gudgeon

英 ['gʌdʒ(ə)n]
  • n. 易骗的人;诱饵;白杨鱼(一种用作钓饵的鱼)
  • n. (Gudgeon)人名;(英)格杰恩
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gudgeon (n.1)
European small freshwater fish, early 15c., from Middle French goujon, from Old French gojon (14c.), from Latin gobionem (nominative gobio), alteration of gobius, from Greek kobios, a kind of fish, a word of unknown origin. They are easily caught, hence the figurative sense of "a credulous person" (one who will "bite" at "bait"), from 1580s.
gudgeon (n.2)
"pivot on the end of a beam," c. 1400, from Old French gojon "pin, peg, spike" (13c.), perhaps somehow an altered sense of gudgeon (n.1).
1. Readers will never swallow such a gudgeon.
读者决不会相信这种鬼话.

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