wonk

• n. 书呆子；刻苦用功的学生

校园俚语，可能来自wanker。

wonk (n.)

"overly studious person," 1962, earlier "effeminate male" (1954), American English student slang. Perhaps a shortening of British slang wonky "shaky, unreliable," or a variant of British slang wanker "masturbator." It seemed to rise into currency as a synonym for nerd late 1980s from Ivy League slang and was widely popularized 1993 during the presidency of Bill Clinton. Tom Wolfe (1988) described it as "an Eastern prep-school term referring to all those who do not have the 'honk' voice, i.e., all who are non-aristocratic."

1. the President's chief economic policy wonk

总统的首席经济问题策士

来自《权威词典》

2. But a new breed of policy wonk is having second thoughts.

但是,新生代“政策专家”又有了新的想法.

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