pig-headed(adj.)
也指 pigheaded; 17世纪,指“头部像猪的”; 1788年指“愚蠢而固执,思想不合理”; 参见 pig(n.1)和 -headed。通常是比喻性的。
A pig-headed man must be one, who, like a driven pig, always will do exactly the opposite to what other people--in the case of the pig his luckless driver--wish him to do, that is to say he is an obstinate man. [The Sedberghian, June 1882]
一个顽固的人就像一只被驱赶的猪,总是会做与其他人——在猪的情况下是他不幸的驱动者——希望他做的完全相反的事情,也就是说,他是一个固执的人。[《塞德伯格人》,1882年6月]
该词起源时间:1610年代