英语词汇“curate's egg”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

curate's egg

/kjʊərətsˈɛɡ

noun British

A thing that is partly good and partly bad: this book is a bit of a curate’s egg...

Volumes of collected journalism do rather tend to be curate's eggs.
Jones has been trying to run a curate's egg in an industry that has become increasingly specialised.
But without the accompanying TV show, all crashing waves, white sand and gnarly crofters, the book reveals itself as something of a curate's egg.

Origin

Early 20th century: from a cartoon in Punch (1895) depicting a meek curate who, given a stale egg at the bishop's table, assures his host that ‘parts of it are excellent’.

单词	curate's egg
释义	curate's egg /kjʊərətsˈɛɡ / noun British A thing that is partly good and partly bad: this book is a bit of a curate’s egg... Volumes of collected journalism do rather tend to be curate's eggs. Jones has been trying to run a curate's egg in an industry that has become increasingly specialised. But without the accompanying TV show, all crashing waves, white sand and gnarly crofters, the book reveals itself as something of a curate's egg. Origin Early 20th century: from a cartoon in Punch (1895) depicting a meek curate who, given a stale egg at the bishop's table, assures his host that ‘parts of it are excellent’.
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