quack

• n. 庸医；鸭叫声
• vi. （鸭子）嘎嘎叫；吹嘘；大声闲聊
• adj. 骗人的；冒牌医生的
• n. (Quack)人名；(德)夸克

拟声词，模仿鸭的叫声。词义江湖郎中缩写自quacksalver,狗皮膏药，来自quack,叫卖，salver,油膏。

1. an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice

2. the harsh sound of a duck

quack

quack: English has two words quack. The one denoting the call of a duck [17] originated of course as an imitation of the sound itself. Quack ‘person claiming to be a doctor’ [17] is short for an earlier quacksalver, which etymologically denoted ‘someone who prattles on or boasts about the efficacy of his remedies’. It was borrowed from early modern Dutch quacksalver, a compound formed from the now obsolete quacken ‘chatter, prattle’ and salf, the Dutch relative of English salve.

quack (v.)

"to make a duck sound," 1610s, earlier quake (1520s), variant of quelke (early 14c.), of echoic origin (compare Middle Dutch quacken, Old Church Slavonic kvakati, Latin coaxare "to croak," Greek koax "the croaking of frogs," Hittite akuwakuwash "frog"). Middle English on the quakke (14c.) meant "hoarse, croaking." Related: Quacked; quacking.

quack (n.1)

"medical charlatan," 1630s, short for quacksalver (1570s), from obsolete Dutch quacksalver (modern kwakzalver), literally "hawker of salve," from Middle Dutch quacken "to brag, boast," literally "to croak" (see quack (v.)) + salf "salve," salven "to rub with ointment" (see salve (v.)). As an adjective from 1650s. The oldest attested form of the word in this sense in English is as a verb, "to play the quack" (1620s). The Dutch word also is the source of German Quacksalber, Danish kvaksalver, Swedish kvacksalvare.

quack (n.2)

duck sound, 1839, from quack (v.).

quack doctors

庸医

牛津词典

I've got a check-up with the quack (= the doctor) next week.

我下周要到庸医那里检查身体。

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I went everywhere for treatment, tried all sorts of quacks.

我四处求医，看过了各种各样的江湖郎中。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Why do intelligent people find quack remedies so appealing?

为什么聪明人会被江湖医术所吸引？

柯林斯高阶英语词典

There were ducks quacking on the lawn.

草地上有几只鸭子在嘎嘎叫。

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Don't is taken in he's just a quack.

可别上当他纯粹是江湖医生.

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That doctor is just a quack , he should be reported.

那医生是个江湖骗子, 应该被检举.

辞典例句

Quack, quack! Now come with me and I will take you into the world.

呱, 呱! 现在跟我来,我将带你们去参观这个世界.

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Everywhere a quack, quack.

到处“嗄嗄嗄”.

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Quack eventually when the son object of ground that momently, I cried.

当儿子终于呱呱坠地的那一刻, 我哭了.

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That doctor is a quack, he should be reported.

那医生是个“江湖骗子”, 应该被检举.

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After so many disappointments, he finds it hard to have faith in quack doctors.

经历多次失望之后, 他对江湖医生失去了信心.

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He describes himself as a doctor, but I feel he is a quack.

他自称是医生, 可是我感觉他是个江湖骗子.

《简明英汉词典》

He is a quack doctor.

他是个庸医.

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That quack caused me more harm than the disease did.

比起疾病,那个冒牌医生对我的伤害更深.

辞典例句

It was the age of horse sense and the quack.

那是个骗子和庸医横行的年代.

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Here a quack, ther a quack, everywhere a quack quack.

这儿一个嘎, 那儿一个嘎, 到处的一起嘎嘎.

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At night, quack flounce off a rope, swim escape in coming home.

夜里, 庸医摆脱绳索, 凫水逃回家中.

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Ducks on the bus sing. Quack! Quack Quack!

鸭子在公共汽车上唱歌. 嘎! 嘎!嘎!

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Ducklings: Quack , quack, quack. Walk like us!

鸭子们: 呷,呷, 呷. 象我们这样走!

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Mother duck said Quack, Quack, Quack.

鸭妈妈呷呷, 呷呷, 呷呷的叫.

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That doctor's a quack!

那个医生是庸医!

《简明英汉词典》

She discovered that the man was a quack.

她发现那人是个庸医.

辞典例句

Look at the duck. Quack! Quack! Quack!

看那只鸭子. 嘎! 嘎! 嘎!

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The quack was stormed with questions.

江湖骗子受到了猛烈的质问.

辞典例句

" Quack! " came the cry of a startled water bird.

“ 嘎 —— ” 传来一声水禽被惊动的呜叫.

汉英文学 - 散文英译

That moment quack quack falls to the ground which in us, we are a champion.

在我们呱呱落地的那一刻起, 我们就是一个冠军.

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