• n. 流氓；暴徒；無賴

詞源不詳，特別用于指美國(guó)加利福尼亞州19世紀(jì)70年代欺負(fù)中國(guó)移民的街頭流氓，一種說法是來自”huddle ‘em”,即huddle them,類似于攻擊中國(guó)移民的暗號(hào)，后來報(bào)紙就把這幫人稱做hoodlum.

hoodlum (n.)

popularized 1871, American English, (identified throughout the 1870s as "a California word") "young street rowdy, loafer," especially one involved in violence against Chinese immigrants, "young criminal, gangster;" it appears to have been in use locally from a slightly earlier date and may have begun as a specific name of a gang:

The police have recently been investigating the proceedings of a gang of thieving boys who denominate themselves and are known to the world as the Hoodlum Gang. [San Francisco "Golden Era" newspaper, Feb. 16, 1868, p.4]

Of unknown origin, though newspapers of the day printed myriad fanciful stories concocted to account for it. A guess perhaps better than average is that it is from German dialectal (Bavarian) Huddellump "ragamuffin" [Barnhart].

What the derivation of the word "hoodlum" is we could never satisfactorily ascertain, though several derivations have been proposed; and it would appear that the word has not been very many years in use. But, however obscure the word may be, there is nothing mysterious about the thing; .... [Walter M. Fisher, "The Californians," London, 1876]

1. If I was a hoodlum I could hit you on the head.

如果我是強(qiáng)盜的話,我可以猛擊你的頭.

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2. The hoodlum is still in jug.

那個(gè)惡棍仍在坐牢.

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3. The hoodlum menaced the local merchants.

盜匪威脅著當(dāng)?shù)厣倘?

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4. He is a well - known hoodlum in this neighborhood , always bullying others.

他是這邊有名的混子, 經(jīng)常欺負(fù)人.

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5. My not hoodlum, but ill health.

我不流氓, 但不健康.

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