Humpty Dumptyish

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Resembling or characteristic of the nursery-rhyme character Humpty Dumpty.
    — The work is brought to a ‘Couldn’t’ conclusion with ‘Humpty Dumpty’s song,’ for solo and chorus, in which the wall-perched hero ‘falls backwards with a crash out of sight’ to four very extraordinary looking chords of an exceeding Humpty Dumptyish nature—these crashing chaotic chords ‘are to be played (sfff) simultaneously, by placing both hands and elbows violently on to the keyboard as Humpty Dumpty falls.
  2. Relating to Humpty Dumptyism in language.
    — The correspondence with T[homas] Sturge Moore has been edited by Ursula Bridge (1953), and reveals Yeats’s confirmed habit of making a philosophical argument mean what he wants it to mean in rather Humpty Dumptyish fashion.

词形变化

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词源

From Humpty Dumpty + -ish.
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