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Pie-eyed means very drunk — so drunk the eyes look wide and a bit silly.
Pie-eyed Pie-eyed means very drunk意思是「爛醉」 — so drunk the eyes look wide and a bit silly醉到眼睛睜得又大又有點呆
It is informal, , and a little old; a or a comic story might say it more readily than a teenager.
It它 is informal, jokey, and a little old是非正式、帶點玩笑又有點老派的說法; a grandparent or a comic story阿公阿嬤或搞笑故事裡 might say it more readily than a teenager會比青少年更常說出口
People also say wasted, , smashed, or, in British English, pissed (rude). Pie-eyed is gentler and almost cartoon-like.
People大家 also say也會說 wasted, plastered, smashedwasted、plastered、smashed, or, in British English, pissed (rude)或英式英語裡比較粗俗的 pissed。Pie-eyed Pie-eyed is gentler and almost cartoon-like則溫和許多,還有點卡通感
It is not about pies you eat, and it is not about a horse. Though actually the picture inside the word is a stretch: the idea is that the person’s eyes are open so wide they are as big as pies. That is a joke in the word, not a true fact about eyes.
It它 is not about pies you eat跟你吃的派沒有關係, and且 it is not about a piebald horse也跟花斑馬(piebald horse)沒有關係。Though actually不過實際上 the picture inside the word這個字裡藏的畫面 is a stretch其實是誇張的想像: the idea is that意思是 the person's eyes are open so wide they are as big as pies這個人的眼睛睜得像派一樣大。That這 is a joke in the word是這個字裡的一個玩笑, not a true fact about eyes不是關於眼睛的真實事實
You will meet it more in stories than in young people’s chat.
You你 will meet it會遇到它 more in stories than in young people's chat比較常出現在故事裡,而不是年輕人的聊天中
組成pie (the baked dish with a crust and a filling) + eyed. A stretched picture: eyes as big as pies.
同家族的字
- piethe baked food with a crust; the joke is eyes as wide as pies
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。
pie-eyedadj/ˈpaɪˌaɪd/
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informalWith one's eyes wide open and staring in an expressionless manner; wide-eyed.
- [H]ere I've been roosting all day long, with nothing to do but gaze at this bunch of would-be scribes grinding out jazz copy, and now, at half-past four, that pie-eyed zebra of a Sunday editor has to hand me an assignment about as concrete as a hunk of Hudson River mist; and I've got a date with Vita for supper at six.
- Of all the blockheads in the world, I have the finest collection working for me. Terence Tadpole is a dolt, Sidney Squirrel is a sentimental idiot, Freddie Fox is a pie-eyed fool, Felix Frog is a perfect imbecile.
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informal(Extremely) drunk or intoxicated.
- "He's just pie-eyed," said Dart quietly. "God knows how much straight alcohol he's had. Better come over here, Andy."
- I sat there, getting more and more pie-eyed, without anyone noticing, as far as I could judge, since the sole manifestation of my drunkenness was that my tongue was looser than usual.
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。