Word of the Day:August 11, 2021

nimrod

爱打猎的人

noun NIM-rahd

Definition

1 : hunter

打猎人

2 : idiot, jerk

愚蠢 ；混蛋

Examples

"The hunting season is now in full blast. Several nimrods, both veteran and amateur, are shouldering the gun and marching to the woods and marshes." — Gary Pullano, The Holland (Michigan) Sentinel, 13 Dec. 2015

狩猎季节现在已经到了高潮。几个老练的和业余的猎人们扛着枪向树林和沼泽地进发。

"The stereotypical cast for the film-within-the-film cleverly overacts and paints their obnoxious characters as helpless nimrods." — Alex Pelham, The Daily Texan (University of Texas), 14 Mar. 2015

“电影中墨守陈规的演员巧妙地用过度演技，将他们令人讨厌的角色描绘成无助的猎人们。”

Did You Know?

The word nimrod gets its start in the Bible: Nimrod was king of a country known as Shinar, and he's described in Genesis as "the first on earth to be a mighty man" and "a mighty hunter before the Lord." English speakers of the 16th century didn't think Nimrod was particularly benevolent; they used his name as a synonym of tyrant—a meaning that is now obsolete. In the 17th century, English speakers began using nimrod as a generic term for any hunter. That meaning is not especially common today but it's still encountered occasionally, especially in hunting and fishing journalism. The legendary Nimrod is also sometimes associated with the attempt to build "the tower of Babel," which resulted in the wrath of the Lord, proved a disastrous idea, and gave nimrod yet another meaning: "a stupid person."

Nimrod 从圣经开始的：Nimrod是一个被称为 Shinar 国家的国王，在创世记中他被描述为“地球上第一个强大的人”和“耶和华面前的强大猎人”。 16 世纪讲英语的人并不认为Nimrod特别的慈善；仁慈。 他们用他的名字作为tyrant「暴君」的同义词——这个意思现在已经过时了。 在 17 世纪，讲英语的人开始使用 nimrod 作猎人的通用语。 这个意思在今天并不特别常见，但偶尔还是会遇到，特别是在狩猎和捕鱼新闻中。 传说中nimrod 有时也与试建“巴别塔”有关，这导致了上帝的愤怒，证明了一个灾难性的想法，而赋予 nimrod 另一个含义：“一个愚蠢的人”。

Quiz

Fill in the blanks to complete a near antonym of nimrod meaning "someone who knows a lot about many different things": p _ l y _ a t _.

答案：polymath「博学家；博学大师」