喜樂美語
  1. 1（美式口語，侮辱）笨蛋、呆子；聖經裡的寧錄則是獵人

    In the Bible, Nimrod is a mighty hunter, a strong man. In much of the English-speaking world that old meaning can still appear, especially in older books: a nimrod as a hunter. In American English, though, nimrod became a rude word for someone stupid or — a fool who is no good at the job. Why the jump? Scholars are not sure. A well-known guess is cartoons: Bugs Bunny teases a hunter by calling him Nimrod, meaning “great hunter,” as a joke; children heard only a put-down, and the hunter-name flipped into “idiot.” Whether that is the whole story, we cannot say. This entry is the insult. Do not use it about a person. If you hear it in a US film, it probably means “dummy,” not “hunter.”

組成From Hebrew Nimród, the name of a hunter in the Bible. The American “idiot” sense came later; the path is debated.

原始詞典資料6 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。

Nimrodname/ˈnɪmrɒd/

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    biblicallifestylereligionA grandson of Ham; a mighty hunter and king of Shinar.

    • Blake's depiction of the biblical Nimrod, whom Erdman traces to Young's poem, recalls Milton's Paradise Lost.
    • In the fourth century St. Ephraim the Syrian wrote, in his commentary on Genesis, that Nimrod 'ruled in Erekh which is Orhay (Edessa)'.[…]In Jewish and thereafter in Moslem tradition, Nimrod was the foe of Abraham.
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    A British biplane fighter aircraft manufactured by Hawker Aircraft in the early 1930s.

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    A British maritime patrol aircraft manufactured by Hawker Siddeley, in use from 1969 until 2011.

Nimrodnoun/ˈnɪmrɒd/

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    Any great hunter.

    • Old Ekdal, whom Gregers remembers as Lieutenant Ekdal, his father's partner in the timber business up north and a mighty Nimrod, has, after a term of imprisonment for illicit tree-felling, become a shambling old drunkard, who solaces himself by sporting expeditions in the lean-to attic which his son and he have fitted up for the purpose with withered Christmas trees and a little menagerie of hens, rabbits and the like.

nimrodnoun

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    derogatoryinformalA foolish person; an idiot.

    • Don't stick your fingers in the fan, you nimrod!
    • Jules, if you give this nimrod fifteen hundred bucks, I'm gonna shoot 'em on general principle.

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