wonk
wonk 英 [wɒŋk] 美 [wɑŋk]
n. 书呆子；刻苦用功的学生
名词复数:wonks
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- n. 书呆子；刻苦用功的学生
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1. For a dedicated policy wonk, he also spends a lot of time on television.
他不光热衷于钻研政策，同时他还会花很多时间来关注电视。
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2. Could I wait until Abnesti came in, wonk him, try to race past Barry or Hans, make a break for the Main Door?
没准，我可以等到艾博进来时给他一拳，然后从汉斯或巴里身边超过去，试试从大门硬闯？
- wonk (n.) "overly studious person," 1962, earlier "effeminate male" (1954), American English student slang. Perhaps a shortening of British slang wonky "shaky, unreliable," or a variant of British slang wanker "masturbator." It seemed to rise into currency as a synonym for nerd late 1980s from Ivy League slang and was widely popularized 1993 during the presidency of Bill Clinton. Tom Wolfe (1988) described it as "an Eastern prep-school term referring to all those who do not have the 'honk' voice, i.e., all who are non-aristocratic."
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