quack
quack 英 [kwæk] 美 [kwæk]
n. 庸医；鸭叫声 vi. （鸭子）嘎嘎叫；吹嘘；大声闲聊 adj. 骗人的；冒牌医生的
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- There are good quacks and bad quacks. A good quack is the sound a duck makes. A bad quack is someone pretending to be a doctor. (You'd be better off visiting the duck with your ailment.)
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- n. 庸医；鸭叫声
- vi. （鸭子）嘎嘎叫；吹嘘；大声闲聊
- adj. 骗人的；冒牌医生的
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1. You quack!
你这庸医！
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2. But in other hands, the blanket dismissal of critics is a too-easy argument-ender, a way to promote quack remedies and dodgy philosophies by defining all counter opinions as envy.
不过从另一方面来讲，那一箩筐对他的批评也太容易被驳倒了，一个快速躲闪这群庸医的嘎嘎乱叫的方法就是，把它们全部说成是嫉妒。
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3. One thing we still have in common with the past is quack techniques to achieve whatever body type is in the norm at the time.
我们仍然与以前保持一致的一点是，无论什么体型被奉为圭臬我们都在试图通过所谓的医疗技术来获得。
- quack (n.1) "medical charlatan," 1630s, short for quacksalver (1570s), from obsolete Dutch quacksalver (modern kwakzalver), literally "hawker of salve," from Middle Dutch quacken "to brag, boast," literally "to croak" (see quack (v.)) + salf "salve," salven "to rub with ointment" (see salve (v.)). As an adjective from 1650s. The oldest attested form of the word in this sense in English is as a verb, "to play the quack" (1620s). The Dutch word also is the source of German Quacksalber, Danish kvaksalver, Swedish kvacksalvare.
- quack (n.2) duck sound, 1839, from quack (v.).
- quack (v.) "to make a duck sound," 1610s, earlier quake (1520s), variant of quelke (early 14c.), of echoic origin (compare Middle Dutch quacken, Old Church Slavonic kvakati, Latin coaxare "to croak," Greek koax "the croaking of frogs," Hittite akuwakuwash "frog"). Middle English on the quakke (14c.) meant "hoarse, croaking." Related: Quacked; quacking.
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