gimmick
英 ['g?m?k]
美 ['ɡ?m?k]
- n. 暗機(jī)關(guān)；騙人的玩意；花招
- vt. 使暗機(jī)關(guān)；搞騙人的玩意
助記提示
1. perhaps an alteration of gimcrack, or that it began as gimac, an anagram of magic.
2. gimmick 音“機(jī)密客”→機(jī)密客的花招.
3. game + trick => *gammick => gimmick.
4. game + magic => gimmick.
5. 諧音“機(jī)迷客、給迷客”。
中文詞源
gimmick 花招，把戲來(lái)自gimcrack的拼寫(xiě)變體，花里胡哨的，花招，把戲。
英文詞源
- gimmick
- gimmick: [20] Gimmick originally meant ‘dishonest contrivance’ – indeed, in the first known printed reference to it, in George Maine’s and Bruce Grant’s Wise-crack dictionary 1926 (an American publication), it is defined specifically as a ‘device for making a fair game crooked’. The modern sense ‘stratagem for gaining attention’ seems to have come to the fore in the 1940s. The origins of the word are a mystery, although it has been suggested that it began as gimac, an anagram of magic used by conjurers.
- gimmick (n.)
- 1910, American English, perhaps an alteration of gimcrack, or an anagram of magic.
In a hotel at Muscatine, Iowa, the other day I twisted the gimmick attached to the radiator, with the intention of having some heat in my Nova Zemblan booth. ["Domestic Engineering," January 8, 1910]
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. He dismissed the event as just a publicity gimmick.
- 他不理會(huì)這件事,只當(dāng)它是一種宣傳手法.
來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》
- 2. The tax cut is widely disparaged by senators from both parties as a budget gimmick.
- 兩個(gè)黨派的參議員們普遍對(duì)作為預(yù)算噱頭的稅收削減嗤之以鼻。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 3. It is just a public relations gimmick.
- 這只不過(guò)是一種公關(guān)伎倆。
來(lái)自辭典例句
- 4. The basic gimmick was the distinguishing of one bank from the others.
- 基本決竅是區(qū)分某一銀行與其它銀行的標(biāo)志.
來(lái)自辭典例句
- 5. The advertisement is just a gimmick to make consumers buy their products.
- 宣傳只是一種使消費(fèi)者買(mǎi)他們產(chǎn)品的花招.
來(lái)自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)