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ultracrepidarian /ˌʌl.trə.krɛp.ɪˈdɛər.i.ən/ 形容词 adj.
词典词 dictionary word · 英语(拉丁语血统) · 1819 English (out of Latin) · 1819 · William Hazlitt · Oxford English Dictionary / Cambridge Dictionary 收录 in Oxford English Dictionary / Cambridge Dictionary

越过鞋底放炮的——鞋匠评完凉鞋评大腿:对本行之外的事发表高见,且停不下来。 Opining beyond one's sole — the cobbler, done with the sandal, now reviewing the thigh: expert confidence, exported without a license.

Opining beyond one's sole — the cobbler, done with the sandal, now reviewing the thigh: expert confidence, exported without a license. 越过鞋底放炮的——鞋匠评完凉鞋评大腿:对本行之外的事发表高见,且停不下来。

词源etymology

老普林尼《博物志》卷三十五的段子:画家阿佩莱斯把新作摆出来,自己躲在画后听议论。 一个鞋匠指出画中凉鞋少了个带孔,阿佩莱斯连夜改了; 次日鞋匠得寸进尺,开始点评画中人的大腿。画后传出一声: 鞋匠评鞋,莫越鞋底——后世凝成拉丁成语 ne sutor ultra crepidamultra(越过)+ crepida(凉鞋)+ -arian(之人):越过鞋底的那种人。

An anecdote from Book 35 of Pliny the Elder’s Natural History: the painter Apelles hung his new work and hid behind it to listen. A cobbler noted a missing strap-loop on a painted sandal; Apelles fixed it overnight. Next day the cobbler, emboldened, started on the figure’s thigh — and from behind the panel came the verdict: cobbler, judge no higher than the sandal — set in Latin for posterity as ne sutor ultra crepidam. Ultra (beyond) + crepida (sandal) + -arian: the sort who goes beyond the sole.

背景the story

把典故铸成英语单词的是黑兹利特,而且是量脚定做:1819 年那封著名的骂战书信, 对象《季评》主编吉福德年轻时当过鞋匠学徒——骂他越界评论, 用的正是他老本行的典。一句骂,两千年的引信,一个人的鞋码。 这封信后来被称作英语里最精彩的檄文之一。

词是十九世纪的,病是每个世纪的:电视嘉宾、评论区、酒桌—— 真专家,专错了地方,这个词等在那里。

Hazlitt forged the anecdote into an English word — and made it to measure: his famous 1819 letter of invective targeted William Gifford, editor of the Quarterly Review, who had been a cobbler’s apprentice in his youth. The charge was judging beyond his competence, delivered through the founding legend of his own old trade. One insult, a two-thousand-year fuse, one man’s shoe size. The letter is remembered among the finest invective in the language.

The word is nineteenth-century; the disease is every century’s: panel guests, comment sections, dinner tables — a real expert, expert in the wrong place, and the word is waiting.

中文里的邻居neighbors in chinese

隔行如隔山」陈述事实,ultracrepidarian 点名肇事者——一个是地形图,一个是通缉令。 「班门弄斧」方向恰好相反:弄斧是在行家门前卖弄, ultracrepidarian 是行家跑到别人门前卖弄。 「不懂装懂」也不对——这个词的毒处在于他真懂,只是懂的是鞋。

隔行如隔山 — “another trade, another mountain” — states the fact; ultracrepidarian names the offender: one is a relief map, the other a wanted poster. 班门弄斧 (“wielding the axe at Ban’s door”) points the opposite way: that is showing off before the master, while the ultracrepidarian is a master showing off at everyone else’s door. 不懂装懂 (“faking it”) misses too — the venom of this word is that he does know his stuff; his stuff is shoes.

引文 / 例句 quotations / examples
You have been well called an Ultra-Crepidarian critic. 人们叫你「越底评论家」,叫得真准。 威廉·黑兹利特 William Hazlitt · 《致威廉·吉福德书》 A Letter to William Gifford · 1819
The panel needed one more virologist and got three ultracrepidarian celebrities instead. 自拟例句 our own example, not a quotation
Retirement made the great surgeon fully ultracrepidarian — no field was safe, least of all macroeconomics. 自拟例句 our own example, not a quotation
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怎么用 how to use it

OED 在录(立目作 ultra-crepidarian,带连字符),剑桥词典亦收;MW 未收。 书面语,自带学究气——批评越界专家时用它,正好以学究治学究。 名词、形容词两用;那句拉丁成语 ne sutor ultra crepidam 可整句引。

In the OED (headword ultra-crepidarian, hyphenated) and Cambridge; not in MW. Formal, and faintly donnish — which suits it: pedantry deployed against out-of-lane pedants. Works as noun and adjective; the Latin tag ne sutor ultra crepidam can be quoted whole.

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