scarecrow

• n. 稻草人，威吓物；衣衫褴褛的人

scare,惊吓，crow,乌鸦。比喻用法。

scarecrow (n.)

1550s, from scare (v.) + crow (n.). Earliest reference is to a person employed to scare birds. Meaning "device of straw and cloth in grotesque resemblance of a man, set up in a grain field or garden to frighten crows," is implied by 1580s; hence "gaunt, ridiculous person" (1590s). An older name for such a thing was shewel. Shoy-hoy apparently is another old word for a straw-stuffed scarecrow (Cobbett began using it as a political insult in 1819 and others picked it up; OED defines it as "one who scares away birds from a sown field," and says it is imitative of their cry). Also fray-boggard (1530s).

来自《简明英汉词典》

2. Look at you a regular scarecrow!

你自己看看,谁像你这样特别!

来自汉英文学 - 中国现代小说

3. I don't mean to be married to that old scarecrow.

我可不愿意嫁给那个老稻草人.

来自辞典例句

4. In his holiday clothes, he was more like a scarecrow in good circumstances.

他穿上节日的服装, 活活象个装点得挺考究的稻草人.

来自辞典例句

5. Aren't you sick of playing a scarecrow?

你扮演稻草人难道不觉得无聊 吗 ?

来自电影对白