hoodlum

hoodlum怎么读

英式音标：[ˈhu:dləm]

美式音标：[ˈhudləm, ˈhʊd-]

hoodlum基本解释

n. 流氓；暴徒；无赖

hoodlum的意思释义

n.

流氓，暴徒；

变形

复数：hoodlums

英英释义

hoodlum[ \'hu:dləm ]

n.an aggressive and violent young criminal

同义词：hoodgoonpunkthugtoughtoughiestrong-armer

hoodlum用法及例句

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

The hoodlum stabbed at me with a dagger.

小流氓用匕首向我刺来。

He is a well-known hoodlum in this neighborhood, always bullying others.

他是这边有名的混子，经常欺负人。

The hoodlum menaced the local merchants .

盗匪威胁着当地商人。

If I was a hoodlum I could hit you on the head.

如果我是强盗的话,我可以猛击你的头。

例句参考

Hoodlum

The Hoodlum Saint

Hoodlum: Under the Thumb

On Hoodlum Images in Luxun\'s Writing

Much More Than an Intellectual Hoodlum

Hoodlum hero: the Jewish gangster as defender of his people, 1919-1949

Hoodlum and Interactive Storytelling: A Case Study in Mainstreaming Transmedia

The Mustang Finally Grows Up, But It’s Still a Hoodlum at Heart

Analysis of Corruption by Sokaiya (Hoodlum at General Meeting of Stockholders) in Japan

Male prostitution in the twentieth century: pseudohomosexuals, hoodlum homosexuals, and exploited teens

hoodlum词源

hoodlum (n.)

popularized 1871, American English, (identified throughout the 1870s as \"a California word\") \"young street rowdy, loafer,\" especially one involved in violence against Chinese immigrants, \"young criminal, gangster;\" it appears to have been in use locally from a slightly earlier date and may have begun as a specific name of a gang:

The police have recently been investigating the proceedings of a gang of thieving boys who denominate themselves and are known to the world as the Hoodlum Gang. [San Francisco \"Golden Era\" newspaper, Feb. 16, 1868, p.4]

Of unknown origin, though newspapers of the day printed myriad fanciful stories concocted to account for it. A guess perhaps better than average is that it is from German dialectal (Bavarian) Huddellump \"ragamuffin\" [Barnhart].

What the derivation of the word \"hoodlum\" is we could never satisfactorily ascertain, though several derivations have been proposed; and it would appear that the word has not been very many years in use. But, however obscure the word may be, there is nothing mysterious about the thing; .... [Walter M. Fisher, \"The Californians,\" London, 1876]

hoodlum相关例句

1.A cutthroat or ruffian;a hoodlum.

凶手或暴徒；强盗

3.A hoodlum;a thug.

恶棍；暴徒