dodo

英 ['d??d??] 美['dodo]

暢通詞匯

復數(shù):?dodoes;?dodos;

dodo 渡渡鳥（不能飛行，現(xiàn)已滅絕）

來自葡萄牙語，傻瓜，用來指海島上的一種見人也不跑的大鳥，基本上被海員吃滅絕了。

dodo: dodo: [17] When Portuguese explorers first encountered the unfortunate dodo on the island of Mauritius, it struck them as a clumsy and foolish bird, so they applied to it the Portuguese word doudo ‘simpleton’. The name has stuck in English (although in the 17th century it had some competition from the French and Dutch term dronte). The first record of the simile ‘dead as a dodo’ comes from 1904, over 200 years after the extinction of the species, although the word had been used since the late 19th century as a metaphor for someone or something hopelessly out of date: ‘He belongs to the Dodo race of real unmitigated toryism’, Lisle Carr, Judith Gwynne 1874.
dodo (n.): 1620s, from Portuguese doudo "fool, simpleton," an insult applied by Portuguese sailors to the awkward bird (Didus ineptus) they found on Mauritius island. The last record of a living one is from 1681. Applied in English to stupid persons since 1886.

2. That strange plan of yours is now as dead as a dodo; nobody is interested in it any more.: 你那項奇怪的計劃現(xiàn)在已經沒有指望了, 誰都對它不再感興趣了.

3. He was aware of Dodo's innocent blue eyes regarding him.: 他覺察到多多天真的藍眼睛凝視著他.

5. Dodo, her expression uncertain , hovered behind O'keefe.: 多多帶著半信半疑的表情, 守在奧基夫的身后.