal, comic, and dated in a knowing way: younger people may need the 1980s explained. Though actually, it is not a neutral word for ‘a lot of money’ in careful writing; it carries a sneer or a laugh at greedy display. Outside Britain the reference is easy to miss unless someone has seen the clips.
Loadsa money(英國1980年代哈利·恩菲爾德的炫富喜劇角色/口頭禪;不是中性的「很多錢」)
原始詞典資料2 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。
loadsamoneyintj
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informalReferring to the free flowing of money, to large amounts spent or earned, or to the perceived acquisitiveness and materialism engendered in society by a booming economy.
- My hon. Friend entered the House in 1987, and I am sure that my hon. Friend will recall the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition talking about the "loadsamoney society" and the bad effect that that has had on crime rates.
- Questioned on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on whether he would be adopting a pre-election "loadsamoney" stance, Mr Blunkett said that there would be "substantial investment" but "loadsamoney will not be a term I'll be using".
loadsamoneynoun
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informalA vulgar person who has gained a large amount of wealth and flaunts it whenever possible.
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。