wannabe

FREQ #17101

n. 赶超崇拜者, 赶超崇拜者的人

发音

AU /ˈwɒnəbi/

词形变化

wannabes 复数 wannabes

别名

wanna-be wannabee want-to-be

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Someone who wishes to be someone or do something, but lacks the qualifications or talent; an overeager amateur; an aspirant.

    定语 贬义 非正式

    Hollywood's restaurants are full of wannabe actors waiting to be discovered.

  2. 2.

    Someone who wishes to be part of, or to assimilate to, a majority group of which they are not a member.

    贬义 非正式

词汇关系

名词

同义词 4

hopeful aspirant aspirer wannabee

上位词 2

applicant applier

词源

Written form of a reduction of want to be, analyzable as wanna + be. Wannabe can be considered a conversion, category change, or functional shift. While occasionally appearing in print, usually as a less reduced phrase, the popularity of the word took off in the mid-1980s following the Madonna wannabe fashion trend: “wannabe”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer.

来源：wiktionary