crackpot
crackpot 英 [ˈkrækpɒt] 美 [ˈkrækpɑt]
n. 狂想家，疯子；怪人 adj. 不切实际的，想入非非的
名词复数:crackpots
- A crackpot is a colorfully strange or odd person. You might describe your neighbor as a crackpot if he keeps farm animals inside his house and wears a clown costume everywhere he goes.
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- n. 狂想家，疯子；怪人
- adj. 不切实际的，想入非非的
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1. Well, Greene, our crackpot finally flipped his lid.
格林，我们的这位疯子终于自食其果了。
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2. The upside of delayed publication, if there is one, is that his arguments seem more compelling now - and people are less likely to view him as a crackpot counter-culturalist.
如果非得说他延迟出版该书的好处，那便是他的观点现在看起来是如此的引人注目，使人有种逼迫感，而且人们也不大可能再把洛西克夫视为一个反主流文化的怪人。
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3. "Well, it does sound like we're dealing with a crackpot here, " I said.
“听上去，我们是在和一个疯子打交道。” 我说。
- crackpot (n.) "mentally unbalanced person," 1898, probably from crack (v.) + pot (n.1) in a slang sense of "head." Compare crack-brain "crazy fellow" (late 16c.). Earlier it was used in a slang sense "a small-time big-shot" (1883), and by medical doctors in reference to a "metallic chinking sometimes heard when percussion is made over a cavity which communicates with a bronchus."
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