geezer 老家伙词源不确定,可能来自guiser的方言发音。原指舞台化妆的戏剧演员,来自guise.
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- geezer: [19] Originally, a geezer seems to have been ‘someone who went around in disguise’. The word probably represents a dialectal pronunciation of the now obsolete guiser ‘someone wearing a masquerade as part of a performance, mummer’. This was a derivative of guise [13], which, together with disguise [14], goes back ultimately to prehistoric Germanic *wīsōn, ancestor of archaic English wise ‘manner’.
=> disguise, guise, wise - geezer (n.)
- derisive word for an old man, 1885, according to OED a variant of obsolete Cockney guiser "mummer" (late 15c.; see guise).
- 1. Some geezer called Danny did it.
- 这事是个叫丹尼的家伙干的。
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- 2. The old geezer wouldn't let them play ball in his pasture.
- 这老家伙不让他们在他的牧场上打球.
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- 3. He is a nice geezer, but a little talkative.
- 他这怪老头,人挺不错的, 就是有点多嘴多舌.
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- 4. With that old geezer?
- 跟那怪老头呀?
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- 5. Fortunately, there is no one nearby except an old geezer who never dwarf.
- 但除了一个从来不说话的老头儿傻傻的望着这边之外, 没有人发现他刚才瞬间的动作.
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