honest injun
基本解釋
- 真誠(chéng)地
英漢例句
- Tom—honest injun, now—is it fun, or earnest?
湯姆，你是開(kāi)玩笑，還是說(shuō)真格的？
chinaorb.com - Another more recent phrase is “honest injun”—as schoolboys might say when swearing that they aren’t exaggerating about something.
最近常用的一個(gè)短語(yǔ)是“誠(chéng)實(shí)的美國(guó)印第安人”-當(dāng)小學(xué)生們發(fā)誓說(shuō)他們并沒(méi)有夸大其詞地時(shí)候會(huì)這么說(shuō)。 - Finally, Hugh Rawson in his book Wicked Words feels the phrase used to be used derisively, meaning someone who was an honest injun wasn’t honest at all.
最后，克雷頓.勞森在其善變的詞匯一書(shū)中表示，這個(gè)詞以前是用來(lái)反諷的，意思是說(shuō)一個(gè)說(shuō)自己誠(chéng)實(shí)的印第安人實(shí)際上一點(diǎn)也不誠(chéng)實(shí)。