释义 |
●a dead ˈringer for sb (informal) a person who looks extremely like sb else 酷似某人的人◆She’s a dead ringer for her mother. 她活像她的母亲。 ORIGIN A ringer was a person or thing that pretended to be another person or thing. In horse racing for example, a ringer was a horse that was substituted for another in order to cheat in a race. * ringer 原指冒名顶替的人或冒牌货。比如在赛马中,ringer 是冒名顶替其他马出场比赛的马。 |