crackpot是什么意思

crackpot
英 ['krækpɒt]美 ['krækpɑt]n. 狂想家,疯子;怪人adj. 不切实际的,想入非非的«英文词源
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."双语例句
1. She was no more a crackpot than the rest of us. 她和一样正常。来自柯林斯例句
2. That's not the way to do it, you crackpot. 不是那样做的蠢材.来自辞典例句
3. He was prone to dismiss himself as " that well - known crackpot ". 他常自嘲为 “ 那个著名的怪人 ”.来自辞典例句
4. That crackpot thinks his neighbors are aliens. 那位疯子认为他的邻居是外星人.来自辞典例句
