hotchpotch
英 ['hɒtʃpɒtʃ]
美 ['hɑtʃ'pɑtʃ]
助记提示
1. Hotchpotch is an alteration (for the sake of the rhyme) of an earlier hotchpot.
2. This was borrowed from an Old French compound made up of hocher 'shake' and pot 'pot'.
3. So originally the word meant literally 'shake the pot' – presumably to blend an assortment of ingredients.
中文词源
hotchpotch 大杂烩，杂乱无章来自古法语hochepot,热罐，来自hocher,摇，pot,罐子。原指把肉，草药，香料，酒和其它调料加在一起炖的炖锅菜，引申词义大杂烩，杂乱无章。
英文词源
- hotchpotch
- hotchpotch: [15] Hotchpotch is an alteration (for the sake of the rhyme) of an earlier hotchpot. This was borrowed from an Old French compound made up of hocher ‘shake’ (perhaps from Frankish hottisōn) and pot ‘pot’. So originally the word meant literally ‘shake the pot’ – presumably to blend an assortment of ingredients, although it is not certain that the allusion was in the first instance culinary. (Old French hocher, incidentally, may well have been the source of the Scottish verb hotch ‘shake, fidget’ [14].)
双语例句
- 1. Garton pensively stirred the hotchpotch of his hair.
- 加顿沉思着搅动自己的乱发.
来自辞典例句
- 2. His essay was a hotchpotch of other people's ideas.
- 他的文章是把别人的想法拼凑在一起的大杂烩.
来自互联网
- 3. They are all a hotchpotch of outstandingness and of virtue and vice, of nobility and baseness.
- 她们皆是伟大与渺小,善良与邪恶, 高尚与低俗的混合体.
来自互联网
- 4. This suggests that a carbon tax would be more efficient than the current hotchpotch of policies.
- 这说明,一条碳税政策就比当前一堆乱七八糟的政策更具实效.
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