Quack

(noun.) the harsh sound of a duck.

(noun.) an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice.

(verb.) act as a medical quack or a charlatan.

(verb.) utter quacking noises; 'The ducks quacked'.

(adj.) medically unqualified; 'a quack doctor' .

尤金伲亚整理

• Mew, Quack quack, Bow-wow! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• He threw out biting remarks on Lydgate's tricks, worthy only of a quack, to get himself a factitious reputation with credulous people. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Mew, Quack-quack, Bow-wow! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• It was noteworthy that, following the discovery of salvarsan or 606 by Dr. Ehrlich, the quack doctors began to call their treatments 606. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• He isn't the first quack with a handle to his name. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Mrs. Michelson, the fat old foreigner is a quack. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• It is in that way that hard-working medical men may come to be almost as mischievous as quacks, said Lydgate, rather thoughtlessly. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Some there are, and very successful too, mere quacks and fools: and it was to combat and expose such as those, no doubt, that Laughter was made. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• He would have none but a tip-top college man to educate him--none of your quacks and pretenders--no, no. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Those quacks and misanthropes who advertise indelible Japan ink should be made to perish along with their wicked discoveries. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• But the deliberate casuistry of lawyers, quacks, or politicians is not so difficult to deal with. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

整理:玛丽