quiz

• n. 考查；恶作剧；课堂测验
• vt. 挖苦；张望；对…进行测验

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中文词源

可能来自拉丁语qui es,你是谁，来自qui,谁，词源同who,es,是，词源同is.原为过去拉丁语 语法考试时问考生的第一个问题。后用于指小测试，小考试。

英文词源

quiz

quiz: [19] No one has ever been able satisfactorily to explain the origins of quiz. A word of that form first appeared at the end of the 18th century, meaning ‘odd person’ or, as a verb, ‘make fun of’ (in the early 19th century it was claimed to have been coined by a Dublin theatre proprietor by the name of Daly, but no proof has ever been found for this). The verb later came to be used for ‘look at mockingly or questioningly through a monocle’, and it may be that this led on (perhaps helped by associations with inquisitive or Latin quis? ‘who?, what?’) to the sense ‘interrogate’.

quiz (n.)

"brief examination of a student on some subject," 1852, perhaps from quiz (v.), or from slang quiz "odd person" (1782, perhaps originally university slang), via the notion of "schoolboy prank or joke played at the expense of a person deemed a quiz" (a noun sense attested frequently 1840s).

A Quiz, in the common acceptation of the word, signifies one who thinks, speaks, or acts differently from the rest of the world in general. But, as manners and opinions are as various as mankind, it will be difficult to say who shall be termed a Quiz, and who shall not: each person indiscriminately applying the name of Quiz to every one who differs from himself .... ["The London Magazine," November, 1783]

According to OED, the anecdote that credits this word to a bet by the Dublin theater-manager Daly or Daley that he could coin a word is regarded by authorities as "doubtful" and the first record of it appears to be in 1836 (in Smart's "Walker Remodelled"; the story is omitted in the edition of 1840).

The word Quiz is a sort of a kind of a word
That people apply to some being absurd;
One who seems, as t'were oddly your fancy to strike
In a sort of a fashion you somehow don't like
A mixture of odd, and of queer, and all that
Which one hates, just, you know, as some folks hate a cat;
A comical, whimsical, strange, droll -- that is,
You know what I mean; 'tis -- in short, -- 'tis a quiz!

[from "Etymology of Quiz," Charles Dibdin, 1842]

quiz (v.)

1847, "to question," quies, perhaps from Latin qui es? "who are you?," first question in oral exams in Latin in old-time grammar schools. Spelling quiz first recorded 1886, though it was in use as a noun spelling from 1854, perhaps in this case from apparently unrelated slang word quiz "odd person" (1782, source of quizzical). Compare quisby "queer, not quite right; bankrupt" (slang from 1807). From the era of radio quiz shows comes quizzee (n.), 1940.

双语例句

1. Below are printed the answers to the Brain of Soccer 1993 quiz.

以下所印的是1993年“脑力足球”小测验的答案。

来自柯林斯例句

2. We'll have a quiz at the end of the show.

节目的最后我们要举行一次智力竞赛。

来自柯林斯例句

3. We've also got a bonus quiz with crates of beer as prizes!

我们还获得了一次参加有奖智力竞赛的机会，奖品是成箱的啤酒！

来自柯林斯例句

4. Who coined the word "quiz" ?

谁创造的“quiz”这个词？

来自辞典例句

5. The format of the new quiz show has proved popular.

新的智力竞赛节目的总体安排结果证明很受欢迎。

来自《权威词典》