skyrocket

skyrockets (third-person singular present)
skyrocketing (present participle)
skyrocketed (past participle)

Athletes' use of herbal supplements has skyrocketed in the past two decades. At the top of the list of popular herbs are echinacea and ginseng, whereas garlic, St. John's wort, soybean, ephedra and others are also surging in popularity or have been historically prevalent.

2013年March13日，David S. Senchina，“Athletics and Herbal Supplements”, in American Scientist，卷 101, 期 2，頁 134:

The shortage caused prices to skyrocket.


come out of the closet

comes out of the closet (third-person singular present)
coming out of the closet (present participle)
came out of the closet (past)
come out of the closet (past participle)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/en-au-come out of the closet.ogg

come out of the broom closet

公開自己的威卡教徒或其他新異教主義信徒身份

出櫃；公開自己過去保密的性取向、少數信仰或偏好

She finally came out of the closet to her religious family regarding her atheism.

她終於向她信教的家人們坦白自己無神論者的身份。

Now, we're coming out / Out of our closets / Out on the streets / Yeah, we're coming out

1972，Lou Reed （作曲作詞）, “Make Up”, in Transformer:


jodi

借自印地語 जोड़ी (joṛī)或馬拉地語 जोडी (joḍī)；可能通過寶萊塢傳入。

兩人，一對（例如指合作夥伴）

Just over five years after coming together at the top of the Indian lineup, they already boast among the greatest-ever numbers for an opening partnership in the format. Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma, to many, in particular in India, are the ‘Jodi No. 1’ of the 2010s...

2019年January30日，“‘Jodi No. 1’: Dhawan’s Special Post for ‘Partner in Crime’ Rohit”, in The Quint:

For the last seven years, they have been projected as India’s political jodi number one.

在最近七年裡，他們一直被視為印度政治的最佳拍檔。

2021年May6日，Rajdeep Sardesai，“A political and policy blow to the Centre”, in Hindustan Times :


licorne

源自法語 licorne，仿譯自俄語 единоро́г (jedinoróg，“獨角獸”)。

18-19世紀俄羅斯帝國軍隊使用的一種前裝式加榴炮

But I think our new 24-pounder howitzer will be found superior to any of them, not even excepting the Russian Licorne.

1824，“Answers of Sir A. D., K. C. B. of the Royal Artillery, to some questions from Lieutenant C. D. Bengal Artillery”, in The British Indian Military Repository，卷 3:

The Russians have a howitzer denominated licorne, the bore of which is, in its whole extent, the truncated frustrum of a cone: the only field guns in the possession of the artillery at Corfu, in 1822, were Russian guns of this description.

1837，T. F. Simmons，Ideas as to the Effect of Heavy Ordnance Directed Against and Applied by Ships of War, etc.:

Essentially a hybrid between a howitzer and a gun, thus a gun-howitzer, the licorne was capable of a flatter trajectory and a longer range than the conventional howitzer.

2007，Jeff Kinard，“Eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century artillery”, in Artillery: An Illustrated History of Its Impact:


literary language

「標準語」的釋義主要著重在斯拉夫語族。它可能是仿譯自東歐語言學的詞彙。

在社區用作制度規範的語言變體，與方言相對；標準語。

Literary languages have been enriched by dialects and have at the same time assisted the levelling out of dialectical differences which in its turn has contributed to ….

1977, Magomet Izmaylovich Isayev, National languages in the USSR: problems and solutions, Прогресс, p. 316:

I would note that almost 12% of the population of the SRCroatia are Serbs and that they are obliged to use the "Croatian literary language" for official purposes even though this is not their native language.

1990，United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Operations，Views on the Serbo-Croatian Language Service at the Voice of America:

Gaj argued that the establishment of a common literary language was essential for the development of an Illyrian national consciousness and he attempted to bring together the three main dialects used by the Southern Slavs...

2003，Alex J. Bellamy，The Formation of Croatian National Identity，頁 44:

The Erzya and Moksha population, especially in urban areas, has become increasingly exposed to Russian; within this context, both the literary languages and the dialects have been affected to a considerable extent. In the course of being update the literary languages have experienced radical changes. An abundance of Russian terminology has been introduced in dictionaries; grammars have been prescribing the use of concurrent forms of the native and Russian languages as a norm.

2013, Suomalais-ugrilainen Seura, Mémoires de la Société finno-ougrienne, Volume 268 of Suomalais-ugrilaisen Seuran toimituksia, Nimilehti painettu Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seuran kirjapainossa, ISBN 9789525667479, p. 14:

As they explain, 'the literary language is first of all a collection of expressive habits and customs, and to preserve the purity of the literary language can mean nothing other than to preserve these habits and customs' (Guberina and Krsic/ 1940: 77).

2014，K. Langston, A. Peti-Stantic，Language Planning and National Identity in Croatia:


skycap

JAMES CARTER: You put your own shit in the back; I'm not a skycap.

詹姆斯·卡特：你把你自己那坨東西放在了後面；我又不是機場搬運工。

1998，Jim Kouf and Ross LaManna，Rush Hour，California: New Line Cinema:


shoehorn

/ˈʃuːˌhɔː(ɹ)n/

促成事務達成的工具、手段

I was about sixty feet ahead of this film in many spots, which speaks rather poorly for it. And I resented the heartthrobs which were planted in my bosom with a shoehorn via the "little child" process.

1935，Don Herold，Going to the Movies，Life Magazine January 1935.:

Now you cannot but observe, that most of our fine young Ladies readily fall in with the Direction of the Graver sort, to retain in their Service, by some small Encouragement, as great a Number as they can of supernumerary and insignificant Fellows, which they use like Whiflers, and commonly call Shoeing-Horns. These are never designed to know the length of the Foot, but only when a good Offer comes to whet and spur him up to the Point. Nay 'tis the Opinion of that grave Lady, Madam Matchwell, that it's absolutely convenient for every prudent Family to have several of these Implements about the House, to clap on as occasion serves, and that every Spark ought to produce a Certificate of his being a Shoeing-Horn, before he be admitted as a Shoe. A certain Lady, whom I could name, if it was necessary, has at present more Shoeing-Horns of all Sizes, Countries, and Colours, in her Service, than ever she had new Shoes in her Life.

1652，Richard Burton，The Anatomy of Melancholy:


shoehorn

shoehorns (third-person singular present)
shoehorning (present participle)
shoehorned (past participle)

/ˈʃuːˌhɔː(ɹ)n/

強行將某事與另一（不相干的）事物相關聯（尤其在其為謬誤時）

People claiming to be psychic may shoehorn an event into fulfillment of some vague past prediction.

聲稱自己是靈媒的人，可能會強行把某事與其過去作出的模糊預測相關聯。

After the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, fundamentalist Christian evangelists Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson shoehorned the events to their agenda. They claimed that "liberal civil liberties groups, feminists, homosexuals and abortion rights supporters bear partial responsibility...because their actions have turned [my] god's anger against America."

在2001年9月11日世貿中心和五角大樓遭受恐怖襲擊後，基督教原教旨主義福音派人士 Jerry Falwell 和 Pat Robertson 把這件事也提上了自己的議程。他們宣稱“自由派公民團體、女性主義者、同性戀和墮胎權利支持者應當承擔部分責任……因為他們的行動引起[我的]上帝對美國產生了憤怒。”

2015年April5日，Robert Todd Carroll，“Shoehorning”, in The Skeptic's Dictionary:


kora

源自班巴拉語 kɔ́ra。

科拉琴，西非琴（類似豎琴的樂器）

He is performing here with his Symmetric Orchestra, an ensemble of West African musicians who play both traditional instruments (kora, balafon, bolombatto, djembe) and slightly more contemporary ones (guitars, keyboards).

2009年April17日，The New York Times，“Pop Listings”, in New York Times:


secularism

/ˈsɛkjʊləˌɹɪzəm/

And I have further to say, that I believe as much as Mr. Bradlaugh, or any other man in the room, in freethought; and I invite every Secularist to break off from him for ever the shackles that bind him in the superstition of his Secularism.

1870，Secularism. Report of a public discussion between the Rev. Alexander J. Harrison and Mr. Charles Bradlaugh held in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on Sept. 13 & 14, 1870，頁 72:


how do you do

how-do-you-do (alternative)
how-d'ye-do (alternative)
how do you dos (plural)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-how do you do.ogg

Well, this is a fine how do you do isn't it, Gromit?

1993，Nick Park，Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers:

On the winding road to Petropolis, they did not speak, not about modernism or the construction of houses or antique bird jails or fine how-do-you-dos.

2010, Michael Sledge, The More I Owe You: A Novel, Counterpoint Press ISBN 9781582435763, page 78

"Vienna!" Mr. B. went on. "This is a bit of a how-do-you-do, is it not?"

2013, Chris Raschka, Seriously, Norman!, Scholastic Inc. ISBN 9780545388467, page 115


age group

It’s one of Foden’s curiosities that, 74 games into his City career, we still don’t really know what his best position will be. He is played as a wing-back and a deep-lying playmaker for England age-group sides.

2020年August7日，Jonathan Liew，“Phil Foden stars to offer Manchester City glimpse of multiple futures”, in The Guardian:


exes

The betting also began to shift. "Sixpence Ned wins!" cried three or four; "Sixpence he loses!" answered another; "Done!" and up went the halfpence. "Half-a-crown Joe loses!"—"Here you are," answered Joe, but he lost again. "I'll try you a 'gen'" (shilling) said a coster; "And a rouf yenap'" (fourpence), added the other. "Say a 'exes'" (sixpence).—"Done!" and the betting continued, till the ground was spotted with silver and halfpence.

1851，Henry Mayhew，“Gambling of Costermongers”, in London Labour and the London Poor，卷 1，頁 17:


Wulipu

鎮名，位於中國湖北荊門沙洋。

The village of Chenchi is located in the town of Wulipu, Hubei province in central China, with the163 coordinates 111° E and 30° N (Figure 3).

2020，Fan Yang, Guangqing Chi, Ge Wang, Shirui Tang, Yunting Li, Cong Ju，“Untangle the complex stakeholder relationships in rural settlement consolidation in China: a social network approach”, in Land，卷 9, 期 7, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC，頁 5:


derby

源自葉森德比大賽（Epsom Derby），以第十二代德比伯爵爱德华·史密斯-斯坦利命名。

Defeat sees Forest remain a point outside the top six with a derby against Leicester up next.

2011年April15日，Saj Chowdhury，“Norwich 2 - 1 Nott'm Forest”, in BBC Sport:

The left-back had been a selection concern because of an injury niggle but his first goal since last March swung this derby decisively in United’s favour, extending their club record unbeaten run away from home in the Premier League to 22 games and torpedoing City’s sequence of 21 straight wins in all competitions.

2021年March7日，David Hytner，“Manchester United catch City cold as Fernandes and Shaw end winning run”, in The Guardian:


sillon

借自法語 sillon (“犂溝”)。

建在寬溝中的一種防禦工事。

Sillon, is a work raised it up in ropes very hard for an in the middle of a foss


augury

augur + -y，或源自中古英語 augurie，源自古法語 augurie，源自拉丁語 augurium。

/ˈɔː.ɡjʊ.ɹi/

作為重要事物預兆的事件。

Evidently he did not mean to be a mere figurehead, but to carry on the old tradition of Wilsthorpe's; and that was considered to be a good thing in itself and an augury for future prosperity.

1928，Lawrence R. Bourne，章號 2, in Well Tackled!:


fuckoff

Journalism […] is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits – a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector […]

1971, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Nevertheless, alas no, some wanted cash up front, others no game, no skill, quick assessment of them – losers and fuckoffs.

2014，Chris Chaos，The Bloody Rise of Axis Video:

“Coop, you fuckoff. What the hell do you think you're doing?”


qwerty

QWERTY的大小寫替代形式

It was the Monotype model D keyboard introduced in 1907 which became the standard for printers, with a "qwerty" typewriter lay and removable keybars which made the keyboard independent of the matrix case arrangement.

1978，Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science，卷s 24 (Printers and Printing to Public Policy, Copyright), New York, N.Y., Basel: Marcel Dekker, →ISBN，頁 109:

The typewriter using separate characters on type bars striking on a cylinder soon dominated the market. Because adjacent striking bars tended to jam when struck rapidly, manufacturers abandoned the alphabetical placement of letters on the keyboard in favor of the left-to-right "qwerty" disposition that takes into account the frequency and sequence of letters in English.

1994，Henri-Jean Martin，Lydia G. Cochrane, transl.，“Beyond Writing”, in The History and Power of Writing，Chicago, Ill., London: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN，頁 465:


Cæsar

Caesar的另一種拼寫法

[Casca stabs Cæsar in the Neck. Cæsar catches hold of his Arm. He is then stabbed by several other Conspirators, and at last by Marcus Brutus.] Cæsar: Et tu, Brute?—Then fall, Cæsar. [Dies. The senators and people retire in confusion.]

1599, Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar, read in William Shakespeare, George Long Duyckinck, The Works of Shakespeare: the text regulated by the recently discovered folio of 1632, Redfield (1853) p. 707,

Cæsar's dust - or is it Alexander's? - may stop a bunghole, but the functions of these dead Cæsars of the past was to light up a savage fetish dance.

1887，H. Rider Haggard，She: A History of Adventure:


Cæsar

Caesar的另一種拼寫法


at last

No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or[…]. And at last I began to realize in my harassed soul that all elusion was futile, and to take such holidays as I could get, when he was off with a girl, in a spirit of thankfulness.

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 46:

She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.

1913，Joseph C. Lincoln，章號 6, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

After all their troubles, at last they lived happily ever after.

在經歷一波三折後，他們最終幸福快樂地生活下去。

After exhausting all possibilities, Holmes was at last satisfied the problem was unsolvable.

在用盡一切可能性後，福爾摩斯最終確信這個問題是無法解決的。


one day

one of these days

未來不定指的時間；日後，以後；有朝一日

someday

未來不定指的時間；日後，以後；有朝一日

once

過去不定指的時間；之前某日，有一天

過去不定指的時間；之前某日，有一天

One day I was playing with a girl from my class.

有一天，我正和同班的女生玩。

One day I was out in the barn and he drifted in. I was currying the horse and he set down on the wheelbarrow and begun to ask questions.

1913，Joseph C. Lincoln，章號 11, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:


trucker

Because of deregulation and the drive to lower costs, Mr. Lorr said, truckers are now regarded by many companies as just another replaceable part. Some can barely eke out a living.

勞爾先生稱，由於管制放鬆和許多公司試圖降低花費，卡車司機被他們視作可替換的部件。有的司機只能勉強糊口。

2020年September24日，Alex Williams，“The Ugly (and Glorious) Truth About American Supermarkets [美國超市的醜陋（且光榮）的事實]”, in New York Times:


pfft

"Are we talking a delicate little Scandinavian pfft, or the whole raspberry tart?"

2008，Nicholas Drayson，A Guide to the Birds of East Africa，頁 28:


Buryat

We met the President of the Republic, Salomon M. Ivanov, who is a native Buryat.

我們與共和國的總統薩洛蒙·M·伊凡諾夫會面，他是土生土長的布里亞特人。

1948，Henry A. Wallace，Andrew Jacob Steiger，Soviet Asia Mission, →OCLC, →OL，頁 54:


Twitter

源自twitter (“發出一連串啼叫聲”)。

Twitters (third-person singular present)
Twittering (present participle)
Twittered (past participle)

2009年March2日，Justin Rebello，“Eight top-notch tips for the Twittering attorney"”, in Wisconsin Law Journal, retrieved 2009-03-02:

2009年February23日，MSNBC，“Stars can’t stop Twittering at Oscars, parties”, in Access Hollywood, retrieved 2009-03-02:


sugoi

借自日語 凄い (sugoi，可能原意為“可怕的，厲害的”)，或與英語 terrific的含義變化相同。

more sugoi (comparative)
most sugoi (superlative)

Now ... I got one, and for some reason was able to see a very sugoi card was next in the machine […]

1997年August16日，username NeoMercury，“ARRGH! 955 Posts! and now while we’re on the topic, SM Dreams.”, in Usenet group alt.fan.sailor-moon:

The Miko outfits are totally sugoi, and the human forms of the gods are really cool as well.

1998年June23日，username Shiva the perpetually busy，“[POLL] What anime scenes would look best in real life movie?”, in Usenet group alt.fan.sailor-moon:

I’m wearing my latest Harajuku find: a gauzy, green sleeveless blouse, a pair of slimming pants—black, with some kind of shiny fabric—and a pair of totally sugoi sandals, with thick heels, black straps, and gleaming silver buckles.


cuts

‘I′ll give you something to keep you awake, McFadyen!’ Ape shouted.

1995, Bill Marsh, Ape, Old Yanconian Daze, page 110,

He reckons that about 80% of the boys in the school regularly received the cuts from Mr Saunders so he didn′t feel as if he was being unduly picked on.

他估計，學校裡大概有80%的男生都經常受到桑德斯先生的體罰，所以他並不覺得自己是被故意挑中的。

2001，Lyall Ford，Poorhouse to Paradise: The Adventures of a Pioneering Family in a North Queensland Country Town，頁 55:

My greatest happiness is that Sebastian is having a good time at school and has never been given the cuts.

我最開心的事情就是，塞巴斯蒂安在學校過得好，沒被老師體罰。


booker

源自中古英語 bokere，源自古英語 bōcere (“抄寫員”)。等同於book + -er。現代義項受動詞book的影響。

What Booker doth prognosticate Concerning Kings or Kingdoms State […]

1711，Martin Parker，William Wagstaffe (M.D.)，The king enjoyes his own again:


evil eye

仿譯自拉丁語 oculus (“眼睛”) + malus (“壞、惡、有害”)。

Various amulets were used to avert the influence of the evil eye. The most common of these appears to have been the phallus, called by the Romans fascinum, which was hung round the necks of children.

1890，“Fascinum”, in A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities:

A common dread was the evil eye, and the chief charm against it was in the form of a knotted cord woven by a "wise woman".

1936，Rollo Ahmed，The Black Art，London: Long，頁 26:

If you tell me, "Good morning" / I'm gonna tell you, "That's a lie" / If you say I'm old, baby / I'm gonna give you the evil eye

1964，Leonard Feather （作曲作詞）, “Evil Gal Blues”, 演出者 Aretha Franklin:


phones

I don't like wearing phones for any length of time, but these are as comfortable as any I've tried. The only problem is that their isolation is so good, you feel cut off from the outside world and you can't hear what people are saying about you.

1990, Home & Studio Recording (volume 4, page 33)

I ripped the phones off my head, fluffed my hair, and tossed the crumpled lyric sheet in the garbage can before strolling into the control room like a queen.

2015，Bethany Michaels，Naughty in Nashville Super Bundle:


projects

為低收入居民建設的高密度城市住房

My friend Larry Gray never gangbanged with us but was from the projects and to your rival, that meant you were one

2008，Donovan Simmons, Terry Moses，Bloods and Crips: The Genesis of a Genocide，頁 128:


bad luck

不幸；倒霉。不理想的事態發展（如意外事故）

McCarthy will point to their bad luck but the statistics now show that Wolves have lost four league matches and have claimed one point from a possible 15 - so it may prove to be another difficult season for the Midlands side.

2011年October1日，Saj Chowdhury，“Wolverhampton 1 - 2 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport:


hanbok

借自朝鮮語 한복(韓服) (hanbok)。

The Chinese embassy in Seoul defended the decision to include a participant wearing hanbok, describing her as a representative of the country’s dozens of ethnic groups.

中國駐首爾大使館為這名穿著韓服的表演者辯解，稱她是全國[五十六]個民族中的代表之一。

2022年February9日，Justin McCurry，“Hanbok at Beijing Winter Olympics opening sparks South Korean anger [北京冬奧會開幕式上的韓服惹南韓民眾憤怒]”, in The Guardian:


payphone

I only had ten cents in my pocket, so I couldn't use the payphone to call a cab.

我口袋裡只有一毛錢，所以打不了公用電話叫計程車。

You called me from a payphone / They still got payphones / It costs a dollar a minute / To tell me you're getting sober

2020，“Kyoto”, in Punisher，演出者 Phoebe Bridgers:


evitate

拉丁語 evitatus，evitare (“躲避”) 的過去分詞；e (“出”) + vitare (“避開”)。

evitates (third-person singular present)
evitating (present participle)
evitated (past participle)

Since therein she doth evitate and shun / A thousand irreligious cursed hours

a. 1597，William Shakespeare，The Merry Wives of Windsor, act 5, scene 5:


deez nuts

After a bit of back-and-forth, the man suddenly shouts “Deez nuts!”, and since then, it’s become a viral joke.

2021年May8日，“TikTok: What are 'Deez Nuts' Jokes?”, in HITC:

Nick Saban is known for his solemn and stern demeanor. So when Alabama safety Jordan Battle revealed his head coach has an affinity for "deez nuts" jokes, it was both shocking and hilarious.

2021年September21日，“Mac Jones confirms Nick Saban's love for 'deez' jokes”, in NBC Sports:

It's got crunchy mixed in frozen fruits and is designed to be eaten with a spoon. Hard to make fun of deez nuts in our mouth.

2022年January18日，“This peanut butter made for gamers actually sounds delicious”, in PC Gamer:

The best part is, of course, when he says “it’s time for love and unity” after flipping everyone off and shortly before telling them to suck “deez nuts.”

2022年March11日，“Kid Rock Is So Unoriginal, He Made the Same Bad Music Video All Over Again”, in Metal Sucks:


ill-gotten gains

dirty money

從非正當手段獲得的錢財或資產

從非正當手段獲得的錢財或資產

Ill-gotten gains never prosper.

不義之財絕不會令你發達。

Was it her fault if she did not possess those sycophantic arts which her hypocritical nephew, Pitt Crawley, practised? She wished him all the happiness which he merited out of his ill-gotten gains.

1847 January – 1848 July，William Makepeace Thackeray，章號 XXXIX, in Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero，London: Bradbury and Evans, […], 出版於 1848, →OCLC:

Secondly, the highly reprehensible course pursued by the Free Church of Scotland, in soliciting, receiving, and retaining money in its sustentation fund for supporting the gospel in Scotland, which was evidently the ill-gotten gain of slaveholders and slave-traders.

1855，Frederick Douglass，“Life as a Freeman”, in My Bondage and My Freedom，New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan，頁 380:

By the bright bow of Heaven, I will have their ill-gotten gains from them, even though I hang for it as high as e'er a forest tree in Sherwood!

1883，Howard Pyle，“Robin Hood and Will Scarlet”, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown, in Nottinghamshire，New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC:

The exclusion from his clubs would mean ruin to Moran, who lived by his ill-gotten card gains.

1903，Arthur Conan Doyle，“The Adventure of the Empty House”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes:

How, exactly, does a lawyer come to legally give away ill-gotten gains on behalf of an international company that does not want to be named and surely does not want to face prosecution for what one division did?

2015年February6日，Paul Sullivan，“Finding the ‘Right’ Way to Dispose of Ill-Gotten Gains”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


traffick

動詞的這種拼寫可能是受到名詞trafficking的影響，意思都與非法販運有關。

trafficks (third-person singular present)
trafficking (present participle)
trafficked (past participle)

traffic的另一種拼寫法（尤用於非法貨物）

If an addict-possessor who trafficks in narcotics is to be prosecuted, and if these “time to time” acts constitute “trafficking,” then the Watson majority's possession exemption “will prove nearly meaningless […]

如果要起訴販運毒品的癮君子，並且如果這些“時不時”做出的行為確實構成“販運”，那麼沃森多數人的持有豁免“將證明是幾乎毫無意義的 […]

1970，The Catholic University law review，卷 20，頁 760:

The writer is also a double agent, who trafficks in perceptions and double-deals between circumstances and possibilities, present and future.

作者也是一個雙重間諜，他在現狀與可能、現在和未來之間販運感知，搞兩面派。

1982，Helen Daniel，Double agent: David Ireland and his work，頁 159:

Appellant contends that the imposition of a fine is totally unauthorized as punishment for conspiracy to traffick in marijuana.

上訴人認為，這一為懲罰共謀販運大麻便處以罰款的行爲是完全未經授權的。

These offences include: (1) Section 129(1): this makes it an offence to traffick in persons to or from Hong Kong for the purpose of prostitution.

這些罪行包括：（1）第129(1)條：任何人參與將另一人帶入或帶出香港，目的在於賣淫，即屬犯罪。

2003，Michael Jackson，Criminal law in Hong Kong，頁 637:


premiate

premiates (third-person singular present)
premiating (present participle)
premiated (past participle)

Inevitably, a jury numbed by a succession of slides premiates some designs because they are "interesting" or "different."


gacha

來自日語 ガチャ，ガチャポン的簡稱。義項3也是“gotcha”的同音詞。

Gacha, from the Japanese word gachapon, refers to capsules sold in vending machines and containing random toys inside

2018，Ennio De Nucci and Adam Kramarzewski，Practical Game Design，頁 54:

And if you’re looking for something that’s cute, compact, and affordable, you can’t go past the country’s gacha capsule toy vending machines.

2018 October 24，Oona McGee，“Pokemon cosplay for cats”, in Japan Today:

Since a loot table with ten rewards won’t last for long, the very first step in gacha design is to ensure that you have enough content to make gacha a viable monetization strategy.

2018，Ennio De Nucci and Adam Kramarzewski，Practical Game Design，頁 394:


sorbite

源自 Sorby (姓氏) + -ite，以地質學家 Henry Clifton Sorby 命名。

According to Boynton this constituent is sorbite in the case of steels containing more than ·8 per cent. carbon, for if troostite be β iron free from carbon it cannot exist in hyper-eutectoid steels.

1905，Professional Papers of the Corps of Royal Engineers，卷 30，頁 217:

After a very long period of annealing their morphology is very similar to the carbides precipitated in the sorbite and, as regards the amount of precipitate, the ferritic grains are almost indiscernible from the sorbitic (Fig.3).

1962，The Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute，卷 200，頁 940:

Some consider granular pearlite or granular cementite to be sorbite. Hence it is also called sorbitic pearlite, and when referring to the contained carbon, sorbitic carbide.

1962，J. W. Mellor，A Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry，卷 12，頁 847:


sorbite

Sorbite is isomeric with mannite and dulcite, and forms with oxalic acid at 75° sorbite-formamide, with evolution of carbonic anhydride. It is a colourless odourless syrup.

山梨醇与甘露醇和半乳糖醇为同分异构体，与草酸在75°时生成山梨醇-甲酰胺，并放出碳酸酐。山梨醇为无色无味的糖浆。

1881，“Abstracts of Chemical Papers: Sorbin and Sorbite”, in Journal of the Chemical Society，卷 11，頁 148:


jargonium

These various spectra of jargonium are all of a very marked character, quite unlike those due to any other element in similar conditions.

1869年July2日，H. C. Sorby，“On jargonium: a new elementary substance associated with zirconium”, in The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science:

In the same year as the jargonium announcement, 1869, Arthur Herbert Church (1834–1915) announced the discovery of a new element associated with zircon.

2014，Marco Fontani，The Lost Elements: The Periodic Table's Shadow Side:

Sorby announced, in 1869, the discovery of a new element – Jargonium – by spectroscopic analysis, but was forced in the following year to withdraw his claim as it was found that the interpretation of the spectrum was more complicated than he had supposed.

2016，A. Meadows，Science and Controversy: A Biography of Sir Norman Lockyer, Founder，頁 59:


Qur'ān

Qur'an的另一種寫法

He [...] collected his gold-plated, velvet-fringed Qur'ān from the living room.

他 … 從客廳收集了他的鍍金天鵝絨流蘇古蘭經。

2000，Zadie Smith，White Teeth，Penguin Books (2001)，頁 222:


jerkoff

源自動詞jerk off (“自慰”)。

I think she's a very nice girl, but she's marrying that jerkoff.

我覺得她是個很不錯的女孩兒，但她要嫁給那個鳥人。

1998，Tim Herlihy，The Wedding Singer，spoken by Robbie Hart (Adam Sandler):

All New Yorkers have this feeling that anyone who's not from New York is a jerk-off. And I couldn't believe that someone had the balls to shoot at me.

所有紐約人都覺得外地人全都是傻逼。而我無法相信有人敢朝我開槍。

1992，Eric Lee，Saigon to Jerusalem: conversations with U.S. veterans of the Vietnam War who ...，頁 25:

Slob or Slop for a dirty child, Beans for a child who breaks wind, Jerk-off for a child who masturbates.

髒兮兮的小孩被叫做“Slob”或“Slop”，放屁的小孩被叫做“Beans”，自慰的小孩被叫做“Jerk-off”。

1935，Lawson Gentry Lowrey，“Proceedings of the 8th- annual meeting of the American Orthopsychiatric Association”, in American journal of orthopsychiatry, Volume 5 - Page 279，卷 5，頁 279:


show off

shows off (third-person singular present)
showing off (present participle)
showed off (past)
shown off (past participle)

She loves to show off her driving prowess.

She loves to show off when she gets behind the wheel of a car.

If you've just acquired a Google Glass headset for £1,000, don't show it off at the movies. UK cinemas are to ban the headsets over fears that the gadgets can be used to make pirate copies of Hollywood blockbusters.

如果您剛買了一副Google眼鏡耳機，不要戴到電影院炫耀。因為擔心其能夠盜攝好萊塢大片，英國電影院將禁止這種耳機入場。

2014年June29日，Adam Sherwin，“UK cinemas ban Google glasses over piracy risk”, in The Independent:


amaze

源自中古英語 *amasen (“使迷惑、困惑”)，源自古英語 āmasian (“使迷惑，使驚奇”)，源自ā- (完成時前綴) + *masian (“使困惑”)，等同於a- + maze。

amazes (third-person singular present)
amazing (present participle)
amazed (past participle)

使感到驚奇、驚訝 （自16世紀）

He was amazed when he found that the girl was a robot.

他得知女孩是機器人的時候，吃了一驚。

And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David?

眾人都驚奇，說，這不是大衛的子孫麼。

1611，The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version)，London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 12:23:

Spain has long fallen from amazing Europe with her wit, to amusing them with the greatness of her Catholic credulity.

1759, Oliver Goldsmith, The Present State of Polite Learning

Eye is blinded, ear amazes.


amaze

驚奇，驚訝 （自16世紀）

All in amaze he suddenly vp start / With sword in hand, and with the old man went ….

1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ii:

Presently, however, as we stood in amaze, gazing at the marvellous sight, and wondering whence the rosy radiance flowed, a dread and beautiful thing happened.

1887，H. Rider Haggard，She: A History of Adventure:

Shattuck looked at him in amaze.

1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 103:

She took the proffered cheque and stared at it with puzzled amaze, dazed by her own behaviour.

1985, Lawrence Durrell, Quinx, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 1361:


stupefying

more stupefying (comparative)
most stupefying (superlative)

Detectives on Thursday arrested and charged a man and his girlfriend who they allege were running an illegal prostitution racket involving sexual slavery, the administration of "stupefying drugs" and secret filming of the girls with clients.

星期四，警探逮捕並指控一名男子及其女友，稱他們從事非法賣淫活動，涉及性奴役、使用“迷魂藥”，以及與客戶秘密拍攝女性。

2021年February6日，The Courier-Mail，Brisbane，頁 4，列 1:


lees

源自古法語 lies，源自中世紀拉丁語 lias (“红糟，渣滓”)（修道院製酒的產物），源自高盧語 *ligyā、*legyā (“泥沙，沉積物”)（對比威爾士語 llai、上古布列塔尼語 leh (“泥沙，沉積物”)），源自原始凱爾特語 *legyā (“層”)，源自原始印歐語 *legʰ- (“躺”)。

Methinks my body is but the lees of my better being.

1851，Herman Melville，Moby Dick, Chapter 7:

Kipper drained his glass to the lees and seemed to become calmer.

1960，P. G. Wodehouse，Jeeves in the Offing, chapter X:


El Niño

源自西班牙語 El Niño (字面意思是“小男孩”)，指聖嬰，因為這種氣候現象出現在聖誕節前後。

Additionally, scientists aren’t expecting to be surprised again by El Niño, a warming of the Pacific Ocean that tends to dampen Atlantic hurricane activity.

The odd weather phenomenon that many blame for the suffering here — the drought and sudden storm pattern known as El Niño — is expected to become more frequent as the planet warms.

2020年July23日，Abrahm Lustgarten，“The Great Climate Migration”, in New York Times:


oh my God

在不同語境下，本詞可以帶有褻瀆，也可只是單純地表達情緒。相對委婉的說法有oh my gosh、omigosh以及oh my goodness。

表示憤怒、困惑、興奮、驚訝等情緒。

"Oh my God!"; those can't be the last words of your man.

2001，“We Right Here”, in Earl Simmons 作詞, Black Key 作曲, The Great Depression，演出者 DMX, Ruff Ryders Entertainment:


fuck if I know

Hit by a mortar or an M16 round or maybe he was dead years ago...fuck if I know.

2008，Edward Stapleton III，The Believers，Lulu.com, →ISBN，頁 42:

Fuck if I know, and honestly, I don't give a shit.

2008，Harold L. Turley，Born Dying，Simon and Schuster, →ISBN，頁 182:

Fowler is lying on the floor, switching CDs. He props himself up on his elbow. He says, “You think it'd hurt us though?” I shrug. “Fuck if I know.”

2011，Peter Brown Hoffmeister，The End of Boys，Catapult, →ISBN，頁 72:

“She's married?” “She's not only married, she's leaving. Or she already left. Fuck if I know.”

2013，Lexi Ryan，Wish I May，Lexi Ryan, →ISBN，頁 169:


common noun

在英語中，大多數的普通名詞前面可加不定冠詞，但也有例外（如一般不說“there is a molybdenum on earth”，而是說“there is molybdenum on earth”），許多普通名詞首字母不大寫，也有首字母大寫的情況（如Frenchman）。首字母是否大寫不是區分普通名詞和專有名詞的依據。

The Butlers had been serving the Fowls for centuries. It had always been that way. Indeed, there were several eminent linguists of the opinion that this was how the common noun had originated.


aeronaut

源自aero- + -naut，源自法語 aéronaute；對比意大利語 aeronauta。

/ˈɛəɹəˌnɔːt/

"Well, what is it that he does that I don't do? Just say the word, - teetotal, vegetarian, aeronaut, theosophist, superman."

1912，Sir Arthur Conan Doyle，The Lost World:


Red China

The highest military body in Red China, the People’s Revolutionary Military Council, is made up of 22 of these 52 Red generals, and three-fifths of them are on the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.

1951，Robert B. Rigg，Red China's Fighting Hordes，Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, →ISBN，頁 61:

Kennedy said that he was opposed to recognition of Red China. He indicated, however, that strong arguments had been presented to him in favor of the so-called “two Chinas policy.” Under this policy, Nationalist China would retain its seat on the Security Council, and Red China would have only a seat in the Assembly. This would mean that Red China would have only one vote out of about a hundred in the Assembly and would not be able to block UN action by veto. Kennedy said that proponents of this policy were contending that Red China could not do any damage in the UN under such circumstances.

1962，Richard M. Nixon，Six Crises，Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL，頁 408:

Overseas, however, leading public figures urged on us a variety of different courses. For example, former Prime Minister Clement Attlee, returning early in September from a British Labor-party tour of Red China, confirmed reports that Mao Tse-tung had asked him and his fellow Laborites to pressure the United States into pulling the Seventh Fleet away from the waters around Formosa, which, Attlee added, the Communists have a "strong determination" to capture.

1963，Dwight Eisenhower，Mandate for Change 1953-1956，Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC，頁 464:

Millions of citizens are deeply disturbed that the military-industrial complex too often shapes national policy, but they do not want to be considered unpatriotic. Countless loyal Americans honestly feel that a world body such as the United Nations should include even Red China, but they fear being called Communist sympathizers.

1963，Martin Luther King, Jr.，“Transformed Nonconformist”, in Strength to Love，New York: Pocket Books, 出版於 1964, →OCLC，頁 13:

I thought that perhaps a sudden and effective air strike would convince the leaders in Hanoi that we were serious in our purpose and also that the North could not count on continued immunity if they persisted in aggression in the South. I realized the risks of involving the Soviets or the Chinese, as Senator Mansfield feared, I said, but neither of them was trying to bring peace or even urging restraint. I doubted that they wanted direct involvement themselves. I pointed out that our intelligence analysts believed Red China would not enter the war unless there was an invasion in the northern part of North Vietnam or unless the Hanoi regime was in danger of being toppled.

1971，Lyndon Johnson，The Vantage Point，Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC，頁 125:


ununennium

音頻 (標準英式、通用美式)

原子序數為119的未發現元素（符號：Uue）。

Element 119: Ununennium (Uue) This has yet to be reported. From its position in the periodic table, in group 1 below francium, this element should have the physical properties of an alkali metal and, were it long-lived enough, the element should display the singly-charged ion M⁺ as its most favoured chemical state.

2001，John Emsley，“The Elements (A–Z)”, in Nature’s Building Blocks: An A–Z Guide to the Elements，Oxford: Oxford University Press, 出版於 2002 printing, →ISBN，頁 468:

"[…] Clemson had element 119 and somehow it attached itself to the oxygen atoms on Earth. The commission wants this element 119 to be called Ununennium based on the element number, one, one, and nine." / Sandi speaks into the telephone, "That is ridiculous! Can't you change the name of the element to the person that found the gas cloud back at SETI, Rich Tolt?" / "I can make a recommendation to the rest of the commission, but rarely do they change names. The names for the next ten elements have been chosen based on the element number and the Latin names of that number to make it easier for the world."

2007，Steven Comas，章號 10, in The Trojan Horse Cloud，Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN，頁 77:

Our question at the beginning of this essay was "are there more elements to be discovered?" The next elements would be ununennium (atomic number 119) and unbinilium (atomic number 120). The problems in trying to produce these elements by accelerating an ion beam into a target are the short half-lives of possible target elements and the extended times required for a successful observation of a new element. So far, elements 119 and 120 have eluded discovery. But you can expect that scientists will continue to search for new elements.

2017，Darrell D. Ebbing，Steven D. Gammon，“Atoms, Molecules, and Ions”, in General Chemistry，第11th版, Boston, Mass.: Cengage Learning, →ISBN，頁 46:


expressionlessly

more expressionlessly (comparative)
most expressionlessly (superlative)

She was staring expressionlessly at the back of the driver's head.

她呆呆地盯著司機的後腦勺。

1968，Carl Ruhen，The Key Club，Sydney: Scripts，頁 21:


smoker

Even though I don't smoke, I'm not one of those fanatics you run into. In fact, I love watching cigarette smokers in their sad little sealed-off areas, sucking away, deep lines in their faces, precancerous lesions taking hold, the posture and body language of petty criminals. You know what you do with these people? Give 'em free cigarettes. Let 'em smoke. Offer them a light!

1997，George Carlin，Brain Droppings，New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL，頁 47:

只限男性參加的非正式社交活動，一般允許吸煙

That evening A Company had a "smoker" in one of the disused huts of Shorncliffe Camp.

Yes we're gonna have a wingding / A summer smoker underground

1982，Donald Fagen （作曲作詞）, “New Frontier”, in The Nightfly:


primocane

But Courtney Weber, a breeder at Cornell University, is working with Mr. Clark’s primocane selections to develop varieties that could be mown down before winter and fruit the next year.

2007年July25日，David Karp，“At Last, Sweet Blackberries Stay the Course”, in New York Times:


let the cat out of the bag

（1700年代中期）與pig in a poke相對，如果一个不诚实的商人试图把猫当作猪来卖，而猫出来了或者被人从袋子里拿出来了，那么这个商人的秘密就被泄露了。

lets the cat out of the bag (third-person singular present)
letting the cat out of the bag (present participle)
let the cat out of the bag (past participle)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-let the cat out of the bag.ogg

露餡；洩露秘密；使秘密爲人所知（多指不經意地）

It was going to be a surprise party until someone let the cat out of the bag.

要不是有人洩露了秘密的話，这本來會是一个惊喜派对的。

He proved himself as decent, decorous, and conscientious as Peter was rampant, boisterous, and — This last epithet I choose to suppress, because it would let the cat out of the bag.

他爲人正派、端莊、真誠，而彼得卻是跋扈、暴烈和——這最後的形容詞，姑且從略，因爲寫出來會露餡的。

1849，Currer Bell [筆名; Charlotte Brontë]，Shirley. A Tale. […]，卷 III, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC:


a leopard cannot change its spots

源自耶利米書13:23：Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.（古實人豈能改變皮膚呢？豹豈能改變斑點呢？若能，你們這習慣行惡的便能行善了。）

the wolf may lose his teeth but never his nature

you can take the person out of the place, but you can't take the place out of the person

what's bred in the bone will come out in the flesh

江山易改，本性難移。字面意思为“豹不能改變它的斑點”。

King.[…]Lyons make Leopards tame. / Mo[wbray]. Yea, but not change his ſpots:

理查王： […] 雄狮的神威可以使豹子慑伏。毛[勃雷]：是的，可是不能改变它身上的斑点。

1595 December 9 (first known performance)，William Shakespeare，“The life and death of King Richard the Second”, 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 I, scene i]，頁 24，列 2:

Can the Ethiopian change his ſkinne? or the leopard his ſpots?

古實人豈能改變皮膚呢？豹豈能改變斑點呢？

1611，The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version)，London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 13:23，列 1:

End now all unkindness. Let us put the Jew to ransom, since the leopard will not change his spots, and a Jew he will continue to be.

讓我們言歸於好。現在得給猶太人的贖金定個價錢了，因爲豹子身上不會沒有斑點，猶太人也永遠是猶太人。

1820，沃尔特·司各特，章號 II, in 艾凡赫，卷 III, 爱丁堡: […] Archibald Constable and Co.；伦敦：Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC，頁 60:


double helix

字面意思為“雙螺旋”，指DNA的雙螺旋結構。

double helixes (plural)
double helices (plural)

If I had been married earlier in life, I wouldn't have seen the double helix. I would have been taking care of the kids on Saturday.

要是我早點結婚，就不會見到「雙螺旋」了。那樣的話我週六就會在照顧孩子了。

2007 January，“WHAT I'VE LEARNED: James Watson”, in Esquire，卷 147, 期 1，存檔自the original on 2007-01-25:


mukwa

mukula的羅德西亞和津巴布韋寫法

Inside, your boss settles behind a mukwa desk and gestures for you to take a seat on a chair done up in leather upholstery that softens a frame of the same softly glowing wood.

2018，Tsitsi Dangarembga，This Mournable Body，Faber & Faber (2020)，頁s 240-241:


bird of paradise

首次由歐洲探險家斐迪南·麥哲倫環航地球發現。在安东尼奥·皮加费塔紀錄寫道：“當地人告訴我們，那些鳥來自人間天堂，他們稱呼那些鳥為‘bolon diuata’，即‘神之鳥’”。

bird-of-paradise (alternative)
birds of paradise (plural)

She had a jonquil silk pelisse, a bonnet of the same colour, with a bird of paradise plume, looking very much like an illuminated butterfly.

1842，Letitia Elizabeth Landon，Lady Anne Granard，卷 1，頁 187:


palmier

借自法語 palmier，為其原名feuille de palmier (“棕櫚葉”)的簡稱。

Glass cases are filled with a pastel field of pink sweet buns, glossy guava-oozing pastries and their vanilla custard cousins, crispy, heart-shaped orejas (elephant ears, or, at French bakeries, palmiers), and conchas (shells).

2007年January30日，Lily Koppel，“In a Bakery Window, Shades of Miss Havisham”, in New York Times:


toucan

源自法語 toucan，源自葡萄牙語 tucano或西班牙語 tucán，源自圖皮語系 tuka、tukan、tukana，可能是模仿其叫聲。

The ear, small and shapely, the arch of the foot, the curve in mouth and nostril, even the indurated hand dyed to the orange-tawny of the toucan's bill, a hand telling alike of the halyards and tar-bucket;


sorgho

It is by manuring the land, with the dung of their cattle, that the Negroes raise pretty good crops of sorgho.

黑人通過給土地施自家的牛糞，種出相當不錯的高粱。

1818，J. B. Henry Savigny and Alexander Correard，Narrative of a Voyage to Senegal in 1816 [對1816年塞內加爾航行的敘述]:


iconostasis

The altar was hidden behind an Iconostasis. The church was looked after by an old sacristan who lived in a cottage on the shore of the lake.

聖壇隱藏於聖幛之後。教堂由一名老看守人照料，他住在湖邊的一間小屋子裡。

1932，Maurice Baring，章號 10, in Friday's Business:


asthmatic

源自拉丁語 asthmaticus，源自古希臘語 ἀσθματικός (asthmatikós，“受呼吸短促折磨的”)，源自ἆσθμα (âsthma，“呼吸短促”) （對比asthma）；等同於asthma + -ic。

more asthmatic (comparative)
most asthmatic (superlative)

The mother, Ekaterina Pavlovna, who at one time had been handsome, but now, asthmatic, depressed, vague, and over-feeble for her years, tried to entertain me with conversation about painting. Having heard from her daughter that I might come to Shelkovka, she had hurriedly recalled two or three of my landscapes which she had seen in exhibitions in Moscow, and now asked what I meant to express by them.

1917，Anton Chekhov，譯者 Constance Garnett, The Darling and Other Stories，Project Gutenberg, 出版於 9 September 2004, →ISBN，頁 71:


sketchbook

This compact sketchbook displays every style of blinds imaginable, from rollers to Romans and from London to Austrian blinds.

2005，Wendy Baker，Compact Sketchbook of Blinds, →ISBN:

Since writing the preface for my sketchbook, I have, of course, been involved in a number of more recent projects where I have sketched ideas for structural solutions.

2012，Tony Hunt, Sir Norman Foster，Tony Hunt's Second Sketchbook, →ISBN，頁 iv:

This sketchbook provides an artist's impression in watercolours and drawings of the city's varied past, linked to the buildings and neighbourhoods still here today, as well as a glimpse of some of the beautifully conserved historic settlements on nearby islands.

2013，Bahamas Sketchbook: Islands in the Sun, →ISBN，頁 11:


eukaryote

借自法語 eucaryote；等同於eu- + karyon + 衍生自古希臘語-ώτης (-ṓtēs)的後綴。

It is now clear that among organisms there are two different organizational patterns of cells, which Chatton (1937) called, with singuar prescience, the eucaryotic and procaryotic type.

现在我们清楚，生物体中存在两种不同的细胞组织模式，正如Chatton (1937) 所预见的，真核和原核类型。

1962 March，Roger Stanier，“The concept of a bacterium”, in Archiv für Mikrobiologie，卷 42, 期 1，頁 17:


以每分鐘78轉播放的留聲機唱片

She swallowed hard, and her arm jerked sideways, knocking over a table lamp, which fell onto the record player, where our favourite 78 was spinning round.

2009，Jennifer Worth，Farewell to the East End，Weidenfeld & Nicholson，頁 273:


插入 Cadbury 公司 Flake 牌巧克力棒的甜筒

"Two 99s please. And your story." The ice cream was in insulated compartments and he scooped it out […]

2008，Ian Pattinson，Global Weirding, →ISBN:

'Two 99s for you, young man. A Fab? Yes, here you are, madam. A Mivvi coming up.' As he handed over the ices, the kids ran or just sauntered off. I don't know if the ice-cream man thought some adult was going to appear and pay for the lot, […]

2011, On The Cobbles: Jimmy Stockin ISBN 1780573898:

'Two 99s, please.' Copper Pie held them while I searched for the right money. […] Copper Pie was still on the ground, holding the ice creams […]

2012，T. M. Alexander，A Thousand Water Bombs, →ISBN:


希爾斯堡慘劇的96名死者

But the families of the 96 still feel that justice has not been done, and fight on.

但96名死者的家人仍然感到正義沒有到來，並為之持續鬥爭。

2001，Arabella McIntyre-Brown，Liverpool: The First 1,000 Years [利物浦：立城1000年]:

AS part of our Hillsborough Remembered coverage, we've been asking for your tributes to the 96 and messages of support for those still fighting for Justice twenty-two years on.

作為我們“永不磨滅的希爾斯堡記憶”報道的一部分，我們一直在徵集您對96名受害者的悼念，以及在這22年裡持續為正義奔走者的消息。

2011年May11日，Dan Kay，“Hillsborough remembered: Your tributes to the 96 and those still fighting for Justice [永不磨滅的希爾斯堡記憶：您對96名受害者的悼念，及向為正義而鬥爭者的致敬]”, in Liverpool Daily Echo:

There is euphoria at the utter vindication for the families prevailing in their dignified campaign and the complete achievement of the first objective, which was was to clear the names of the 96.

人们对这些家庭的彻底平反感到欣喜，这标志着他们庄严的运动和第一个目标的实现取得了成功，同时也是为这96名受害者正了名。

2012年September14日，Andy Burnham，“We have the truth, now we need justice for the 96 [我們手裡有真相，現在我們要為96名受害者討回公道]”, in The Independent:


未知。《牛津英語詞典》認為是nix的押韻俚語。
其他的說法包括：
# 來自紐約市的戴爾莫尼科餐廳菜單第#86號，腰牛排（Delmonico steak），19世紀時經常很快就售罄。
# 來自禁酒令時期紐約的熱門地下酒館Chumley’s。Chumley’s 隱藏在西村的住宅當中，有兩個門口：一個經過裝潢的主入口，在巴羅街（Barrow Street）；還有一個隱蔽的後門，在貝德福德街86號（86 Bedford Street）。當守門人在大門口看見警察接近的時候，就會大喊“86 it!”，通知顧客把酒藏好，從後門快速離開。

He stole from me and snitched on me, so I 86ed him.

他偷了我東西，所以我把他幹掉了。

RONALD:”They tried to ghost your girl Isabel right here”. WES CHANDLER(played by Ron Perlman):”Tried to ‘ghost’ her?” RONALD:”Merk. 86. Put her down in the dirt. You feel me?”

2017年September28日，Josh Corbin，片头起37:03, in Start Up，季数 2, 集数 6, spoken by Ronald Dacey (Edi Gathegi):


thirty-one

Toad, that vnder cold ſtone, / Dayes and Nights ha's thirty one: / Sweltred Venom ſleeping got, / Boyle thou firſt i'th'charmed pot.

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]，頁 143，列 2:


thirty-seven

‘You know [...] when people are asked to choose a number between one and a hundred, most people choose thirty-seven.’

「你知道嗎 […] 當被要求從一至一百中挑選一個數字時，大多數人會選擇三十七。」

2002，Zadie Smith，The Autograph Man [簽名商人]，Penguin Books (2003)，頁 297:


eighty-six

未知。《牛津英語詞典》認為是nix (“取消，拒絕”)的押韻俚語。也有可能是1920年代的某些數字代碼。參見英語維基百科條目86 (term)。

eighty-sixes (third-person singular present)
eighty-sixing (present participle)
eighty-sixed (past participle)

We finally had to eighty-six that old printer after it jammed one too many times.

那台舊打印機出太多故障，我們終於不得不把它扔掉了。

...Apple eighty-sixed all of its paid moderators...


sixty-sixth

The answer appears on the sixty-sixth page of the book.

She finished sixty-sixth in the race.

她以第六十六名完成比賽。

Though in his sixty-sixth year, I have never heard him express any dissatisfaction at the occasional hardships which we have had to encounter.

虽然他今年六十六岁了，但我从未听到他对我们偶尔遇到的困难表示过任何不满。

1912，Sir Arthur Conan Doyle，The Lost World [失落的世界]:


gnomology

派生自古希臘語 γνωμολογία (gnōmología)，源自γνώμη (gnṓmē，“評斷，格言”) + λογία (logía，“匯集”)（後者源自λέγω (légō，“收集，拾取”)，見 anthology）。對照法語 gnomologie。

wisest men have also taught in their ethical precepts and Gnomologies

1645，John Milton，Tetrachordon: Expositions upon the foure chief places in Scripture, which treat of Mariage, or nullities in Mariage. […]，London:


returns

The number of unsold books that booksellers return to publishers (called the rate of returns) has been averaging between 25 per cent and 35 per cent.

書商退回給出版社的滯銷書本比率（叫做退貨率）平均大約在25%到35%之間。

2002，Irina Dunn，The writer's guide^(http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CwKUuUcdBPgC&pg=PA129&dq=%22average+rate+of+returns+(unsold+books)%22)，頁 129:


air-conditioning

Nevertheless, it is clear that the global energy demand for air-conditioning will grow substantially as nations become more affluent, with the consequences of climate change potentially accelerating the demand.

尽管如此，很明显，随着国家变得更加富裕，全球对空气调节的能源需求将大幅增加，气候变化的后果可能会加速其增长。

2013 September-October，Michael Sivak，“Will AC Put a Chill on the Global Energy Supply?”, in American Scientist:


jibaro

來自西班牙語 jíbaro。

The cultivation of the crops is entirely in the hands of the jibaro, or peasant, who is seldom of direct Spanish descent, while the financiering and exportation is conducted almost entirely by peninsulares, or Spanish-born colonists, who monopolize every branch of commerce to the exclusion of the colonian-born subject.

1898，Murat Halstead，The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions,:


stonebow

O, for a stone-bow, to hit him in the eye!

c. 1601–1602 （写稿日期），威廉·莎士比亚，“Twelfe Night, or What You Will [第十二夜]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio（第一对开本）)，伦敦: […] Isaac Iaggard和Ed[ward] Blount, 出版於 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v]:


therapist

Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.

2013年June28日，Joris Luyendijk，“Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly，卷 189, 期 3，頁 21:


Jersey

源自中古英語 Gersey，源自盎格魯-諾曼語 Gersui，進一步的詞源有爭議。可能來自古諾爾斯語，為Geirs (“Geirr 的”) + ey (“島嶼”)的組詞。也有可能與拉丁語 Caesarea有關，是羅馬人在佔領的土地上為紀念愷撒而起的名稱（對比法語 Césarée）。後者影響了拉丁語對該島嶼的翻譯。

澤西（英國島及屬地名，在英吉利海峽上）

The resilience of Jersey’s elite is not new (Jersey is perhaps the only place in Europe that had the same government before, during and after Nazi occupation) but it had never previously been described with such forensic force.

2018，Oliver Bullough，章號 3, in Moneyland，Profile Books, →ISBN:


metachemical

more metachemical (comparative)
most metachemical (superlative)

元化學的；原子結構化學的

metachemical metamorphism

The greater part of this is in comparative thermal equilibrium, and so we should not expect metachemical change to occur.

1910，Knowledge and Illustrated Scientific News - Volume 33，頁 xxii:

Alfred Nordmann, in Chapter 19, draws on the work of Emile Meyerson and Gaston Bachelard — two philosophers with some genuine chemical knowledge — to articulate a more general, a richer, and a metachemical notion of substance.

2011，Davis Baird, Eric Scerri, Lee McIntyre，Philosophy of Chemistry: Synthesis of a New Discipline, →ISBN，頁 15:

This is by no means reducing chemistry to a sub-division of physics, and even less making it a defenceless victim of Don Quixote-like pseudomathematical and metachemical theorists; a fundamental knowledge of natural history is still an essential condition for any further progress in an understanding of chemical bonding.

2012，C.K. Jorgensen，Inorganic Complexes, →ISBN:


labyrinthe

more labyrinthe (comparative)
most labyrinthe (superlative)

It was to be added at the same time that even if his silence had been labyrinthe—which was absurd in view of all the other things too he couldn't possibly have spoken of—this was exactly what must suit her, since it fell under the head of the plea she had just uttered to Susie.


zongzi

Taiwanese zongzi on sale in Yokohama Chinatown, Yokohama, Japan
日本橫濱中華街售賣的臺灣粽子
Zongzi which have been cut open to reveal their fillings. The one in front is filled with pork, and the one in the background with red bean (azuki bean) paste.
切開以展示內餡的粽子。前面的是豬肉餡，後面的是紅豆餡。
源自官話 粽子 (zòngzi)的拼音轉寫，來自粽 (zòng) + 子 (zi，指小後綴)。

The traditional fare around Dragon Boat Festival time is zongzi, pyramids of glutinous rice wrapped in reed leaves. The zongzi, it is said, symbolize the rice that the Miluo River people threw to the fish so that they would leave Qu Yuan's body undisturbed.

端午节前后的传统美食是粽子，呈圆锥形，里面是用芦苇叶包裹的糯米。据说，粽子象征着汨罗江两岸人扔给鱼吃的米，这样鱼就不会打扰屈原的身体。

1953，Women of China [中國的女性]，Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC，頁 17，列 2:

The people honor the memory of Qu Yuan on this day by eating Zongzi and holding dragon-boat races. Zongzi are little packets of glutinous rice with jujubes, ham and sweet bean paste added for interest, wrapped in leaves of rushes.

在这一天，人们通过吃粽子和赛龙舟来纪念屈原。粽子是一小包的糯米，里面加了枣子、火腿和甜豆沙，用芦苇叶包裹着。

1979，China Reconstructs，Beijing: China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC，頁 49:

A week or two before the festival, villagers would prepare glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo leaves before cooking, commonly known as zongzi or chang (in Hokkien).

节前一两个星期，村民们会在烹调前准备好用竹叶包裹的糯米，俗称粽子或“粽”（福建话）。

2005，Lim Hin Fui（林廷辉），Fong Tian Yong（方天养），The New Villages in Malaysia: The Journey Ahead [马来西亚新村: 迈向新旅程]，Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Institute of Strategic Analysis & Policy Research（战略分析与政策研究所）, →ISBN，頁 126:

Sunny ordered four zongzis or dumplings and, out of tradition, haggled with the woman until they agreed on a price.

桑尼点了四个粽子或者饺子，并打破传统，与这位女士讨价还价，直到他们最后确定价格。

2011，Daniel Kalla，The Far Side of the Sky: A Novel of Love and Death in Shanghai，Toronto, Ont.: HarperCollins, →ISBN; 第paperback版, New York, N.Y.: Forge/A Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2015, →ISBN:


handfeed

handfeeds (third-person singular present)
handfeeding (present participle)
handfed (past participle)

Walker only saw the place in its deceitful summer promise, when the corn, whose husks were never to fill, was waving in sunshine, when the potato-fields, which were to yield nothing but dwarfed and rotten tubercles, were still gay in blossom, and the cattle, which for nine months of the year have to be housed and handfed with more tenderness than their masters, were luxuriating in sunny grass.

1878，William O'Brien，Christmas in the Galtees: An Inquiry Into the Condition of the Tenantry of Mr. Nathaniel Buckley:

Marjorie handfeeds one of her many pets, an orphaned joey, at Campbell Town.

2011，Danielle Wood，Housewife Superstar: The Very Best of Marjorie Bligh，頁 97:

It would be important to keep the total number of cattle handfed on property to a minimum.

2016，Lajpat R. Ahuja，Agricultural System Models in Field Research and Technology Transfer:


supercelestial

more supercelestial (comparative)
most supercelestial (superlative)

Zeus directly produces the supercelestial gods, divided into Olympians and Titans.

2022，John Opsopaus，The Secret Texts of Hellenic Polytheism: A Practical Guide to the Restored Pagan Religion of George Gemistos Plethon，Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN:


biblically

Most of them showed an intimate knowledge of the young blonde, leading Seth to the conclusion they had known her biblically.

他們中的大多數人都對這位年輕的金髮女郎表現出深入的了解，使塞思得出結論，他們是透過肉體認識她的。


down-heartedness

And now the sight of the two bottom fields, their gently undulating topography now changed beyond all recognition, exacerbated his down-heartedness.

而現在看到這兩塊底層田地，其平緩起伏的地形現在已經改變得面目全非，使他更加心灰意冷。

2013，Robin Pilcher，章號 24, in Starting Over, →ISBN:


pluricellular

Fusion events in vivo, particularly in embryonic development, often involve the purse-string contraction of a pluricellular actomyosin cable at the free edge.

2015，V. Nier, M. Deforet, G. Duclos, H.G. Yevick, O. Cochet-Escartin, P. Marcq, P. Silberzan，“Tissue fusion over non-adhering surfaces”, in PNAS，卷 112:


birb

The here-then-gone-then-here-again appearance of the #birb (as Twitter loves to lovingly refer to pretty, pretty birdies) plus the internet’s instant oatmeal obsession with him inspired WIRED’s Paris Martineau to propose a different nickname for the fowl: duckboi

2018年October10日，Emily Dreyfuss，“Glamour Duck and the Internet's Rabid Love of Wild Animals”, in WIRED:

Violent or unseemly behavior doesn’t disqualify a bird from birbness: the aggression of hummingbirds […] and brain-eating of Great Tits are immaterial to their round fluffiness. You could post a picture of any of these on reddit under "murder birb" and nobody would blink.

2019年December12日，Asher Elbein，“When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide”, in Audubon:


give up the ghost

字面意思為死亡時從體内釋出靈魂。來自中古英語 "gaf up þe gost"，"ʒave up þe gost"，来自古英語短語如"hēo āġeaf hire gāst"（字面意思為她放棄了她的靈魂），"þæt iċ gāst mīnne āġifan mōte"（字面意思為我必須放棄我的靈魂）等。对比德語 den Geist aufgeben和荷蘭語 de geest geven。

gives up the ghost (third-person singular present)
giving up the ghost (present participle)
gave up the ghost (past)
given up the ghost (past participle)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/en-au-give up the ghost.ogg

And Ieſus cryed with a loude voice, and gaue vp the ghoſt.

耶穌大聲喊叫，氣就斷了。

1611，The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version)，London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Mark 15:37:

But McCartney, 50, is hardly ready to give up the ghost of his creative past.

1993年February8日，“A Magical History Tour”, in Time:

Burnett holds the door while Lowrey holds Francine. She's broken, crying, and giving up the ghost of her past.

Its Windows CE, ostensibly for consumer electronics, is flailing, largely because Microsoft has taken a PC mentality to develop CE, unable to give up the ghost of its heritage.

2000年January14日，Kevin Maney，“Gates closes an era Microsoft prepares to lay out a road map”, in USA Today:


Shiba Inu

/ˌʃiːbə ˈiːnuː/

Even Dogecoin, a cryptocurrency that began as a joke with a perpetually surprised Shiba Inu dog for its symbol, has soared almost 1,000 percent over the last week to set a record.

2021年February8日，Nathaniel Popper，“Elon Musk and Snoop Dogg Push Cryptocurrencies to Record Highs”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


cybercafé

The notion of a cybercafe—a place for Net surfers to socialize on a tide of gourmet coffee—is at odds with how most people want to use computers, even in their leisure time.

1998年April16日，Michel Marriott，“The Sad Ballad Of the Cybercafe”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Most recently, the rattiest old cybercafes in Queens have been shut down, following too-frequent fights among hotheaded video-game patrons. And the once-glamorous @Cafe in Manhattan was already boarded up by 1998!

2008年November7日，Virginia Heffernan，“The Cybercafe Lives”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


fursona

sona (alternative)
fursonas (plural)
fursonae (plural)

Fursuiters dress the part of their furry persona or fursona.

穿著獸裝的人們扮演著他們的獸人角色或獸設。

2009年July28日，Zack Parsons，Your Next-Door Neighbor is a Dragon，New York: Rebel Base, →ISBN, →OL，頁 159:


fursuiter

/ˈfɜːˌsuːtə/

穿著獸裝的人們扮演著他們的獸人角色或獸設。

Trekkers versus trekkies versus people in Klingon costumes, or furries versus fursuiters versus, oh, plushies.

一類星際迷對另一類星際迷對穿著克林貢服飾的人，或者獸迷對穿獸裝的人對，呃，毛絨玩具。

2010年August31日，Gwendolyn Ann Smith，“We're All Someone's Freak”, in Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation，Berkeley: Seal Press, →ISBN, →OL，頁 28:


nailbrush

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-nailbrush.wav

Rupert Sheffield, scrubbing John's blood from his hands with a nailbrush and hospital soap, swore that this was the last time [...] that he would have to do this.

2016，Kerry Greenwood，Murder and Mendelssohn，Sydney: Allen and Unwin，頁 303:


wordlist

For example, the focus of most previous wordlists has been on general academic vocabulary or the discipline-specific vocabulary needed in tertiary education.

例如，以前大多數詞彙表的重點是一般學術詞彙或高等教育所需的特定學科詞彙。

2018，Clarence Green，James Lambert，“Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes，卷 35, →DOI，頁 105:


MC

Three MC's and one DJ / We be getting down with no delay

1999，“Three MC’s and One DJ”, in Hello Nasty，演出者 Beastie Boys:


terefah

treyf的另一種拼寫法

Of course, one might say that since we are all mortal, life itself is a terminal illness! That would put us all in the category of terefah.

2003，Elliot N. Dorff，Love Your Neighbor and Yourself: A Jewish Approach to Modern Personal Ethics, →ISBN，頁 242:


traife

treyf的另一種拼寫法

Before that, students and professors could date whomever we wanted; the next day we were off-limits to one another—verboten, traife, dangerous (and perhaps, therefore, all the more alluring).

2015年February27日，Laura Kipnis，“Sexual Paranoia Strikes Academe”, in The Chronicle of Higher Education:


traif

treyf的另一種拼寫法

Recently my wife caught me using the pot for my traif soup.

最近，我的妻子發現我用鍋煮不符合猶太飲食法的湯。

2007年March18日，Randy Cohen，“Tuition Trick”, in New York Times:


trayf

treyf的另一種拼寫法

To the preparation, then: vegetables softened in butter, lots of Guinness, thick chunks of second-cut brisket — breast deckle, as it’s called in some of New York’s better precincts (where trotter gear, by the by, is known as trayf city).

2009年February22日，Sam Sifton，“Put a Lid on It”, in New York Times:


Chinese Pidgin English

Chinese pidgin English (alternative)
CPE (alternative)

Of the Chinese material (3.1% of total senses), there are 27 Chinese Pidgin English terms, including chin-chin, a salutation; chop, a stamp or seal; chop-chop, a command for greater speed; and joss, an idol or god.

2018，James Lambert，“Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography，卷 31, 期 4, →DOI，頁 500:


Poindexter

借自澤西諾曼語 Poingdestre (字面意思是“右拳”)。詞義「書呆子或不善於社交的人」源自卡通《菲力貓》中的同名角色。

Brain: A quantum-interface bomb? Are you insane in the membrane? / Philip Fry: You got it, Poindexter!

2003年April6日，David X. Cohen，“The Why of Fry”, in Futurama，季数 5, 集数 8, Fox Broadcasting Company:


in keeping with

Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.

1897年 12月（標示為1898年），Winston Churchill，章號 3, in The Celebrity: An Episode，紐約: The Macmillan Company；倫敦：Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:


bank statement

Turian Merchant: This isn't a proof of purchase.
Human Customer: It's a bank statement. It shows that I bought something from you and when I bought it.

2008，BioWare，Mass Effect (video game) (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, 經由 PC, →ISBN, →OCLC，幕：Citadel:


Great Firewall of China

Great Wall of China + firewall 組成的混成詞，於1997年經雜誌《連線》而普及。

Behind this hypothetical Great Firewall of China, most users would be allowed to exchange information with foreign sites if they were on the approved list

在這道假想的防火長城背後，大部分使用者能與白名單上的外國網站進行信息交換

1997，A. Michael Froomkin，“Jurisdiction in Cyberspace: The Role of Intermediaries [網絡空間的司法權：中間人的角色]”, in Borders in Cyberspace: Information Policy and the Global Information Infrastructure [網絡空間的邊界：信息政策和全球信息基礎設施], →OCLC，頁 146:

The "Great Firewall of China" is failing, largely due to the increased volume of Internet traffic in China.

防火長城正在逐漸失效，其中一個很大的原因在於中國網絡流量的持續增加。

2001，Greg Walton，China's Golden Shield: Corporations and the Development of Surveillance Technology in the People's Republic of China [金盾工程：中華人民共和國監控技術與公司的發展], →OCLC，頁 5:

The Great Firewall of China is a case of corporate collaboration in censorship.

防火長城是企業合作進行內容審查的案例之一。

2007，Dinah PoKempner，“A Shrinking Realm: Freedom of Expression Since 9/11 [縮小的領域：九一一事件後的言論自由]”, in Human Rights Watch World Report 2007 [2007年世界人權觀察報告], →ISBN，頁 76:

The targets suggest the attackers are sympathetic to the vast censorship apparatus known as the Great Firewall of China.

受攻擊的目標來源暗示，攻擊者對防火長城這一大型內容審查機構抱有同情。

2015年March31日，Dan Goodin，“Massive denial-of-service attack on GitHub tied to Chinese government [GitHub 遭受大量阻斷服務攻擊，攻擊者與中國政府相關]”, in Ars Technica, retrieved 2015-04-01:


sacrilegious

對照sacrilege、拉丁語 sacrilegus。來自拉丁語 sacer + legō (“偷竊聖物”)。

more sacrilegious (comparative)
most sacrilegious (superlative)

At one end of the room was spread a square carpet, and on it stood a table, on which were placed two most sacrilegious-looking wax-tapers: it is to be feared some poor sinner stayed longer in purgatory from the abduction of his offering.

1831，Letitia Elizabeth Landon，Romance and Reality，卷 3，頁 26:


hackathon

If these are opinions I'm sure that it happens to have something to do with the immense amounts of caffeine and sugar that I've ingested over the course of his 50hr hackathon.

1985年January20日，Andy Beals，“Re: net.men.only?”, in net.flame (Usenet), retrieved 2016-12-16, message-ID <3466@mit-eddie.UUCP>:

Just after the Hack-A-Thon. A little tired, but it's still early, just after 3 a.m. I log onto the Vax and find that two of the people from the Hack-A-Thon are already on. I VMSphone RJLEWIS, a hacker and the president of our computer club, to ask him why he left the 'thon early. He answers after quite a few rings - no surprise, he was probably doing some hacking. He answers, "This isn't Crash." Hmm...probably one of his roommates. Another person joins the conversation - RLCOLLINS, one of his roommates - saying "This is Crash." Ok, I'm confused. "Why?," I ask. RJLEWIS responds that this is a person named Debbie and it's her first time on the computer.

1990年November30日，P'relan，“A Callahan's Romance”, in alt.callahans (Usenet), retrieved 2016-12-16, message-ID <3009.27556011@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>:

I bet you most programmers started out "hacking." You think you're alone in that, but I'm sure you can find hundreds of people in this newsgroup with "48-hour hack-a-thon" or similar kinds of stories. They may have been working with punched cards or with all-text displays, but hacking is hacking. That's why some of the dreaded professional programmers will see your fixation with obscure tricks as nothing more than a phase they've been through themselves.

1992年February29日，David M. Baggett，“Re: 'Demo crews'”, in comp.sys.atari.st (Usenet), retrieved 2016-12-16, message-ID <1992Feb29.043440.25994@wam.umd.edu>:

UNITED ARTISTS, THE ONION, AND THE VIRTUAL GAMING CENTER PERSENT: THE 24 HOUR HACKATHON! n promotion of the new moive "HACKERS" (the fast-paced cyberpunk thriller opens in theaters September 15th), we are giving away a some great prizes! Be the first person to "hack" into our special web site on the internet and win a BRAND NEW COMPUTER SYSTEM! Fifty runners-up will receive special HACKERS gift packs.

1995年September1日，James Dicke，“HACKERS: Win a new computer!”, in milw.general (Usenet), retrieved 2016-12-16, message-ID <4282s8$15l@earth.alpha.net>:


holy water

來自中古英語 holy water、haly water、hali water、holiwater、halywater，來自古英語 hāliġwæter (“聖水”)，等同於holy + water。

None comes to this holy feast but they whose sins are cleansed in baptism, who are sanctified in those holy waters of regeneration, who have obedient souls,

1660, Jeremy Taylor, The Worthy Communicant; or a Discourse of the Nature, Effects, and Blessings consequent to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper

... with our signs of the cross and holy waters, our crucifixes and prayers to the saints, our scapulars and medals, our so humiliating auricular confession

1889，Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy，Fifty Years in the Church of Rome，頁 307:

In a parallel way, when you came up from the font and its holy waters, you received chrismation and the mark with which Christ was chrismated.

1979, "The Catechesis of Cyril of Jerusalem", translated by Lucien Deiss, Matthew J. O'Connell, in Springtime of the Liturgy


tsamba

源自藏語 རྩམ་པ (rtsam pa)。

同類詞：gofio

They bear to the contemplative Lamas their modest offerings of butter, tea and tsamba, and receive in exchange benedictions and prayers for good pasturage and prosperous flocks.

1928，Evariste Régis Huc，Joseph Gabet，Travels in Tartary, Thibet and China, 1844–1846，Psychology Press, 出版於 2005, →ISBN，頁 115:


tewel

來自中古英語 tuwel，來自古法語 tueil, tuel, tudel (“管”)（現代法語 tuyau也經由此），來自通俗拉丁語 *tūta，來自古法蘭克語 *thūta (“管”)，來自原始日耳曼語 *þeutǭ (“管，水道，流”)，來自*þeutaną (“嚎叫，吼，鳴”)，來自原始印歐語 *tu-, *tutu- (“鳥泣鳴，尖叫”)。對照來自同一日耳曼語族源頭的西班牙語和葡萄牙語 tudel。

tuel (alternative)
tewels (plural)
dewel (alternative)

通風口、煙囪、管道（特別是通向爐子或風箱的管道）

Lamasure, M. Le Petit, French patent of, for a double-case furnace tewel supplied with water, &c., xiv. (3d s.) 29

1846, The Repertory of Patent Inventions and Other Discoveries, page 128:

Also, there are no obvious differences in the proportion of tewel pieces with attached slag in the two furnace types.

1987，Ian Hodder，The Archaeology of Contextual Meanings, →ISBN，頁 5:

[…] the ore-smelting furnace is like a pregnant woman. […] For example, the furnace is described as the reproductive organs of a woman in one of the lessons in the Venda domba ritual while the tewel pipes are described as being symbolically male (Blacking 1969, p. 167).

2014, The Archaeology of Africa: Food, Metals and Towns ISBN 1134679424, page 502:

It healeth also cuts, and swelling of the tewel, or fundament, […]

c. 1550，Albertus Magnus，The Book of Secrets:

Falconers use many queer but ancient terms of the condition and ailment of birds of prey. Mr Cooper makes sense out of all that. 'Snurt' seems to me an entirely appropriate name for a runny nose, […]. When next I am constipated I shall complain that I have something wrong with my ‘tewel’.

1978，Leslie Brown June，“Foreword to the First Edition”, in Birds of Prey: Health and Disease，頁 xi:


Pharaoh

And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I have gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.

但是我要勝過埃及王，他的軍隊，戰車，和騎兵，他們就會尊敬我。我擊敗他們的時候，他們就知道我是上主。（現代中文譯本）

1611，The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version)，London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 14:18:


technophobia

I learned that, as Jane approached discharge, I would attend pump class, to learn how to program pumps in our apartment and infuse Jane with water, food, and drugs. My technophobia covered its eyes.

2005，Donald Hall，The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon，Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN，頁 121:


aleger

源自法語 allègre, earlier alègre，源自拉丁語 alacer。

more aleger (comparative)
most aleger (superlative)

Certainly this berry coffa, the root and leaf betel, the leaf tobacco, and the tear of poppy (opium), of which the Turks are great takers (supposing it expelleth all fear), do all condense the spirits, and make them strong and aleger.


pusil

more pusil (comparative)
most pusil (superlative)

a pusil and a thin soft air


ching chong

模仿漢語官話音素ch、j、q和zh的發音[t͡ʂʰ]、[t͡ɕ]、[t͡ɕʰ]和[t͡ʂ]。

/ˈtʃɪŋ ˌtʃɒŋ/

模仿漢語、朝鮮語或其他東亞語言。

He came up with three or four kids behind him, chanting 'Ching chong! Ching chong! Don't even know how to talk! Don't even know how to fight!'

他走了過來，身後有三四個孩子，高喊著“Ching chong！Ching chong！都不知道怎麼說話！都不知道怎么打架！”

2008，Alice Pung，Growing Up Asian in Australia，頁 91:

For example, comedian and talk-show host Adam Corolla and NBA superstar Shaquille O'Neal have each previously made ching chong comments in reference to Asians and Asian Americans.
#*:: 例如，喜剧演员和脱口秀主持人亞當·卡羅拉和NBA超级明星俠客·歐尼爾以前都曾在提到亚洲人和亚裔美国人时发表过ching chong言论。

2009, Kent A. Ono, Vincent N. Pham, Asian Americans and the media (page 104)


ching chong

/ˈtʃɪŋ ˌtʃɒŋ/

“Hey there, Ching Chong, bring the pistol.” In a moment Lee poked the gun butt-first through the door.

“喂，庆中，把手枪拿来。”老李很快就把手枪枪柄朝外从门口递了过来。（王永年译）


monkeypox

In a remote southwestern pocket of the Central African Republic, doctor Patrick Karume and his small team are on the jungle frontline to quarantine a rare outbreak of monkeypox.

2018年October25日，“On the frontline against monkeypox in Central African Republic”, in France 24，存檔自the original on 2018-10-25:

Monkeypox is a rare viral pox-like disease from the smallpox family, only milder. It can be transmitted through respiratory droplets, contact with body fluids or contact with an infected animal or animal products.
The first human case of monkeypox was recorded in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The United States saw a large outbreak among humans in 2003 after the virus spread from imported African rodents to pet prairie dogs. However, this is believed to be the first monkeypox virus infection in a Texas resident, according to Dallas County health officials.

2021年July16日，“Dallas resident returns from Nigeria with case of monkeypox”, in AP News，存檔自the original on 2021-07-16:

Clusters of monkeypox cases have recently been identified in Britain and Portugal, while Spain is investigating suspected cases of the virus.

2022年May20日，Joseph Goldstein，“Officials Report a Possible Monkeypox Case in New York”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


sum up

sums up (third-person singular present)
summing up (present participle)
summed up (past participle)

受詞可以放在助詞之前或之後（例如，「we summed the argument up as "think twice"」或「we summed up the argument as "think twice"」；二者在英語中皆合乎英語的語言習慣）。如果受詞是代名詞，則必須放在助詞之前（例如，「we summed it up as "think twice"」合乎語言習慣，但「we summed up it as "think twice"」不合乎語言習慣且語法錯誤）。

所以，總結你爭吵的話，你在說這不可能。

So, to sum up your argument, what you are saying is that it is impossible.

Best came close to getting on the end of Barton's cross but he was inches away from connecting. It was an incident that summed up Newcastle's afternoon.

貝斯特差點接到巴頓的橫傳，他離球只有幾吋遠。這個不幸的事件總結了紐卡速的下午。

2011年February12日，拿比爾哈桑，“Blackburn 0 - 0 Newcastle”, in BBC:


sidekick

來自 side + kick，在 19 世紀末和 20 世紀初是褲子前面口袋 (也就是最不容易被偷的口袋) 的俚語詞彙。因此，類似的，「side-kick」就是一個人最親密的伴侶。

In the abstract, Stuhlbarg’s twinkly-eyed sidekick suggests Joe Pesci in Lethal Weapon 2 by way of late-period Robin Williams with an alien twist, but Stuhlbarg makes a character that easily could have come across as precious into a surprisingly palatable, even charming man.

抽象的說，史都巴格的有著閃亮眼珠的隨從使用外星人麻花通過後期羅賓威廉斯的方式暗示《致命武器 II》中的喬佩西，但史都巴格讓一個容易給人留下珍貴印象的人物變成了一個令人驚奇的合乎趣味，甚至是有魅力的男人。

2012年May24日，奈森拉賓，“Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3”, in The Onion AV Club:

If representation and recruitment is an objective, self-styled mavericks like Kelly and his Queensland sidekick George Christensen have some utility.

如果代表和招募是客觀的，那麼像凱利和他的昆士蘭隨從喬治克里斯騰森這樣自稱持不同政見的人會有一些用處。


'bout

about的詞首音消失形式。

That's what I'm talkin' 'bout. I need a man like that.

我正是這個意思。我需要這樣的男人。


sully

源自中古英語 sulen、sulien (“變髒；弄髒，弄污”)，源自古英語 sylian (“弄髒，弄污”)，源自原始日耳曼語 *suliwōną、*sulwōną、*sulwijaną (“弄髒，弄污”)，源自原始印歐語 *sūl- (“粘稠的液體，淤泥”)，可能與來自相同日耳曼語族源頭的古法語 souillier (“弄髒，弄污”)（現代法語 souiller）部分混合。與丹麥語 søle (“弄髒，弄污”)、荷蘭語 zaluwen (“弄髒，弄污”)（中古荷蘭語 saluwen (“弄髒，弄污”)）、德語 sühlen (“弄髒，弄污”)、古撒克遜語 sulian (“弄髒，弄污”)、瑞典語 söla (“弄髒，弄污”)同源。亦对比中古英語 sulpen (“弄髒，弄污”)、古英語 solian (“弄髒，弄污；變髒”)，參見 soil。

sullies (third-person singular present)
sullying (present participle)
sullied (past participle)
sullow (alternative)

He did not wish to sully his hands with gardening.

THoſe Ills your Anceſtors have done, / Romans, are now become your own ; / And they will coſt you dear, / Unleſs you ſoon repair / The falling Temples which the Gods provoke, / And Statues ſully’d yet with Sacrilegious Smoke.

1672，The Earl of Roscommon [Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon]，“The Sixth Ode, of the Third Book of Horace”, in Poems by the Earl of Roscomon，London: J[acob] Tonson, 出版於 1717，頁 153，行s 1–6:


revisable

more revisable (comparative)
most revisable (superlative)

可修改的，可訂正的，可改變的

if one believes it possible that logic will turn out to be empirically revisable, one surely must believe it possible that logic will be empirically revised[…]

2008年January30日，Lisa Warenski，“Naturalism, fallibilism, and the a priori”, in Philosophical Studies，卷 142, 期 3, →DOI:


appellant

源自盎格魯-諾曼語，源自古法語 apelant。

Firſt, heauen be the record to my ſpeech,
In the deuotion of a ſubiects loue,
Tendering the precious ſafetie of my Prince,
And free from other misbegotten hate,
Come I appealant to rhis [sic] Princely preſence.

1595 December 9 (first known performance)，William Shakespeare，“The life and death of King Richard the Second”, 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 I, scene i]，頁 23，列 1:


Central Europe

/ˈsɛntɹəl ˈjʊəɹəp/

/ˈsɛntɹəl ˈjʊɹəp/

Western Christendom's centuries-long confrontation with the Oriental and Islamic empire of the Ottoman Turks also helped define Central Europe as a cultural and historical region.

西方基督教世界與奧斯曼土耳其的東方和伊斯蘭帝國長達數世紀的對抗也有助於將中歐定義為一個文化和歷史區域。

1996，Lonnie R. Johnson，Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, Friends，頁 4:


ten thousand

China chose resistance.
This resistance brought suffering that affected each individual. It gave even the young children national consciousness. It put the marching song of the soldiers upon their lips. The children cry the fulfillment of a prediction when they sing "Chi-lai, chi-lai . . ."—"Arise, arise . . . ten thousand with one heart."

中國選擇了抵抗。
這場抵抗給每個人都帶來了前所未有的痛苦。連年幼的小孩也因此有了民族意識。他們嘴邊開始掛著士兵們的進行曲。孩子們唱著“起來，起來……我們萬眾一心”，就像是在吶喊著這預言的實現。

1943，Kwok Ying Fung，“Out of Yesterday”, in China，New York: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC，頁 15:


plumber's crack

當褲子穿得太低或彎腰時露出的臀部頂端

Very classy: visible thong and plumber's crack.

2008，Insults and Comebacks，Venice, California: Knock Knock，頁 27:

Marty comes on for the next number, but he spazzes out and drops his violin. The barely interested crowd gets just interested enough to yell some insults when he crouches to replug it with his plumber's crack displaying.

Marty 上場演奏下一個曲子，但他嚇壞了，掉了他的小提琴。當他蹲下身子、露出臀部頂端，重新插入小提琴時，幾乎沒有興趣的觀眾才有興致大喊大叫地辱罵。

2010，Jennifer Egan，“Ask Me if I Care”, in A Visit from the Goon Squad:


referer

/ɹəˈfɜːɹə(ɹ)/

Referer 是 HTTP 協議（RFC1945 和 RFC2616）中使用的字段名。它最初是一個拼寫錯誤，但由於其在協議及相關文檔和軟體中的使用而流行起來。

referrer (“參照位址”)的另一種寫法

The Referer field must not be sent if the Request-URI was obtained from a source that does not have its own URI, such as input from the user keyboard.

1996, T. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, H. Frystyk, Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0

If a referring URL was specified, for each valid referer, make sure that a valid referring URL was passed to FormMail

如果指定了參照 URL，對於每個有效的參照位址，請確保將有效的參照 URL 傳遞給 FormMail

2001，Jennifer Niederst Robbins，Web Design in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference，頁 278:

The referer portion of a logfile line contains the full URL of the page or object visited before the current one.

日誌文件行的參照位址部分包含在當前頁面之前訪問的頁面或對象的完整 URL。

The referer information can also be accessed as document.referrer within JavaScript.

參照位址訊息也可以在 JavaScript 中作為 document.referrer 訪問。

2007，Tiara Yule，The Illustrated Dictionary of Internet，頁 74:


piano-forte

pianos-forte (plural)
piano-fortes (plural)

Besides ourselves, Madame Dulcken, a distinguished artiste played also, with her daughter and pupil, a Rondeau by Steibelt for two piano-forti.

1865，Louis Spohr (unknown translator)，Louis Spohr’s Autobiography，卷 II, London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green，頁 216:


circumambulator

Still he was determined to obtain the palm of being the first circumambulator of the earth.

1786，Thomas Jefferson，Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, 源自The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson:

TUAPHOLL. A term used by the Druids to designate an unhallowed circumambulation around the sacred cairn, or altar, the movement being against the sun, that is，源自west to east by the north, the cairn being on the left hand of the circumambulator.

1882，Albert G. Mackey，The Symbolism of Freemasonry:


antennate

antennates (third-person singular present)
antennating (present participle)
antennated (past participle)

昆蟲的觸角觸碰另一隻昆蟲

Workers attempt to avoid the queen, but if antennated try to escape or exhibit a submissive crouching posture, while the queen starts to bite and pull their legs and antennae.

工蟻試圖避開蟻后，但如果被觸碰的（工蟻）則試圖逃跑或表現出順從的蹲伏姿勢，而蟻后則開始咬並拉動它們的腿和触角。

2005，Peter J.B. Slater, Jay S. Rosenblatt, Charles T. Snowdon，Advances in the Study of Behavior, →ISBN，頁 10:


trucidate

借自拉丁語 trucīdāre。

trucidates (third-person singular present)
trucidating (present participle)
trucidated (past participle)

even Marat and Robespierre considered themselves as denouncing, and trucidating only the enemies of the republic.

甚至馬拉和羅伯斯庇爾也認為他們自己只是在譴責和殺害共和國的敵人。

1815，Hugh Henry Brackenridge，Modern Chivalry: Containing the Adventures of a Captain and Teague O'Regan:

Butt.


retorque

retorques (third-person singular present)
retorquing (present participle)
retorqued (past participle)

重新對（物體）施加扭矩或扭力

In T.S.B. 09-028 issued on May 2, Honda says the noise, which comes at slow speeds, may be from incorrectly torqued mounting bolts, which need to be retorqued.

2009年July26日，Scott Sturgis，“The Ghost in the Infiniti”, in New York Times:


sirvente

借自法語 sirvente，源自古普羅旺斯語 sirventes、sirventesc，源自 sirvent，源自 servir (“服務”)，源自拉丁語 servīre。

一種普羅旺斯吟遊詩人演唱的的諷刺歌曲

The knight in the meantime, had brought the strings into some order, and after a short prelude, asked his host whether he would choose a sirvente in the language of oc, or a lai in the language of oui, or a virelai, or a ballad in the vulgar English.

1820，沃尔特·司各特，章號 XVII, in 艾凡赫，卷 II, 爱丁堡: […] Archibald Constable and Co.；伦敦：Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC，頁 42:


subrogate

借自拉丁語 subrogātus，subrogō 的完成時被動分詞，源自 sub (“在…之下”) + rogō (“請求，詢問”)。有變體 surrogate。

subrogates (third-person singular present)
subrogating (present participle)
subrogated (past participle)

In the course of that work air‑conditioning units were installed. Those units are equipped with compressors which were manufactured by Refcomp, whose registered office is in Italy, purchased from that company and fitted by Climaventa whose registered office is also in Italy, then sold to Doumer by the company Liebert to whose rights Emerson is now subrogated. […] Subrogated to the rights of Doumer, to which it paid compensation, Axa Corporate sued the manufacturer Recomp, the fitter Climaveneta and the seller Emerson before the Tribunal de grande instance de Paris (Regional Court, Paris) seeking an order that they pay in solidum compensation for the damage suffered.

2013年February7日，European Court of Justice，Refcomp SpA vs. Axa Corporate Solutions Assurance SA / Axa France IARD / Emerson Network / Climaveneta SpA,, Case C‑543/10, marginals 8 and 10:

A co-debtor that pays off a principal creditor has a choice. It can subrogate to the principal creditor's claim or it can file its own claim in the bankruptcy. It cannot do both; its own claim will be disallowed if it seeks subrogation.

2019, Ginsberg, Martin, Kelley, Ginsberg and Martin on Bankruptcy, Aspen Publishers Online (ISBN 9780735575523), page 86:


submergent

Recent uplift of the Maine and Oregon coasts has not been enough to \"undrown\" the larger valleys; the shorelines are still submergent.

1971，George Finiel Adams, Jerome Wyckoff，Landforms，頁 143:


questioning

源自 question + -ing（名词经由中古英語 questionyng）。

more questioning (comparative)
most questioning (superlative)

/ˈkwɛʃ.t͡ʃə.nɪŋ/

不確定自己的性取向和／或性別認同的

We entertain the boy and it becomes more evident that his dad is trans and he is questioning; my coworker keeps frowning about it.

2020年February4日，“Transitioning To Some New Protocols”, in Not Always Right，存檔自the original on 2021-01-29:


Mondays

Downtown Library will be open Mondays from 10 am to 6 pm starting Jan. 25.

从1月25日开始，市区图书馆每周一的开放时间将为上午10点至下午6点。

2010年January15日，“Recession boosts library attendance [经济衰退使得前往图书馆的人数增加]”, in The Spokesman Review，Spokane, WA:

Delicious is open from 9am to 6pm Mondays to Saturdays and from 10am to 4pm on Sundays.

Delicious 的营业时间为周一至周六上午9点至下午6点，周日上午10点至下午4点。

2010年January14日，Eleanor Patmore，“Afternoon tea is back in Stortford! [斯托特福德的下午茶回来了！]”, in Herts and Essex Observer:


hugging

There began to be some movement preparatory to the resumption of our journey, and, after many huggings and kissings, the family parted, and the wagon drove off[…]

1844，Catharine Maria Sedgwick，Tales and Sketches:


imaginant

拉丁語 imaginans，imaginari 的現在分詞；對比法語 imaginant。

more imaginant (comparative)
most imaginant (superlative)

/ɪˈmæd͡ʒɪnənt/

the force of Imagination is , either upon the Body Imaginant , or upon another Body

1631，Francis [Bacon]，“(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […]，第3rd版, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:


aesthetically

more aesthetically (comparative)
most aesthetically (superlative)

Amid all the fevered anticipation of this fixture, few would have expected to witness an aesthetically pleasing example of the beautiful game.

2014年November14日，Stephen Halliday，“Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero”, in The Scotsman:


alopecia

借自拉丁語 alopecia，源自古希臘語 ἀλωπεκία (alōpekía，“狐狸疥癬”)，源自 ἀλώπηξ (alṓpēx，“狐狸”) + -ία (-ía，古希臘語後綴，尤其用於疾病命名)。

/ˌæl.əʊˈpiː.ʃə/

“Jada, can’t wait for GI Jane 2,” Rock said in an apparent reference to her shaved hair, which is a result of the hair loss condition alopecia.

2022年March28日，Nadia Khomami，“‘Violence instead of words’: Will Smith condemned for hitting Chris Rock at the Oscars”, in The Guardian:


exasperating

more exasperating (comparative)
most exasperating (superlative)

As a result, while the train was being shunted at Bombay, the buffers became locked, producing a situation most intriguing for the onlookers, but exasperating for the exalted passengers and the unhappy railway authorities.

1945 September and October，C. Hamilton Ellis，“Royal Trains—V”, in Railway Magazine，頁 249:


disconcerting

more disconcerting (comparative)
most disconcerting (superlative)

/ˌdɪskənˈsɜːtɪŋ/

unsettling

使人感到不安/困惑/尷尬的

troubling

使人感到不安/困惑/尷尬的

upsetting

使人感到不安/困惑/尷尬的

使人感到不安/困惑/尷尬的

Even with a safety harness, losing one's grip that high up is disconcerting.

即使有安全带，在那么高的地方失去抓地力也是令人不安的。

"You must admit," he remarked, "that up to now our conversation has hardly proceeded along conventional lines. I am a complete stranger to you; another man who is a complete stranger to me speaks to you while we're at tea. You inform me that I shall probably have to kill him in the near future. The statement is, I think you will agree, a trifle disconcerting."

1920，Herman Cyril McNeile，章號 1, in Bulldog Drummond:


stellar

借自拉丁語 stēllāris。

more stellar (comparative)
most stellar (superlative)

The actress gave a stellar performance.

Some years ago there were hundreds of musicians of ability, but of less stellar renown, who toured the country, giving performances at less than stellar fees.

几年前，有数百名有才华但名气不大的音乐家在全国巡回演出，演出费用并不高。

1931，Music and Dance，卷 21, Melbourne, Vic.: Australian Musical News Pub. Co., →OCLC，頁 27，列 2:

Yet the economic seers are at it again, seemingly unabashed by their somewhat less than stellar performances in 1969.

1970，Hardware Age，卷 205, New York, N.Y.: David Williams Co., →OCLC，頁 8，列 1:

Where a bank may automatically reject any borrower based on a bad credit score, this is not true for all social lending networks. You can still have a less than stellar score and obtain funding as long as you can convince a peer tha your project is worthy or your business model is strong.

2012，Linda A. Jenkins，“What is Social Lending?”, in Creative Financing: How to Get a Small Business Loan without a Banker，Gold Alliance Group, →ISBN，頁 1:


utilisation

The merchandise trains of the future will be able to pace the average day and night express without significant loss of track utilisation, but where quadruple track does not exist it may be necessary to seek alternative routes for the slower-moving coal and heavy mineral traffic.

1960 February，“Talking of Trains”, in Trains Illustrated，頁 67:


spermiogenesis

Expanding the introductory section to include definitions of indirect and direct development and generalized descriptions of spermiogenesis, oocyte maturation and cytological organization, and fertilization would also help de-mystify these subjects for many readers.

1998年June19日，Richard Emlet，“Developmental Diversity”, in Science，卷 280, 期 5371, →DOI:

In wild-type spermatids, Hrb is associated with the cytosolic surface of proacrosomic transport vesicles that fuse to create a single large acrosomic vesicle at step 3 of spermiogenesis.

2001年November16日，Ningling Kang-Decker et al.，“Lack of Acrosome Formation in Hrb-Deficient Mice”, in Science，卷 294, 期 5546, →DOI，頁s 1531-1533:


Glock

此系列手槍以奧地利工程師格斯通·格洛克（1929–）命名。

格洛克／克拉克公司生產的手槍。

Grab ya Glocks when you see Tupac, call the cops when you see Tupac

當你看到 Tupac 就拿起你的格洛克手槍，當你看到 Tupac 就叫條子

Feel these hot rocks, fellas, put you in a dry spot, fellas / In a pine box with nine shots from my Glock, fellas

Alex blinked her eyes open and looked up at the face of a bald man wearing pajamas. In his right hand was a pump shotgun, in his left her Glock 23.

2007，Greg Iles，True Evil，Simon and Schuster，頁 279:


espadon

一種長而重、要雙手揮持的雙刃劍，過去由西班牙步兵和劊子手使用

royal guardsmen with their espadons

身帶巨劍的皇家禁衛軍士兵

1902，Carlos Augusto Montalto Jesus，Historic Macao:


squadron

Those half-rounding guards / Just met, and, closing, stood in squadron joined.

1667，John Milton，“Book 4”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books，London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; 再版為 Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […]，London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:


excave

excaves (third-person singular present)
excaving (present participle)
excaved (past participle)

the last 100 to 150 feet in depth of those valleys have, however, been excaved by the rivers

1868，Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum，Some account of the Blackmore museum:


Tasmanian

The engineer of the line, a young Tasmanian named Sharland, decided the best course would be to take the new railway along a chain of four deep valleys. [...].

1939 July，John D. Hewitt，“Some Notable British Main Lines: 1. Settle and Carlisle, L.M.S.R.”, in Railway Magazine，頁 37:


thylacine

源自跨語言 Thylacinus；源自古希臘語 θύλακος (thúlakos，“口袋，袋子”) + 拉丁語 -inus（英語 -ine）。

[…]high up on an overhanging rock, perhaps twenty feet above the ground, a ghostly white thylacine was clearly visible. Thylacines, or Tasmanian tigers, have been extinct on the mainland of Australia for at least two thousand years.

2020，David Farrier，“The Moment Under the Moment”, in Footprints，4th Estate, →ISBN:


light bulb

a light bulb moment

Figuratively speaking, a light-bulb flashed over Galvin's head early this year, and in March–along […]

1949, in Forbes (magazine), volume 64, page 18:


lightbulb

介入情侶間約會的人；電燈泡

You two go ahead lah, I don't want to be lightbulb.

你們兩個自己去啦，我才不想當電燈泡。

2011年October23日，Heidy The Traveler，Learn Singlish a Bit!:

When she finally came out her friend joined us. Damn lightbulb leh!

她終於出來了，卻帶著她的朋友一起來。該死的電燈泡！

2014年August3日，Chris Soh，20 Words That Mean Something Completely Different to Singaporeans:

Being an extra big light bulb and eating with two cousins and their husband and fiance.

2014, carolcraves, "https://twitter.com/carolcraves/status/429233427863183360", Twitter, 31 January 2014:


river horse

仿譯自古希臘語 ἱπποπόταμος (hippopótamos)，等價於 river + horse。對照中古英語 water hors (“河馬”)。

The river-horse feeds upon the herbage of the Nile, and the behemoth is said to eat grass like an ox.

河馬以尼羅河的草本植物為食，據說這頭龐然大物像牛一樣吃草。

1808，Thomas Shaw，Travels Or Observations:

Liverpool started and snorted like a river-horse roused amongst his reeds by thunder.

利物浦嚇了一跳，噴著鼻息，就像一頭河馬在蘆葦叢中被雷聲驚醒。

1849，Currer Bell [筆名; Charlotte Brontë]，“The Winding-Up”, in Shirley. A Tale. […]，卷 III, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC，頁 303:

Here, before a feast that would prick the dead with appetite, were shapes of beasts with heads of men, asses, elephants, bulls, horses, swine, foxes, riverhorses, dromedaries; […]

在這裡，在一場會讓死者胃口大開的盛宴之前，有一些動物的形狀，有人頭、驢頭、大象、公牛、馬、豬、狐狸、河馬、單峰駱駝； […]

1909，George Meredith，The Palace of Aklis:


light microscope

A big world beyond the limits of the ordinary light microscope now lies open to exploration.

一个超越普通光学显微镜极限的大世界现在正等待探索。

1942年December14日，“Science: Seeing by Electron Waves”, in Time, retrieved 2015-08-25:

[M]acromolecular assemblies. . ., which include viruses, are too large to study by conventional X-ray diffraction methods, but too small to be seen under a light microscope.

高分子组装……其中包括病毒，太大而无法通过传统的X射线衍射方法进行研究，但又太小而无法在光学显微镜下看到。

1982年October19日，Harold M. Schmeck Jr.，“Chemistry prize goes for research into intimate details of virus structure”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-08-25:

Unlike the most powerful electron microscopes—which can see down to the scale of individual molecules—or fluorescent-based microscopes—which rely on the use of coloured dyes—the new light microscope does not need to interfere in any way with the living material it is used to study.

与最强大的电子显微镜（可以看到单个分子的尺度）或基于荧光的显微镜（依赖于使用有色染料）不同，新的光学显微镜不需要以任何方式干扰研究用的活体材料。

2011年March2日，Steve Connor，“‘Limitless’ microscope to aid virus research”, in Independent，UK, retrieved 2015-08-25:


morceau

借自法語 morceau，源自古法語 morsel，源自中世紀拉丁語 morsellum (“一点，一小块”)，拉丁語 morsum (“一点，少許”) 的指小詞，morsus 的中性形式，mordeō, mordēre (“咬，啃”) 的過去分詞，源自原始印歐語 *merə- (“摩擦；打包；搶”)。

/ˈmɔː(ɹ)səʊ/

/mɔː(ɹ)ˈsəʊ/

M. De Luc has a specimen of the uranite (Peckblend) mixed with titan and crystals of quartz, a morceau of singular beauty

1816，Henry Coxe，The Traveller's Guide in Switzerlan:

Among:Template:long st a variety of urns, sepulchral fragments, and different morceaus of antiquity, are the known and celebrated bu:Template:long sts of Alexander the Great, and Brutus

1796，John Owen，Travels Into Different Parts of Europe […] :


moralise

moralises (third-person singular present)
moralising (present participle)
moralised (past participle)

It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; perhaps to moralise on the oneness or fragility of the planet, or to see humanity for the small and circumscribed thing that it is; […].

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


transplant

繼承自中古英語 transplaunten，源自古法語 transplanter，源自晚期拉丁語 transplantare，等價於 trans- + plant。

transplants (third-person singular present)
transplanting (present participle)
transplanted (past participle)

A book entitled Emerging Indonesia has on its cover photographs of a sunrise over palm trees, bent women in coolie hats transplanting rice, a wooden bull burning at a Balinese cremation, and a liquid nitrogen plant belching black smoke into a clear, undefiled tropical sky.

1996，Clifford Geertz，After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist，Harvard University Press, →ISBN，頁 141:


transplant

外地人，從外地搬遷過來的人

The Seigneur summoned the island's doctor, a young transplant from London named Peter Counsell, who determined that Mrs. Beaumont had suffered a stroke.

爵爺叫來島上的醫生，那個從倫敦搬來的年輕人，Peter Counsell。他確認 Beaumont 夫人中風了。

2012年October29日，Lauren Collins，The New Yorker:


transplanting

There appears, however, to be some difference of opinion as to the value of so many transplantings.

1905，George Edward Stone，Tomatoes Under Glass; Methods of Pruning Tomatoes，頁 6:


maximise

maximises (third-person singular present)
maximising (present participle)
maximised (past participle)

The project was attractive because of the ability to maximise the use of existing and decommissioned railways, minimise land take, and decrease the amount of disruption during the project. With London land prices rocketing, there was also a significant financial incentive.

2020年May20日，Paul Bigland，“East London Line's renaissance”, in Rail，頁s 48-49:


abysm

繼承自中古英語 abime，源自古法語 abisme，源自晚期拉丁語 *abyssimus，abyssus (“無底洞”) 的最高級，源自古希臘語 ἄβυσσος (ábussos)。與法語 abîme 同源。參見 abyss。

深淵 （自15世紀晚期）

The abysm of hell.

1623, Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, III, xiii:

Dr. Prunesquallor had circled around Steerpike with his head drawn back so that his cervical vertebrae rested against the near wall of his high collar, and a plumbless abysm yawned between his Adam’s apple and his pearl stud.

1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, “The Grotto”

[T]he Shakespearean sonnet doesn't lend itself to a sequential narrative, because the rhymed couplet, without its paired feet trembling at that abysm of time, has to settle instead for the sound of sighing resolution, at regular intervals, over and over, before taking a deep breath and returning usually, for better or worse, to the same subject.

2015年January30日，Glyn Maxwell，“‘Ideas of Order,’ by Neil L. Rudenstine [book review; print version: Eternal lines: A guide to Shakespeare's sonnets, International New York Times, 2 February 2015, p. 7]”, in The New York Times:


déclassé

借自法語 déclassé。

more déclassé (comparative)
most déclassé (superlative)

女性主體使用 déclassée。

Having married a plebian and so become déclassée, the daughter of a patrician was barred by the patrician matrons from sacrifices at the shrine of Patrician Chastity ‘in the cattle market by the round temple of Hercules’.

一位贵族的女儿嫁给了一个平民并因此成为下等人，贵族妇女们禁止她在“大力士圆形神庙旁的牛市”的贵族贞洁神殿里献祭。

2007，John Burrow，A History of Histories，Penguin, 出版於 2009，頁 110:


opiner

That’s what drew me to it: an Internet opiner must be pretty bold so early on to liken Gates, however indirectly, to both a former Black Panther on death row and a Hollywood shoplifter.

2009年August9日，Virginia Heffernan，“Hashing Things Out”, in New York Times:


lingonberry

同類詞：blueberry、cranberry

Ze lingonberry pancake!

1998，The Big Lebowski (motion picture), spoken by Nihilist (Peter Stormare):


arctic fox

Its ʽcore faunaʼ consisted of the woolly mammoth, woolly rhino, saiga, muskox and the arctic fox. All except the woolly rhino evolved in the northern Arctic, and all had been evolving for several million years before their modern forms appeared.

2018，Tim Flannery，Europe: A Natural History，頁 205: