Topsy

发音

UK /ˈtɒpsi/

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Something or someone who figuratively grows without control or intention.

    Why has National Strategies been allowed to grow like Topsy in some respects, and at the same time become even more complex, making it difficult for teachers to take in the amount of guidance that they receive?

相关短语

topsy-turvy adv. 颠倒地, 乱七八糟地 a. 颠倒的, 乱七八糟的 n. 颠倒, 混乱 vt. 使颠倒, 使混乱 topsy turvy topsy turvies topsy turvyed topsy turvied topsy-turvies

词源

After a character in Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), who, asked about God, says "I s'pect I growed. Don't think nobody never made me." The sense of excessive out-of-control growth is a misunderstanding.

来源：wiktionary