egg做名詞時
可以指人、家夥
詞典解釋:
你可以把你認爲的非常友好的公交司機(jī)稱(chēng)爲good egg。good egg是指好人。
Good egg is a friendly, old-fashioned way to talk about a good guy or a kind person. When you call your next door neighbor a good egg, it's clear that you're fond of her.
Good egg was at first just a humorous inversion of bad egg. A bad egg was as thoroughly nasty a person as the literal bad egg was unpleasant to encounter.
Good egg最初是由它的對立詞(cí)bad egg演變(biàn)而來,是一種比較幽默的表達。bad egg就像字面上的壞蛋那樣令人讨厭。
Meaning decent and dependable (good egg) or not reliable or corrupt (bad egg), the term bad egg was first used in the novel "Captain Priest" by Samuel A Hammett.
表示體面的、可靠的的人的good egg和不可靠的、腐敗(bài)的人的bad egg,最早出現在塞缪爾·阿·哈密特的小說《牧師隊長(zhǎng)》中。
# good egg
好人、善良的人、讨人喜歡(huān)的人
# bad egg
壞(huài)人、不可信任的人、卑鄙的人
例:
I think Lily is a good egg.
我覺得Lily是個好人。
Tom is believed as a bad egg.
人們覺得Tom很壞。