gimmick
英 ['gɪmɪk]
美['ɡɪmɪk]
- n. 暗机关；骗人的玩意；花招
- vt. 使暗机关；搞骗人的玩意
词态变化
复数: gimmicks;形容词: gimmicky;
助记提示
1. perhaps an alteration of gimcrack, or that it began as gimac, an anagram of magic.
2. gimmick 音“机密客”→机密客的花招.
3. game + trick => *gammick => gimmick.
4. game + magic => gimmick.
5. 谐音“机迷客、给迷客”。
2. gimmick 音“机密客”→机密客的花招.
3. game + trick => *gammick => gimmick.
4. game + magic => gimmick.
5. 谐音“机迷客、给迷客”。
中文词源
gimmick 花招，把戏
来自gimcrack的拼写变体，花里胡哨的，花招，把戏。
英英释意
- 1. something whose name is either forgotten or not known
- 2. any clever (deceptive) maneuver;
- "he would stoop to any device to win a point"
英文词源
- gimmick
- gimmick: [20] Gimmick originally meant ‘dishonest contrivance’ – indeed, in the first known printed reference to it, in George Maine’s and Bruce Grant’s Wise-crack dictionary 1926 (an American publication), it is defined specifically as a ‘device for making a fair game crooked’. The modern sense ‘stratagem for gaining attention’ seems to have come to the fore in the 1940s. The origins of the word are a mystery, although it has been suggested that it began as gimac, an anagram of magic used by conjurers.
- gimmick (n.)
- 1910, American English, perhaps an alteration of gimcrack, or an anagram of magic.
In a hotel at Muscatine, Iowa, the other day I twisted the gimmick attached to the radiator, with the intention of having some heat in my Nova Zemblan booth. ["Domestic Engineering," January 8, 1910]
实用场景例句
- a promotional/publicity/sales gimmick
- 以推销 / 宣传 / 销售为目的的花招
牛津词典
- a gimmicky idea
- 鬼主意
牛津词典
- It is just a public relations gimmick...
- 这只不过是一种公关伎俩。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- The exhibition is informative, up to date, and mercifully free of gimmicks.
- 这个展览既能让人增长见识，又紧跟时代前沿，而且幸运的是没有华而不实的东西。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- The basic gimmick was the distinguishing of one bank from the others.
- 基本决窍是区分某一银行与其它银行的标志.
辞典例句
- The advertisement is just a gimmick to make consumers buy their products.
- 宣传只是一种使消费者买他们产品的花招.
期刊摘选
- The Tip Dropper ~ A very practical gimmick for hiding, controlling and stealing the tip.
- 一个非常实用的道具,用在隐藏 、 控制和偷取什么东西上的道具.
期刊摘选
- The pretty girl on the cover of the book is just a sales gimmick.
- 书封面上印上美女不过是吸引顾客的一种生意眼.
期刊摘选
- The pretty girl on the cover of the pictorial is just a sales gimmick.
- 画报的封面上印上美女不过是吸引顾客的一种生意眼.
期刊摘选
- I hypothesized that all the things were his gimmick.
- 我猜测所有事情都是他的骗局.
期刊摘选
- But this is surely no more than a populist gimmick.
- 但这无疑只是一个民粹主义者的小花招罢了.
期刊摘选
- He dismissed the event as just a publicity gimmick.
- 他不理会这件事,只当它是一种宣传手法.
《简明英汉词典》
- The Magician spreads the deck to prove that there is no gimmick.
- 魔术师差的甲板上,以证明是没有花招.
期刊摘选
- Up until the 2008 Blackpool Convention only five people had ever seen the final Extractor gimmick.
- 直至2008年黑池公约,只有五人人们从未见过的最后萃取花招.
期刊摘选
- Of course, they are a bit of a publicity gimmick, but they work.
- 当然, 它们在某种程度上是一种宣传伎俩, 但它们奏效了.
期刊摘选
- They employ another gimmick, too.
- 他们也使用另外一种花招.
期刊摘选
- This is just a advertisement gimmick to promote.
- 这仅仅是为了促销的一个广告伎俩.
期刊摘选
- This is the flimsy gimmick of sale of very much time bar.
- 这是当时很多网吧营销的脆弱的手法.
期刊摘选
- The gimmick would convince none but the most credulous.
- 这样的花招只能欺骗那些最容易轻信的人.
期刊摘选
- Words of song is adopted much personification gimmick, messenger language are lively.
- 歌词多采用拟人手法, 使语言生动活泼.
期刊摘选
- Manufacturer: Every booth has a different gimmick to try to catch your attention.
- 制造商: 每个摊位有—个不同的装置设法吸引您的注意.
期刊摘选
- Look for a marketable gimmick.
- 探寻一下销售技巧.
期刊摘选
- Comes complete with 300 Page Novel, Erasable Board, Marker, Dictionary and secret gimmick.
- 配有300页小说, 可擦写局标记, 字典和秘密招数.
期刊摘选
- It was a great sales gimmick.
- 那是一个极好的销售花招.
期刊摘选
- Stella: So you think he had some gimmick?
- 史黛拉: 所以你认为他有什麽秘密装置?
期刊摘选
- It is just a public relations gimmick.
- 这只不过是一种公关伎俩。
辞典例句
- The tax cut is widely disparaged by senators from both parties as a budget gimmick.
- 两个党派的参议员们普遍对作为预算噱头的税收削减嗤之以鼻。
柯林斯例句