wonk

• n. 书呆子；刻苦用功的学生

1. an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or studying excessively

the President's chief economic policy wonk

总统的首席经济问题策士

《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

校园俚语，可能来自wanker,手淫胚子。

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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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."