大学英语词汇短语释义解析及例句 codger


释义：

codger n. 怪人；有怪癖的人
[ 复数 codgers ]

例句：



Millin was a crusty old codger who took the college job after he retired from the navy.

米林是一位脾气暴躁的老伙计，从海军退役后就在大学里找了这么个活儿。



There are suits on phones, a confused crowd of witnesses and a codger rifling through filing cabinets.

有正在打电话的商人、一群困惑的证人，还有一个匆匆搜寻档案柜的古怪老头。



The old codger may need a cane to walk, but not for his mind, which is still sharp as a razor blade .

这个古怪的老头子走路可能离不开拐棍，可动脑筋时却不同了，他的头脑仍然象刀片一样锋利。



It wasn't until 130 years later in 1685 that it's “off centre” meaning was applied to a personality and the first application held a kindly tone of an old codger.

然而，打那起过了130多年，直到1685年，它“偏心”的意思才被用来形容人的个性，而且一开始，人们以亲切的口吻用这个词来形容古怪的老头。



Levy, age 52 and a codger by Web standards, grew up collecting baseball autographs at spring training camps in Florida.



She proudly talks about how hard it was to be a geek when she was growing up with all the tact of a codger trying to get kids off her lawn.


After all, many companies whose products have become obsolete have blown a fortune trying to find ways to stay alive the corporate equivalent of an old codger squandering the children's inheritance on untested medicine when what was really required was a graceful exit.


The motion for the Humble Address is proposed by a senior and seconded by a junior government MP - "a genial old codger on the way out, and an oily young man on the make" as the former Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell put it, when he was the junior MP in question.