shumac

sumac的另一種拼寫法

In dying a Cotton Gown Black. [...] For a gown, take half a pint of ground shumac and put it into a sieve, and place it in a pan; then pour boiling water on it, and let the shumac water run into the pan; then put in your gown, and let it steep for six hours; [...]

1817，William Tucker，“On Dying Cottons, Dresses, Bed-furniture, &c. &c.”, in The Family Dyer and Scourer; being a Complete Treatise on the Whole Art of Cleaning and Dying: […]，London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, […], →OCLC，頁s 102–103:

Often, on descending into the narrow valleys, we found a little spot of cultivation, a garden, or a field hedged round with shumacs, rhododendrons, and azalias, and a cottage covered with roses.

1832，[Frances Milton] Trollope，章號 XVIII, in Domestic Manners of the Americans. […]，London: Printed for Whittaker, Treacher, & Co.; […], →OCLC，頁 160:


shumac

shumacs (third-person singular present)
shumacing (present participle)
shumacking (present participle)
shumaced (past participle)
shumacked (past participle)

sumac的另一種拼寫法

Then lot 1 will be shumacked first time; that is, passed through a decoction of shumac, then through copperas, and then washed off, and if the decoction of shumac is kept up strong, after being all of them once shumacked they may be dried. [...] If the black liquor and the shumacking were powerful, some of them will shew themselves finished when dry.

1816，Thomas Packer，“On Dying Silk Black, According to M. [Pierre] Macquer”, in The Dyer’s Guide; being an Introduction to the Art of Dying […]，London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, […], →OCLC，頁 90:

Harness backs, previous to currying are wetted back in cold or tepid water for skiving; they are then thoroughly scoured, grain well cleaned, and re-shaved, or "flatted" on the flesh if necessary. They are then shumaced to brighten the color. Some makers shumac before flatting in drum tumblers.

1905 July，“Tanning Heavy Leather: Specimen Answers to the Questions Supplied by Dr. J. Gordon Parker of Harold’s Institute, London”, in The Leather Manufacturer: A Technological Journal，卷 XVI, part 7, Boston, Mass.: Deming & Rogers, →OCLC，頁 115:


siafu

借自斯瓦希里語 siafu。

Male driver ants leave the colony soon after they hatch but are drawn to the scent trails left by colonies of siafu ants when they reach sexual maturity.

2016，Kevin Baker，The World's Most Dangerous Animals:


at-ten-shun

"At-ten-shun !" commanded he, with that peculiar inflexion only attainable after considerable service.

1906，Joseph Edgar Crowell，The Young Volunteer: The Everyday Experiences of a Soldier Boy in the Civil War:

At-ten-SHUN! ¶ The United States Marine Corps wants your children.

2003，“Family Fare”, in The New York Times:


Tamsui

來自閩南語 淡水 (Tām-súi)的羅馬化。

位於北臺灣縣市新北市的一個行政區。

After the war between Great Britain and China, which culminated in 1860 in the Treat of Tientsin, two Formosan ports, Takau and Tamsui, were thrown open to foreign trade in accordance with provisions in that treaty, and British subjects and missionaries were to be allowed safe-conducts in the island.

1902，Archibald Ross Colquhoun，The Mastery of the Pacific，Macmillan Company, →OCLC, →OL，頁 385:

The engineering unit on Sept. 10 successfully placed the third and last arched beam, weighing 1,750 metric tons with a length of 166 meters, utilizing the tidal current on the Tamsui River. On the east side of the river, the 539-meter-long bridge meets the highway that runs between Taipei and Tamsui.

1983年September18日，“Unique Kuantu Bridge To Open In October”, in Free China Weekly，卷 XXIV, 期 37, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC，頁 1:


large and in charge

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-large and in charge.ogg

信心與沉著地支配/控制當前的處境

Sure, as the captain of your ship, you are the one to blame when things go wrong or fall apart, but you are also large and in charge when they go well.

2011，T.D. Jakes，64 Lessons for a Life Without Limits, →ISBN:

The little girl in me was crying, "No more." She was large and in charge, front and center—the lead actress in the play about her life.

2012，Naomi Nelson，Breaking the Silence, →ISBN，頁 87:

Hampton Touissant Hamilton held a degree in Business Economics from the United States Naval Academy and he was svelte, tall, large and in charge, black as the skies at midnight and handsome as an Adonis would or could be a real ringer.

2014，Letitia L. A. Najieb，Luscious Savoy: "The Unstoppable Women!"，頁 479:

Despite the difficulties with Skyler and Mike, Walt is large and in charge again in the cold open to “Say My Name.”

2014，Ensley F. Guffey & K. Dale Koontz，Wanna Cook?: The Complete, Unofficial Companion to Breaking Bad, →ISBN:


yin

來自羅馬化的漢語陰／阴 (yīn)。

"Steamed fish and chicken and vegetable soup and even mushrooms are considered cooling foods, edible materializations of the yang, the pure primal air. The yin, or earth element, inheres in fried dishes and especially in shark's fin soup. Am I right, Mr Lee?"

1956，Anthony Burgess，Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy)，出版於 1972，頁 187:


用於信件，寫在元音上，代替元音後的 n 或 m。

contempt

The Lord is not ſlacke cõcerning his promiſe (as ſome men count ſlackneſſe)[…].

主沒有像有些人認為的那樣，拖延所應許的 […]。

1611，The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version)，London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Peter 3:9，列 2:


sked

schedule第一個音節的重拼。

Smaller-town indies are lopping off early-week skeds with winter among us.

1989, The Film Journal (volume 92, issues 1-6)

Gibbs saying that the reason HRC delayed releasing her sked was that she was “hiding” something, […]

2008年March20日，Ana Marie Cox，“Obama Conference Call”, in Times, retrieved 20150315:


sked

schedule第一個音節的重拼。

skeds (third-person singular present)
skedding (present participle)
skedded (past participle)

Actually NBC and other webs have used similar devices in the past, particularly during the war, when net used plattered segments for its news and documentary stanzas. As far as can be determined, however, this is the first post-war instance in which the net has allowed even a partial plattering of a regularly skedded commercial stanza.

1957年December30日，“NBC Breaks Wax Rule for Hope's Britain Shows”, in Billboard，卷 59, 期 45，頁 5:


shop window

源自中古英語 shop window、shop wyndowe，等同於shop + window。

The enthusiasm with which the private industry has treated the high speed rail concept can do the Corporation some good, and maybe even encourage the completion of the originally proposed electrification from New Haven to Boston. It will then have a high speed 'shop window', comparable with any in the world.

1985，Rodger Bradley，Amtrak: The US National Railroad Passenger Corporation，Blandford Press，頁 168:


amero

北美共同货币，理論上未來北美統一使用的貨幣

The amero notes and coins will have in common abstract designs on one side. Notes and coins will be produced in each of the three countries […]

2003, Louis-Philippe Rochon, Mario Seccareccia, Dollarization: lessons from Europe and the Americas

From the US point of view, the key benefit of the amero model - reduced transactions costs - would be fully duplicated by the dollarization alternative.

2006，Amy Verdun，Britain and Canada and their large neighboring monetary unions:

The Amero would increase the GDP of the US by only roughly 15%.

2006，Vasu Brown，Digital Xchange - Boring Ways to Learn the DX Market:


sliver

源自中古英語 slivere, sliver，源自中古英語 sliven (“切，使裂開”)，源自古英語 slīfan（參見tōslīfan (“使裂開，使分開”)）。

slivers (third-person singular present)
slivering (present participle)
slivered (past participle)

to sliver wood

slips of yew,
Sliver'd in the moon's eclipse

c. 1606 (date written)，William Shakespeare，“The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio)，London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, 出版於 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:


were-wolf

For its part, the vivid imagery of Servian folklore states that 'the power to become a were-wolf is obtained by drinking the water which settles in a foot-print left in the clay by a wolf.'

2013，Matthew Beresford，White Devil, →ISBN，頁 118:

This fancy Herodotus regards with incredulity, but his mention of it is none the less valuable, for the were-wolf is a figure which constantly appears in modern folk-lore.

2014，Henry Fanshawe Tozer，A History of Ancient Geography, →ISBN，頁 86:

If traditions of were-wolves are scanty in England, it is quite the reverse if we cross the water.

2017，Sabine Baring-Gould -，The Book of Were-Wolves:


were wolf

All these tortures he resisted till the hangman gave him an intoxicating draught, and under its influence he confessed that he was a were wolf after all.

1830，The Polar star of Entertainment and Popular Science:

"Ah! Madame!" they said, "what is the use, what can we do against a were wolf?"

They say that a person turns into a were wolf when he is bitten by another lycanthrope, or even by an ordinary wolf.

2009，Ferran Alexandri，The Big Book Of Fantastic Creatures, →ISBN，頁 19:


wolfess

wolvess (alternative)
wolfesses (plural)

The dog eloped with a white wolfess, and proved a good husband and father until his household was destroyed by relentless man.

“Yes, they got here hours ago, just about the time you went prowling around like a wolf, they were supposed to come tomorrow, but I guess they changed their minds on the date.” / “Wolf, am I?” Jack laughed, taking the hint belatedly. “Well, maybe I am, and you are the wolfess I’m after. Woof, woof, I am coming after you.” / Anna backed away feigning fear, then laughed.

“Another day in the George Lawrence Empire. Scene, the fox-trot ballroom. Characters, a wolfess aged forty-two and yours truly.” He rolled his eyes like a woman’s. “Tommy, hold me tight, will you honey?” he whispered in the role of the wolfess. Then the woman’s eyes changed into the sly and sad and abandoned eyes of a homo.

1954，Benjamin Appel，Sweet Money Girl: A Gold Medal Original，頁 64:

In the crowd that welcomed him home, consisting of about eleven creatures, for all the others were hiding under beds, there was a speed-crazy young wolfess, with built-in instantaneous pickup ability, and in no time at all the wolf and his new-found mate were setting new records for driving upside down, backward, blindfolded, handcuffed, and cockeyed, doubled and redoubled.

Allyn Ann McLerie slinks skillfully as cat and wolfess; Richard Hayes struts smoothly as “The Stork Who Married a Dumb Wife;” Kaye Ballard unleashes her lush voice, and Bert Convy and Nancy Haywood exploit their youthful vitality in numerous guises.

1963，New York Theatre Critics’ Reviews，頁 327，列 3:

To prove the truth of his story, the werewolf, “using his claw as a hand, drew off the pelt from the head of the wolfess and folded it back even as far down as the navel, whereupon there was plainly to be seen the body of an old woman.”

1971，Daniel Cohen，A Natural History of Unnatural Things，頁 46:

The dispute between Romulus and Remus, resulting in the death of Remus at the hands of Romulus, purportedly took place during their search for a new city-site to be situated near the place where they were suckled and saved by a wolfess when abandoned as infants.

1973，Roman Art in West Coast Collections，頁 49:

Once upon a time there was a pretty young wolfess who was happy and carefree. She liked to flirt with all the young wolves, go to rabbit runs, and sleep till noon. She enjoyed all the nice things that young, carefree wolfesses do.

1979，David Knox，Exploring Marriage and the Family，頁 45:

Ahead was a huge door to a walk-in safe, tucked behind in a long, partitioned desk and guarded by a pretty, prim-looking white wolfess in a Politzi-like ALPHA uniform. / Janoah walked over and exchanged salutes. The safe door was ajar, to her surprise. / “Who’s in there?” she demanded of the white wolfess.

2017，Adam Browne，Imperium Lupi，Dayfly Publications:

有侵略性的女人；肉食性女子。

He’ll enjoy the game, and if he goes into it with his eyes wide open, he won’t be ensnared by any tricks the wolfess plays on him. Not your man. He’s yours!

1946，Elizabeth Woodward，Let’s Have a Party，頁 19:

The hostess who invites only the gals whom she thinks she can outshine in looks and conversation, so that she’ll be queen of the ball, will swiftly win the reputation of having only female goons and creeps at her parties. Boys also duck the wolfess who manages to invite five men to every girl so that, although all of the frails enjoy a dizzy whirl, most of the men just stand around talking to one another. […] Keep your wolfess tactics away from a school dance or party, especially when they’re aimed at somebody else’s date.

1947，Betty Betz，The Betty Betz Party Book，頁s 16, 55:

[…] the types of girls you’re more likely to come across in your dating life.” There was the gold digger, the wolfess, and the catty character, but worst of all was the bad sport: […]

2002，Lynn Peril，Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons, →ISBN，頁 148:

The use of -ess(e) to form the nouns of female animals spread after the introduction of lioness and gave rise, by analogy, to the nonce-word dovess. But wolfess, the medieval term for a she-wolf, is now rarely used in Present Day English except to mean a woman that is sexually aggressive.

[2015，“Inkhorn Terms: Some that Got Away. Middle English Words Ending in -ess(e) (by Elena Sasu and Nicolas Trapateau)”, in Studies in Linguistic Variation and Change: From Old to Middle English，Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, 5. The fate of words ending in -ess(e): 3. Lexical revival，頁 75:


she-wolf

In some trepidation the priest and his friend accompanied the wolf to his den, where lay a she-wolf on the point of death.

1936，Rollo Ahmed，The Black Art，London: Long，頁 212:


trisyllabic

[…] how many nonelitist Americans can, without undue difficulty, read as many as a thousand consecutive words of small print, some of which may be trisyllabic?

1980年January20日，Isaac Asimov，“A Cult of Ignorance”, in Newsweek, →ISSN，頁 19:


dogman

They then contact a dogman in that area to make arrangements to have the fight at a location that he provides.

2004，Alex Thio, Thomas C. Calhoun，Readings in Deviant Behavior，頁 325:

A dogman's legs are back bent, crooked as a dog's. Its body is covered in fine fur, and its face has a dog-like snout and ear. A dogman's arms and torso are completely humanoid, save for the its strange paws, that are vaguely human-like, but with thick dark claws.

2002，Sovereign Stone: Bestiary of Loerem:

Their apparent hybrid nature makes them “dogmen” or “man-wolves.”

2018，Rosemary Ellen Guiley，Fate Presents Werewolves and Dogmen:

dog man的另一種寫法

The system will require good support, and, it may be, a course of tonics, such as a grain or two of quinine, night and morning, in the form of a pill; or, using one of the Condition Pills you see advertised in this book—Clayton's, Dent's or Seargeant's—they are all good, made by dogmen for dogs, and you won't go amiss in using either of them in such cases.

1902，Alvin George Eberhart，Everything about Dogs，頁 112:

Every one of those dogmen has been either cajoled, bribed, or commanded by his own particular Circe to take the dear household pet out for an airing.

A dogman, he said, likes having tails wagged at him, wants to be looked up to, and tends for that reason to be quite a good leader. A catman, on the other hand, is made slightly uncomfortable by spaniel eyes and devoted tail thumpings.

1968，John Montgomery，The World of Cats，頁 12:

Now another important component of the skeleton is under scrutiny by some of our most respected dogmen and -women: the anatomy of the chest and the relationship between the correct rib cage and loin.


smack

源自中古英語 smac、smak、smacke，源自古英語 smæc、smæċċ (“味道”)，源自原始日耳曼語 *smakkuz (“味道”)，源自原始印歐語 *smegʰ-、*smeg- (“品嘗”)。與方言smatch、低地蘇格蘭語 smak (“味道，香味，氣味”)、薩特弗里斯蘭語 Smoak (“味道”)、西弗里斯蘭語 smaak (“味道”)、荷蘭語 smaak (“味道”)、德語 Schmack、Geschmack (“味道”)、瑞典語、挪威語 smak (“味道”)、挪威語 smekke同源。類似古英語 smæċċan (“品嘗”)。參見smake、smatch。

（輕微的）味道，風味，滋味

rice pudding with a smack of cinnamon

But take it: if the smack is sour / The better for the embittered hour;

1896，A. E. Housman，“Terence, this is stupid stuff”, in A Shropshire Lad:

Claude overdosed on smack in a Chicago flophouse three years later.

2019，Colson Whitehead，The Nickel Boys，Fleet，頁 191:


smack

源自中古荷蘭語 smacken，為擬聲詞。
類似德語 schmatzen (“吃東西時發出很大的聲音”)、荷蘭語 smakken (“拋下”)、門諾低地德語 schmaksen (“吧嗒嘴”)、方言德語 schmacken、Schmackes（對比瑞典語 smak (“拍，打”)、中古低地德語 smacken，薩特弗里斯蘭語 smakmuulje (“拍，摑”)的第一部分）。

Then he told them of the princess, how she came to him, and how much she had to kiss him to get the whistle, when nobody saw or heard it over in the wood - "I must get on with these lies if the vat is to be full," said Ashiepattle, - so he told them about the queen, how stingy she was with the money and how liberal she was with kisses, that one could hear the smacks all over the wood.

1886，Peter Christen Asbjørnsen，譯者 H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales，頁 178:


so far

Don't expect a long walk. You can only go so far in that direction.

別想著能走很遠。 往那個方向，走一段就到頭了。

British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.

2013年August10日，Lexington，“Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist，卷 408, 期 8848:


go to bed

goes to bed (third-person singular present)
going to bed (present participle)
went to bed (past)
gone to bed (past participle)

Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.

2013年July19日，Ian Sample，“Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly，卷 189, 期 6，頁 34:

It's ten minutes past your bed-time; go to bed!

已經過了你上床時間10分鐘了。快去睡覺！

It's been a long day—I think I'll just go to bed now.

今天真是漫長——我覺得我現在該睡覺了。


fall asleep

falls asleep (third-person singular present)
falling asleep (present participle)
fell asleep (past)
fallen asleep (past participle)

And he kneeled downe, and cried with a loud voice, Lord lay not this sinne to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleepe. And Saul was consenting vnto his death.

1611，The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version)，London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 7:60:


put to bed

puts to bed (third-person singular present)
putting to bed (present participle)
put to bed (past participle)

Mame Diouf missed a chance to put the game to bed when he fired straight at Carson.

2010年December28日，Kevin Darling，“West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC:


drift off

drifts off (third-person singular present)
drifting off (present participle)
drifted off (past participle)

He went to sleep, lying there under a wing of his plane, and presently Bland himself drifted off into dreams.

1919，B. M. Bower，章號 5, in The Thunder Bird:


drop off

drops off (third-person singular present)
dropping off (present participle)
dropped off (past participle)

寄，送，帶；允許乘客離開

Can you drop the kids off at school?

你能把孩子們送到學校嗎？

I'll drop off your books when I see you tonight.

今晚我見你的時候會把你的書帶過來。

After dropping off travellers at Foregate Street, my train terminates at Shrub Hill - a station which boasts one of the best selection [sic] of semaphore signals left in the country.

2020年December2日，Paul Bigland，“My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail，頁 67:


soft drink

與“hard liquor”（烈酒）相對。

"And then they run to him with whisky, and so they teach him to rely on the bottle and you get another case of a drunken medium. I know them. You keep off it, Tom!" "Yes, one of our trade should stick to soft drinks."

1926，Sir Arthur Conan Doyle，The Land of Mist:


pass over

passes over (third-person singular present)
passing over (present participle)
passed over (past participle)

過境；穿過或橫越（某物）。

It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face.

1963，Margery Allingham，章號 8, in The China Governess:

"But why should I be in another room?" "You passed over in the night." "Passed over? Do you mean I died?" "Yes, lady, you died." There was a long silence.

Death does not change him, and when such a one passes over, he lingers to impress his vileness still further upon weak humanity.

1936，Rollo Ahmed，The Black Art，London: Long，頁 276:


pass on

passes on (third-person singular present)
passing on (present participle)
passed on (past participle)

Can you pass on the information next time you see him?

你下次見他的時候，能不能告訴他這件事？

Does he know what I do? / And you'll pass this on, won't you? / And if I ask him once what would he say? / Is he willing? / Can he play?

2003，“Pass This On”, in Deep Cuts，演出者 The Knife:


wake up

wakes up (third-person singular present)
waking up (present participle)
woke up (past)
waked up (past)
woken up (past participle)
waked up (past participle)

I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.

1913，Joseph C. Lincoln，章號 7, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

"Woke up, fell out of bed, dragged a comb across my head"

1967, 約翰·列儂/保羅·麥卡特尼，"A Day in the Life":

Wake your brother up; it's time for school.

叫醒你哥哥/弟弟；現在該上學了。

It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless.[…]You stand by, Janet, and wake me up if they do any of that running commentary stuff.”

1935，George Goodchild，章號 3, in Death on the Centre Court:


emojify

emojifies (third-person singular present)
emojifying (present participle)
emojified (past participle)

Writing in particular has been re-mediated in contemporary culture in ways that largely entangle words in images, with images gaining ascendancy. Apple's 2016 announcement of a new texting feature that allows writers to emojify their texts is only the latest development in this larger shift.

2018，Teresa Berger，“Virtual “stuff”: Materiality – visuality – soundscapes”, in @ Worship: Liturgical Practices in Digital Worlds (Liturgy, Worship and Society)，London: Routledge, →ISBN，頁 55:


soused

more soused (comparative)
most soused (superlative)

Yes, happy hour. A great American invention for spending quality time with spouse, soused.

1988，Heywood Gould，Cocktail (motion picture), spoken by Brian Flanagan (Tom Cruise):


oölogy

oology的另一種拼寫法

Yet it is not difficult to see that Oölogy promises to become an important auxiliary both in aiding to determine natural divisions, and to enable us to decide in regard to varieties the specific identity of which is in doubt. Let us take an instance. [...] Without looking at all to the external structure of these birds, Oölogy would seem to indicate that the Cat-Bird, though closely allied to the true Mocking-Bird, is at least one step, and that the Brown Thrush is even farther, removed.

1857，Thomas M[ayo] Brewer，“Introduction”, in North American Oölogy (Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge; XI)，part I (Raptores and Fissirostres), Washington, D.C.: Published by the Smithsonian Institution, 出版於 1859, →OCLC，頁 vi:

When we come to examine the oölogy of the great Columbo-gallinaceous group, one well represented in the avifauna of the United States, it is possible to make the comparisons quite extensive, owing to [Charles] Bendire's exhaustive labors, as seen in his fine quarto volume already spoken of at the beginning of this paper.

1893，R[obert] W[ilson] Shufeldt，“Comparative Oölogy of North American Birds”, in Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, Showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution for the Year Ending June 30, 1892: Report of the U.S. National Museum (The Miscellaneous Documents of the House of Representatives for the Second Session of the Fifty-second Congress; Mis. Doc. 114, part 2)，Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC，頁 473:

Dave Marshall, Frank Graham, Chuck Henny, Lloyd Kiff, Phil Cuthbert, and Joe Mazzoni shared their knowledge of hunting, oölogy, and bird-skin preservation, and provided philosophical insight concerning men's desire to hunt.

2011 December，Renée Thompson，“Acknowledgements”, in The Plume Hunter，Torrey, Ut.: Torrey House Press, →ISBN，頁 260:


somnolent

最早見於1615年。借自法語 somnolent，源自古法語 sompnolent，源自拉丁語 somnolentus，源自somnus (“睡眠”)，源自原始印歐語 *swépnos、*supnós (“夢”)，派生自*swep-。

more somnolent (comparative)
most somnolent (superlative)

[…]; and in chronicling the passing parade of Harry's life, the books have also created a Kodachrome-sharp picture of American life - the psychic ups and downs, enthusiasms and reversals experienced by this nation as it moved from the somnolent 50's through the upheavals of the 60's and 70's into the uncertainties of the 80's.

1990年September25日，Michiko Kakutani，“Just 30 Years Later, Updike Has a Quartet”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


not have a leg to stand on

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-not have a leg to stand on.ogg

一般多用否定形式，但也有極少數用肯定形式的：1910，Gilbert Keith Chesterton，章號 17, in What's Wrong With The World:
It is only with great difficulty that a modem scientific sociologist can be got to see that any old method has a leg to stand on.
（請為本引文添加中文翻譯） 1998年December7日，Jane Gross，“Suit Says Employer's Refusal to Pay Is Form of Bias”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-06-18:
"Now we have a leg to stand on," said Mark G. Sokoloff, one of Ms. Saks' lawyers.
（請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

‘You see?’ said Mrs Gowan, turning the palms of her hands towards Mr Meagles, as if she were Justice herself, representing to him that he had better confess, for he had not a leg to stand on.

1857，Charles Dickens，章號 8, in Little Dorrit，卷 2:

"But Mr. Elwell's lawyers apparently did not take your view, since I suppose the suit was withdrawn by their advice." "Oh, yes, they knew he hadn't a leg to stand on."

1910，Edith Wharton，“Afterward”, in Tales of Men and Ghosts:

If his word and image are consistently proven to be false, he doesn't have a leg to stand on.

2003年October3日，Charlie LeDuff and Dean E. Murphy，“The California Recall: Sexual Accusations Prompt an Apology By Schwarzenegger”, in New York Times:


speechlessness

'No - rather not, my dear? Well, another night,' he said, hastily translating her speechlessness.

1907，Barbara Baynton，Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton)，St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 出版於 1980，頁 233:

It was her virtue to be tall, pale, characterless and effaced by partial speechlessness.

1930，Norman Lindsay，Redheap，Sydney: Ure Smith, 出版於 1965，頁 16:


'Tec

偵探漫畫 （美國漫畫系列）

Of course, the Batman’s debut in ’Tec #27 is tame by comparison

2006，Mark Voger，The Dark Age: Grim, Great & Gimmicky Post-Modern Comics:

Batman was, of course, meant to fill the role of its traditional contrast with Detective -- if 'Tec is about crime stories, then Batman is a full-on superhero adventure

2014年August1日，Chris Sims，“Ask Chris #205: The Worst Story From The Best Writer”, in ComicsAlliance:

Couple all that with the fact that Alvaro Martinez is on art duty for this story (he’s been my favorite Tec artist since Rebirth started) and I think what you have here is a tale worth reading.

2018年February28日，Brandon Mulholand，“Detective Comics #975 review”, in Batman News:


swaddle

源自中古英語 swathlen (“纏繞，包裹”)，源自中古英語 swathel、swethel，源自古英語 swaþul、swæþel、sweþel、sweoþol (“襁褓”)，等同於swathe (“用布或衣服包裹住”) + -le。與中古荷蘭語 swadel (“襁褓；繃帶”)、古高地德語 swedili (“膏藥”)、古英語 sweþian、besweþian (“包裹”)同源。

用於包裹住嬰兒的布或衣服；襁褓

The baby is awake, trying to escape the swaddle I have imprisoned her in.

2020，Avni Doshi，Burnt Sugar，Hamish Hamilton，頁 207:


lie doggo

lies doggo (third-person singular present)
lying doggo (present participle)
lay doggo (past)
lain doggo (past participle)

安靜地躺著，以免被發現；靜候時機

"Do you think he's done something that we don't know about, and is lying doggo on account of the police?"

1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, ch. 15

... if we lay doggo where we was, Jerry might miss us ...

They had tricked and turned and doubled on their tracks and lain doggo at the right time all their lives, which their white hairs showed had not been brief; and they had done it this time too.

1946: Rebecca West, "Greenhouse with Cyclamens I," in A Train of Powder, pp. 56-7

"I will lie doggo for a bit," wrote the seventh earl of Lucan to a family friend shortly after he had murdered his children's nanny, mistaking her, in the dark, for his wife. That was ten years ago, and the earl — dead or alive — has lain doggo ever since.

1984年December17日，Craig Brown，“Lucan Everywhere”, in New York，卷 17, 期 50, →ISSN，頁 28:

We appreciate your need to lie doggo for a bit.

2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 710:


séance

源自法語 séance。

[B]ut only too often séances degenerate into pure sorcery or necromancy, attracting all kinds of undeveloped and earth-bound entities.

1936，Rollo Ahmed，The Black Art，London: Long，頁 231:


bravissimo

'He has spoken, Sir,' replied Lowe, whose angry passions were roused by the insults of Dangerfield, and who had, for the moment, lost his customary caution.
'Ha!' cried Dangerfield, with a sort of gasp, and a violent smirk, the joyousness of which was, however, counteracted by a lurid scowl and a wonderful livid glare in his wild eyes; 'ha! he has? Bravo, Sir, bravissimo!' and he smirked wider and wider, and beat his uninjured hand upon the table, like a man applauding the denouement of a play.

1863，Sheridan Le Fanu，The House by the Churchyard:


suds

源自sud的複數，sod (“泡沫”)的變體，等同於sud + -s。與seethe有關。

有時作不可數名詞（too much suds），有時作複數（too many suds）。

Mrs Durbeyfield, excited by her song, trod the rocker with all the spring that was left in her after a long day's seething in the suds.

1891，Thomas Hardy，Tess of the d'Urbervilles，卷 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co.，頁 30:


hide away

hides away (third-person singular present)
hiding away (present participle)
hid away (past)
hidden away (past participle)

將一些東西儲藏或貯存至秘密地點。

‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’

1963，Margery Allingham，章號 5, in The China Governess:


hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia

古希臘語 ἑξακόσιοι (hexakósioi，“六百”) + ἑξήκοντα (hexḗkonta，“六十”) + ἕξ (héx，“六”) + -phobia (“恐懼症”)。

666恐懼症（數字666在聖經中和撒旦或反基督等等有關）

You'll see “lucky” 666 in many shop windows across China, which may come as a shock to believers in the Beast and those with hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia.

2008年May6日，Deborah Aaronson with Kwan, Kevin, Luck: The Essential Guide, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL，頁 132:

Fear of certain numbers will not help you. Just ask someone who suffers from triskaidekaphobia, tetraphobia, or hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia.

2009年November3日，Patricia Kirkman with Gleason, Katherine A., The Complete Idiot's Guide: Numerology Workbook, →ISBN, →OL:


Pythonic

pythonic (alternative)
more Pythonic (comparative)
most Pythonic (superlative)

Pythonesque

Python（一門程式語言）風格的、Python 的

unpythonic

Python（一門程式語言）風格的、Python 的

Python（一門程式語言）風格的、Python 的

The Zen of Python requires almost all code to be Pythonic.

Python 之禪要求幾乎所有代碼都以Python風格編寫。

The Pythonic style isn't regimented or enforced by the compiler. It has emerged over time through experience using the language and working with others.

2015年February12日，Brett Slatkin，Effective Python，Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN，頁 1:

Pythonic code—when you first hear of it, you might think it is a programming paradigm, similar to object-oriented or functional programming. While some of it could be considered as such, it is actually more of a design philosophy.

2016年August31日，Fabrizio Romano，Dusty Phillips，Rick van Hattem，Python: Journey from Novice to Expert，Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN，頁 850:


whoreson

來自中古英語 horesone，hureson（horessone，hores sone），等同於whore + son。對照荷蘭語 hoerenzoon、德語 Hurensohn。

冒犯性用語：不合法/偷生的孩子，未婚生子（私生子）

Ah, you whoreſon loggerhead, you were borne to do me ſhame.

c. 1595–1596，W. Shakespere [i.e., 威廉·莎士比亞]，A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First Quarto)，London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for Cut[h]bert Burby, 出版於 1598, →OCLC; 再版為 Shakspere’s Loves Labours Lost (Shakspere-Quarto Facsimiles; no. 5)，London: W[illiam] Griggs, […], [1880], →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:

Though this knave came something saucily to the world before he was sent for, yet was his mother fair, there was good sport at his making, and the whoreson must be acknowledged.

1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear I.i


potato chip

I'll take a potato chip, and eat it!

2007年December8日，“目線 [視線]”, in デスノート [死亡筆記]，spoken by 夜神月 (Brad Swaile), Ocean Productions, 經由 Adult Swim:


taqlid

源自阿拉伯語 تَقْلِيد (taqlīd，“模仿”)。

Muslims must not imagine that their sole duty was taqlid, the emulation of a jurist.

2000，Karen Armstrong，The Battle for God，Harper, 出版於 2004，頁 128:


junk food

The episode begins with a lifetime of junk food, beer and no exercise catching up with Homer in the form of painful heart contractions.

2012年June17日，Nathan Rabin，“TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Homer’s Triple Bypass” (season 4, episode 11; originally aired 12/17/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:

Junk foods and fast foods such as pizzas, hot dogs, doughnuts, cookies, cakes, and so on increase inflammation, promote insulin resistance, and increase the risk of diabetes and obesity.

2018，Timothy R. Jennings，The Aging Brain, →ISBN，頁 82:


take out

takes out (third-person singular present)
taking out (present participle)
took out (past)
taken out (past participle)

Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.

1913，Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes，章號 I, in The Lodger，London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened，New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC，頁 10:

At the same time, three sets of obsolete angle point protectors (used for slip connections), which were considered unsatisfactory, were taken out and several redundant connections removed.

1962 October，“Talking of Trains: Liverpool Street layout remodelled”, in Modern Railways，頁 222:

In France, 27% of voters are currently backing the Front National, a party determined to take the country out of the Paris accord, which it sees as “a communist project”.

2017年February20日，Paul Mason，“Climate scepticism is a far-right badge of honour – even in sweltering Australia”, in The Guardian:

I don't know if he's close by. He's unarmed, though. He lost his gun when I took him out.

我不知道他是否在附近。雖然他沒拿槍。我制服他的時候，他把槍弄丟了。

2007，Julia Spencer-Fleming，In the Bleak Midwinter (fiction), →ISBN:

I tore right through it and took him to the ground and knocked him out cold, "Ralph, oh your going to pay for that." he said and he started fighting me which he was good but not good enough and I took him out in no time.

2011，Steven Wood，The Dragon Girl: the Beginning (fiction)，頁 110:

"Heard a rumor you took out Mr. Hassel." He mimes a punch.

2015，Sean Rodman，Tap Out (fiction)，頁 56:

The soldiers were instructed to take out the enemy base by any means necessary.

士兵被要求以一切必要方式摧毀敵軍基地。

Anyway, one of the snipers took him out.

2003，Jeff Kaye，Two Faces Have I (fiction)，頁 414:

Boss told me when the guy was done, I should take him out.

2008年July14日，Christopher Nolan & Jonathan Nolan，The Dark Knight，spoken by Happy (William Smillie), Warner Bros. Pictures, DC Comics, Legendary Pictures:

Before he could get a shot off, Wilder took him out with two shots to the chest, just as Roderick took out the third shooter.

2011，Brett Spencer，Two Standing (fiction)，頁 84:

通過法律或其他官方手段獲取

take out a loan;  take out medical insurance;  take out a membership;  take out a patent

獲得貸款；獲得醫療保險；取得成員資格；取得專利

Southwark council, which took out the injunction against Matt, believes YouTube has become the "new playground" for gang members.

2012年April19日，Josh Halliday，“Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in The Guardian:


masala

源自印地語 मसाला (masālā) / 烏爾都語 مسالا (masālā，“香料”)，源自波斯語 مصالح (masâlih，“事情，材料，香料”)，مصلحت (maslahat，“事情，政策，最應該做的事”)的複數，源自阿拉伯語，派生自صَلَحَ (ṣalaḥa，“合適，好，可用”)。

瑪莎拉，印度菜中的混合香料

When she cooked, she reached out for bottles and masalas without glancing up.

她做飯的時候，不用抬頭就伸手拿裝瑪莎拉的瓶子。

2020，Avni Doshi，Burnt Sugar，Hamish Hamilton，頁 3:


tittle-tattle

Every idle Tittle-tattle that went about, Jack was always suspected for the author of it.

不管是怎樣的閒話，傑克都總能知道是誰說的。

1712，John Arbuthnot，章號 XI, in Law is a Bottomless Pit: Or, the History of John Bull，London，頁 136:

If I can once extirpate the race of solid and substantial humdrums, I hope by my wholesome and repeated advices, quickly to reduce the insignificant tittle-tattles and matter-of-fact-men that abound in every quarter of this great city.

1777，The Tatler; Or, Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq，卷 4, Dublin: W. Whitestone, W. Watson, J. Williams, W. Wilson, 根據Richard SteeleThe Tatler n° 268 (1710)改編的edition，頁 324:


canola

芥花籽，歐洲油菜（Brassica napus）及野芥（Brassica rapa）的一類栽培品種，其芥酸和芥子油苷的含量比傳統油菜要低。

The approach taken in this study was to compare the risk management costs of wheat to that of two non-cwb-marketed Canadian grains: flax and canola.

1998, Phillip Thomas, U.S. Agricultural Trade: Canadian Wheat Issues

The carbohydrate component of canola meal accounts for about one third of the meal . . .

1997, Ronald R. Marquardt, Zhengkang Han, Enzymes in Poultry and Swine Nutrition: proceedings of the first Chinese Symposium on Feed

For a salad dressing use olive or canola oil with lemon or vinegar and herb seasonings

至於沙拉的拌料，則用橄欖油或芥花籽油，配上檸檬或者醋，以及其他香草料

2003，Jack LaLanne，Revitalize Your Life: Improve Your Looks, Your Health & Your Sex Life:


throughout

And though a philosopher may live remote from business, the genius of philosophy, if carefully cultivated by several, must gradually diffuse itself throughout the whole society.

1748, David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973, §5:

“My father had ideas about conservation long before the United States took it up.[…]You preserve water in times of flood and freshet to be used for power or for irrigation throughout the year.[…]”

“我的父親早在美國政府採取措施之前，已經有了保護的想法。 […] 你在洪水期間儲水，這樣一整年都可以用來灌溉。 […]”

1913，Robert Barr，章號 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:

But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.

但通過壟斷經營，木炭燃料的使用很快就傳遍倫敦的各類買賣和產業。到1200年代，無論是釀啤酒師還是麵包師傅，無論是製瓦匠還是吹玻璃匠，抑或是製陶工人還是其他產業的手藝人，都開始日夜不停地用起了木炭。

2006，Edwin Black，章號 2, in Internal Combustion:


tilak

源自梵語 तिलक (tilaka)。

I wore these spots of shine and silver like tilaks, the marks of colour that we Hindus wear on our foreheads as symbols of the divine.

我貼上這些像吉祥記一樣閃光銀色的點，我們印度教徒會在額頭上貼上這種代表神明符號的標誌。

He dressed in a dhoti, had a wispy white beard that trailed down to his waist, and regularly smeared across his forehead a tilaka, a pitchfork-shaped design that signifies enlightenment.

2012, Jake Halpern, "The Secret of the Temple", The New Yorker, 30 Apr 2012:


tik

This Tuesday Special Assignment focuses on a deepening crisis in Cape Town. Many young adults and schoolchildren as young as 10 years are in the grip of a powerful drug called crystal methamphetamine – known locally as tik. It’s been on the fringes for several years but it is now catching on fast among the youth of the Western Cape.

2004年June8日，“On the Tik-Tik express”, in SABC News，存檔自the original on 2006-06-02:

Over a third of all people seeking rehabilitation in the second half of 2005 reported that their primary problem was tik.

2005年下半年尋求戒毒的人群中，超過三分之一的人稱自己主要的問題是吸食冰毒。

Hardly a week goes by without news of a crime bust of some kind involving one of the buses travelling cross-country, with everything from mandrax to tik, marijuana and abalone finding its way on board.

2020年October10日，Mike Simpson，“More seizures of drug consignments on long-distance buses”, in The South African:


slur

來自中古英語 sloor (“稀泥”)。與中古低地德語 sluren (“走在泥裡”)同源。與方言挪威語 sløra (“草率，不上心”)、丹麥語 sløre (“搖晃，鬆垮”)有關；對比古諾爾斯語 slóðra (“慢吞吞地走”)。

slurs (third-person singular present)
slurring (present participle)
slurred (past participle)

to slur syllables;  He slurs his speech when he is drunk.

音節發音不清楚；他喝醉的時候說話含糊不清

Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.

2014年April21日，“Subtle effects”, in The Economist，卷 411, 期 8884:


severe acute respiratory syndrome

severe acute respiratory syndromes (plural)

(b) Severe acute respiratory syndromes, which are diseases that are associated with fever and signs and symptoms of pneumonia or other respiratory illness, are capable of being transmitted from person to person, and that either are causing, or have the potential to cause, a pandemic, or, upon infection, are highly likely to cause mortality or serious morbidity if not properly controlled.

2014年July31日，Barack Obama，“Executive Order—Revised List of Quarantinable Communicable Diseases”, in https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/，Office of the Press Secretary, The White House:


deliverable

more deliverable (comparative)
most deliverable (superlative)

/dɪˈlɪvɹəbəɫ/

The packages were not deliverable because the roads had flooded out.

因為道路被水沖毀，這些包裹無法派送。

In any of our worlds, if we went out to consult on options that weren't deliverable, we would rightly be heavily criticised for wasting people's time.

2021年May5日，Philip Haigh，“I think we need better than this from the rail industry”, in RAIL，期 930，頁 50:


worn out

more worn out (comparative)
most worn out (superlative)

That old tractor is worn out.

那個舊拖拉機已經破爛不堪了。

That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.

1913，Joseph C. Lincoln，章號 8, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:


upside down

早期up so down的變體，源自中古英語 up-so-doun、upsedowne、upsadowne (“翻轉，顛倒”)，等同於up + so + down。

The Union flag was flying upside down, a sign of danger.

英國國旗上下顛倒地掛著，這是危險的信號。

For, suddenly, I saw you there / And through foggy London town / The sun was shining upside down!

1937，“A Foggy Day (In London Town)”, Ira Gershwin 作詞, George Gershwin 作曲:


sharpen

源自中古英語 scharpenen、scharpnen，等同於sharp + -en。

sharpens (third-person singular present)
sharpening (present participle)
sharpened (past participle)

削尖，磨鋒利； 加強，加重

to sharpen a pencil or a knife or a musical note

The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives.[…]who, if anyone, is policing their use. Such concerns were sharpened further by the continuing revelations about how the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been using algorithms to help it interpret the colossal amounts of data it has collected from its covert dragnet of international telecommunications.

2013年July26日，Leo Hickman，“How algorithms rule the world”, in The Guardian Weekly，卷 189, 期 7，頁 26:


tote

可能源自中古低地德語 tûte、tǖte (“獸角，圓錐形紙袋”)，參見德語 Tüte (“袋”)。源頭不明。

totes (third-person singular present)
toting (present participle)
toted (past participle)

In stretches, this new Apes is an audacious, idiosyncratic piece of blockbuster filmmaking: a mix of Pixar, revenge Westerns, and Apocalypse Now, told almost entirely from the point-of-view of a posse of gun-toting, super-evolved apes as they roam the snowy Sierra Nevada foothills of the post-apocalyptic future, accompanied by a mute human girl, and bear witness to the strange cruelty of man.

2017年July7日，Ignatiy Vishnevetsky，“The ambitious War For The Planet Of The Apes ends up surrendering to formula”, in The Onion AV Club:

We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.

It took ten pallbearers to carry her coffin. There was a picture of them toting it in one of the tabloids.


traduce

源自拉丁語 trādūcō (“玷辱”)，源自trāns + dūcō (“領導，帶領”)。

traduces (third-person singular present)
traducing (present participle)
traduced (past participle)

“I am earnestly desirous then, my dear Sir, that you should let the world into the traits of your genuine character, as civil broils may otherwise tend to disguise or traduce it.

1793，Benjamin Franklin，The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, §33:


trade union

trade unions (plural)
trades unions (plural)

在部分地區（如英國）的官方用法中，trade union 的複數 trade unions 表示同一領域的不同工會：

The train drivers were divided between two trade unions.
火車司機分屬兩個工會。

There are hundreds of trades unions in England.
英格蘭有數百個工會。

When the first wave of postwar immigrants arrived in Britain in the 1950s and ’60s, it was a period of rising wages, full employment, an expanding welfare state and strong trade unions. Today, Britain’s manufacturing base has all but disappeared, working-class communities have disintegrated, unions have been neutered and the welfare state has begun to crumble.

2013年September28日，Kenan Malik，“London Is Special, but Not That Special”, in New York Times:

labor union (加拿大、美國)


whale shark

The largest fish in the world is a shark. It is a harmless plankton eater, and its name, whale shark has been confusing people for years.

1983，Richard Ellis，The Book of Sharks，Knopf, →ISBN，頁 42:


tristesse

“The peculiar resonance of his postcoital tristesse, for example.”

2007年January14日，Liesl Schillinger，引 Martin Amis, “Siberian Fields”, in New York Times:


tsar

借自俄語 царь (carʹ)，源自古東斯拉夫語 цьсарь (cĭsarĭ)，源自原始斯拉夫語 *cěsařь，源自一日耳曼語族語言，源自原始日耳曼語 *kaisaraz，源自拉丁語 Caesar。kaiser 的同源對似詞。現寫法 tsar 於19世紀開始取代舊寫法 czar。

(俄國君主)： 1721年以後，俄國君主的名稱改為imperator（импера́тор (imperátor)），不過本詞依然沿用。

除了俄國君主之外，有時也用於其他國家，如保加利亞（1908-1946）。

czar 的寫法在美國更常用，尤其是用於比喻和非正式義。學術和書面上更常用 tsar。

沙皇（俄國及南歐國家的君主）

and why, in the name of common sense, should the English call the Czar (tsar) of Russia raze?

1832年August1日，W. Barnes，“On the Origin of Language”, in Gentleman's Magazine，London，頁 129:


surreality

And when he goes to greet his mother the surreality of it all stares him in the face: in two years she's turned into a little old lady.

2008，Preeta Samarasan，Evening is the Whole Day，Fourth Estate，頁 227:

The surreality of the crash scene dawned upon him only when he saw a holy figure in the smoke.


surreally

Bonnie Lucas further anthropomorphizes the flower in her watercolors, combining it surreally with the human female figure[…]

1988年January15日，Kathryn Hixson，“On Exhibit: a gallery full of flowers”, in Chicago Reader:


playfield

The position of the playfield is here identified as lying north of this open space between it and the burn, and occupying the haugh which extended west...

1884，Alexander Maxwell，The History of Old Dundee:

It has been recommended by some recreational specialists that there should be one such playfield for each 500 children of high school age.

1974, Comprehensive Plan for Covington, Kentucky, and Environs


in between

來自in + between，可能模仿自in the middle of、in the midst of等短語。

inbetween (alternative)
in-between (alternative)

Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.

2013年June7日，David Simpson，“Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly，卷 188, 期 26，頁 36:


dramaturg

Carl Hegemann, who formerly worked with Mr. Castorf as a dramaturg, said the only endeavor that made sense for him at this point was to direct a traditional play.

2007年January14日，Sally Mcgrane，“Outrageousness, Herr Director, Is a Tough Act to Follow”, in New York Times:


absofuckinglutely

Riley, you swore to me, you absofuckinglutely swore to me you weren't going to diddle around with the expense account this time!

1990，Ivan Doig，Ride with me, Mariah Montana:

If you had asked me six months ago if I would ever be making out with Courtney McSweeney, I would have said no, absofuckinglutely not.

如果你在六個月前問我是否會和 Courtney McSweeney 親熱，我會說不會，他媽的絕對不會。


twenty-two

0.22英吋口徑的手槍或步槍

He wore a crazed expression / As he waded in the car / For some ammo and his sawn-off twenty-two.


sesquipedalophobia

But sesquipedalophobia ('hatred or fear of big words,' aptly enough) has prevailed, even among men of learning.

That hasn't helped my sesquipedalophobia one bit...

2002年March6日，derm，“Re: Are You Somebody? by O'Faolaint”, in soc.culture.irish (Usenet):

Ayesha was like a walking dictionary of phobias. She believed that I had sesquipedalophobia – the fear of long words.

2008，Abhijit Bhaduri，Married But Available，HarperCollins (2012), →ISBN:


quality of life

And almost anyone can have quality of life destroyed by pain.

1997，Myles I. Friedman，Improving the Quality of Life: A Holistic Scientific Strategy，頁 85:


doody

Petra would like to drop despondently onto a rock to pout, but you have to look before you sit, because there are goat doodies everywhere.

Petra 有時候會沮喪地坐在石頭上撅起嘴來，不過如果你要坐在石頭上的話，你得先看清楚了，因為這裡到處都是山羊屎。

2007，Brian Bouldrey，Honorable bandit: a walk across Corsica:


doody

doodies (third-person singular present)
doodying (present participle)
doodied (past participle)

Something smells poopy! It's okay if you just doodied, because we have LOTS of paper towels and extra socks.

好臭啊！不過就算你拉出來了也沒關係，因為我們有很多廁紙和襪子給你換。

2014，Jason James Johnson，Catbug Says, →ISBN:


coffee shop

coffeeshop (alternative)
coffee shops (plural)

café

小型咖啡廳或餐廳，售賣小吃和咖啡飲料

coffeehouse

小型咖啡廳或餐廳，售賣小吃和咖啡飲料

小型咖啡廳或餐廳，售賣小吃和咖啡飲料

"From behind the counter of this provincial train station coffee shop, Joanna was barista and unofficial shrink to wildly varied London-bound travellers," writes author Laline Paull. Confessions of a Barista on Platform 1 was published on February 9 by The Firle Press [...].

2021年March10日，“Stop & Examine”, in RAIL，期 926，頁 70:


black coffee

It wasn't enough. They'd be able to rouse her with black coffee.

1966, Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls, page 305-306

Boiled, percolated, pressed, or filtered, black coffee ranges from a light tea-like drink to deep black brew.

2005，Mark F. Sohn，Appalachian Home Cooking，頁 36:


coffeemaker

Upholsterer, Letter-Carrier, Foreign-Post, Coffee-maker, of each one.

1681，Thomas De Laune，The Present State of London，頁 113:

If your cook is not habitually a good coffee-maker, the coffee will most probably be sent in cold, thick, and weak—for want of some previous supervision.

1839，Eliza Leslie，The Behaviour Book，頁 35:

To be sure it had to be taken without milk, but there was plenty of sugar, and when Rod passed his tin cup for a second helping, the coffee-maker's face fairly beamed with gratified pride.

1892，Kirk Munroe，Cab and Caboose: The Story of a Railroad Boy，頁 47:

As he poured water into the coffeemaker, Ben watched several deer grazing ... While the coffeemaker gurgled, Ben remained entranced by the deer.

他把水倒進咖啡機的時候，Ben 看著幾支正在吃草的鹿……等咖啡機開始運轉的時候，Ben 還在看鹿看得出神。


bicycle helmet

Make locking up your bike as routine as strapping on a bicycle helmet.

1989 (Jul), Dennis Coello, "Lock Up Your Bike", Boys' Life, page 8

Mandatory bicycle helmet laws introduced in New Zealand in 1994 also resulted in large increases in helmet use, and reductions in the number of head injuries[…]

2004，World Health Organization，World Report On Road Traffic Injury Prevention，頁 136:


thicc

thiccer (comparative)
thiccest (superlative)

thick (“性感的，肉感的”)的另一種拼寫法

To some fans, Wicke is thicc. To others, she’s a positive representation of diverse bodies in video games.
“Thicc Wicke,” as some are calling the fan art version of the character, has become such a trend that there’s already a meme criticizing it:
And there are plenty of images that depict her as “thicc,” but not in a drooling, overtly sexualized way.

2016年September12日，“Thirsty Pokémon fans are sexualizing Wicke, Sun & Moon’s new Pokémon researcher”, in Daily Dot:

“The weight of the female Gyr given as 1396-2000g [brings it to a] mean of 1752g (n=12),” Sweet tells Inverse. That’s roughly four pounds — extremely thicc by falcon standards.

2018年February8日，“The Original "Falcon Heavy" Isn't What You Think”, in Inverse:


yadda

三疊使用，或與其他詞語結合，用於表示語句的部分說話人不願提及、難以理解或不重要。

In fact, the academic said, crime trends are influenced far more by demographics and social forces and yadda, yadda, yadda than by police work.

2006，Andrew Karmen，New York Murder Mystery: The True Story Behind the Crime […] :

The planners held all the requisite public hearings, public discussions, public meetings, public forums, yadda public-this and yadda public-that.

2002年June2日，Craig Medred，“Trails committee goes a little wild”, in Anchorage Daily News，頁 G1:


yadda

Sedona offers everything a Caravan, Voyager, T&C, yadda, yadda, yadda does, […] However, when V-6-equipped, the yaddas are a lot more quiet leaving the light or pulling into the passing lane.

2001年November8日，Jim Mateja，“Kia opens door, manually, to minivan market”, in Chicago Tribune:

Dropouts include Jason Kidd (recovering from knee surgery), Ray Allen (getting married this summer), Tracy McGrady (security concerns), Karl Malone (recovering from the NBA season; lost his mother), Jermaine O'Neal (banged up), Vince Carter (yadda), Mike Bibby (yadda), Elton Brand (yadda), and Kenyon Martin (yadda).

2004年August28日，Gary Peterson，“Tina Thompson: `I really wanted to be part of this. This is my time'”, in Contra Costa Times:

So right or wrong, good move or bad, yadda or yadda, it's an intriguing development in this gifted player's life and basketball career.

2006年May13日，“A Tough Road: Bennerman, Who Went To Hargrave, Describes Exactly What Glenn's Wallace Is Going To Be Experiencing”, in Winston-Salem Journal:


at a time

climb stairs two at a time

The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track.[…]Their example was followed by others at a time when the master of Mohair was superintending in person the docking of some two-year-olds, and equally invisible.

1897年 12月（標示為1898年），Winston Churchill，章號 IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode，紐約: The Macmillan Company；倫敦：Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC，頁s 58–59:


gurl

Damn white gurl Thought you was A1 Yet your existence a none

2012，Krystina V，A Diva's love Affair, →ISBN，頁 22:

An' Lee went closer to where the gurl was waitin'. His party follered an' I follered too.... Jest whin the moosic sthopped an' the gurl looked up—thin she seen Lee.

All gurl's good fur—jist To dust an' sweep, an' scold, An' sew on buttons what yo mus't Sewin' on last week. Wush't Iwuz a boy!

2013，Karen L. Kilcup & Angela Sorby，Over the River and Through the Wood, →ISBN:


gurl

gurls (third-person singular present)
gurling (present participle)
gurled (past participle)

The poor little doctor, thus rudely and suddenly aroused from his tipsy sleep, looked excessively bewildered when he opened his eyes, and met the glare of ferocious delight that Darby Kelleher cast upon him, and he gurled out, “What's the matter?” as well as the grip of Darby's hand upon his throat would permit him.

1834，Samuel Lover，Legends and Stories of Ireland:

“Weel may ye mind, yon night sae black, Whan fearfu' winds loud gurled, And mony a lum dang down—and stack, Heigh i' the air up swirled, Alangst yon brae, ye clam, and stack,

1845，Alexander Wilson，Poetical Works: With an Extended Memoir of His Life and Writings:


cocksucker

After he said the kid was a no-talent cocksucker whose teeth were always in the way ...

[在]他說這小孩口交還不熟練，牙齒老碰到雞巴……[之後]

1970，Donald Warman，Some of my best friends，頁 102:

"Bodie!... You cocksucker, you said it wouldn't snow any more! You said we could make it!"

“Bodie！……你這混蛋，是你說不會再下雪的了！是你說我們能搞定的！”

1970，Salambo Forest，On my throbbing engine，頁 120:


helluvalot

I think that, reduced to a very simple statement, it means a helluvalot to me whether Auschwitz actually happened or was simply imagined by someone.

1999, E. L. Doctorow, Christopher D. Morris, Conversations with E. L. Doctorow (page 29)

Struggling into a sitting position, I clamped both hands over my shredded thigh. There was a helluvalot of blood, but it was pouring, not pumping, which meant the bastard missed the artery.


stabilise

stabilises (third-person singular present)
stabilising (present participle)
stabilised (past participle)

Network Rail doesn't expect the line through Carmont to open for around a month, as it faces the mammoth task of recovering the two power cars and four coaches from ScotRail's wrecked train, repairing bridge 325, stabilising earthworks around the landslip, and replacing the track.

2020年August26日，“Network News: Mid-September before line reopens, says Network Rail”, in Rail，頁 10:


minnit

minute的另一種寫法：很短的時間

I see they was goin, so I said:-- "My week-minded and misgided femails, hold your hosses a minnit, until an old statesman, who has served his country for 4 yeer as Gustise of the Peece, says a few remarks to you."

1870，Various，Punchinello, Vol. II., No. 34, November 19, 1870:

"I jest stood like a dumb critter the minnit I got in," said Marty.

1876，Helen Hunt Jackson，Mercy Philbrick's Choice:

I'll go in 'ere for 'arf a minnit and sit down.

1909，W.W. Jacobs，Sailor's Knots (Entire Collection):

Wait a minnit!

Wait a minnit, I didn't show you my pitcher what was in de paper, did I?

1936-1938，Work Projects Administration，Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States:


agnostic

由托馬斯·亨利·赫胥黎在1870年造出。源自古希臘語 ἄγνωστος (ágnōstos，“無知的，不知道的”)，或源自a- + Gnostic，派生自古希臘語 ἀ- (a-，“不”) + γιγνώσκω (gignṓskō，“知道”)。

more agnostic (comparative)
most agnostic (superlative)

In matters of the intellect do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable. That I take to be the agnostic faith, which if a man keep whole and undefiled, he shall not be ashamed to look the universe in the face, whatever the future may have in store for him.

His agnostic viewpoint is summarized in his book.

他的不可知論觀點在著作中得到總結。


agnostic

The Agnostic is one who asserts—what no one denies—that there are limits to the sphere of human intelligence.

1876年June1日，Leslie Stephen，“An Agnostic's Apology”, in The Forthnightly Review，卷 25/19, 期 114，頁 840:

An agnostic thinks it impossible to know the truth in matters such as God and the future life with which Christianity and other religions are concerned.

1953年November3日，Bertrand Russell，“What is an Agnostic?”, in Look:

When I say I'm an agnostic, I only mean that the evidence isn't in. There isn't compelling evidence that God exists — at least your kind of god — and there isn't compelling evidence that he doesn't.

1985，Carl Sagan，Contact: a novel，New York: Simon and Schuster, →ISBN，頁 175:


dog days

仿譯自拉丁語 diēs caniculārēs (“小狗日”)，仿譯自古希臘語 κυνάδες ἡμέραι (kunádes hēmérai，“狗之日”)，源自κυνάς (kunás，“狗的，與狗有關的”)，源自Κῠ́ων (Kŭ́ōn，“狗”)，此處的「狗」指天狼星，在荷馬希臘語中作「獵戶座之犬」。天狼星偕日升時（在古雅典和古羅馬分別為7月25日和7月29日）被視為是一年中最熱、最不健康、最不幸運的時節。

canicular days

天狼星偕日升的時節，現代指八月初（具體時間隨緯度有變）

歷史上，“dog days”的期間是依據大犬座的天狼星或小犬座的南河三偕日升的時間來推斷的。這個時間隨緯度有變，且不適用於南半球。 天狼星兩次偕日升之間的間隔大概是365¼日，和儒略曆一致，但和現代通用的格里高利曆有差別。因此“dog days”的期間從7月3日到8月15日不等，大概會有30-61天。16世紀英格蘭認定的“dog daies”為7月7日至9月5日。有些現代曆書會將“dog daies”定為7月3日至8月11日，以天狼星偕日升之日作為其結尾，而非開始。

三伏天，一年中最熱的時節

Why ſhould thoſe Eteſian and Eaſterne winds blow cōtinually in ſome places, at ſet times, one way ſtill, in the dog dayes only: heere perpetuall drought, there dropping ſhowres; [...]

1624，Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton]，“Ayre Rectified. With a Digression of the Ayre.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […]，第2nd版, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 2, member 3，頁 214:

The dog days of August have often spelled trouble for the world economy.

2013 August 17, "A Rickety Rebound" in The Economist, Vol. 408, No. 8849:


Forteana

A monthly “Journal of Strange Phenomena”, founded in 1973 as a primary forum for news, discussion, links and archives to core and fringe forteana.

2000，Bob Rickard and John Michell，Unexplained Phenomena: A Rough Guide Special, →ISBN，頁 367:


public transport

The Airports National Policy Statement objectives require the proportion of journeys made to the airport by passengers to be at least 50% by public transport by 2030 and 55% by 2040.

2019 October，John Glover，“Heathrow rail expansion”, in Modern Railways，頁 71:


venge

源自中古英語 vengen，源自古法語 venger，源自拉丁語 vindicare (“報仇，復仇”)。

venges (third-person singular present)
venging (present participle)
venged (past participle)

For right as they han venged hem on me and doon me wrong, right so shal I venge me upon hem and doon hem wrong;

c. 1387，Geoffrey Chaucer，Canterbury Tales, Tale of Melibee § 30:

To safeguard thine own life / The best way is to venge my Gloucester's death.

c. 1595，William Shakespeare，Richard II, Act 1, scene 2:


veritas

源自拉丁語 vēritās。

Over at Harvard, students are pursuing a different kind of sexual veritas.

在哈佛大學，學生們正在追求一種不同的性真實。

2007年March4日，Alexandra Jacobs，“Campus Exposure”, in New York Times:


two heads are better than one

"Mr. Francis Osbaldistone is an innocent man, Rashleigh," said Miss Vernon, "and he demands an investigation of the charge against him, and I intend to support him in it."
"You do, my pretty cousin?—I should think, now, Mr. Francis Osbaldistone was likely to be as effectually, and rather more delicately, supported by my presence than by yours."
"Oh, certainly; but two heads are better than one, you know."

On the principle that two heads are better than one, he resolved to take his companion, Jones, into his confidence and ask him to make a suggestion.

1882，Horatio Alger，章號 23, in Ben's Nugget:

Two heads are better than one, sir. We will prosecute our investigations together.

1906，Arthur Quiller-Couch，章號 17, in The Mayor of Troy:

Collaboration is great for screenwriting. It's not as simple as two heads are better than one, but if you find the right person, you can feed off each other.

2003年November9日，Nancy Meyers as told to Amy Barrett，“Sex and the Single Older Woman”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-02-25:


incent

incents (third-person singular present)
incenting (present participle)
incented (past participle)

在《美國當代英語語料庫》（COCA）中，不及 incentivize 常用。
對於個人行動上，比 incentivize 稍用得多。

刺激，激勵，鼓勵（人或組織）。

We need to incent people to innovate more.

我們需要鼓勵人們更多地創新。

We try to incent people to do it earlier, which levels the load.

2007年February24日，Damon Darlin，“At Intuit, What Comes After Taxes?”, in New York Times:

incent investors to manage assets with a long-term perspective

2010年June24日，Al Gore and David Blood，“Toward Sustainable Capitalism”, in Wall Street Journal:

給……（事物）以刺激，激勵。

We need to incent more innovation.

我們需要激勵出更多的創新。

DUNCAN: The more we can reward excellence, the more we can incent excellence, the more we can get our best teachers to work in those hard to staff schools

2009年January13日，Arne Duncan，“Duncan Lays Out Positions in Confirmation Hearing”, in WBEZ Chicago Public Radio:


win over

wins over (third-person singular present)
winning over (present participle)
won over (past participle)

If the truth doesn't win him over, perhaps charm will.

如果真相無法說服他，或許魅力可以。

Despite his ill-fated spell at Anfield, he received a warm reception from the same Liverpool fans he struggled to win over before being sacked midway through last season.

2012年April22日，Sam Sheringham，“Liverpool 0-1 West Brom”, in BBC Sport:

For trains to play a major role in reducing carbon and other pollutants through modal shift, the railway will have to do more to win over the growing proportion of non-captive passengers who will have the choice of whether or not to use rail over other modes.

2021年July14日，Anthony Lambert，“Grand designs on superior interiors”, in RAIL，期 935，頁 49:


ten-shun

用於引起遊行樂隊或兵團的注意。

Company, 'ten-shun—(More violently.) 'ten-shun, please... (He draws himself up exaggeratedly.) Stand straight, like soldiers!

1946，Harry Lester Baum，Prelude to Victory: A Masonic Play:


moxibustion

moxa (“艾蒿”) + combustion (“燃燒”) 組成的混成詞，字面意思為「燃燒的艾蒿」，使用拉丁詞彙常用的-i-連接。

Traditional Chinese medicine includes herbal remedy, diet therapy, use of animal secretion and organs, acupuncture, massage, moxibustion (the application of a burning moxa plant to skin), and other folk methods.

1998，Lin Zhan，Asian Voices: Asian and Asian-American Health Educators Speak Out，Jones and Bartlett Publishers, →ISBN, Xi Young Hong: Health Practice in Chinese Older Women，頁 36:


above-board

aboveboard (alternative)
above board (alternative)

/əˈbʌvˌbɔɹd/

光明正大的，合法公正的 （首次記錄於16世紀晚期。）

Fair and aboveboard.

Nothing illegal about any of this to my knowledge. Indeed, this is the very above-board racket of running an independent political committee. Everyone does it. Left, right, center and none of the above. And anyway, why shouldn't a true pay-triot get paid?

2013年May15日，Stephen Lemons，“Joe Arpaio's Fave Pay-triot John Philip Sousa IV Fires Back, Makes Bank Off Peddling Joe”, in Phoenix New Times，存檔自the original on 2019-03-11:

Over the weekend, Android owners were displeased to discover that Facebook had been scraping their text-message and phone-call metadata, in some cases for years, an operation hidden in the fine print of a user agreement clause until Ars Technica reported. Facebook was quick to defend the practice as entirely aboveboard—small comfort to those who are beginning to realize that, because Facebook is a free service, they and their data are by necessity the products.

2018年March26日，Maya Kosoff，“Zuckerberg hits users with the hard truth: You agreed to this”, in Vanity Fair:


hemidemisemiquaver

But the young gentleman […] walked down the dark side of the street in peals of laughter, making, ever and anon, little breathless remarks to himself, which his colleague could not hear, but which seemed to have the effect of setting him off again into new hemi-demi-semiquavers and roars of laughter […]

1863，Sheridan Le Fanu，The House by the Churchyard:


two hundred fifty-sixth note

When you cut four quarter notes in half, you get eight eighth notes, and so on, down the road, all the way to two-hundred-fifty-sixth notes.

2009，Phyllis Sdoia-Satz，Practicing sucks, but it doesn't have to!: surviving music lessons:


take hold

takes hold (third-person singular present)
taking hold (present participle)
took hold (past)
taken hold (past participle)

Then the highly virulent mental germs skillfully inoculated took a hold in the subconscious mind of European humanity; the disease developed rapidly, spread like wild fire, and raged unabated throughout the width and length of the central empires.

1919，Boris Sidis，The Source and Aim of Human Progress:


cognacy

同源詞間的關係；另一種語言共享相同祖源用詞的情況。

First, in depending on vocabulary, as opposed to morphology or grammar, one runs the risk of assuming cognacy between similar words when the real explanation is borrowing.

2000，Bernd Heine & Derek Nurse，African Languages: An Introduction, →ISBN，頁 262:

兩種語言共享同源詞的程度，通常以百分比表示。

In Table 13.1 are given the percentages for the degrees of cognacy between pairs of languages in the Upper Cross group.

1988，Monday B. Abasiattai，Expanding frontiers of African history: the inter-disciplinary methodology, →ISBN，頁 255:


sugar cane

sugar-cane (alternative)
sugarcane (alternative)
sugar canes (plural)

Daniel was watching Sarah, Bose and Femi munch contentedly on the firm sweetness of sugar cane, plucking back the green with their fingers to reveal the creamy yellow-white that left gluey juices on their hands and clothes.

2005，Helen Oyeyemi，The Icarus Girl，Bloomsbury，頁 306:


blue shark

The blue shark is long in almost all respects; long snout, long tail, long body, and especially long, curved pectoral fins.

1983，Richard Ellis，The Book of Sharks，Knopf, →ISBN，頁 126:


mitsumata

三椏，結香屬（Edgeworthia）植物。

Moreover, the fibres of Ganpi and Mitsumata are not strong enough singly, yet they are extensively used with other coarse raw materials in order to give the tenderness, smoothness, and lustre to paper of low quality.

1893，Bureau of Commerce and Industry, Department of Agriculture and Commerce, Japan，Details of the Industrial Specimens Exposed at the World’s Colombian Exposition，頁 80:

Mitsumata has been used for paper since about 1600 CE. It is one of three main fiber types used for making Japanese paper.

2016年May1日，“Mitsumata”, in CAMEO: Conservation and Art Materials Encyclopedia Online, retrieved 2020-03-04:


thingy

He pulled out his thingy. It was huge.

他把那東西掏出來。真大。

2004，Richard Tinsley，Walking on the Son:


whatchamacallit

為“what you may call it”或“what you might call it”（“你會怎樣叫它”）的縮短形式。出現於20世紀的美國（1921年的紀錄）。

/ˈwɒtʃəməkɔːlɪt/

/ˈʍʌtʃəməkɔlɪt/

The Thingamajig and the Wachamacallit.

1921，Johnny Gruelle，Orphant Annie Story Book, Volume 7，頁 69:

You’re—you must be the whatchamacallit, huh? The peer.

1969，J[ames] P[inckney] Miller，stage adaptation by F. Andrew Leslie，The People Next Door，New York, N.Y.: Dramatists Play Service, →OCLC, Act II，頁 42:

JESSICA: How many times do I have to say it? We were not stealing, Officer. We were just— / MONAHAN: I know. Performing some kind of whatchamacallit deed. Anyhow, they go to the clink, that's what happens to people who filch city property.

1972，Carolyn Lane，Child of Air: A One Act Play，Denver, Colo.: Pioneer Drama Service, →OCLC，頁 13:

I'm a boy, so when I'm sick, they can call in poohaghooma, Indian doctor. But not Tom Mitchell! No, sir! [We] won't have Tom Mitchell to doctor me! 'Cause whatchamacallit, he always used to doctor me …

1996，Corbett Mack，as told by Michael Hittman，“Boyhood (1892–1905)”, in Corbett Mack: The Life of a Northern Paiute (Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians)，Lincoln, Neb., London: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN，頁 60:

"Think we ought to check this whatchamacallit?" / "No, that doodad over there seems to be the problem."

1998，David Alan Black，“There’s No Place Like Rome: The Parts of Speech and Their Function”, in It’s still Greek to Me: An Easy-to-understand Guide to Intermediate Greek，Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, →ISBN，頁 19:

As you've said, the safety of the American people is our first priority. We have orders that if these EMP whatchamacallits can't be secured then they must be destroyed.

2014 October，Don Pendleton，章號 15, in Domination Bid (Don Pendleton’s Stony Man: America’s Ultra-covert Intelligence Agency; Gold Eagle Book)，Don Mills, Ont.: Worldwide Library, →ISBN，頁 180:


Australian English

Prior to the 1980s, Australian English had been widely deprecated by Australians themselves, principally as a result of a sense of inferiority known as "cultural cringe".

在1980年代之前，澳大利亞人自己廣泛反對使用澳大利亞英語，這主要是由於一種被稱為「文化畏縮」的自卑感。

2012，James Lambert，“Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes，頁 295:


homie

Polari（20世紀中早期英國男同性戀中的流行語）omi (“男人，小子，傢伙”)的變體。

omi (“男人”)的另一種拼寫法

As feely homies, when we launched ourselves onto the gay scene, polari was all the rage. We would zhoosh our riahs, powder our eeks, climb into our bona new drag, don our batts and troll off to some bona bijou bar.

1977，Rictor Norton，引 Burton, Peter, The Gentle Art of Confounding Naffs，引於 Myth of the Modern Homosexual, Bloomsbury Publishing, 出版於 2016, →ISBN，頁 115:


Éire

British subjects in Éire could not vote, hold public office, or work in the government service of Éire, whereas Éire citizens in Britain could do all of these.

居住在愛爾蘭的英國公民不能在選舉中投票，擔任公職，或參與愛爾蘭的行政事務，然而這些事情換到英國，居住在英國的愛爾蘭公民都能做。

1989，Thomas E. Hachey，Joseph M. Hernon, Jr.，Lawrence J. McCaffrey，“The de Valera Era, 1932–1959: Continuity and Change in Irish Life [德·瓦萊拉時代，1932-1959：愛爾蘭生活的不變與變]”, in The Irish Experience，Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, →ISBN, section “The Irish Republic, 1948–1959”，頁 217:

In the light of modern scholarship it now seems highly likely that the total recruitment figure for both Northern Irish and Éire citizens in the British Armed Forces stood at around 100–120,000 men and women.

2011，Gavin Hughes，“Commitment, Casualties and Loss: Comparative Aspects of Irish Regiments at Dunkirk 1940 and in Western Europe, 1944–1945”, in Southern Ireland and the Liberation of France: New Perspectives (Reimagining Ireland; volume 33)，Peter Lang, →ISBN, →ISSN，頁 85:

Since Éire remained in the Commonwealth during the war—leaving in 1949—it could be argued that volunteers and war workers from Éire belong in this list. Éire was the only Commonwealth country to remain neutral throughout the war.

因為二戰期間，愛爾蘭仍然留在英聯邦內（1949年退出），因此我們可以認為，來自愛爾蘭的志願參軍者和戰爭勞工也應屬於這一行列。愛爾蘭是二戰期間唯一一個保持中立的英聯邦國家。

2018，Wendy Webster，“Introduction: ‘The Big Proposition’”, in Mixing It: Diversity in World War Two Britain，Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN，頁 9:


hangry

more hangry (comparative)
most hangry (superlative)

飢餓和生氣，特別指由飢餓造成的憤怒。

I also get really "hangry".

2005，L. R. Parenti，Durata Del Dramma: Life Of Drama，頁 98:

Seriously, somebody needs to give this toddler a bottle and put him down for a nap. That baby pitches a fit when he gets hangry.

2011，Chris Haire，“I'm tired of writing about Nikki Haley”, in Charleston City Paper:

Mission Control: "Get them pizza before they get hangry. Hungry and angry!"

2016 "People Pleaser", The Powerpuff Girls

You know this if you've ever been hangry. You go through your day without stopping to eat, and for a while it doesn't matter. Then your stomach starts sending signals to your brain that it's waiting.

2018, Jean Chatzky, Women with Money: The Judgment-Free Guide to Creating the Joyful, Less Stressed, Purposeful (and, Yes, Rich) Life You Deserve, p. 11:


whatchoo

"I don't care whatchoo tell 'er, fo'real," he said, scooting to the end of the piano bench.

Well, whatchoo gonna do about it, Momma?

"Whatchoo want 'em for?" "It's a surprise," he says.

2008, Carolyn Chute, The Beans of Egypt, Maine


quar

A chrysolite, a gem, the very agate / Of state and policy, cut from the quar / Of Machiavel.


toon

卡通，特別指動畫電視節目。

Did you know Nash had a complete break with reality, that he was loonier than a toon for almost four months?

2005，Sara Bell，The Magic in Your Touch, →ISBN，頁 123:

玩家化身或大型多人線上角色扮演遊戲顯示的角色。

Proxemics are very important, however, as the positioning of an agent's toon in anon-combat grouping or in the environment can show place within a social group.

2010，Ben Kei Daniel，Handbook of Research on Methods and Techniques for Studying Virtual Communities, →ISBN:

僅用於loony toon 或 looney toon，替代寫法 loony tune。

We are both kind of strange and one day we were driving in the car and Steve said to me, You know Karin, you are a real loony toon'.

I look at him as if he's a loony toon.

2012，Kelly Watts，From the Mouth of Charlie Watts, →ISBN，頁 32:

Wilson, quite early on, points out: “Many messiahs have undoubtedly been mental cases, suffering from psychotic delusions” These looney-toon 'messiahs' seem to this reviewer to be running very fast away from any profound development in human consciousness!

2012，Vaughan Rapatahana，Philosophical (a)Musings, →ISBN，頁 25:


toon

來自印地語 तून (tūn)，來自梵語 तुणि (tuṇi，“紅椿”)。

紅椿，分佈在東南亞和澳大利亞的楝科樹種（Toona ciliata 或 Toona australis），木材色暗紅、香氣濃厚，花朵可作染料。

Each plot held 10 cull trees so that 60 Australian toon and 40 tropical ash trees were treated.

1973，Gerald A. Walters & Herbert L. Wick，Coppicing to convert cull Australian toon, tropical ash to acceptable trees:

After 7 years, all paint combinations except the self-primed latex are showing some failure on all species of wood except Australian toon.

1972，Roger G. Skolmen，Paintability of four woods in Hawaii，頁 1:


toon

Whan I was a callan, I took the play to mysel' for a week, or maybe twa, and gaed wi' a frien' i' the same trade's mysel', to see what was to be seen alang a screed o' the seacoast, frae toon to toon.

1865，George MacDonald，Alec Forbes of Howglen - Volume 2，頁 244:

Sic changes owre oor toon hae passed Since Mungo placed thee there — A wee bit slender fragile stem, That needed watchfu' care.

1881，B.C.，“The Chestnut Tree”, in The Border Counties' Magazine - Volumes 1-2，號 201:

It tane Bill three month fae the time he pairtit wi Beatrice tae get tae the toon o Shanzi. He stuid on a crest as the sin rase, an saw the fortress toon on the neist ridge, a silhouette lichtenin gradually intae ugly breezeblock buildins.

2011，Wulf Kurtoglu & Caroline Macafee，Braken Fences, →ISBN，頁 43:


streetlike

more streetlike (comparative)
most streetlike (superlative)

A meandering central circulation path evokes a streetlike ambience, reinforced by gritty materials, including the old warehouse's original concrete floor.

1998，Justin Henderson，Workplaces and workspaces: office designs that work:


Ping Tung

源自官話 屏東 (Píng Dōng)的威妥瑪拼音羅馬化：Pʻing² Tung¹。

The Puyumas, a small, rather civilized tribe, live together with native Chinese in many villages around the city of Ping Tung.

1967，Chen Kang Chai，Taiwan Aborigines: A Genetic Study of Tribal Variations，Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL，頁 36:

At Ping Tung, a professional geomancer checks the alignment of a grave, to ensure that ancestors will rest happily

1991，Derek Walters，The Feng Shui Handbook，Thorsons, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL，頁 183:

After securing Ping Tung, Taiwan and Batan island regular air patrols have resumed. It has been noted that increasing ground activity was occurring around daybreak.

1993 September，Paul A. Forbes，Using a Wargame to Explore the Effects of the Information Content of Messages on CVBG Anti-Air Warfare Defense，Naval Postgraduate School, →OCLC, →OL，頁 53:

My duty assignment was[...]Tasked the Wing’s Squadrons to provide aircrew members for ferry missions to the United States and Ping Tung, Taiwan.[...]Regarding the ferry missions to Ping Tung, Taiwan. The 3rd wing had one squadron of T-38 (F-5s) called the Aggressor Squadron.[...]The reason for the flights to Ping Tung was the contractor's location that painted the aircraft to soviet specifications.

2009，Billy Ray Wilson，Enough is Enough，AuthorHouse, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL，頁s 122-123:


century egg

Almonds, parched watermelon seeds—esteemed as a great delicacy—spareribs covered with a mixture of molasses sugar, fried fish, chicken livers and century eggs were put on the table at once.

1912年November15日，“Chop suey hoax exposed”, in The Mixer & Server，卷 21, 期 11，頁 35:

More or less is heard about the Chinese "century eggs." These are duck eggs which have been preserved by a coating of mud, rice hulls, lime and wood ashes.

（大家）或多或少都聽說過中國的“皮蛋”。這是將鴨蛋塗上泥、稻殼、石灰和草木灰後醃製而成的。

1922年December20日，E. C. Heinsohn，“Eggs and Poultry in China”, in The Egg Reporter，頁 28:

In the middle of the platter were century eggs, eggs which have been left in lime for a long, long time until the yolk has become dark and the white gelatinous.

盤子中間放的是皮蛋，這種蛋經過長時間的醃製，直到蛋黃變成黑白膠狀。

1953，Dorothy Snapp McCammon，We tried to stay，頁 95:

There are many varieties of congee but the most common is this salted pork with century egg.

粥有許多種做法，但最常見的是這種配醃豬肉和皮蛋的粥（皮蛋瘦肉粥）。

2015，Deborah Lowe Kwok Yun，The Little Cantonese Cookbook:


Cthulhu

1926年由H·P·洛夫克拉夫特於短篇小說《克蘇魯的呼喚》中虛構的名字。也許基於chthonic (“居於地底下”)。

Ktulu (alternative)
Kutulu (alternative)

Then, bolder than the storied Cyclops, great Cthulhu slid greasily into the water and began to pursue with vast wave-raising strokes of cosmic potency.

1928，H.P. Lovecraft，The Call of Cthulhu:


cross the Rubicon

指公元前49年1月10日，尤里烏斯·愷撒破除將領不得帶兵渡過盧比孔河的禁忌，帶兵進軍羅馬與格奈烏斯·龐培展開內戰。蘇埃托尼烏斯將愷撒的這種行為形容成是“木已成舟”（the die is cast；iacta ālea est）使得該短語的使用普及開來。

crosses the Rubicon (third-person singular present)
crossing the Rubicon (present participle)
crossed the Rubicon (past participle)

He knew that by coming out to his family he would be crossing the Rubicon but he could not live a lie anymore.

他知道向家人出櫃就像破釜沉舟，但他不願再隱瞞下去了。

Will China cross the Rubicon by sending its military to Hong Kong?

中國會破釜沉舟，向香港派兵嗎？

2019年August16日，Bonnie Girard，Battle-Ready: The PLA’s Hong Kong Garrison，The Diplomat:


as per

Gentlemen—As per the rules of your Honorable Body, I advertised for bids for crockery, etc., that might be required by the various Cook County institutions from April 1st to June 30th, 1894, as per specifications on file in my office.

1895，C. Mamer，Official Proceedings of the Board of Commissioners of Cook County, Illinois. 1893/1894，頁 403:


ſ

英語字母表的第19個字母，名稱為long s、medial s 或 descending s並以拉丁文字書寫。

But he does not ſtab him for his treachery toward hisſelf […]

1783, Joseph Ritson, Remarks, Critical and Illustrative, on the Text and Notes of the Last Edition of Shakspeare, page 223:

Many fanciful methods have been invented by thoſe who wiſhed to render puerile ſports conducive to improvement. I never found that they were ſucceſsful.

1785, Vicesimus Knox, Liberal Education: Or, a Practical Treatiſe on the Methods of Acquiring Uſeful and Polite Learning, vol. II, pp. 1 & 3, section XXXI: On the regulation of puerile diverſions:

75. On the 11th of May, 1759, the Lords amend a turnpike road Bill, by inſerting a clauſe, “That no gate ſhall be erected within a mile of Enſham Ferry”. The conſideration of this amendment is reſolved, nemine contradicente, to be put off for a month.

1796, John Hatsell, Precedents of Proceedings in the House of Commons: With Observations, page 102:

Engliſh Poems /[…]/ New York: The Caſsell Publiſhing Company, 104, Fourth Avenᵉ.

1892，Richard Le Gallienne，English Poems，London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane at The Bodley Head; New York: The Cassell Publishing Company, […]，頁 [iii]:


Lojbanic

Brett Douglas Williams, also known on the Internet as "mungojelly," and to the Lojbanic community as "stela selckiku," is still human.

Brett Douglas Williams，在互聯網上也被稱為「mungojelly」，在邏輯語社群中被稱為「stela selckiku,」，仍然是人類。

2011，Ron Hale-Evans, Marty Hale-Evans，Mindhacker: 60 Tips, Tricks, and Games to Take Your Mind to the Next Level:


sumach

sumac的另一種拼寫法

The Rhamnus of Maderaspatan, and the Trifoliate Sumachs from the Coaſt of Africa, are altogether new.

1693 January，Leonardi Plukenetii [i.e., Leonard Plukenet]，“PHYTOGRAPHIA seu Plantæ quamplurimæ novæ & Literis huc usque incognitæ variis & remotissimis Provinciis ipsisq; Indiis allatæ Nomine & Iconibus. […]”, in Philosophical Transactions. Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours, of the Ingenious, in Many Considerable Parts of the World，卷 VI, 期 196, London: Printed for T. Woodward, […] and C. Davis […] printers to the Royal Society, →OCLC，頁 621:

Plant cutings of Myrtles in a bed of light rich earth, obſerving to water and ſhade them until they have taken root; and now you may plant cutings of […] African Sumaches, and many other exotic plants, which are ſhrubby; […]

1757，Philip Miller，“June”, in The Gardeners Kalendar; Directing what Works are Necessary to be Done Every Month in the Kitchen, Fruit, and Pleasure-gardens, as also the Conservatory and Nursery. […]，第11th版, London: Printed by Charles Rivington, for John Rivington, […]; and James Rivington and James Fletcher, […], →OCLC，頁 185:

They plunged into the narrow path between the tall sumach bushes, and were at once hidden in the gloom.

1876，Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens]，章號 XXIX, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer，Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC，頁 222:


spermatozoön

The human spermatozoön possesses a head, a neck, a connecting piece or body, and a tail...

人類精子有一個頭、一個脖子、一個連接部分或身體，還有一條尾巴……

1913，Henry Gray，Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied，第new American/18th English版, Philadelphia, New York: Lea & Febiger，頁 42:


quicklier

The terrified sailors would have begun to depart quicklier than they did, had not fear itself made them move slowly.

如果不是恐懼本身讓他們行動緩慢，嚇壞了的水手們會更快開始離開。

1834，Leigh Hunt，The Indicator, and the Companion，頁 6:

The apprentice will learn much better and quicklier how to do things for knowing beforehand why he is bidden to do them in any particular way[…]

學徒會更好、更快地學習如何做事，因為他事先知道為什麼要以任何特定的方式做這些事情。


neon sign

霓虹燈廣告牌，霓虹燈招牌

Just listen to the music and the traffic of the city / Linger on the sidewalk where the neon signs are pretty

只是聽著城市的音樂和車流/在霓虹燈很漂亮的人行道上徘徊


purlicue

不明。有些來源認為與法語 pour la queue 有關，來自英語pirl, purl (“旋轉，迴旋”)。

虎口 （食指跟拇指之間的部位）

Last night I licked a man's hand in

1992, After Tequila, in Weber Studies, volume 9, page 83:

"Margot, what happened to taking things slowly?" "I'm sorry, I lose all rational thought when I am alone with you." She touched the purlicue on the hand […]

2001，Michele Hauf，Enchant Me Not, →ISBN，頁 182:

Won Li's attentions moved to the weblike purlicue between my thumb and forefinger.

2003，Suzann Ledbetter，A Lady Never Trifles with Thieves, →ISBN，頁 136:

Can you imagine paying attention to the feeling of space between all of your fingers, just as you feel the purlicue between your thumb and index finger?

2010，Les Fehmi & Jim Robbins，Dissolving Pain, →ISBN，頁 34:

This technique uses the “purlicue,” the magic space between your thumb and extended forefinger on your left hand. Purlicue can also mean “a curl or flourish in writing.” This is an absolutely crucial body “part” in the context of hand jobs [...]. Master the artistry of the purlicue, my friend, and you've mastered the penis.

2016，Emily Nagoski，Orally Pleasuring a Man, →ISBN:


24-hour clock

Train and steamer services to and from the Continent, including the boat trains in England, have long had 24hr clock indications, mainly to conform with the practice of connecting Continental railways, for Irish services are exempt.

1961 December，“Talking of Trains: 24hr clock experiment at York”, in Trains Illustrated，頁 712:


superflu

大流感（傳播速度極快，致命性高，或難以治愈）

In the wake of the superflus and cataclysmic events, male writers tend to jump to that unholy trinity of rape, murder and cannibalism.

2015年July23日，Sloane Crosley，“It’s the End of the World as She Knows It”, in New York Times:


armed forces

What dictators fear most is losing the support of the armed forces, and when this happens, it's as if a ferocious beast has lost its teeth.

獨裁者最害怕的就是失去軍隊的支持，這種事情一旦發生，就像兇猛的野獸失去了牙齒。

2020年September23日，Shi Chuan，“When Police Officers No Longer Work for Dictators”, in Minghui:


cherry blossom

sakura

櫻花，多指日本櫻花（Prunus serrulata）所開的花。

The cherry blossom was in use in Heian times...For obvious reasons it become the mon of the Sakurai family.

1976，W. M. Hawley & Kei Kaneda Chappelear，Mon: The Japanese Family Crest，頁 27:


filling station

Here and there, under the porches of ruined filling stations, in the gaping doorways of office buildings, lie heaps of human bones.


swastika

源自梵語 स्वस्तिक (svastika)，源自सु (su，“好的”) + अस्ति (asti)（表示“存在”的動詞，源自स्वस्ति (svasti)）+ 指小後綴 क (ka)。原義為“與幸福有關係的小物件”、“吉祥好運的標誌”。英語中最早見於1871年，用來代替希臘化的gammadion。1932年以後，也常用來指納粹黨的類似圖案（德語 Hakenkreuz）。

卍/卐字，原是宗教符號，後來成為法西斯、納粹的象征。

This was signed by Dana Da, who added pentacles and pentagrams, and a crux ansata, and half-a-dozen swastikas, and a Triple Tau to his name, just to show that he was all he laid claim to be.

1888，Rudyard Kipling，“The Sending of Dana Da”, in In Black and White，Folio Society, 出版於 2005，頁s 423–4:

It is clear from archaeological finds that they enjoyed wearing Christian crosses, though they might enliven these with such symbols as the Indian swastika which Buddhists had brought them.

2009，Diarmaid MacCulloch，A History of Christianity，Penguin, 出版於 2010，頁 270:

“I can’t imagine anyone believes in Communist culprits instead of a contract job commissioned on behalf of the swastika.”

2011，Rudolph Herzog，譯者 Jefferson Chase, Dead Funny: Humor in Hitler's Germany，Brooklyn: Melville House, →ISBN，頁 36:


trier

Nay , mother ,
 Where is your ancient courage ? you were us'd
To say , extremity was the trier of spirits

c. 1608–1609，William Shakespeare，“The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio)，London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, 出版於 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:


barbecued

barbequed (alternative)
BBQed (alternative)
BBQ'd (alternative)
bar-be-qued (alternative)
bar-be-cued (alternative)
bar-b-qued (alternative)
bar-b-cued (alternative)
bar-be-qed (alternative)
bar-be-q'd (alternative)
bar-b-qed (alternative)
bar-b-q'd (alternative)
bar-B-Qed (alternative)
bar-B-Q'd (alternative)
more barbecued (comparative)
most barbecued (superlative)

On recollecting myself, I diſcovered that I had almoſt reached the entrance of the lagoon, and determined to venture in, if poſſible, to take a few fiſh, […] I ſoon caught more trout than I had preſent occaſion for, and the air was too hot and ſultry to admit of their being kept for many hours, even though ſalted or barbecued.

1793 January，William Bartram，“Art. II. Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws. Containing an Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions; together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians. Embellished with Copper Plates. By William Bartram. Re-printed from the Philadelphia Edition. 8vo. pp. 520. 7s. 6d. boards. Johnson. 1792.”, in The Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal, Enlarged，卷 X, London: Printed for R[alph] Griffiths; and sold by T[homas] Becket, in Pall Mall, 出版於 1794, →OCLC，頁 17:


rubber band

rubber bands (third-person singular present)
rubber banding (present participle)
rubber banded (past participle)

My mother gave me maybe 150 to 200 letters, […] all rubber banded together month by month and in dates.

1994 September 26, Wayne McGinnis, interview printed in 2000, by Jean Shellenbarger in The 9th Engineer Battalion, First Marine Division, in Vietnam, page 201:

Prompt them to pick up ten sticks, rubber band them together, and quickly move them to the tens office.

2005，Sarah Morgan Major，Place Value, →ISBN，頁 22:

There were yellowed pages of base layouts and plans, a duty roster, and a rubber banded package of papers.

2012, Cheryl Kerr, See Ya ISBN 0615279694, page 130:


squirt

源自中古英語 squirten、squyrten，源頭不明；可能是擬聲詞。類似swirl。對比低地德語 swirtjen。

As the connection was broken, the receiver let out a shrill squirt of static.

信號中斷，聽筒發出一陣噪聲。

2011，Andy Mulligan，Return to Ribblestrop:


thermonuclear

The first thermonuclear reaction was in a star; it was brought about by heat, as the description implies.

最早的熱核反應發生在恆星內；如同此前的描述所說，是熱量引致的。

1956年May25日，“Chances Of Power Station Use For Hydrogen Bomb”, in The Times，London:


machine gun

Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.

2013年July20日，“Old soldiers?”, in The Economist，卷 408, 期 8845:


zzzs

源自zzz，鼾聲的卡通化表示；對比zs。

The harder you try to sleep, the greater the chances you'll end up gnashing your teeth all night rather than stacking some Zzzs.

When you want to catch some zzzs, carry foldable eye shades, foam or silicone ear plugs, an inflatable neck pillow […]

2006，Joanne V Lichten，How to Stay Healthy and Fit on the Road:

Despite legendary high-achieving short sleepers, including Bill Clinton and Margaret Thatcher, going without zzzs is far more likely to make you fat, grumpy and ineffective than to get you a promotion or a Nobel Prize (or help you keep your current job).

2009, Here's a brainy idea - how about a little music? (in the Toronto Star, 20 January 2009)


zyzzyva

一種美洲熱帶Zyzzyva屬的象鼻蟲

A zyzzyva is a weevil of the genus Zyzzyva.

1976，Edward Stevens，The Religion Game, American Style，New York: Paulist Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL，頁 87:

Against the Yak, the zyzzyva zips
He yammers, has yaws, he yawns and he yips

2003年May30日，Kalpana Swaminathan，Ambrosia for Afters，New Delhi, New York: Penguin Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL，頁 43:

Everything on earth has an end, for your mortally thin dictionary, the tropical, American weevil, the Zyzzyva.

2007年August30日，Otto Mann，King Size，Lulu.com, →ISBN，頁 118:

No wonder you wanted to look it up. A zyzzyva is a weevil.

2010年September7日，Mary Daheim，Loco Motive: A Bed-and-Breakfast Mystery，第First版, HarperCollins, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL，頁 240:


basking shark

Like the whale shark, the basking shark is a huge, slow-moving plankton feeder. Also like the whale shark, the basking shark is the sole member of a family created especially to accommodate it.

1983，Richard Ellis，The Book of Sharks，Knopf, →ISBN，頁 89:


assent

源自中古英語 assent (名詞)。assenten (動詞)，源自古法語 assent (名詞)、assentir (動詞)。

assents (third-person singular present)
assenting (present participle)
assented (past participle)

批准，同意，讚成；承認，證實，明確

The princess assented to all that was suggested.

1849–1861，Thomas Babington Macaulay，章號 7, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second，卷 (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:


assent

I will give this act my assent.

A number of other mergers of U.S. railroads are mooted, but the I.C.C. [Interstate Commerce Commission] has made it clear that its assent to the N.& W.-Virginian proposal, which was unopposed by competitors or stockholders, should not be taken as an indication that others will swiftly pass its scrutiny.

1960 January，“Talking of Trains: N.& W.-Virginian merger”, in Trains Illustrated，頁 9:

He lowered his head in assent.

2014，Ian McEwan，The Children Act，Penguin Random House (2018)，頁 128:


scuffle

可能源自北日耳曼語支或斯堪的納維亞語言；對比瑞典語 skuff (“推”，名詞)、skuffa (“推”，動詞)，源自原始日耳曼語 *skuf- (skuƀ)，源自原始印歐語 *skewbʰ-，參見立陶宛語 skùbti (“急忙”)、波蘭語 skubać (“拔”)、阿爾巴尼亞語 humb (“丟失”)。

The Dog leaps upon the Serpent, and Tears it to Pieces; but in the Scuffle the Cradle happen'd to be Overturn'd: […]

1692，Roger L'Estrange，“Fab[le] CCCCLXX. A Farmer and His Servant.”, in Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflexions，London: Printed for R[ichard] Sare, T. Sawbridge, B. Took, M[atthew] Gillyflower, A. & J. Churchil, and J[oseph] Hindmarsh, →OCLC; 第2nd corrected and amended版, London: Printed for R[ichard] Sare, B. Took, M[atthew] Gillyflower, A. & J. Churchil, J[oseph] Hindmarsh, and G[eorge] Sawbridge, 1694, →OCLC，頁 435:

It appears the Company had received news that one of their captains had been killed in a scuffle with the natives.

1899 Feb，Joseph Conrad，“The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine，頁 198:

Fights ensued as many England supporters attempted to retreat before some stewards moved in. Intermittent scuffles continued to break out until the section of the crowd where the trouble started was vacated.

2016年June11日，Phil McNulty，“England 1–1 Russia”, in BBC Sport，存檔自the original on 2016-06-13:


scuffle

scuffles (third-person singular present)
scuffling (present participle)
scuffled (past participle)

Certainly a gallant man had rather fight to great diſadvantages for number and place in the field in an orderly way, then ſcuffle with an undiſciplined rabble.

1648，attributed to Charles I of England，Εἰκὼν Βασιλική [Eikōn Basilikē = Royal Portrait]. The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Maiestie, in His Solitvdes and Svfferings，[London?]: [s.n.], →OCLC，頁 15:


exculpate

源自中世紀拉丁語 exculpātus，exculpō的完成被動分詞，源自ex- (“出，離”) + culpa (“缺陷；過錯；犯罪”)。

exculpates (third-person singular present)
exculpating (present participle)
exculpated (past participle)

The inquest on keeper Davidson was duly held, and at the commencement seemed likely to cause Tony Palliser less anxiety than he had expected. Northrop knew all about Tony's flirtation with Lucy Davidson, but it also knew a good deal more about that lady than Tony did, and exculpated him.

1907，Harold Bindloss，章號 4, in The Dust of Conflict:


press conference

Pitarch went just days after the coach, Cesare Prandelli. A little before Christmas, Prandelli had held a press conference in which he had declined to answer questions and instead delivered a speech one minute 57 seconds long in which he accused his players of being unprofessional.

2017年January18日，Sid Lowe，“Chaos at Mestalla: Valencia's journey from Champions League to utter disarray”, in the Guardian:


Red Cross

‘De Red Cross is doinʼ all dat kin be done otherwise fuh de sick and de ʼfflicted.’

1937，Zora Neale Hurston ，Their Eyes Were Watching God，Virago Press (2018)，頁 193:


Wade-Giles

此詞用於定語，如：Wade–Giles system, Wade–Giles transcription, Wade–Giles transliteration, Wade–Giles spelling, Wade–Giles version 等。

An ongoing frustration for visitors are the different transliterations of Chinese place-names into English—various city and county administrations can't agree on a standard method, tussling over the Wade–Giles, tongyong, and hanyu systems.

2004，Phil Macdonald，National Geographic Traveler: Taiwan，National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →OCLC，頁 6:

The two most prominent systems of transliterations of Mandarin are Wade-Giles and Pinyin. Wade-Giles, established in the 19th century (Kaske,2008) is named after Herbert Allen Giles[...]

2018年March12日，Sophie Zhou，“The T/Daos shall meet: The failure and success of English transliterations of Mandarin Chinese”, in English Today，卷 35, 期 1, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:


Hanyu Pinyin

來自官話 漢語拼音／汉语拼音 (hànyǔ pīnyīn)。

Mr. Jenner has also provided the Note on Pronunciation at p. 196, for Chinese names which are romanized in this volume according to the Hanyu Pinyin system.

1973，Lu Xun，譯者 Gladys Yang, Silent China Selected Writings of Lu Xun，Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL，頁 xii:

I follow McKhann in using Naxi pinyin to transliterate sainii and paq but retain regular Hanyu pinyin for dongba instead of using Naxi pinyin dobbaq since this is the most familiar form.

1996, Bell Yung, Evelyn Sakakida Rawski, Harmony and Counterpoint: Ritual Music in Chinese Contexthttps://books.google.com/books?id=gXGcQQFxpMEC, Stanford University Press (ISBN 9780804726580, →OCLC), page 253


Tongyong Pinyin

來自官話 通用拼音 (Tongyòng Pinyin)發音的羅馬化。

漢語拼音

2006，A Brief Introduction to Taiwan，Government Information Office, →ISBN，頁 16:

By now, you may be as puzzled as most American visitors to Taiwan are. And there is more confusion to come. For the purpose of this book, keep in mind that we are using Tongyong Pinyin throughout, with Hanyu Pinyin in parentheses when the spelling is different.

2006，David C. King，Taiwan (Enchantment of the World)，Children's Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC，頁 89:

通用拼音

2020，Ching-Tse Cheng，“Station names of central Taiwan Metro pass preliminary review”, in Taiwan News: