英:[ˈnɜːdi]
美:[ ˈnɜːrdi]
英:[ˈnɜːdi]
美:[ ˈnɜːrdi]
比较级:nerdier或more nerdy
最高级:nerdiest或most nerdy
noun
a person devoted to intellectual, academic, or technical pursuits or interests He's happy to be thought of as a nerd with street cred. He [Neil deGrasse Tyson] shines best in impromptu settings like talk shows or needling cosmologists at the annual Asimov debates … about nothingness or alternate universes.—Dennis Overbye Will a dab of Shakespeare daintily perfume my wit or just sound like the literary belching of a compulsive nerd?—Gary Tayloralso: a person preoccupied with or devoted to a particular activity or field of interest At college she was a theater nerd. … "I wasn't afraid to jam, with the windows down, to Phantom of the Opera," she [Kristen Bell] says. —Troy Patterson Working beside him is his partner, Ron Johnson, another self-described snow nerd … —David Quammen
This book is essential reading for every hacker, computer nerd, systems analyst, middle manager or computer-store browser enamored of computer wizardry.—William Stockton
an unstylish or socially awkward person
[Sitcom character Steven Q.] Urkel is loaded with everything in the nerd's bag of tics: suspenders, spectacles, squeaks, snorts, and scrawniness.—Shelley Levitt
1978年,由 nerd 和 -y(2)组成。相关词汇: Nerdiness。
perhaps from nerd, a creature in the children's book If I Ran the Zoo (1950) by Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel)
The first known use of nerd was in 1951
nervelessadjective
lacking strength or courage : feeble
showing or having control : not nervous
nerve1 of 2noun
tendon
strain every nerve
one of the stringy bands of nervous tissue connecting the nervous system with other organs and carrying nerve impulses
power of endurance or control
a test of mind and nerve
fearless boldness
had the nerve to confront the mysterious stranger
behavior marked by a rude or disrespectful boldness
what nerve of her to say that
a sore or sensitive point
that remark hit a nerve
plural a condition of being very nervous : jitters
had a case of the nerves before her performance
a vein in a leaf or in the wing of an insect
the sensitive soft inner part of a tooth
nerve2 of 2verb
to give strength or courage to
nerdnoun
an unstylish, unattractive, or socially awkward person
a person devoted to intellectual or academic pursuits
1 Martin Skegg New offering from Russell T Davies, centred around the partnership of Tom, the most popular boy in school with a talent for magic, with nerdy alien enthusiast Benny.
2 So we could also talk about our dads, try to figure out which one is nerdier.
3 For lovers of "Booksmart," viewers will recognize that the smart girls don't always have to be the nerdy wallflowers.
4 She is no less nerdy than her older sister.
她是个不输给姊姊的御宅族。
5 You get the sense that he'd perform this set in the same way – rattling through it, pausing only for nerdy pleasure at his own cleverness – even if the audience weren't there.
6 I write down a checklist, which is kinda nerdy, but I know something is missing.
7 Her house is as nerdy as she is.
8 He carries us through his quirky and fascinating life story, with periodic nerdy side trips through his early thinking on more technical aspects of virtual reality.
9 “It’s a very strange and nerdy book,” Svensson said in an interview this month in Malmo.
10 The books are then dropped into bins destined for the appropriate branch library, like riders ejected from a particularly nerdy roller-coaster.
11 And in his eyes, I was a nerdy, light-skinned girl who spoke English with the proper resonance and idioms for seamless assimilation into white-dominated spaces.
12 There’s nothing particularly innovative about its systematic abuse of three nerdy college freshmen seeking membership in any fraternity that will have them.
13 It looks like something totally nerdy, but then you’re there and you’re getting tackled by someone and shot in the private areas by arrows.
14 “Not really, but we had PE together last year and I saw him a couple of weeks ago when I was grocery shopping with my mom. He’s cute! In a nerdy way.”
15 It tells the story of Dave Lizewski, a nerdy high school student and comic book fan who decides to become a superhero despite the fact that he has no special powers.
16 Because he's not just good-looking—he's nerdy, and funny, and nice, and he actually seems to enjoy talking to me.
17 The surprisingly touching rapport between Darren and Lucy is one instance of the play’s thoughtful and affectionate treatment of characters who, in a shallower work, might be dismissed as nerdy social misfits.
18 The heavily nerdy “Final Word” spends the least time of any of the programs on the human stories of the disaster, focusing on things like hydrodynamic flow and hydraulic outburst impact.
19 I am very nerdy every day.
我很令人讨厌的每一天。
20 Actually it is a bit nerdy.They set up all their synthesizers in this booth, and it's a kind of cross between a shop and a jam session.
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