screwball
n. 怪人；略带神经病的人；内曲线球
adj. 精神有点怪的；怪僻的
n.
曲线球，怪人，略带神经病的人；
adj.
怪僻的，奇妙的，精神有点怪的；
变形
复数：screwballs
英英释义
screwball[ 'skru:bɔ:l ]
n.
a whimsically eccentric person
同义词：crackpotcranknutnut casenutcasefruitcake
a pitch with reverse spin that curves toward the side of the plate from which it was thrown
adj.foolish; totally unsound
"a screwball proposal without a prayer of working"
同义词：crazyhalf-bakedsoftheaded
双语例句
用作名词(n.)
That screwball is wearing his shirt inside out.
那个怪人把他的衬衣反着穿。
权威例句
ScrewballThe Screwball Asses
Cranks. Nuts. and Screwball
Screwball : Hollywood's madcap romantic comedies
Introduction: Before Screwball
Screwball Television: Critical Perspectives on Gilmore Girls
Screwball Comedies: Constructing Romance, Mystifying Marriage
Asta the Screwball dog: Hollywood’s Canine Sidekick
Hollywood bedlam : classic screwball comedies
Redefining screwball and reappropriating liminal spaces: The contemporary bromance and Todd Phillips' DVD
screwball (n.)
"eccentric person," 1933, U.S. slang, earlier as a type of erratic baseball pitch (1928), from a still earlier name for a type of delivery in cricket (1866), from screw (n.) + ball (n.1). Screwball comedy is attested from 1938, in reference to Carole Lombard.
1. I never knew what a screwball be is until I met him.
直到我见到他，我才知道他是一个多么古怪的人。
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2. screwball comedy
脱线喜剧
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3. an impractical solution; a crazy scheme; half-baked ideas; a screwball proposal without a prayer of working.
不切实际的解决办法；疯狂的计划；疯狂的念头；没有人支持的愚蠢的提议。
-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考
4. He had been fooling around with a secretary. He was married and everyone in the office knew about it. The girl was a bit crazy, a real screwball, and one of the other salesmen persuaded her to tell her boy friend she was pregnant as an April Fool joke.
办公室里人人皆知他是个有妇之夫，但他却一直和一位秘书有来往密切，而那个女孩又疯劲十足。 于是，一位推销员就说服她给她的男友开一个愚人节的玩笑，说她怀孕了。
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5. Sparks fly as the "straight" one reveals his true feelings for the other in this screwball comedy.
在这个怪人的喜剧里，当"正常”的一个对另一个表露出他的真心感受时，火花碰撞出来了。
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6. Should you find such Jack-the-lad design over-the-top, you will be offered screwball design instead.
一旦你发现这种高层建筑物的设计过度泛滥,那么稀奇古怪的设计随后将会取而代之.
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7. He is a bluffer, and a screwball, a kind of freak.
他是个吹牛家，是个怪物，是个畸形人。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
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