nerd: [20] It seems likely that nerd, a term for a dull, socially inept or otherwise obnoxious person that appeared in US slang in the early 1950s, was inspired by a whimsical creature called a ‘nerd’ that was invented by the American children’s author ‘Dr Seuss’ (Theodore Seuss Geisel (1904–91)) and introduced by him in his book If I Ran the Zoo (1950): ‘And then, just to show them, I’ll sail to Ka-Troo And Bring Back an It-Kutch, a Preep and a Proo, a Nerkle, a Nerd, and a Seersucker, too!’ In thinking up the word he may have been influenced by Mortimer Snerd, the name of a dummy used by the American ventriloquist Edgar Bergen.
nerd (n.)
1951, U.S. student slang, probably an alteration of 1940s slang nert "stupid or crazy person," itself an alteration of nut. The word turns up in a Dr. Seuss book from 1950 ("If I Ran the Zoo"), which may have contributed to its rise.
雙語例句
1. Mark claimed he was made to look a nerd.
馬克稱自己被搞得像個傻瓜。
來自柯林斯例句
2. If you call someone a nerd, it means you think he is weird and not cool.
噢,nerd是指那種跟一般人不一樣,有點怪的人.
來自互聯網
3. That computer nerd is a total social misfit.
那個只會玩電腦的呆子對人情世故一竅不通.
來自辭典例句
4. Flora: Do you consider yourself a geek or a computer nerd?
你覺得自己是電腦蟲還是電腦迷?
來自互聯網
5. Can you believe that nerd wants to join our fraternity?