Why did nerd become a household word, and not its neighbors, preep, proo and nerkle?

为什么“书呆”（nerd）一词会成为家的词汇，而不是它的邻居“痞”（preep）、“痞”（proo）和 “书呆”（nerkle）呢？

Hooter, the meaning changed over time.That's right.Back then, I heard him say, I'm not a plastic surgeon.

痞 多年来词义发生了变化 当时我听到他说 不又不是整形医师。

" By hiring ruffians to beat him under your own window" .

“通过雇佣痞在自己的窗下殴打他”。

Take down the shutters, yer idle young ruffian!

把百叶窗拿下来，你这个无所事事的小痞！

Ruffian, bully, beast—it was all written on that heavy-jowled face.

痞、恶霸、野兽——全都写在了那张厚脸皮上。

Then she won't have to deal with the riffraff." " I like Ziggy.

这样她就不用和那个痞打交道了。“我喜欢Ziggy。

Every one knows that horse-racing is carried on mainly for the delight and profit of fools, ruffians, and thieves.

谁都知道，赛马主要是为了愚人、痞和小偷的娱乐和利益而进行的。

He emerged as an unlikely hero when he ruthlessly crushed a Russian attempt to delay the conference in a wrangle for better terms.

他像一位痞英雄一般无情挫败俄罗斯试图延迟会议并争取更有利条款的企图。

With a penchant for male uniform, she at one point commanded an equestrian army of ruffians for Manchuria's Japanese occupiers.

由于制服情有独钟，她曾一度为满洲的日本占领者指挥过一支由痞组成的马术部队。

Once you were given that Von Trapp image, then all the scripts came with the same kind of uptight son-of-a-bitches, and they were so dull and boring.

“一旦你有了冯·特拉普的形象，然后所有的剧本都带着同样的痞形象，他们是如此乏味。

He almost jumped down to say hello, until he remembered that they would probably be frightened by the sight of a ruffian like himself.

他差点跳下来打招呼，直到他想起来，他们很可能会被自己这样的痞看到吓到。

Listen to music, but listen to it mindfully, not just as background music but the music that inspires you, whether it's rocky, whether it's Eminem, whoever it is.

听听音乐，要集中注意听，不要只当背景音乐，要让音乐激发你，无论是摇滚，还是痞阿姆，都可以。

I'm not gonna hit him, but I'm gonna give him a piece of my mind. Now, boys, pay attention -- you want to be men, this is how you handle a jerk like this.

我不会扁他，但我要跟他讲道理。筒们，注意了：要想当爷们儿，就得学我这样付这些痞。

But by the 3rd and 4th centuries CE, though, the empire had been forced to allow the kind of riffraff into their army who didn’t really care about the idea of Rome itself.

但是到了公元 3 世纪和 4 世纪，帝国被迫允许那些并不真正关心罗马本身的想法的痞进入他们的军队。