bah humbug

短语

发音

UK /bɑː ˈhʌmbʌɡ/
AU
US /ˌbɑ ˈhʌmˌbʌɡ/

词形变化

bah humbugged bah humbugging bah humbugs 三单 bah humbugs bah humbugging 现在分词 bah humbugged 过去式 bah humbugged 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To utter the words "bah humbug"; to dismiss with the words, or sentiment, of the interjection.

interj.
  1. 1.

    Expressing cynicism, disillusionment or distrustfulness; and specifically a dislike of Christmas and its celebrations and festivities.

    幽默

    Only a modern Scrooge could say, "Bah, Humbug," where helping people to get enough to eat is concerned. Well, we are not going to argue that food aid has never filled an empty stomach or saved a dying child—but we will contend, in the case of the United States at least, that it has done so only inadvertently.

词源

From bah (interjection expressing contempt, disgust, or bad temper) + humbug (“balderdash!, nonsense!, rubbish!”). The words were originally spoken by the miser Ebenezer Scrooge in the novella A Christmas Carol (1843) by English author Charles Dickens (1812–1870).

来源：wiktionary