kahuna
[kə'hunə]
- n. 魔法师；卡胡纳（人名）
考试真题
- According to Adam Marchick, CEO of mobile marketing company Kahuna, less than 15 percent of smartphone users ever bother to adjust their notification settings—meaning the remaining 85 percent of us default to the app makers' every preset trigger.
2017年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B
中文词源
kahuna 负责人
来自夏威夷语，智者，法师，引申词义重要的人，负责人。
英文词源
- kahuna (n.)
- 1886, in a report in English by the Hawaiian government, which defines the word as "doctor and sorcerer," from Hawaiian, where it was applied as well to priests and navigators. In surfer slang, for "a god of surfing," it is attested from 1962 (but big kahuna in same sense is said to date from 1950s.