egg做名词时
可以指人、家伙
词典解释:
你可以把你认为的非常友好的公交司机称为good egg。good egg是指好人。
Good egg is a friendly, old-fashioned way to talk about a good guy or a kind person. When you call your next door neighbor a good egg, it's clear that you're fond of her.
Good egg was at first just a humorous inversion of bad egg. A bad egg was as thoroughly nasty a person as the literal bad egg was unpleasant to encounter.
Good egg最初是由它的对立词bad egg演变而来,是一种比较幽默的表达。bad egg就像字面上的坏蛋那样令人讨厌。
Meaning decent and dependable (good egg) or not reliable or corrupt (bad egg), the term bad egg was first used in the novel "Captain Priest" by Samuel A Hammett.
表示体面的、可靠的的人的good egg和不可靠的、腐败的人的bad egg,最早出现在塞缪尔·阿·哈密特的小说《牧师队长》中。
# good egg
好人、善良的人、讨人喜欢的人
# bad egg
坏人、不可信任的人、卑鄙的人
例:
I think Lily is a good egg.
我觉得Lily是个好人。
Tom is believed as a bad egg.
人们觉得Tom很坏。