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:


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:


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:


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:


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)

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:


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:


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:


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;


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:


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:


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:


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...


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:


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.


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:


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

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:


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:


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:


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:


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:


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

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a pusil and a thin soft air


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:


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:


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:


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:


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:


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:


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:


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:


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:


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:


subjection

源自盎格魯-諾曼語 subjectioun，源自古法語 subjection（現代法語 sujétion），源自拉丁語 subjectiō。

Maſters commands come with a power reſiſtleſs / To ſuch as owe them abſolute ſubjection; / And for a life who will not change his purpoſe? / (So mutable are all the ways of men) / Yet this be ſure, in nothing to comply / Scandalous or forbidden in our Law.

1671，John Milton，“Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes，倫敦: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC，頁 83，行s 415–420:


débâcle

debacle的另一種寫法。

The Falklands-Malvinas débâcle provided the opportunity to restructure the military High Command; Alfonsín removed anti-democratic senior officers and replaced them with more co-operative ones.

2002，Jacqueline West，South America, Central America and the Caribbean 2002，Routledge,, →ISBN，頁 68:


overmorrow

仿譯自德語 übermorgen；等價於 over- + morrow。對照荷蘭語 overmorgen、德語 übermorgen、瑞典語 övermorgon、丹麥語 overmorgen、書面挪威語 overmorgen（亦作 overimorgen）和新挪威語 overmorgon。

/ˈəʊ.vəˌmɒɹəʊ/

/ˈoʊ.vɚˌmɔɹoʊ/

/ˈoʊ.vɚˌmɑɹoʊ/

My prescient limbs already borrow
From rare Walpurgis-night a glow :
It comes round on the overmorrow [譯 übermorgen] —
Then why we are awake we know.

1898，Johann Wolfgang von Goethe，譯者 Thos. E. Webb, The first part of the Tragedy of Faust in English，Longmans, Green and Co.，頁 197:


unsubstantiated

more unsubstantiated (comparative)
most unsubstantiated (superlative)

Such hedging is necessitated by the lack of in-depth knowledge of the contents, which also gives free rein to the scripting of unsubstantiated factoids concerning the book.

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 487:


victimate

源自拉丁語 victimatus，victimare (“犧牲”) 的過去分詞。

victimates (third-person singular present)
victimating (present participle)
victimated (past participle)

They had Officers go Victimate […]to kill in Sacrifice

1695，John Bullokar，An English Expositour:


vandalise

vandalises (third-person singular present)
vandalising (present participle)
vandalised (past participle)

Unfortunately, one side of the new five-car train is daubed in graffiti, having been vandalised in Wembley Yard, en route from Switzerland.

2023年March8日，“Network News: First Tyne & Wear Metro '555' already 'tagged'”, in RAIL，期 978，頁 9:


gaydar

[…]This is not your hallmark im Ames, Iowa. And there is “family” working there . . . no radar like gaydar, I always say.

1982年July15日，Gloria Godqueen，“What's in a card”, in Bay Area Reporter，卷 12, 號 28，頁 7:

The research, which went viral this week, used a sample of online dating photos, limited only to white users, to demonstrate that an algorithm could correctly distinguish between gay and straight men 81% of the time and 74% for women, suggesting machines can potentially have much better "gaydar" than humans.

2017年September9日，Sam Levin，“LGBT groups denounce ‘dangerous’ AI that uses your face to guess sexuality”, in 衛報，倫敦: 衛報媒體集團, →ISSN, →OCLC，存檔自the original on 2023-04-29:


amate

amates (third-person singular present)
amating (present participle)
amated (past participle)

Shall I accuse the hidden cruell fate, / And mightie causes wrought in heauen aboue, / Or the blind God, that doth me thus amate, / For hoped loue to winne me certaine hate?

1590，埃德蒙·斯宾塞，“Book I, Canto I”, in 仙后（The Faerie Qveene . […]），London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

Upon the walls the pagans old and young / Stood hush'd and still, amated and amazed.

1600, Edward Fairfax (translator), Jerusalem Delivered, Tasso, XI, xii:

For the last […], he will be much amazed, he will be much amated.

:Template:RQ:Montaigne Florio Essayes, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.230:

Thou didst die / A half-blown flow'ret which cold blasts amate.


amate

More lucklesse disadventures did amate

1590，埃德蒙·斯宾塞，“Book I, Canto IX”, in 仙后（The Faerie Qveene . […]），London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:


consanguinea

The media jurisprudentia, i.e. the opinions of the jurisprudents, excluded altogether females descended through males except sisters so descended (consanguinea;).

Indenture between Henry de Grymshagh, son and heir of Adam de Grymshagh and Cecilia, daughter and one of the heirs of Henry de Clayton on the moors (1), and Henry de Rissheton and Margaret his wife and cousin (consanguinea), the other heir of Henry de Clayton (2), who agree to share the lands in Clayton and Huncotes thus.

1921，Remains, Historical & Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester，頁 80:

If, in an action brought against a man and wife, it be pleaded that the consanguinea is in fact the wife named in the writ, the demandant will not be allowed to aver that the consanguinea is dead, but must say that the tenant is a different person, and assign a diversity of father and mother.

2012，Luke Owen Pike，Year Books of the Reign of King Edward the Third, →ISBN，頁 320:


seminate

源自拉丁語 seminatus，seminare (“種，播種”) 的過去分詞。

seminates (third-person singular present)
seminating (present participle)
seminated (past participle)

If this Cross were seminated all over with Flowers de lis , shewing upon the fides or edges thereof but the halves of some of them , then it should be blazoned Semie de flowers de lis

1611，John Guillim，A Display of Heraldrie:


neonazi

“Miller launched the #SayYesToHate campaign the night before Trans Day of Remembrance in 2020, and last month took to defending the neonazi activist James Goddard over an arrest for anti-LGBTQ Twitter posts,” she adds.

2023年February17日，Brenna Ehrlich，“Brianna Ghey’s Vigils Have Become Protests — But to Friends, She Was Just ‘Bri’”, in Rolling Stone:


rosier

源自古法語 rosier。rosary 的同源對似詞。

/ˈɹəʊzjə(ɹ)/

Ne other tire ſhe on her head did weare,
But crowned with a garland of ſweete roſiere.

1590，埃德蒙·斯宾塞，“Book II, Canto IX”, in 仙后（The Faerie Qveene . […]），London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC，頁 19:


taskmaster

耶和華說，我的百姓在埃及所受的困苦，我實在看見了；他們因受督工的轄制所發的哀聲，我也聽見了，我原知道他們的痛苦。

1611，The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version)，London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 3:7:


beat one's meat

beats one's meat (third-person singular present)
beating one's meat (present participle)
beat one's meat (past)
beaten one's meat (past participle)
beat one's meat (past participle)

I beat my meat instead of having intercourse.

我沒有性交，而是在自慰。

1948，Psychiatric quarterly (New York State Dept. of Mental Hygiene)，卷 22，頁 243:

7. Is masturbation harmful? Does it cause acne, etc.?
8. How does a girl beat her meat?

7. 自慰對身體有害嗎？會導致青春痘之類的嗎？
8. 女生怎麼自慰？

1967，American Academy of Psychotherapists，Voices: The Art and Science of Psychotherapy，頁 41:

You get in a heat, you get in a sulk
But you still keep a-beating your meat to pulp
And you're an orgasm addict,


satirical

more satirical (comparative)
most satirical (superlative)

/səˈtɪɹɪkəl/

Spitting Image was a famous satirical television program.

Spitting Image 是一个著名的讽刺电视节目。

Given his remarks in The English People about the dangers of Standard English, and the fact that the satirical Newspeak of Nineteen Eighty-Four is an engineered language[…]

2000年October15日，John E. Joseph，Limiting the Arbitrary: Linguistic Naturalism and Its Opposites in Plato's Cratylus and Modern Theories of Language, →ISBN，頁 155:


eurozone

Eurozone的大小寫替代形式

Greece, Spain, and other eurozone periphery countries could explode any day, given their high unemployment and deepening strains of austerity. In the US, which is considered the home of quiescent workers, the call for living wages is becoming louder, as seen in the current strikes by fast-food restaurant workers.

2013年September6日，Ha-Joon Chang，“The rich have an addiction to bubbles”, in The Guardian Weekly，卷 189, 期 13，頁 19:


archaeon

科學拉丁語，對應 Archaea 的單數形式。

古菌（Archaea）（自20世紀）

Then, the theory goes, a rogue archaeon gobbled up a bacterium to create an entirely new type of cell that would go on to form the basis of all complex life on Earth, from plants to humans.


Obama-esque

more Obama-esque (comparative)
most Obama-esque (superlative)

‘24’ presidential story line has Obama-esque feel / A youngish, African-American politician becomes president. He’s relatively untested and rode to the highest office in the land on a wave of goodwill — but is he ready for the job? Does it sound like the hypothetical presidency of Sen. Barack Obama, Illinois’ own presidential hopeful?

2007年January21日，Chicago Tribune，160th year, 期 21, section 7，頁 16:

John McCain’s Obama-esque remarks about our “wasted” resources in Iraq weren’t the only comments that landed him in hot water after a recent appearance on “Late Show With David Letterman。”

2007年March7日，radaronline.com（被引）, “E-Opinion: The best of the political blogs”, in Daily News，頁 27:

[Mitt] Romney, the cautious consultant, is pivoting to stress his corporate competence, and is rebranding himself as an Obama-esque change agent, but he will never make the sort of daring break that independent voters will demand if they are going to give the GOP another look.

2008年January2日，David Brooks，“If Romney wins, so will Democrats”, in Intelligencer Journal，214th year, 期 168, Lancaster, Pa.: Lancaster Newspapers Inc.，頁 A10:

After beginning with some more high-minded, even Obama-esque comments about what our country is, [Joe] Biden turned to the coronavirus.

2020年August22日，Aaron Blake，“Democrats’ four big takeaways”, in Star Tribune，卷 XXXIX, 期 140，頁 A5:


Obamaesque

more Obamaesque (comparative)
most Obamaesque (superlative)

He’s [W. Lane Startin] a top Democratic candidate at U4prez.com, a Web site for those who dream of one day holding the nation’s premier political title. Since joining the site last month, Startin’s meteoric rise can be described only as Obamaesque.

2007年March13日，Matt Christensen，“Hail to the chief: Twin Falls man has (virtual) aspirations”, in Times-News，頁 D5:

[John C.] Turner, who lives in Cumberland on Vancouver Island, has joined his joke-party’s horny Rhinos Redux comeback. He’s trumpeting an Obamaesque campaign promise of “change you can’t believe in.”

2008年March1日，Doug Ward，“Rhino party wants to abolish the environment”, in The Vancouver Sun，頁 B8:

While campaigning in Pennsylvania last week, presidential hopeful Barack Obama bowled a 37 and the world has pretty much flipped on its head as a result.[…]I once contemplated ending my current relationship based on an Obamaesque performance by the GF at a bowling outing.

2008年April9日，Pete Cunningham，“Don’t let bowling ability skew opinions”, in The Homer Index，卷 136, 期 15，頁 four:

“Critics say that my plan is too big, that it costs $1.9 trillion,” was [Joe] Biden’s Obamaesque reply to questions regarding his $2 trillion plan.

2021年March2日，David Harsanyi，“It’s Christmas for Democrats”, in The Star Democrat，卷 220, 期 136, Easton, Md.，頁 A4:


exposé

借自法語 exposé。

"What shall be said to my sister? We cannot steal from her without saying something, as she would conclude we were murdered, apply to the ambassador, and bring on the very exposé we desire to avoid."

1842，[anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon]，章號 XXVIII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […]，卷 II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC，頁 65:


femdom

female domination 或 female dominance 的截斷形式。

I'm acutely aware that I'm on my knees in front of a gorgeous femdom.

2017，D. L. King，Unspeakably Erotic: Lesbian Kink:

She wished she had some fuck-me stiletto thigh-high boots on to give her more of a Domme appearance, but she had seen plenty of femdoms at the club wearing comfortable walking shoes.

2018，Kallypso Masters，Box Set: Rescue Me Saga Books 4-6 and Bonus Western Dreams:


DILF

dad I'd like to fuck 的首字母縮略詞，仿照 MILF 所造。

形容性感的中年乃至老年男性

Sexy DILF butler Bates looks like he's finally going to get it on with housemaid Anna, after spending all of Series One mooning after her like a calf on Wobbly Eggs.


triff

As I remember it, Elite screwed up the first time it had a go at this one, and ended up having to get Gargoyle (who?) to cobble something together in about two weeks or something ridiculous. You wouldn't believe it, though. This one's triff through and through.

1989, Jonathan Davies, Scooby-Doo (video game review in Your Sinclair issue 46)

Our daughter thinks you're wonderful. “Cool” I think was the adjective she used. […] Or maybe it was “triff”.


abacination

abbacination (alternative)
abacinations (plural)

灼燒，用滾燙金屬使人致盲的行為

That blind general lost his sight by the process of abacination.

1902，James Meeker Ludlow，Incentives for Life, Personal and Public，頁 144:

Her warmth and radiance had blinded him, a self-inflicted abacination.

1972，Trevanian (pseud.)，The Eiger Sanction，第1984 Ballantine ed.版, →ISBN，頁 105:

I, who had seen so many brandings and abacinations, and had even used the iron myself (among the billion things I recall perfectly is the flesh of Morwenna's cheeks blistering), could scarcely force myself to go and look at him.

1994，Gene Wolfe，Sword & Citadel, →ISBN，頁 134:


industrializing

more industrializing (comparative)
most industrializing (superlative)

正經歷工業化的；變得更加工業化的

[T]he Lunar Society of Birmingham […] aimed to develop knowledge useful to an industrialising society and included among its luminaries the potter Josiah Wedgwood (1730–95), the physician William Withering (1741–99), the chemist Joseph Priestly and James Watt.

1997，Roy Porter，The Greatest Benefit to Mankind，Folio Society, 出版於 2016，頁 247:


wushu

借自官話 武術／武术 (wǔshù)。

中華人民共和國創建的一項以中國傳統武術為基礎的現代表演和全接觸運動，又稱現代武術或當代武術。

The techniques of contemporary wushu are indeed those which at one time were used for self-defense, but the basis and development of wushu are different from kung fu.


triturate

triturates (third-person singular present)
triturating (present participle)
triturated (past participle)

通過針頭等狹窄開口將生物組織破碎成單獨的細胞

Just over the external jugular vein there were two punctures, not large, but not wholesome-looking. There was no sign of disease, but the edges were white and worn-looking, as if by some trituration.

1897，Bram Stoker，章號 10, in Dracula，New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:


towards

繼承自中古英語 towardes，繼承自古英語 tōweardes、tōwærdes，等價於 toward + -s (副詞後綴)。

[tʰə̥ˈwɔːdz]

[tʰə̥ˈwɔɹ̠d̠z]

[tʰw̥ɔɹ̠d̠z]

toward

toward的另一種寫法

fromward

toward的另一種寫法

fromwards

toward的另一種寫法

toward的另一種寫法

Towards the following morning, the thermometer fell to 5°; and at daylight, there was not an atom of water to be seen in any direction.

1835，Sir John Ross，Sir James Clark Ross，Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage …, Volume 1，頁s 284–5:

To the left towers the Jungfrau, with the train heading directly towards it.

1960 December，Voyageur，“The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated，頁 752:

But with Goodison Park openly directing its full hostility towards Atkinson, Liverpool went ahead when Carroll turned in his first Premier League goal of the season after 70 minutes.

2011年October1日，Phil McNulty，“Everton 0-2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:


towards

[tʰə̥ˈwɔːdz]

[tʰə̥ˈwɔɹ̠d̠z]

[tʰw̥ɔɹ̠d̠z]

Thus as he spake, lo far away they spyde / A varlet running towards hastily […]

1590，埃德蒙·斯宾塞，“Book II, Canto IV”, in 仙后（The Faerie Qveene . […]），London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:


nurk

Ives, who is better known for sliminess than courage, approached Samson who was dutifully attending his feudal lord Grouty as usual, and remarked:
'I think you're a stupid nurk, Samson.'

1979，Paul Ableman，Porridge: The Inside Story，頁 90:


meeter

[…] being five minutes earlier than his judgement of when whoever he was meeting would arrive, which could have become confusing for the meeter if the meetee had twigged to the tactic and adjusted his timepiece by another five minutes.

2018，Ian Burns，Messing With Your Mind，頁 283:


subsidiarize

subsidiarizes (third-person singular present)
subsidiarizing (present participle)
subsidiarized (past participle)

將公司劃分為法律上不同但財務上相關的子公司

In July 1990, Co. formed Uco Sportswear N.V., out of a previous division, a factory and a finishing plant. Restructuring Development: In 1989, Co. initiated a restructuring program to subsidiarize, accompanied by decentralisation.

1992，Moody's International Manual，卷 1，頁 386:


eigh

"Eigh, eigh! he's killed me!" Mr. Utley shrieked. But none of the students made a move out of their seats.


octadecahedron

octadecahedra (plural)
octadecahedrons (plural)

The cell structure was considered to consist of spherical holes but for the purposes of calculation, the cells were assumed to be octadecahedra. ln this model, a compressive force along the principal axis of the octadecahedron and parallel to.

1974，International Polymer Science and Technology，頁 202:

In fact the structure of 2 can be related to the octadecahedron and the pentacapped trigonal prism in an interesting fashion


tightening

There are lingering feelings among some board members, especially in the developing world, that the fund joined with the United States and other wealthy countries in demanding overly austere budget cuts and other fiscal tightenings for the countries that were bailed out in the previous decade.

2007年September28日，Steven R. Weisman，“I.M.F. Faces a Question of Identity”, in New York Times:


muti

借自祖魯語 umuthi (“灌木，樹；醫術”)。

非洲傳統醫學 （自19世紀）

The witchdoctor shop with its muti, its vulture eggs, the skins and hair and nails and horns and unmentionable excretions, its useless whorl of incense; and the Indian owner glaring at one like a dark wooden mask.

1978，André Brink，Rumours of Rain，Vintage, 出版於 2000，頁 179:

Lekota's handing on a plate ammunition against himself, scrapping our genuine African herb medicine, Affirmative Action, that national muti.

2012，Nadine Gordimer，No Time Like the Present，Bloomsbury, 出版於 2013，頁 300:


placename

With a complex site, different site elements may not be terminologically distinguished, or else a generic term may be optionally added to the placename to distinguish a site element, such as a hill, well, or claypan at the location.

2012，Nick Thieberger，The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Fieldwork，頁 401:


taxonomist

Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.

1992年，魯道夫馬蒂亞斯舒斯特，The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian，卷 V, 伊州芝加哥: 菲爾德自然史博物館, →ISBN，頁 vii:


taxonomic

With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…]


clears

只過篩一次、較硬的粗麵粉

Pastry flour: patent and clears from soft wheat flours may be blended to produce pastry flour.

2003，Handbook of Postharvest Technology: Cereals, Fruits, Vegetables, Tea, and Spices，頁 313:


Brussels

借自荷蘭語 Brussel 和法語 Bruxelles，源自原始日耳曼語，由 *brōk (“沼澤，濕地”) + *sali (“建築物，房間”) 組成。“歐盟行政機構”的轉喻義是基於歐盟總部設在布魯塞爾的事實而來。

If the same design be produced in a Brussels and in a Tapestry it will be found that the Brussels shows sharp, clean-cut outlines, where the Tapestry gives ragged, uneven effects, […]

1911，Dry Goods Economist，卷 65, 期 3，頁 51:


dining

就餐，用餐 （作為一社交功能）

For my own part I preferred to remain with the ship, and I am now glad that I did so, for the welcome we received at Havana; the cheering crowds upon the quay; the friends we met and made; the dinings in and dinings out […]


alienator

To one like Elia, whose treasures are rather cased in leather covers, than closed in iron coffers, there is a class of alienators more formidable than that which I have touched upon; I mean, your borrowers of books—those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

1820 December，Charles Lamb，“The Two Races of Men”, in The London Magazine，卷 2, 期 12，頁 624:


anthropological

more anthropological (comparative)
most anthropological (superlative)

He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.

2012 March-April，John T. Jost，“Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist，卷 100, 期 2，存檔自the original on 2017-06-21，頁 162:


Doug

男性人名 Douglas 的指小詞。

Come and have a drink,' he said, 'and my Christian name is Douglas on this side of the Rye, mind that. Dougal Douglas at Meadows Meade and Douglas Dougal a Willis's, mind. Only a formality for the insurance cards and such.'
'I better call you Doug, and be done with it.'

1960，Muriel Spark，The Ballad of Peckham Rye，New Directions Publishing, 出版於 1999，頁 70:


Vanessa

由喬納森·斯威夫特造出，來自其女性朋友 Esther ("Essy") Vanhomrigh 的名字。

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Vanessa be the Name / By which thou shalt be known to Fame. / Vanessa, by the Gods enroll'd: / Her Name on Earth - shall not be told.

1726，Jonathan Swift，Cadenus and Vanessa:

A kind of girl that May had before only seen in the pages of fashion magazines, bored, disdainful, elegant, reluctantly admitted her. - - - She was asked to see Vanessa on the way out. She knew that the girl would be called something like Vanessa.

1978，Maeve Binchy，Victoria Line, Central Line，Arrow, 出版於 1993, →ISBN，頁s 178, 179:


Jacqueline

法語 Jacques (相當於英語的James) 的陰性小稱。源自希伯來語 יעקב (Ya‘akov)，源自希伯來語詞根עקב (‘akev，“腳跟”)，因為雅各出生在以掃後，而他拽著以掃的腳跟，不讓他先出生。

Jacqueline was so named simply because their mother had liked the ring of the word, sounding Parisian and worldly and auguring, to her mind, a good life.

1993，Oscar Hijuelos，The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien, →ISBN，頁 6:


unexplained

Why this already very fast train should be speeded up still further, when none of the other more easily timed S.R. West of England trains has a single minute pared from its schedule, is unexplained - unless this is a playful dig at the Western Region, most of whose expresses, by reason of additional stops, will be decelerated from the same date.

1961 October，“The winter timetables of British Railways: Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated，頁 593:


Siobhan

愛爾蘭語 Siobhán 的英語化拼寫，源自中古愛爾蘭語 Sibán，源自盎格魯-諾曼語 Jehane 或 Jehanne，源自古法語 Jehanne，源自中世紀拉丁語 Johanna，Joanna 的變體，源自通用希臘語 Ἰωάννα (Iōánna)，源自希伯來語 יוֹחָנָה (Yôḥānāh，字面意思是“主是仁慈的”)，יְהוֹחָנָן (Yəhōḥānān)的陰性形式，該詞也派生出 John 及其眾多同源對似詞。
Ivana、Jana、Jane、Janice、Janis、Jean、Jeanne、Jen、Joan、Joanna、Joanne、Johanna、Juana、Shavonne、Sian、Shane、Shaun、Shauna和Sheena 的同源對似詞。

源自愛爾蘭語的女性人名。

I think
about biblical names, Tamara, Michaela,
Mira, Shoshana, and Celtic names I can
barely pronounce, Siobhan tangling
between teeth and tongue.

2002，Dave Margoshes，“Faith, Hope, Charity”, in Purity of Absence，Dundurn Press Ltd., →ISBN，頁 106:


stond

Nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit but may be wrought out by fit studies; like as diseases of the body may have appropriate exercises.

1625，Francis [Bacon]，“Of Studies”, in The Essayes […]，第3rd版, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:

when he saw the Damsell passe away,
He left his stond, and her pursewd apace

1590，埃德蒙·斯宾塞，“Book I, Canto VI”, in 仙后（The Faerie Qveene . […]），London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:


Bornean

To him it seemed that the Bornean rainforests, the tallest on Earth, were places that had: 'remained untouched and unchanged since remote geological epochs[.]'

2018，Tim Flannery，Europe: A Natural History，頁 55:


émigré

借自法語 émigré。

（尤指因政治原因）流亡在外的僑民

In retrospect, Sǒ's unqualified championship of the elective principle may seem somewhat naive. At the time, however, he believed his conviction was vindicated by the example of the self-governing Korean émigré settlements in Russian Manchuria (Siberia). After visiting them and observing their daily activities, British geographer Isabella B. Bishop had praised their contented lives and attributed this situation to the good leadership of their elected headmen.

1991，Vipan Chandra，“Korean Human-Rights Consciousness in an Era of Transition: A Survey of Late Nineteenth-Century Developments”, in Human Rights in Korea: Historical and Policy Perspectives, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC，頁 70:

In 1621 in Plymouth, émigré English Calvinists struggled to make their way in the harsh climate of this New World.

2007, Eve LaPlante, The opposite of Thanksgiving:

His latest novel sheds light on an émigré writer’s woodshedding period.

2007年July23日，“A Free Life”, in Publishers Weekly:

[…]the capital of a country that, like its Communist (and later post-Communist) sisters to the east, had long been known for turning its younger residents into aspiring émigrés.

2008年September20日，David Amsden，“The Dubliners”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

In that essay, Said distinguishes between exile, refugee, expatriate and émigré.

2014年February20日，James Wood，On Not Going Home London Review of Books:


woning

繼承自中古英語 woning、wuning、wunnunge，繼承自古英語 wunung (“居住、生活；套間”)，繼承自原始西日耳曼語 *wunungu，等價於 wone + -ing。同源詞包括低地蘇格蘭語 wonnyng、wonyng、wonyn (“居住、住宅、庇护所”)、荷蘭語 woning (“住宅、房屋”)、德語 Wohnung (“住宅，公寓”)、瑞典語 våning (“層，公寓”)。

Near it is a timbered house; an old inn close to the bridge is thought to be the \"woning\" of \"Elynor Humming,\" the famous ale wife, whose "tunning" is celebrated by Hen. VII.'s poet laureate, Skelton.

[…] ordained as a place and a woning for the Holy Ghost, and as of Christ able and possible for to come to endless bliss.


necrophile

/ˈnɛkɹəʊ̆faɪl/

He has seizures of erotic and macaberesque madness. He is a sort of necrophile. He has kept a journal in which he sets forth his disease with the utmost clearness.

1903，Guy de Maupassant，譯者 M. Walter Dunne, A Tress of Hair:


batucada

一種重複、快節奏的打擊森巴／桑巴風格

She has not only employed television and radio advertisements in Spanish and English, but has also sent batucada percussion ensembles and mobile loudspeakers playing reggaetón chants into the streets to spread her message.

2008年May25日，Larry Rohter，“Puerto Rico Gets Its Moment in the Sun (the Political One) as Primary Nears”, in New York Times:


stairs

At length, one night, when the company by ſome accident broke up much ſooner than ordinary, ſo that the candles were not half burnt out, ſhe was not able to reſiſt the temptation, but reſolved to have them ſome way or other. Accordingly, as ſoon as the hurry was over, and the ſervants, as ſhe thought, all gone to ſleep, ſhe ſtole out of her bed, and went down ſtairs, naked to her ſhift as ſhe was, with a deſign to ſteal them […]

1762，Charles Johnstone，The Reverie; or, A Flight to the Paradise of Fools，卷 2, Dublin: Printed by Dillon Chamberlaine, →OCLC，頁 202:

We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time.

我们蹑手蹑脚地走进屋子，爬上楼梯，沿着走廊进入教授待过很长时间的房间。

1913，Joseph C. Lincoln，章號 13, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:


stairway

The phrase "stairway to heaven" has a variety of cultural significances.

“天堂的阶梯”一词具有多种文化意义。

Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, with something of the stately pose which Richter has given his Queen Louise on the stairway,[…]。

1897年 12月（標示為1898年），Winston Churchill，章號 5, in The Celebrity: An Episode，紐約: The Macmillan Company；倫敦：Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:


intervenue

This Crown hath now had five weak Princes, without intervenue of any one active, yet is it in no part demolished.

1650，Henry Blount，A Voyage into the Levant:


First Nations

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澳大利亞原住民（澳大利亞土著與托雷斯海峽島民）

Among the 1692 Australian species and subspecies on the BirdLife Australia Working List V3 (excluding vagrant and introduced taxa [...]), 18.7% derive from unrelated entities (e.g. shrike-tit that is neither shrike nor tit). Just 82 reflect First Nations names for birds (1.6%) or places (3.3%)

2022，Stephen T. Garnett, Golo Maurer, Georgia E. Garrard，“Why Australian common bird names should respond to societal change”, in Emu: Austral Ornithology，卷 122, 期 2，頁 150:


asseverate

借自拉丁語 assevērāre，源自 assevērō (“聲稱，聲明”)。

asseverates (third-person singular present)
asseverating (present participle)
asseverated (past participle)

/əˈsɛvəɹeɪt/

鄭重聲明，認真而自信地斷言

Whereas Your Maiesty hath received true information of great sums of Money endeavoured to be borrowed of Your City of London, by directions proceeding from both Houses of Parliament […] (I Your Maiesties faithfull Subiect) doe conceive, and dare asseverate, that it is intended upon no other pretence then for the Honour and defence of Your Maiesty,

1642，Sir Richard Gurney, 1st Baronet，The Lord Maior of Londons Letter to the King at Yorke, June 22，London:

The more I laughed at such theories, the more these stubborn friends asseverated them; adding that even without the heritage of legend the recent reports were too clear, consistent, detailed, and sanely prosaic in manner of telling, to be completely ignored.

1931，H. P. Lovecraft，章號 1, in The Whisperer in Darkness:

A time would come, Mr. Secombe-Hughes mysteriously asseverated, when all would be well and she would get her money.

1971，Iris Murdoch，An Accidental Man，New York: Viking，頁 31:


khagan

最终源自古突厥語 𐰴𐰍𐰣 (qaɣan)。

As early as the year 740 A.D., one of the Khazar kaghans had turned to Constantinople for a missionary versed in Christian law.

1988，Milorad Pavić，譯者 Christina Pribićević-Zorić, Dictionary of the Khazars，Vintage, 出版於 1989，頁 69:

"A kagan is the father, the mother and the lover of all his people. Nobody would lift a hand against him," said Hanukkah.

2007，Michael Chabon，Gentlemen of the Road，Sceptre, 出版於 2008，頁 52:


tebasaki

Although Japan’s culinary lexicon did not include deep frying until the Portuguese introduced it in the 16th century, the country now has at least three distinct fried chicken styles: katsu, with super-crisp panko or bread crumbs, is used for pounded breasts; karaage, ginger-and-garlic-marinated thighs in a light, puffy crust of sweet-potato starch; and Nagoya-style tebasaki, or wings.

2009年October7日，Julia Moskin，“Fried Chicken: A Migratory Bird”, in New York Times:


social psychology

Before we discuss our two main objectives, however, and present illustrations and our specific hypotheses, an overview of social movements and their social psychology will help put our ideas in the broader context to which they are directed.

2000，Sheldon Stryker, Timothy Joseph Owens, Robert W. White，Self, Identity, and Social Movements, →ISBN，頁 191:

Georg Simmel (1902) pointed out that the money economy pervasive in a city fosters individualism, blasé attitudes, and secondary relations, thus linking urbanism with a particular social psychology.

2006，Mohammad Qadeer，Pakistan - Social and Cultural Transformations in a Muslim Nation, →ISBN:

It is essential to identify user perspectives and relate their social psychology to meaningful trust determinants in the system to be automated.

2014，Sjouke Mauw, Christian Damsgaard Jensen，Security and Trust Management, →ISBN:

The roots of black crime are threefold: a different social psychology resulting from blacks' exclusion from the dominant experience with factory, bureaucracy, and schooling; a heritage of economic and other insecurities; and a long and complex experience with criminal activity.

2015，Orlando Patterson，The Cultural Matrix: Understanding Black Youth, →ISBN，頁 107:


architector

借自中古法語 architecteur，源自拉丁語 architectus、architectōn + 中古法語 -eur。

Then he said that Homer was wonderfull in all his things, but that amongst others, he was an excellent architector.

1579-1603，Thomas North，Plutarch's Lives，頁 570:


ha'

a (“有”)的另一種拼寫法

Well, girls have queer fancies ! Who'd ha' thought she'd ha' fancied Robin ! — though he's a brave sound-hearted little fellow […]

1833，S. C. Hall，The Buccaneer，卷s 1-2，頁 182:


undead

繼承自中古英語 undede，等價於 un- + dead。最早可考的使用見於1400年左右，名詞用法則起自20世紀早期。

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不死的 （已死亡但还能活动的）

When Anna and John finally break out of their self-centered bubbles to the shock that they must battle to the death an undead neighbor in a giant snowman costume, it plays like a poignant comment on movie teenagers' tendency to indulge their inner lives, ignorant of the world around them.

2018年November27日，April Wolfe，“Anna And The Apocalypse is a Holiday-horror Cocktail of Singing, Maiming, and Clichés”, in The A.V. Club，存檔自the original on 2019-11-04:


undead

In the zombie movie, an army of the undead accosted some nubile skinny-dipping teenagers.

在喪屍電影中，一群不死族跟一些性感的裸泳青年搭訕。

"Were another of the Un-Dead, like him, to try to do what he has done, perhaps not all the centuries of the world that have been, or that will be, could aid him."

1897，Bram Stoker，Dracula，New York: Doubleday & McClure, 出版於 1899，頁 xxiv. 319:

Harley got devoured by the undead / Lurking down in some old wizard's tomb / You can say there's no such thing as zombies / But that's how Harley Warren met his doom

2006，The H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society，“Harley Got Devoured by the Undead”, in An Even Scarier Solstice:

It’s an episode of characters returning to their own pasts as different people. They can retrench like Cersei, back on her bullshit, I mean, warpath. Or they can adapt, like The Hound. Neither way necessarily ensures success, but we know the archmaester isn’t unequivocally right. We’ve seen dragons reborn and armies of the undead. I wouldn’t be so sure that Wall will stand forever.

2017年July16日，Brandon Nowalk，“Chickens and dragons come home to roost on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:


mopper

the kitchen mopper was a short female Asian averting her gaze.

2004，Janet Kieffer，Food Chain: Short Stories，Lost Horse Press, →ISBN，頁 58:

A couple of moppers were then sent into the coffee-room with their proper implements, and quickly removed the soiling the floor had sustained.

1839，John Briggs，The history of Jim Crow，Smallfield and Son，頁 266:


fumbling

（尤指手或手指的動作）行動笨拙

From the beginning her mini-campaign, with its many missteps and fumblings, seem mired in confusion.

2009年January25日，Sam Tanenhaus，“A Fumbled Handoff of the Torch”, in New York Times:


perfricate

perfricates (third-person singular present)
perfricating (present participle)
perfricated (past participle)

[…] they differ from embrocations, only in not being intended, like them, to be copiously used in washing or perfricating the part on which they are applied […]

1761，Robert Dossie，Theory and Practice of Chirurgical Pharmacy:


conversus

There were again the Novices, who were not all necessarily young, for a conversus passed through a noviciate; and even a monk of another order, or of another house of their own order, and even a monk from a cell of their own house, was reckoned among the novices.

1856，Edward L. Cutts，“The Monks of the Middle Ages”, in The Art-Journal，卷 2，頁s 342–3:

The Conversi were, in fact, the servants of the Monks; or, as the chronicler more mildly phrases it, the Monks were the head and the Conversi were the arms of the conventual body.

1874，Edmund Sharpe，The Architecture of the Cistercians，卷 2，頁 9:

A story in the early thirteenth-century vita of Arnulf (d. 1228), a conversus who was Abundus’s confrere at Villers, offers us some insight into the kind of relationship Juette and Abundus may have had: […]

1995，Jennifer Carpenter，“Juette of Huy, Recluse and Mother […]”, in Power of the Weak: Studies on Medieval Women, →ISBN，頁 74:


obasan

借自日語 小母さん (obasan)。

Some day Japanese women may be seen parading the streets bearing banners on which are written “Votes for Women,”—at least what appears to be a movement in this direction was inaugurated last week, says the Far East, when a public meeting for women was held at the Kanda Y. M. C. A. under the auspices of a woman’s periodical, the Blue-Stocking.[…]Mere male creatures were allowed to be present, and curious University students who wanted to see what all the fuss was about were obliged to ask the obasans in their neighbourhood if they could seek their protection.

1913年March6日，The Japan Chronicle，old series, number 819; new series, number 583, Kobe，頁 423:

In the novel Naomi stands between two obasans, the one of the title, her great-aunt, the other aunt Emily, her mother’s sister.

在小說中，Naomi 站在兩個歐巴桑中間，一個是書名中的姨婆，另一個是 Emily 阿姨，她母親的妹妹。

1992，Anglistentag 1991 Dusseldorf: Proceedings，Max Niemeyer Verlag，頁 380:

Even if osteoporosis is not so common in elderly Japanese women as in Caucasians when measured in terms of bone density and fractures, I am still convinced that the many obasans one sees in Japan bent nearly double did not get that way merely from planting rice.

The boys resist the Japanese names by which the obasans of the camp address them as willfully as they renounce any identification with the fragmented body of the aged grandfather.

男孩們拒絕接受營裡的歐巴桑們對他們的稱呼，就像他們拒絕與年邁祖父支離破碎的屍體有任何認同一樣。

2001，David L. Eng，Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America，Durham, N.C., London: :en:Duke University Press, →ISBN，頁 120:

“Yeah,” September replied, “old woman. Push and shove. Often Tokyo obasans cut in line for everything and when they get caught they act innocent. They have power and they know it, like old-lady Morimoto, the drycleaner in our building. Geez, whoever designs obasan clothing should be arrested. Those tan shoes you’re wearing are revolting. I dressed up in those clothes for a Halloween party a few years back. But I didn’t look half as real as you.”

2004，Janice Valerie Young，Sweet Daruma: A Japan Satire，New York, Lincoln, Shanghai: iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN，頁s 61–62:

Elderly gents in berets walked past us, elegant with walking canes, escorting obasans, grandmothers in gleaming tabi socks and geta clogs, treading lightly upon the path with a fixedness approaching solemnity.

2006，:en:Trevor Carolan，The Pillow Book of Dr Jazz: Travels Along Asia’s Dharma Trail，Ekstasis Editions, →ISBN，頁 227:

You were nearly hypnotized by the enchanting aroma of the smoke, but managed to keep a steady pace, not wanting to be pegged as a tourist by two obasans, who, cheeks red from the cold, were chatting while cradling grandchildren in their arms.

你幾乎被迷人的煙霧催眠了，但還是勉強保持著平穩的步伐，不想被兩個臉頰凍紅、懷裡抱著孫子聊天的歐巴桑當作遊客盯上。

2007，Chu T’ien-hsin，譯者 :en:Howard Goldblatt, The Old Capital: A Novel of Taipei，New York, N.Y.: :en:Columbia University Press, →ISBN，頁s 164–165:

Have you noticed what word the sales people at Shibuya 109, the Kiyoto “maiko” and night club hostesses use to refer to older women to avoid saying “obasan?”[…]Miu: Oh, wasn’t there some minister who got in trouble for calling women “reproductive machines?” Me: Exactly. That mentality. There are lots of women in their 30s and older who truly dread being called “obasan.” If it hasn’t happened already, then it could happen any second. Horrors! Miu: Moment of metamorphosis. Society decrees you useless for preservation of the species. Me: I like being obasan. I am proud of being obasan. Miu: OK, obasan. Me: Obasan is a title that you earn as a woman when you grow older and wiser and better.[…]Me: Women should be proud of being obasan. Miu: Of course. Me: Obasan Power! Miu: That’s a good way to put it. Me: But all you see in the Japanese media much of the time are obasans rushing to bargains, gossiping, taking flamenco lessons. Miu: What’s the solution? Me: I’m not sure. Data show Japanese women are choosing not to get married and not to have children, even if they do by some miracle get married.

2011，Yuri Kageyama，The New and Selected Yuri: Writing 源自Peeling Till Now，Ishmael Reed Publishing Company/Xlibris, →ISBN，頁s 107–108:

Obasans. Every block in Tokyo has one such lady who sees that everyone on the block packages their garbage correctly.

2012，History of Natto and Its Relatives (1405-2012): Extensively Annotated Bibliography and Sourcebook，Soyinfo Center, →ISBN，頁 452:

I see my best friends, Walter Okura and Alvin Wakayama, with their obasans and moms visiting the very spot where Buddha attained Enlightenment.

我看到我最好的朋友 Walter Okura 和 Alvin Wakayama 帶著他們的歐巴桑和媽媽參觀了佛陀成道的地方。

2020，R.K. Lindsey, Jr.，Waimea I Ka La’i，:en:iUniverse, →ISBN:

“Obasan, not now.” CDI Jones was unduly rude. Although Matsumoto-sama was somewhere in her forties like me, I considered rude to address her as ‘obasan.’[…]“Flowers?” Zach asked. “For the obasans.” Wakabayashi said as if it was obvious.

「歐巴桑，現在不行。」CDI Jones 太粗魯了。雖然 Matsumoto 大人和我一樣四十多歲，但我認為稱呼她為歐巴桑是不禮貌的。 […] 「鮮花？」Zach 問。「給歐巴桑們的。」Wakabayashi 說道，彷彿這是理所當然的。

2020，M. David Scoble，Zach Tragic in Forgotten Tokyo: A Near-Future Bad Luck Thriller，Moogi and Wil Books:

When I talk to the neighborhood obasans back home, I talk a lot more simply.

當我回到家鄉與鄰居歐巴桑交談時，我說話要簡單得多。

2021，Harmony Becker，Himawari House，First Second，頁 348:


mutine

mutines (third-person singular present)
mutining (present participle)
mutined (past participle)

反叛，叛亂，起義 （16-18世紀）

They gan to gather in tumultuous rout, / And mutining to stirre up civill faction / For certaine losse of so great expectation […].

1596，埃德蒙·斯宾塞，“Book V, Canto II”, in 仙后（The Faerie Qveene . […]），London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:


perseverate

perseverates (third-person singular present)
perseverating (present participle)
perseverated (past participle)

/pəːˈsɛvəɹeɪt/

/pɚˈsɛvəˌɹeɪt/

堅持做某事；在原始刺激結束後繼續重複某個動作

After perseverating for several more months, Woodrow Wilson accepted the offer.

2013，A Scott Berg，Wilson，Berkley, 出版於 2014，頁 84:


persisting

Still, in the very fullest blaze of gospel light, while we see that both Christ and His work are most ungratefully and flagrantly dishonoured, by our persistings in the attempt to do for ourselves what He has told us we cannot do, […]

1854，Robert Aitken，The teaching of the types，頁 99:


Denis

源自古希臘語的男性人名，Dennis 的英國及愛爾蘭常用異體

Shall not thou and I, between Saint Denis and Saint George, compound a boy, half French, half English, that shall go to Constantinople and take the Turk by the beard?

1599，William Shakespeare，“The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio)，London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, 出版於 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:


foofoo

可能是 frou-frou 的簡化形式。

more foofoo (comparative)
most foofoo (superlative)

溫和的，不適合男人或成年人的

Here we are. A man's coffee for me, and a soy foofoo coffee for you.[…]I think the barista assumed I was buying the foofoo coffee for my girlfriend.


Parisienne

借自法語 Parisienne，Parisien 的陰性形式，源自 Paris。

It is so natural to a Parisienne, even when passion has almost mastered her, to hesitate and pause before taking the plunge.

1900, translated from Honoré de Balzac's The Works of Honoré de Balzac, page 157:

Proclaiming taste to be a learned as much as an inborn trait, they sought to establish themselves as aesthetic educators of the vulnerable, unschooled Parisienne.

2001，Lisa Tierstan，Marianne in the Market，California，頁 122: