boondock

穷乡僻壤

发音

UK /ˈbuːn.dɒk/
US /ˈbun.dɑk/

词形变化

boondocks 复数 boondocks boondocked boondocking boondocks 三单 boondocking 现在分词 boondocked 过去式 boondocked 过去分词

别名

bundock

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A brushy, rural area or location.

    穷乡僻壤

    美国

    We got lost out in the boondocks, miles from anywhere.

    It was hard to respect his opinion after he'd called their humble but respectable town "a godforsaken boondock."

  2. 2.

    A shot that strikes a squopped wink and sends it flying far away.

v.
  1. 1.

    To camp in a dry brushy location.

    露营

    美国
  2. 2.

    To stay in a self-contained recreational vehicle without connections to water, electricity, or sewer services, especially in a remote location.

    开露营车

    美国

    When traveling in the American Southwest, we avoid other people by boondocking in the desert.

  3. 3.

    To strike a squopped wink and send it flying far away.

词源

1910s during or around the Philippine–American War after the Spanish–American War, from Tagalog bundok (“mountain”), adopted by occupying American soldiers serving in the mountains or rural countryside of the American-occupied Philippines under the United States Military Government of the Philippine Islands. The term was reinforced or re-adopted during World War II under the U.S. military, where terms like boondockers (“shoes suited for rough terrain”) came originally in 1944 as U.S. services slang word for field boots. It was later shortened to boonies by 1964 originally among U.S. troops serving in the Vietnam War in reference to the rural areas of Vietnam, as opposed to Saigon.

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