quacks

英 [kwæks]

美 [kwæks]

n.  (鸭子的)呱呱声，嘎嘎声; 江湖郎中; 冒牌医生; 庸医
v.  (鸭子)呱呱叫，嘎嘎叫
quack的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 庸医；江湖郎中；冒牌医生
  If you call someone aquackor aquack doctor, you mean that they claim to be skilled in medicine but are not.
  1. I went everywhere for treatment, tried all sorts of quacks.
     我四处求医，看过了各种各样的江湖郎中。
• ADJ 江湖医术;骗人的医术
  Quack remediesorquack curesare medical treatments that you think are unlikely to work because they are not scientific.
  1. Why do intelligent people find quack remedies so appealing?
     为什么聪明人会被江湖医术所吸引？
• VERB (鸭子)发出嘎嘎声
  When a duckquacks, it makes the noise that ducks typically make.
  1. There were ducks quacking on the lawn.
     草地上有几只鸭子在嘎嘎叫。
  2. Quackis also a noun.
     
  3. Suddenly he heard a quack.
     他突然听见一声嘎嘎的叫声。

双语例句

• I went everywhere for treatment, tried all sorts of quacks.
  我四处求医，看过了各种各样的江湖郎中。
• They flaunted themselves as of the elect group, but actually most of them are quacks.
  它们标榜自己是出类拔萃的一样，可实际上它们大多数都是假充内行。
• The fallacies of the fringe will not be proposed, although they have been investigated by myself, so I know what the quacks are telling "Joe Public".
  一些谬论我不会提议，虽然我已调查了这些谬论，因此我知道庸医所说的“乔公众”是什么意思了。
• People would turn to quacks and old myths for health information that is rarely grounded in any science.
  人们经常通过江湖郎中和古老的神话来获取几乎没有任何科学依据的健康信息。
• The United States, essential for knocking heads together, has a lame-duck president whose quacks for peace have probably come too late.
  各方均需美国来斡旋，但其跛脚鸭总统促成中东和解的努力未免来得太晚了。
• "If it looks like a bank and quacks like a bank, it has got to be subject to bank-like safeguards," said Lord Turner.
  “如果它看起来像银行，行为也像银行，那么它就必须接受银行式的防护措施，”特纳勋爵说。
• Like the alchemists and the quacks, the risk modellers have created an industry whose intense technical debates with each other lead gullible outsiders to believe that this is a profession with genuine expertise.
  与炼金术士和江湖医生一样，风险模型设计者创造了一种行当。他们相互之间激烈的技术辩论让轻信的局外人相信，这是一个拥有真正专业技能的行业。
• Quacks now lace their pitch with scientific terms that may sound authentic to the uninformed ( Jane E. Brody)
  江湖庸医现在在零售摊上加上科学字眼，以使人相信他们的正统性（简E.布罗迪）
• Certainly, the timing fits to a tee, and as stated here regularly in the past: if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck then it surely is not a peacock.
  确实，时机正合适，正如我们一直在这唠叨的：如果某只秒走起来向鸭子，叫起来嘎嘎的，那么它肯定不是只孔雀。
• Ronald: The pain of getting his bill will be far greater than this. Here, hold this string. I'll show those over-priced quacks.
  罗讷德：收到他的账单比现在更痛苦，来吧，拿着绳子，我要叫那些收费高得离谱的庸医看看我的手段。