assembly language

A skilled programmer can write very fast code in assembly language.


derived unit

The derived unit of electrical resistance (ohm) is derived from length, mass, time, and electric current.

电阻的导出单位（欧姆）源自长度、质量、时间和电流。


on-air

on air的另一種拼寫法，尤其是用作定語時

He agreed to an on-air interview.


blow down

blows down (third-person singular present)
blowing down (present participle)
blew down (past)
blown down (past participle)

I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house down.

Part of the shed was recently blown down in a gale and has been removed, leaving rather inadequate accommodation.

1951 June，“Notes and News: Eskdale Railway Rolling Stock”, in Railway Magazine，頁 424:

A tree had been blown down on the track east of Chippenham. Bath Spa station became a scene of milling confusion. One minute we were told that trains were running. Then they weren't. Then they were again. Not a sound basis on which to try rejigging a business trip.

2020年June3日，Andrew Mourant，“A safer railway in a greener habitat”, in RAIL，頁 58:

同類詞：rinse down、wash down

Blow down this enclosure and do some chip handling before you run this machine any further.


Pythagorean theorem

以傳統上認為提出此定理的古希臘數學家 Pythagoras（来自古希臘語 Πυθαγόρας (Puthagóras)）命名。

Baudhayana theorem

畢達哥拉斯定理，畢氏定理，勾股定理

Gougu theorem

畢達哥拉斯定理，畢氏定理，勾股定理

畢達哥拉斯定理，畢氏定理，勾股定理

The Pythagorean theorem only applies to right triangles.

畢氏定理只適用於直角三角形。


antijamming

Most military radios have some antijamming capability so they can be used in spite of the enemy's efforts to render them inoperative.

絕大多數的軍用電台都有抗干擾能力，所以即使有敵軍嘗試干擾，也能保持運作。

The new copier had an antijamming design to keep the paper from getting stuck.

這台新的複印機有防卡住的設計，出紙時紙不會發生堵塞。


all told

來自all + told (“計算”)，來自tell的本義，現為古舊義項。

I think they had over 300 people there, all told.


bench test

bench tests (third-person singular present)
bench testing (present participle)
bench tested (past participle)

That’s funny, the throbulator was working fine when I bench tested it.


bear down

bears down (third-person singular present)
bearing down (present participle)
bore down (past)
borne down (past participle)

It's 9:41, 58 degrees, and I'm flunking out. Time to bear down.

现在是9:41，气温58度，我快要挂科了。该努力了。

When Furyk spots another Arizona alum on Tour, one of them will utter the official U of A exhortation, which dates to the 1920s, when on his deathbed the school's quarter-back urged the football team to "bear down." Few on Tour bear down like Furyk. He has his plan and sticks to it.

2003 October，Cameron Morfit，“A Furious Focus; Call his swing whatever you want--Jim Furyk's approach to life and golf is anything but loopy”, in Golf Magazine，卷 45, 期 10，頁 106:

Will CAFTA pass? The White House is starting to bear down, making the argument that CAFTA is not only a good deal economically, but vital for the political development and security of the region.

2005年May12日，Sue Kirchhoff，“Central American Free Trade Agreement faces obstacles”, in USA Today:

You can't really run faster or farther over the long haul simply by bearing down harder. You have to raise the level of your effort, then relax, and trust that preparation.

2009 January，James Applewhite，“Write a poem in THREE PHASES.”, in Writer，卷 122, 期 1，頁s 22–23:


depth charge

depth charges (third-person singular present)
depth charging (present participle)
depth charged (past participle)

用深水炸彈攻擊目標（通常是潛水艇）

After the freighter was torpedoed, its escorting destroyers depth charged the submarine for two hours, but failed to sink it.

貨輪被魚雷擊中後，護航該船的驅逐艦對潛艇實施了兩個小時的深水炸彈攻擊，但沒能將其擊沉。


design speed

The road's design speed is only 60mph, as some of the corners are a little sharp.

The vessel's design speed is 20 knots, though we can push her up to 25 if necessary.


escape hatch

What we need is progress with an escape hatch.


launching

Launch 指的是一個時間點上的事件。Launching 指的是一個持續性的過程。

The launching of the Titanic.

By 1940 they had conducted 25 successful launchings of A5 rockets, which reached 10 miles altitude and had a range of 12 miles.

2010，Raymond Friedman，A History of Jet Propulsion, Including Rockets，頁 123:


seaworthiness

The ship leaked like a sieve and rode like a barrel; in other words it was completely lacking in seaworthiness.

这艘船漏水如筛子，航行如桶，换句话说，它完全不具备适航性。


tug

繼承自中古英語 tuggen、toggen，繼承自古英語 togian (“拖，拉”)，繼承自原始西日耳曼語 *togōn，繼承自原始日耳曼語 *tugōną (“拖，拉扯，撕裂”)，源自原始印歐語 *dewk- (“拉”)。
同源詞包括中古低地德語 togen (“拉”)、中古高地德語 zogen (“拉，撕”)、冰島語 toga (“拉”)。與 tow 有關。

tugs (third-person singular present)
tugging (present participle)
tugged (past participle)

The police officers tugged the drunkard out of the pub.

He lost his patience trying to undo his shoe-lace, but tugging it made the knot even tighter.

他失去了耐心，试图解开鞋带，但拉扯却使鞋带结得更紧。


weather forecast

It may be sunny today, but the weather forecast is predicting rain for tomorrow.

今天天晴，但是天氣預報說明天會下雨。


threat

Verifying and addressing actual threats is not paranoia.


log out

logs out (third-person singular present)
logging out (present participle)
logged out (past participle)

Please don't forget to log out after you finish your work.

完成工作後，請不要忘記登出。


mouse wheel

He was a mouse-wheel virtuoso, scrolling and zooming with ease.

他是一位鼠标滚轮大师，可以轻松地滚动和缩放。


run-time

a run-time error


與一個假的電話號碼有關。在21世紀之前，北美的撥號計劃中，本地交換機和區號555被保留為虛構的號碼。

555-2368, that's a 555 number, it isn't real.

1-555-321-2368, that's a 555 number, it isn't real.

(555)234-2368, that's a 555 number, it isn't real.


breaking news

突發新聞，插播新聞，即時新聞

Breaking news may contain incomplete information, factual errors, or poor editing because of a rush to publication.

由於匆忙發布，突發新聞可能包含不完整的資訊、事實錯誤或編輯不當。

There is also breaking news that the delayed Crossrail project in London cannot be completed without a further £80 million injection of funds.

還有突發消息稱，如果不進一步注入8000萬英鎊資金，被推遲的倫敦橫貫鐵路計畫就無法完成。

2020年December2日，Industry Insider，“The costs of cutting carbon”, in Rail，頁 76:


by the way

[…] I had counted on a life-lease of the profits, whereas I only received those of a few short years. But this is by the way.

1853, Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener, in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories, New York: Penguin Books, 1968; reprint 1995 as Bartleby, ISBN 0 14 60.0012 9, p.2:

“A very welcome, kind, useful present, that means to the parish. By the way, Hopkins, let this go no further. We don't want the tale running round that a rich person has arrived. Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing.[…]”

1918，W. B. Maxwell，章號 7, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

His mother will be coming for dinner tomorrow, and, by the way, she volunteered to bring dessert.

他媽媽明天過來吃晚飯。順帶提一句，她還說要帶點甜品過來。


cube root

3 is the cube root of 27.


International Phonetic Alphabet

/ˌɪntəˈnæʃ(ə)nəl fəˈnɛtɪk ˈælfəˌbɛt/

[ˌɪntəˈnæʃ(ə)nəɫ fəˈnɛtɪk ˈæɫfəˌbɛt]

[ˌɪntɚˈnæʃ(ə)n(ə)ɫ fəˈnɛɾɪk ˈæɫfəˌbɛt]

The International Phonetic Alphabet is commonly used in books about Shanghainese because none of the existing romanizations are very popular.

國際音標在關於上海話的書籍中經常出現，因為上海話沒有十分通用的羅馬化。


hyphenation

（尤指正確地）使用連字號，用連字號連接

Print the article without hyphenation if you're not sure where to put them.

若您不確定應在何處使用連字號，請在不使用之的情況下打印文章。


Eden

源自希伯來語 עֵדֶן (eden)，可能源自蘇美爾語 𒂔 (edin，“草原；花園”)。

The first explorers saw America as an Eden.

美洲的最早一批發現者視其為樂土。


Gothic

Goth + -ic，自17世紀始在英語有使用。源自晚期拉丁語 gothicus。
不同的形容詞用法幾乎是同時在17世紀前半部分開始使用的。“哥特人的”之義在1611版欽定本聖經的前言中有使用（the Gothicke tongue）。“日耳曼的；條頓的”一義在1640年代出現，而“哥特式的；中世紀的”一義也在1640年代出現，同樣“哥特字體的”也是如此。

more Gothic (comparative)
most Gothic (superlative)

goth

哥特亞文化、音樂、生活方式等的。（自1980年代始）

哥特式的（建築風格）。（自1640年代始）

Baroque

Gothic arches

(文學) 與哥特復興相關的小說寫法，內容多描寫神祕背景氣氛中的暴力/恐怖事件。（自19世紀早期始）

Gothic tales

(印刷、英國用語) 哥特體（過去印刷使用的字體）的。

Gothic letters

哥特亞文化、音樂、生活方式等的。（自1980年代始）

industrial

Gothic rock

Gothic dress


graceful degradation

Since we built the website with graceful degradation in mind, it will replace animations with textual cues if JavaScript is not available.

由于我们在构建网站时考虑到了柔性降级，因此如果JavaScript不可用，它将用文本提示代替动画。


hand over

hands over (third-person singular present)
handing over (present participle)
handed over (past participle)

讓與控制權或東西事物的所有權；交出/移交

I handed over the controls to the copilot.

我將控制權移交給副駕駛員。

Liverpool still have a game in hand but City have made up most of that lost ground and this was a resounding message that they will not be handing over the title.

2019年February10日，Phil McNulty，“Manchester City 6-0 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport:


lead time

It's an excellent device, but it has a 10-week lead time, so be sure to order it in advance.

With long lead times in timetable planning WMT [West Midlands Trains] has stated that the earliest it can recast the timetable will be May 2020.

2019 October，“Chase Line service to be split next May”, in Modern Railways，頁 17:


Mach

源自捷克語 Mach、斯洛伐克語 Mach、波蘭語 Mach 及其他相關語言，源自以 Ma- 開頭的人名的截尾形式 + 斯拉夫語後綴 -ch 組成的暱稱。亦有可能來自匈牙利語 Mács。還有些情況是源自越南語或高棉語。

沒有複數形式。 一般接在數字前面，如上面的例子。

The jet traveled at Mach 3.

噴氣機以3馬赫的速度飛行。


meme

由英國的生物學家理查德·道金斯在1976造出，用於其著作《自私的基因》。mimeme的縮略（對比英語 phoneme），源自古希臘語 μῖμος (mîmos，“複製，模仿”)。。其網路含義由迈克·戈德温應用。

culturgen

模因，迷因（透過模仿在人與人之間傳播的思想、行為或風格）

（本為錯誤卻）廣泛流傳成真實的行為或理念

it’s a meme degree

jogging is a meme


meme

memes (third-person singular present)
meming (present participle)
memeing (present participle)
memed (past participle)

將……轉變成網路迷因；（在現實生活中）使用網路迷因

to meme into existence

Scott Greer, a deputy editor of the Daily Caller, tweeted, “Cernovich memed #SickHillary into reality. Never doubt the power of memes.”

2016年October31日，Andrew Marantz，“Trolls for Trump”, in The New Yorker, retrieved 2017-12-02:

David Moyes succeeding Slaven Bilić as West Ham United manager is being memed into existence by the internet, Football Burp understands.

2017年November6日，“David Moyes to West Ham “memed into existence by the internet””, in Football Burp, retrieved 2017-12-02:


perfect number

仿譯自拉丁語 numerus perfectus，其中 perfectus 的用法本身是來自古希臘語 τέλειος (téleios)的語義借用。

完全數（一個等於其所有因數（不包括自身）之和的數）

The factors of 6 are 1, 2, 3 and 6, and 1 + 2 + 3 = 6, so 6 is a perfect number.

6的因数有1、2、3和6，而1 + 2 + 3 = 6，故6是完全数。

The factors of 28 are 1, 2, 4, 7, 14 and 28, and 1 + 2 + 4 + 7 + 14 = 28, so 28 is a perfect number.


on the other hand

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-on the other hand.ogg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/en-us-on the other hand.ogg

Well yes, it was quite a good bargain; on the other hand, do we really need one?

是的，這是一筆不錯的交易。但反過來想，我們真的需要嗎？

Its external relations, on the one hand to dynamics, and on the other to heat, light, chemical action, and the constitution of bodies, seem to indicate the special importance of electrical science as an aid to the interpretation of nature.

1873，James Clerk Maxwell，A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism:

The host of business travellers between Bishops Stortford and London would scarcely take kindly to devious routing via the Southbury line; on the other hand, it is not desirable that they should overcrowd the business trains to and from Cambridge.

1961 January，“The North-East London electrification of the Great Eastern Line”, in Trains Illustrated，頁 19:


relatively prime

在數學中，這個形容詞可以用在諸如「A and B are relatively prime」、「A is relatively prime to B"」以及較不常見的「A is relatively prime with B」”之類的短語中。

互質，數和數之間沒有大於1的共同因數

24 and 35 are relatively prime.

互質，某數相對於其他數沒有大於1的共同因數

24 is relatively prime to 35.


run around

runs around (third-person singular present)
running around (present participle)
ran around (past)
run around (past participle)

I don't want to run around all week getting everything ready for the holidays.

我不想整個星期都忙著為假期準備好一切。


sign off

關閉廣播電台或電視台的攝影棚病停止廣播訊號

Sign off for the small-town radio station was at midnight.

小鎮廣播站停止廣播是在午夜。


sign off

signs off (third-person singular present)
signing off (present participle)
signed off (past participle)

登出；下線；完畢 （停止使用電腦、對講機等，尤其指停止說話）

He finished the conversation and signed off.

結束廣播，停止發送廣播、電視訊號（如放一小段音樂）

Before he signed off the radio station for the night, the disc jockey played the National Anthem.

在他結束當晚電台的廣播之前，唱片騎師播放了國歌。

Once the vice-president signs off on the project, we can start construction.

一旦副總統批准了這個項目，我們就可以開始施工了。

The town council, which closed the funicular last December for health and safety reasons, has yet to sign off the completion of £72,000 worth of remedial works to a retaining wall.

2023年August23日，“Network News: Hold-up for Cliff Railway reopening”, in RAIL，期 990，頁 14:


troll

trolls (third-person singular present)
trolling (present participle)
trolled (past participle)

The actress was widely trolled online after accidentally revealing that she didn't know the names of the continents.

We like to troll, we like to go the night before one of their primaries, we just, we do a little trolling, it's called we do a little trolling.

2020年March2日，Donald Trump，President Trump Rally in Charlotte, North Carolina，經由 C-SPAN:

Cristiano Ronaldo's dislike of dessert has been trolled by a former teammate. ¶ Ben Foster proudly showed off his apple crumble, having joked that he was skipping dessert.

2021年September22日，Sam Cooper，“An old teammate of Cristiano Ronaldo's trolled his dislike of dessert by scoffing a giant pudding on his YouTube channel”, in Business Insider，New York, N.Y.: Insider Inc., →OCLC，存檔自the original on 2024-04-07:

Taylor Swift, who could've been crowned the queen of pranks in the early years of her career, is finding out what it feels like to be on the other side of a little onstage trolling.

2024年March11日，Sammi Burke，“See One of Taylor Swift's Dancers Troll Her on Stage During '22'”, in Parade，New York, N.Y.: The Arena Group, →OCLC，存檔自the original on 2024-04-07:


turnkey

more turnkey (comparative)
most turnkey (superlative)

無需進一步組裝或測試使用的；可立刻交鑰匙的

They wanted a turnkey solution for the entire system, but we could only provide the enclosure.

Third World countries no longer want to purchase nuclear projects on a turn-key basis; they want to receive advanced technical training as well.

1980, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, April 1980, Kathleen Bailey, When and why weapons; page 42

He cautioned that the house “is not turnkey,” and that because it is “so unusual,” it may take a while to sell. But, he added, “It’s a joy to be selling a property with its history.”

2023年March22日，Ben West，“This 835-Year-Old English Manor Needs Some Modern Love”, in The New York Times:


turnkey

turnkeys (third-person singular present)
turnkeying (present participle)
turnkeyed (past participle)

提供交鑰匙產品；提供完全組裝並可供使用的產品

We can sell you all the parts, or we can turnkey the entire unit.


urban legend

The claim that alligators live in New York City's sewers is an old urban legend.

纽约下水道里生活着短吻鳄的说法是一个古老的都市传说。


x的作用是通配符；緊隨最初的8086之後，使用相同架構（逐步擴大）的處理器名稱也用86結尾（80186、80286、80386、80486；英特爾在80486之後不再使用這種命名法，但其他x86處理器製造商繼續使用-586-和-686-作為處理器品牌名稱）。

泛指一系列基於Intel 8086且向下相容的中央處理器指令集架構
特別指32位元版本的x86指令集架構

The x86 version of Windows 7 only supports a maximum of 4 GiB of RAM; 64-bit Windows can support a lot more.


back-end

back-end database

back-end developer


Sino-

來自晚期拉丁語 Sīnae (“中國的”)，來自托勒密古希臘語 Σῖναι (Sînai，“中國的”)，詞源不確定但可能來自梵語 चीन (Cīna，“中國”)，也許經由阿拉伯語 صِين (ṣīn，“中國；中國的”)，通常被認為是衍生自上古漢語 秦 (*Dzin，“秦朝”)。參見中國的稱號的主頁面。

關於中國或中國人的構詞部分，即中-、漢-、華-。

In the 1970s, Sino-Soviet rivalry also spread to Africa and the Middle East.

1970年代，中蘇交惡蔓延至非洲和中東。

He's a Sino-Kadazan: half Chinese, half Kadazan.

他是漢族和卡達山族的混血：一半華籍，一半卡達山籍。


waltz

源自德語 Walzer ← walzen (“跳舞”) ← 古高地德語 walzan (“轉”) ← 原始日耳曼語 *walt- (“轉”) ← 原始印歐語 *wel- (“轉”)。

waltzes (third-person singular present)
waltzing (present participle)
waltzed (past participle)

They waltzed for twenty-one hours and seventeen minutes straight, setting a record.

他們連續跳華爾茲24小時17分，創造了紀錄。

While waltzing her around the room, he stepped on her toes only once.

他和她跳華爾茲的時候，只踩過她一次腳。

窜进，把...带进 （尤指没有批准或没有邀请等）

He waltzed into the room like he owned the place.

他馬上竄進房間，好像那是他自己的地方一樣。

You can't just waltz him in here without documentation!

你不能就这样不走手续把他带到这里来。

Oxlade-Chamberlain, 18, became the youngest English Champions League scorer when he waltzed across the area to plant a low shot into the corner.

2011年September28日，Tom Rostance，“Arsenal 2 - 1 Olympiakos”, in BBC Sport:

The women in Ms. Telfer’s book waltz right by societal rules that would leave the rest of us at a standstill. We are left tsk-tsking, while also in awe.

2021年February25日，Mara Altman，“Glitzy, Tragic and Selfish: Female Con Artists Waltz by Society’s Rules”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Don't worry about the interview — you'll waltz it.

別太擔心採訪——很容易你就搞定了。


ail

繼承自中古英語 eilen，繼承自古英語 eġlan，eġlian (“困擾，折磨”)，和哥特語 𐌰𐌲𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽 (agljan，“使苦惱”)同源。

ails (third-person singular present)
ailing (present participle)
ailed (past participle)

使苦惱，使痛苦，使不適（現在主要用於疑問句或不定句。）

Have some chicken soup. It's good for what ails you.

喝點雞湯。這對你的病痛有好處。

夏甲，你為何這樣呢？

Not content with having in 1996 put a Defence of Marriage Act (DOMA) on the statue book, Congress has now begun to hold hearings on a Respect for Marriage Act. Defended, respected: what could possibly ail marriage in America?

2011, "Connubial bliss in America", The Economist:


banqueter

Between courses, the banqueters were entertained by minstrels in medieval garb.

菜餚之間，身著中世紀服裝的吟遊詩人為宴會賓客獻上表演。


Grab

I will take a Grab back home.

我會在Grab上叫一輛車回家。


sorrow

繼承自中古英語 sorow、sorwe、sorghe、sorȝe，繼承自古英語 sorg、sorh (“关心、焦虑、悲痛”)，繼承自原始西日耳曼語 *sorgu，繼承自原始日耳曼語 *surgō（對比西弗里斯蘭語 soarch、荷蘭語 zorg、德語 Sorge、丹麥語、瑞典語和挪威語 sorg），源自原始印歐語 *swergʰ- (“看管、担心；生病、受苦”)（對比古愛爾蘭語 serg (“疾病”)、吐火羅語B sark (“疾病”)、立陶宛語 sirgti (“生病”)、梵語 सूर्क्षति (sū́rkṣati，“擔心”)）。雖然意思和詞形上和 sorry、sore 相似，詞源上和這兩者並無關聯。

She had nursed all the children, including Sandro, to whom she was devoted, and my husband was just as fond of her. His going away to America was a great sorrow to her, and she always kept the sacred light burning on a little altar for Sandro all the time of his long absence.

她照料了所有孩子，包括桑德罗，她对他十分疼爱，我丈夫也同样喜欢她。桑德罗要去美国，这对她来说是一件非常伤心的事，在桑德罗长期不在家的时候，她总是在小神坛上为他点亮圣灯。

1903，Maud Salvini，“Salvini as I Know Him”, in The Theatre，期 3，頁 312:

Vaublanc, in San Domingo so sympathetic to the sorrows of labour in France, had to fly from Paris in August, 1792, to escape the wrath of the French workers.

沃布朗在圣多明各对法国劳工的苦难深表同情，为了逃避法国工人的愤怒，他不得不于1792年8月逃离巴黎。

1963，C.L.R. James，The Black Jacobins，第2nd Revised版，頁 14:

Parting is such sweet sorrow.


teh

在電腦鍵盤上打錯的the。

Teh 有時用來故意製造不合語法的語句。如用在形容詞前："He is teh stupid" 句中用 teh 可行，而用 the 的 "He is the stupid" 則不可行。

故意拼錯 the，以表示幽默、諷刺或滑稽的效果。

This is teh game for your new box!

You are teh haxor!


antonym

“rich” is an antonym of “poor”; “full” is an antonym of “empty”

“富有”是貧窮的反義詞；“滿”是“空”的反義詞


Canberra

不確定。通常認爲來自Ngunawal kamberra (“見面的地方”)。見英語維基百科條目 more theories on Wikipedia。

A new tax policy was announced by Canberra today.

澳大利亞政府今天宣佈了一項新的稅收政策。


Chrysler

來自1925年由Walter Chrysler創立並以其名字命名的汽車公司。姓氏源自德語 Kreißler。

一家前汽車製造商，即克萊斯勒集團（1925–1998）；其後繼公司（最近的是斯泰兰蒂斯的北美子公司）仍非正式地使用該名稱。

From the 1920s through the 1960s, Chrysler was known within the automotive industry for impressive engineering.

從1920年代到1960年代，克萊斯勒在汽車行業中以出色的工程技術聞名。


Chrysler

一輛該品牌的汽車（以前常用作豪華車的例子 (20世紀中期)）

同類詞：(豪華車，奢華) Cadillac、Buick、Lexus

He was driving a brand-new Chrysler.

他開著一輛全新的克萊斯勒。

Hop in my Chrysler, it's as big as a whale
And it's about to set sail
I got me a car, it seats about twenty, so come on
And bring your jukebox money
The love shack is a little old place where
We can get together
Love shack baby

跳上我的克萊斯勒，它像鯨魚一樣大
它即將啟航
我有一輛車，可以坐二十個人，所以來吧
帶上你的點唱機錢
愛情小屋是一個我們可以聚在一起的小地方
愛情小屋寶貝

1989，the B-52s （作曲作詞）, “Love Shack”, in Cosmic Thing，演出者 the B-52s:


Disney

英語姓氏源自諾曼語，源自古法語 de (“……的，從……，來自……”) + Isigny (Calvados 一地名)。地名則請參見 Isigny-sur-Mer。現代用法多派生自人名 Walt Disney。

迪斯尼/迪士尼 華特迪士尼公司，以華特·迪士尼命名

Have you seen Disney's latest film?

你看了迪士尼的最新電影了嗎？

迪斯尼/迪士尼 迪士尼樂園

We went to Disney with the kids this summer.

今年夏天我們跟孩子們一起去了迪士尼樂園。

And they included children down the seashore, they included going to the mountains; our first Disney child was not until 1978, no, ’77. […] I mean, when you say to somebody, “I’m going to give you a trip to Disney,” or “I’m going to buy you a Cabbage Patch doll,” and we’re doing this for you for absolutely nothing, that’s a reward in itself.

1990，Bill Berkowitz with Bill Sample (interviewee), Local Heroes，Lexington Books, →ISBN，頁 261:

If they found any phone number from the U.S., anything, they’d deport us right away because we came here on excursion with a whole bunch of people that was going to visit Disney. That’s what everybody usually do: They say, We going to visit Disney, and we going to stay there for a week, and then we going to go back, but they end up staying.

2008，Doug Stumpf，Confessions of a Wall Street Shoeshine Boy，HarperCollins, →ISBN，頁 155:

Angela asked if we could treat ourselves to a few days at Disney. […] The week included a couple of days in Disney, Dad’s 70ᵗʰ birthday and then the long trip home.

Angela 问我们是否可以去迪士尼乐园玩几天。 […] 这一周我们在迪士尼乐园玩了几天，庆祝了爸爸的70岁生日，然后是漫长的回家之旅。

I had decided to take them, my niece, and three nephews to Disney in Orlando, FL. I was going to try and make history. I was going to make an attempt at escorting more than four Dredd kids to Disney at once and live to tell about it.

我决定带他们——我的侄女和三个侄子去佛罗里达州奥兰多的迪士尼乐园。我打算创造历史。我打算尝试一下一次性护送四个以上《特警判官》里那样的孩子去迪士尼乐园，并且活着讲述这段经历。

2009，Cleo Stinyard III，Sex, Love, & Consequences, →ISBN，頁 213:


Fox

* (姓氏)： 源自 fox (“狐狸”)。

福斯/福克斯廣播公司，美國大型電視網。

I watched a great show on Fox last night.

昨晚我在福斯電視台觀看了一場精彩的節目。


Mahdi

借自阿拉伯語 مَهْدِيّ (mahdiyy，“...”)。

馬赫迪 (伊斯蘭教的救世主)

Ahmadis consider Mirza Ghulam Ahmed to be the Mahdi.

"Of course, my Lord. You asked what they were shouting, though. It was Mahdi! They directed the term at the young master. When they-"
"At Paul?"
"Yes, my Lord. They've a legend here, a prophecy, that a leader will come to them, a child of a Bene Gesserit, to lead them to true freedom. It follows the familiar messiah pattern."

1965，Frank Herbert，Dune (Fiction), →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL，頁s 100–101:

Al-Afghani was a polyglot Persian who became an international agitator, aspiring [...] to unify the Muslim masses behind the Caliph (or even the Mahdi) and to become himself the Luther of an Islamic reformation.

2012，Piers Brendon, ‘Beginning the Dissent’，Literary Review，卷 401:


supranational

超國家的，多國的，跨國的

同類詞：infranational、intranational、national、transnational、international

Global warming is a supranational problem.

全球暖化是一個超國家的問題。

The Systems Alliance is an independent supranational government representing the interests of humanity as a whole. The Alliance is responsible for the governance and defense of all extra-solar colonies and stations. […]

星系联盟是一个独立的超国家政府，代表全人类的利益。星系联盟负责所有太阳系外殖民地和空间站的治理和防御。 […]

2008，BioWare，Mass Effect，Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC，幕：Systems Alliance Codex entry:

If its Middle-earth series becomes must-see TV around the world, it would mean millions of new devoted subscribers in the Amazon Prime fellowship, collectively paying billions of dollars, lured by a fleet of dwarves, elves, and hobbits that would, one might say, rule their shopping behaviors and bind them to one supranational force.

2017年November13日，Derek Thompson，“Why Amazon Thinks You Want to Watch a ‘Lord of the Rings’ TV Show (or Five)”, in The Atlantic:


Tannenbaum

Oh, Tannenbaum, oh, Tannenbaum, how lovely are thy branches.

聖誕樹啊，聖誕樹，你的樹枝是多麼可愛。

Local newspapers covered the story of how Santa Claus had helped the Tannenbaum.

当地报纸报道了圣诞老人帮助圣诞树的故事。


Ivan

借自俄語 Ива́н (Iván)，源自數種斯拉夫語族語言的 Ivan。John 的同源對似詞，也是其親緣詞 Evan、Giovanni、Ian、Johann和Sean 等的同源對似詞。

Ivan is yelling curses at his friends.

俄國人正在大聲咒罵他的朋友。

俄羅斯人（集體、人格化）

Ivan is planning an attack on our flank.

俄國人正打算攻擊我們的側翼。


Nobel

源自瑞典語 Nobel。

a Nobel-winning author


Yamato

源自日語 大和 (Yamato)，後者來源不明，但可能和山 (yama) 有關。

The museum curator said that the sword originated from the Yamato period in Japan.

博物館館長說，這把劍起源於日本的大和時代。

以前從大和國統治日本的皇室；日本占主導地位的民族

In Japanese society, Koreans are viewed as being of a lower rung on the social ladder compared to Yamato people.

在日本社會中，與大和人相比，韓國人被視為社會階梯的下層。


fu

UNIX fu


manga

源自日語 漫画(まんが) (manga)，來自中古漢語 漫 (中古 manH, “自由，散漫”) + 畫 (中古 hweaH|hweak)。與官話 漫畫／漫画 (mànhuà)，朝鮮語 만화 (漫畵／漫畫, manhwa)同源。最早是葛飾北齋1814年作品之題。manhua 的同源對似詞。

Lately I've been reading a Brazilian manga.

最近我在讀一本巴西漫畫。


persona

借自拉丁語 persōna (“面具；角色”)，源頭不明，可能來自personō (“聲音穿過”)；或來自古希臘語 πρόσωπον (prósōpon，“臉；外貌；古代劇場的一種面具，用以表示角色形象；社會角色”)；或來自伊特拉斯坎語 𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 (φersu)。person和parson 的同源對似詞。

personas (plural)
personae (plural)
personæ (plural)

/pɜː(ɹ)ˈsəʊnə/

He keeps his online persona completely separate from his real-world one.

他在網上和現實世界的形象完全是分開的。


sed

源自stream editor (字面意思是“流編輯器”)。

seds (third-person singular present)
sedding (present participle)
sedded (past participle)

Can you sed out those trailing spaces, please?


i.e.

源自拉丁語 id est (“即”) 的縮寫 i. e.。

常與 e.g.（“比如，例如”）混淆。

美國英語多在 i.e. 後再加一個逗號，而英國英語則一般不加逗號，有時也不帶點。

對於本詞是否應該斜體，或者 i. e. 中間是否應該有空格，有爭議。美國醫學會寫作指南認為這個詞已經本土化，所以不用斜體。

亦即，也就是说，就是，即。

While the final episode was made, the show itself was immediately cancelled after the penultimate episode i.e. the final episode never aired.

最後一集製作完成的時候，節目卻在倒數第二集就取消了，也就是說，最後一集沒有播出過。


holo

We compared the holo and apo forms of the protein.


absent-minded

absentminded (alternative)
more absent-minded (comparative)
most absent-minded (superlative)

心不在焉的，健忘的；容易分心的 （首次記錄於19世紀中期）

It took the absent-minded man twenty minutes to find his glasses on top of his head.

心不在焉的男人花了二十分鐘才發現他的眼鏡戴在了頭上。


accountable

more accountable (comparative)
most accountable (superlative)

Every man is accountable to God for his conduct.

You will be held accountable for your misdemeanors.

"Because the railway is economically and socially vital, it receives large amounts of public money and must therefore ultimately be accountable to government. [...]

2020年April22日，Philip Haigh，“Labour's blueprint for the future of Britain's railways”, in Rail，頁 28:


add up

adds up (third-person singular present)
adding up (present participle)
added up (past participle)

Add up the prices and find out how much it will cost.

把價格加起來，看看總價。

If small amounts of something add up, they gradually increase.

如果將少量的東西加起來，他們便會逐漸地增大。

Even small savings can add up.

即便是小額的存款也可以攢起來。

It's the little minor problems that add up.


add up to

adds up to (third-person singular present)
adding up to (present participle)
added up to (past participle)

加起來是……；相當於；合計

The cost of this trip adds up to 1,000 yuan.

這次旅行的花費合計1000元。

Add up to these figures, and give me the total.

把這些數字加起來，把總數報給我。


mal-

源自古法語 mal-，源自拉丁語副詞 male，源自 malus。

malism, malinfluence

maleffect

malodor

maldifferentiation

壞，糟糕 不完整，未完成

maldescent

壞，糟糕 不良地，有缺陷

malfed, malnourished, malcirculation

吃得不好，營養不良，血液循環不足

malcommunication

非出於善意或未如預期進行的溝通

maladherence, malcontent


stock phrase

個人或群體經常或習慣性使用的短語

Bart Simpson's stock phrase "I didn't do it" was once lampooned on the show itself.

巴特·辛普森的口頭禪「不是我幹的」曾被節目組自己嘲笑過。


effing

同 fucking：该死的，他妈的

The effing television's on the blink again!


effing

同 fucking：该死的，他妈的

She is effing hot!

I effing hate snow!


♥s (third-person singular present)
♥'s (third-person singular present)
♥ing (present participle)
♥'ing (present participle)
♥ed (past participle)
♥'ed (past participle)
♥'d (past participle)

I♥NY [I love New York.]

I ♥ U.


reliable

more reliable (comparative)
most reliable (superlative)

/ɹɪˈlaɪəbəl/

We're looking for someone who is reliable and hardworking.

我們正在物色可靠而又勤奮的人。

People or things that are reliable can be trusted to work well or to behave in the way that you want them to.

可靠的人和事物能夠工作得好或者能以您希望他們表現的方式來行事。


Unicode

於1988年作為建議草案而出現，“旨在提出一個獨特的、統一的、通用的編碼”。來自uni- + code。

This character isn't in Unicode.

統一碼標準，以及將字符表示為位元的標準

convert to Unicode


Unicode

來自不同語境的文字，通常以非標準的方式使用。有時被用作拉丁字母的反義詞。

Since most users on the site are westerners, we have banned Unicode in all text input boxes.

因為網站的大部分使用者來自西方，所以我們已禁止在所有文本輸入框內使用Unicode。


everywhere

源自中古英語 eauerihwer，又自古英語 æfre + gehwær，相當於 ever + y- + where，而非 every + where。

位於或至句意所指的各處。

He delivers the mail everywhere on this street.

We went everywhere at the school.

我們去了學校裡的每個地方。

We went to Europe last year and went everywhere: Berlin, Paris, London, and Madrid.

去年我們去了歐洲的每個地方，有到柏林、巴黎、倫敦還有馬德里。

When I shop for shoes, I like to look everywhere.

我喜歡在買鞋的時候到處看看。

I've looked everywhere in the house and still can't find my glasses.

我找遍了家裡的每個角落，還是找不到我的眼鏡。


alongside

/əˌlɒŋˈsaɪd/

/əˌlɔŋˈsaɪd/

/əˌlɑŋˈsaɪd/

/əˈlɑŋˌsaɪd/

/əˌlɔŋˈsɑɪd/

Ahoy! Bring your boat alongside.


alongside

/əˌlɒŋˈsaɪd/

/əˌlɔŋˈsaɪd/

/əˌlɑŋˈsaɪd/

/əˈlɑŋˌsaɪd/

/əˌlɔŋˈsɑɪd/

The nurse worked alongside the doctor.

The Italian opted for Bolton's Cahill alongside captain John Terry - and his decision was rewarded with a goal after only 13 minutes. Bulgaria gave a hint of defensive frailties to come when they failed to clear Young's corner, and when Gareth Barry found Cahill in the box he applied the finish past Nikolay Mihaylov。

2011年September2日，Phil McNulty，“Bulgaria 0-3 England”, in BBC:

A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays.

2013年June1日，“Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist，卷 407, 期 8838，頁 13 (Technology Quarterly):

Gatwick, on the other hand, is alongside the Brighton main line, with rail services both to the north (City and West End) and south.

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


cheated

more cheated (comparative)
most cheated (superlative)

The people feel cheated by the government's decision.

人民感到被政府的決策所欺騙。


drooping

more drooping (comparative)
most drooping (superlative)

drooping flowers


haunted

more haunted (comparative)
most haunted (superlative)
hauntedest (superlative)

The hotel was haunted by a disembodied spirit.

a soldier haunted by the memories of combat

a haunted expression


flabbergasted

more flabbergasted (comparative)
most flabbergasted (superlative)

He was flabbergasted at how much weight he had gained.

他對體重增加的幅度感到非常吃驚。

Maxwell made a lunge at his flabbergasted guest, who ducked just in time to escape the great hands reaching for him.

麥克斯韋向他目瞪口呆的客人猛撲過去，客人及時躲開，躲開了伸向他的大手。

1952，Agnes Morley Cleaveland.，Satan's Paradise: from Lucien Maxwell to Fred Lambert，Houghton-Mifflin:

From behind her paper, she was flabbergasted to see a neatly dressed man helping himself to her cookies.

從報紙後面，她看到一個衣著整潔的男人正吃著她的餅乾，這讓她'大吃一驚。

2008，Dutch Sheets，Watchman Prayer: Keeping the Enemy Out While Protecting Your Family, Home，Gospel Light，頁 57:


society

起於1530年代；借自中古法語 societé，源自古法語 societé，源自拉丁語 societās, societātem (“聯盟，社群”)，源自socius (“聯合的，同盟的；夥伴，同伴，同盟”)，源自原始印歐語 *sokʷ-yo- (“同伴”)，源自原始印歐語 *sekʷ- (“跟隨”)。

This society has been known for centuries for its colorful clothing and tight-knit family structure.

几百年以来，这个社群以其色彩缤纷的服装和紧密的家庭关系而闻名。

It was then that they decided to found a society of didgeridoo-playing unicyclists.

那時他們決定建立一個吹迪吉里杜管的獨輪車社團。

The gap between Western and Eastern societies seems to be narrowing.

東西方社會間的隔閡似乎正在縮窄。

社會（區域、地方、國家人的總和）

Our global society develops in fits and starts.

我們全球社會的發展時斷時續。

Smith was first introduced into society at the Duchess of Grand Fenwick's annual rose garden party.

史密斯第一次被邀請參加上流社會每年在芬威克大公玫瑰花園的聚會。


sleigh

源自現代荷蘭語 slee，源自中古荷蘭語 slede，最终源自原始日耳曼語 *slidô。sled 的同源對似詞，與 slide 也有較遠的親緣關係。

雪橇 (對比較小的“sled”)

Santa travels in a sleigh.

In 1958, it was reported that for "the fourth year in succession, staff of four South London stations have combined to decorate the booking hall at Peckham Rye station". They installed a nativity scene, models of Father Christmas, and a sleigh driven by huskies, and Christmas trees were placed around the station.

1958年，有报道称“连续第四年，伦敦南部四座车站的工作人员联合起来装饰佩克汉姆黑麦车站的售票大厅”。他们在车站周围布置了耶稣诞生场景、圣诞老人模型和哈士奇拉的雪橇，还摆放了圣诞树。

2023年December27日，David Turner，“Silent lines...”, in RAIL，期 999，頁 29:


Chernobyl

借自俄語 Черно́быль (Černóbylʹ)。

/tʃɜːˈnɒbəl/

/tʃɜːˈnəʊbəl/

乌克兰人建议使用“Chornobyl”而不是“Chernobyl”。前者是该地点的乌克兰语名称，而后者来自俄语，被视为支持俄罗斯民族主义。

After Chernobyl, very few nuclear power plants were built for years.

切尔诺贝利事故发生后，多年来，核电站建得很少。


sunken

The sunken ship lay at a depth of 100 feet

沉船位於100英尺深的水底

She looked old and thin with sunken cheeks and hollow eyes.

她看起來又老又瘦，臉頰和眼眶都凹陷著。

The heartbreak will take some getting over; the sunken forms of the players at the full-time whistle said as much.

2023年July20日，Suzanne Wrack，“Spain win Women’s World Cup as Olga Carmona strike breaks England hearts”, in The Guardian:


self-made

self-structured

靠自己奮鬥成功的；白手起家的

self-formed

靠自己奮鬥成功的；白手起家的

nepotistic

靠自己奮鬥成功的；白手起家的

cronyish

靠自己奮鬥成功的；白手起家的

靠自己奮鬥成功的；白手起家的

My father was the quintessential self-made man.

我的父亲是典型的白手起家的人。

“These were people who were self-made, and self-made people made up their own words,” Mr. Sokolowski added.

2021年November9日，Max Harrison-Caldwell，引 Peter Sokolowski, “Words Full of Sound and Fury”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


stammering

We could not understand his inarticulate stammerings.

我们听不懂他含糊不清的结巴话。

At that point, humanity crosses another threshold, miniaturizes its universe into symbolic form, and takes a toddling step toward iconography, writing, and the first stammerings of calendrical notation and mathematics.

此时，人类跨越了另一个门槛，将宇宙缩小为符号形式，并向图像学、文字以及历法和数学的初步发展迈出了蹒跚的一步。

1981，William Irwin Thompson，The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture，London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co.，頁 95:


al-Qaeda

來自阿拉伯語 الْقَاعِدَة (al-qāʕida)，قَاعِدَة (qāʕida，“基礎，基本”)的定單數。

/ˌæl kɑːˈiːdə/

al-Qaeda often kills non-Muslim and non-Sunni civilians.


syndicate

來自法語 syndicat (“辛迪加辦公室；辛迪加委員會；工會”)，來自syndic (“辛迪加；代表；日內瓦首席行政官”) + -at (“表示行動或行動結果的後綴”)，來自中世紀拉丁語 *syndicatus，來自syndicus (“公司或城鎮的代表；辛迪加”) (來自古希臘語 σύνδικος (súndikos，“被告辯護人”)，來自σύν (sún，“旁邊；和”) + δίκη (díkē，“審判；正義”)) + -ātus (“從名詞組成形容詞的後綴，表示擁有某種東西或某種品質”)。
對照意大利語 sindacato (“辛迪加；工會；審計，控制，監督”)、奧克語 sendegat、葡萄牙語 sindicato (“工會”)、西班牙語 sindicado、sindicato (“辛迪加辦公室；辛迪加；工會”)。

音頻 (名詞) (澳洲)

a gambling syndicate

The worst deed ever alleged against the early sandalwood traders was that a number of natives were suffocated in a cave at Vaté, in the New Hebrides, by the smoke from a fire built at its mouth. But this was done by order of Maafu, who, on behalf of an Australian syndicate of highly-respectable merchants and church-members, was "bossing" an expedition in search of sandalwood through the New Hebrides.

1886，Julian Thomas，“Maafu, Prince of Tonga”, in Cannibals & Convicts: Notes of Personal Experiences in the Western Pacific，London, New York, N.Y.: Cassel & Company, Limited, →OCLC，頁 24:

Held at the estate of Mafia boss Joseph Barbara in Apalachin, NY, the meeting called by [Vito] Genovese in November 1957 brought over 100 mobsters from around the country to cement his power over the national crime syndicate.

1999，John Madinger，“Case Development”, in Confidential Informant: Law Enforcement’s Most Valuable Tool，Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, →ISBN，頁 178:

a gambling syndicate

In the mid-1880s, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt broke into print inauspiciously as one member of the stable of writers who supplied humorous sketches and mildly sentimental or didactic squibs for S[amuel] S[idney] McClure's newspaper syndicate.

1980，Wiliam L. Andrews，“The Apprentice Years: Experiments and Decisions”, in The Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt，Baton Rouge, La., London: Louisiana State University Press, →ISBN，頁 17:


armpit

來自中古英語 armpitt、arme-pitt、armput，等同於arm + pit。
(令人不快的事物)：大概是指胳肢窩下的體味。

令人不快或不受歡迎的地方或東西

the armpit of America


workaholic

All workaholics should move to Hong Kong, where working hours average over 50 per week.

所有工作狂都应该搬到香港去，那里每周平均工作时间超过50小时。

We're not looking to become workaholics who don't know how to rest or vacation, or who never hang it up long enough to go to a movie.

我们不想成为不知道如何休息或度假，或者从来不花时间去看电影的工作狂。

2016，JoAnneh Nagler，How to be an artist without losing your mind, your shirt, or your creative compass, →ISBN，頁 80:


FAQ

This site's FAQ says you should log in to access some pages.

該站點的常見問題解答說您應該登錄以訪問某些頁面。


books

We still have to do this month's books.


stuntman

During filming a stuntman was injured as he jumped from a railway bridge onto the roof of a train passing below.

拍摄期间，一名特技演员从一座铁路桥上跳到下面经过的火车顶上受伤。


apparel

apparels (third-person singular present)
appareling (present participle)
apparelling (present participle)
appareled (past participle)
apparelled (past participle)

配備、裝備、供給有……的

ships appareled to fight

trees appareled with flowers

a garden appareled with greenery


shaky

shakier (comparative)
shakiest (superlative)

a shaky spot in a marsh

a shaky hand

He’s a nice guy but when he talks to me, he acts shaky.

他是個很好的人，但跟我講話的時候就表現得很緊張。

For the college clinician, restless nights after letting a shaky student walk out of the office are an occupational hazard. Are the student's safety assurances credible? Will he or she make it safely through the weekend?

2006，Paul A. Grayson, Philip W. Meilman，College Mental Health Practice，頁 11:

Villa had plenty of opportunities to make the game safe after a shaky start and despite not reaching any great heights, they were resolute enough to take control of the game in the second half.

2011年April10日，Alistair Magowan，“Aston Villa 1 - 0 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport:

shaky timber

有關本詞的更多用例，請參閱Citations:shaky。

容易搖晃的，搖搖欲墜的，不牢固的

a shaky constitution

shaky business credit


allotropic

Graphite and diamond are allotropic forms of carbon.

石墨和鑽石是碳的同素異形形式。


antiozonant

源自 anti- + ozone (ozonize, ozonate) + -ant。

抗臭氧劑（防止或减缓空气中的臭氧气体对物质造成降解）

Antiozonants are used as additives to plastics and rubber, especially in tyre manufacturing.

抗臭氧剂用作塑料和橡胶的添加剂，尤其是在轮胎制造中。


drip line

Hydrogen-7 has so many excess neutrons that it lies beyond the neutron drip line, and will spit out neutrons until it becomes a particle-bound isotope.

氫-7具有如此多的過剩中子，故其位於中子滴線之外，并且会吐出中子，直到它变成粒子束缚同位素。


lethal dose

A lethal dose 50 will cause the death of 50% of a sample of test animals.

50的致死量會導致測試動物中50%的個體死亡。


toenail

toenail clippings


autism

借自德語 Autismus，由瑞士精神病學家尤金·布鲁勒造出，首次使用是1907年，卡尔·荣格將其作為“自體性慾”的替代詞，儘管布魯勒本人在其1911年首次出版的《Dementia Praecox》著作，對這兩個詞作了區分。來自古希臘語 αὐτός (autós，“自我”) + -ισμός (-ismós，“特性”)。

weaponized autism


budgie

She keeps a ton of budgies in her home.

她在家裡養了很多虎皮鸚鵡。


transitional

transitional justice


flashcard

flash card (alternative)
flashcards (plural)

/ˈflæʃˌkɑɹd/

Many people use flashcards to learn languages.

很多人都用抽認卡來學習語言。


cryptozoology

隱棲動物學、傳說動物學、神秘動物學

The Loch Ness Monster is one of the mysteries of cryptozoology.

尼斯湖水怪是神秘動物學的謎團之一。

This peculiar situation amplifies the reluctance of conservative scientists to objectively consider the search for hidden animals, the field of cryptozoology. […] Indeed, cryptozoology has gained increasing legitimacy in recent years.

2007，Jeff Meldrum，Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science，Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN，頁 45:


attached

more attached (comparative)
most attached (superlative)

detached

在兩個面與類似建築共享牆面

semiattached

在兩個面與類似建築共享牆面

I'm very attached to my pets.

As far as I know, he isn't attached, so I'm going to invite him out on a date.

據我所知，他現在還是單身，所以我要邀請他出來約會。

I'm not ready to get attached, as I want to continue sleeping around.

我還不想談戀愛，因為我想繼續到處拈花惹草。

與根或柄廣泛連接，但並未達到下延程度的

In this group of mushrooms, the attachment of the gills to the stipe ranges from attached to almost decurrent.

這組蘑菇中，菌褶與柄著生到幾乎下延。


devastated

more devastated (comparative)
most devastated (superlative)

Mary Ann was devastated when she found out her son was bullying a girl at school.

瑪麗安發現自己的兒子在學校欺負了一位女生，於是乎心寒到了極點。


airship

源自air + ship的複合詞。
* (英式幽默含義)： 模仿 worship（對治安官等的尊稱），可能也暗指Colonel Blimp（布林普上校）。

Airships are posited to be cheaper to operate over time than fixed-wing aircraft, but as there are no large fleets, this is hard to prove in practice.

長期來看，飛艇的運營成本可能低於固定翼飛機，但由於缺乏大規模使用實例，這點難以實際驗證。

On weekends, I liked to spend my time at the airport watching the various airships take off and land.

週末我喜歡在機場觀看各種飛行器起降。


antler

繼承自中古英語 auntelere、hauntelere，來自古法語 antoillier (“鹿角，角”)，來自ante- (“在前方”) + oillier (oil (“眼睛”) + -ier (表示地點的後綴))，可能來自未被證實的拉丁語 *anteocularis (“眼前”)。

While hiking in the woods, I found an antler from a deer.

我在林中遠足之時，發現了一對鹿角。


piece of cake

最早見於1936年，美式英語俗語。可能源自cakewalk，或者說是因為蛋糕味道好，所以“容易”吃掉。

Sure, no problem. It'll be a piece of cake.

可以，沒問題。這就是小菜一碟。


turning

Take the second turning on the left.


hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

來自hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian，sesquipedalian的延伸 + monstrum (“怪物”) 的連接形 + hippopotamus（英語河馬的錯誤拼寫） + -phobia。

/ˌhɪ.pəˌpɒ.tə(ʊ)ˈmɒn.stɹə(ʊ)ˌsɛs.kwɪ.pɪˌdɑːl.ɪ.ə(ʊ)ˈfəʊ.bɪ.ə/

本詞長達15音節，不太可能單純用作其所表示的意思。正式用語是 sesquipedalophobia。

Ben suffers from hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia so he seldom uses words of more than three syllables.

Ben 有長單詞恐懼症，所以他很少使用超過三個音節的單詞。

However, we assume that despite the best endeavours of science, some phobias will always remain. These include paraskavedekatriaphobia, or fear of Friday the 13th. And hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia, which is fear of long words.

2002年April19日，anonymous author，The Scotsman，頁 13:

Those who find this column troubling are suffering from hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- the fear of long words. Or, more likely, rupophobia - a fear of rubbish.

2002年December14日，Chris Lloyd，The Northern Echo，頁 10:

Coincidentally there is a masochistic PCP with hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (fear of long words) curled up in an alleyway across the street. He has been whispering “Antidisestablishmentarianism” to himself over and over for two days now, experiencing up to one orgasm every three hours as a result of The Pain […]

2005年September30日，D. Harlan Wilson，Pseudo-City，Raw Dog Screaming Press, →ISBN，頁 183:


straw man

源自 straw + man。
1986年版 Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 多處顯示，本詞用作無形之物的比喻義可追溯到1585-95年。
1897年版 Universal Dictionary of the English Language 第4卷第4485頁將“man of straw”解釋為“The figure of a man formed of an old suit of clothes stuffed with straw; hence, the mere resemblance of a man; one of no substance or means; an imaginary person.”（用塞满稻草的旧衣服做成的人形；因此可表示：仅仅是与人相似；没有任何实质或手段；一个想象出来的人。）
對比西弗里斯蘭語 strieman、荷蘭語 strooman、stroman、德語 Strohmann、丹麥語 stråmand、瑞典語 stråman、挪威語 stråmann。

steelman

稻草人論證，稻草人謬誤 （一種歪曲對手言論的辯論手段）

a tentative straw-man spec


straw man

straw mans (third-person singular present)
straw manning (present participle)
straw manned (past participle)

同類詞：steelman

Person A: "Cats have claws."
Person B: "Not all cats have claws: some are declawed."
Person A: "Don't straw man me; I never said all."

甲：“猫有爪子。”
乙：“不是所有的猫都有爪子：有些猫没有爪子。”
甲：“别拿我当稻草人，我从没说过“所有”。”

I have also argued that he is guilty of straw manning Copi and that his charge of shoddy reasoning against Kahane makes use of an equivocation on the concept of fallacy.

1996 [Vale Press], Ralph H. Johnson, The Rise of Informal Logic, Windsor Studies in Argumentation, 2014, E-edition, page 178,

¹¹ It should, however, also be noted that in certain cases later "neo-corporatist authors" straw manned the pluralist model, making it easier to criticise (Nedelmann and Meier, 1979: 94).

2016，Stijn Smismans，“5: Regulatory Procedure and Participation in the European Union”, in Comparative Law and Regulation，Edward Elgar Publishing，頁 133:

My point does not concern the principle of charity or whether Hickman has straw manned postmodernism.

2021，John T. Lysaker，Philosophy, Writing, and the Character of Thought，University of Chicago Press，頁 39:


watch over

watches over (third-person singular present)
watching over (present participle)
watched over (past participle)

She stayed up all night to watch over the sick infant.

她整夜沒睡，守護著患病的嬰兒。

I like to think / (it has to be!) / of a cybernetic ecology / where we are free of our labors / and joined back to nature, / returned to our mammal / brothers and sisters, / and all watched over / by machines of loving grace.

1967，Richard Brautigan，All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace:


last ditch

He stayed up all night in a last ditch effort to finish on time.

為了按時完成，他熬了整晚的夜，作最後的努力。


類似911、119，這些號碼既方便使用旋轉式或按鍵式電話撥打，又不易誤撥。

中國、日本、德國、印度尼西亞、拉脫維亞、玻利維亞、危地馬拉、安道爾、瑙魯、象牙海岸、臺灣等地的報案電話號碼。

110 handles police emergencies in Japan and Korea but fires and medical emergencies have a separate number, 119.


thank God it's Friday

因工作日結束而週末到來而得到滿足。

I can finally relax tomorrow. Thank God it's Friday!

我明天終於能休息了，感謝上天週五到了！


romaji

音譯自日語 ローマ字(じ) (rōmaji，字面意思是“羅馬字母”)。

/ˈɹəʊ.mə.d͡ʒiː/

The romaji of the word ローマ字 is “rōmaji”.

“ローマ字”一词的罗马字是“rōmaji”。

The katakana and the hiragana are syllabic forms of writing derived from Chinese characters, while the romaji are the letters used in writing most European languages.

片假名和平假名是衍生自汉字的音节书写形式，而罗马字则是用于书写许多欧洲语言的字母。

For example, in Japanese advertisements sexy and my house often appear in romaji, making the underlying concepts of eroticism and private ownership more exotic.

例如，日本广告中的 sexy（性感）和 my house（自己的房子）经常使用罗马字书写，以分别使其潜藏的“色情”和“私人所有”的概念更加异域化。

2006，Ralph Fasold, Jeffrey Connor-Linton，An Introduction to Language and Linguistics，頁 410:

Today people ordinarily use kana-kanji conversion systems for inputting Japanese text. Because many of them can touch-type the romajis for the kanas, the O-code with kana-kanji conversion is more accessible.

2011，T Okadome, J Nakajima, S Ito, K Kakusho，“An Accessible Coded Input Method for Japanese Extensive Writing”, in Proceedings of the Workshop on Advances in Text Input Methods:


melted

more melted (comparative)
most melted (superlative)

Melted ice cream just isn't as much fun to eat.

融化的冰淇淋吃起来没有那么有趣了。


Facebook

Facebooks (third-person singular present)
Facebooking (present participle)
Facebooked (past participle)

Facebook me the details later.

待會在臉書上把詳情發給我。


all ears

The students were all ears when they found out the topic of the film was "reproduction." They were disappointed to discover that it was also about fish.

學生們發現這部影片主題是“繁殖”時，都全神貫注。但打開看到是魚的時候，都大失所望。

I am all ears to find out how my car, which used to have a perfectly functional engine, will no longer start.

我很想知道，我的車引擎以前明明很好，為什麼現在發動不了。


all the same

He knew it was risky. He did it all the same.

他知道這有危險。他照樣做了。

仅按字面意思，并无比喻或俗语义；参见all、same。

His speeches are all the same.


call out

call-out (alternative)
calls out (third-person singular present)
calling out (present participle)
called out (past participle)

summon

召集，召喚，命令投入服務

They call out 304 stainless steel in the drawing, but the part was made from aluminum.

他们在图纸中标注了 304 不锈钢，但该零件是由铝制成的。

召集，召喚，命令投入服務

The Governor called out the National Guard.

Ninety-nine Decision Street
Ninety-nine ministers meet
To worry, worry, super scurry
Call the troops out in a hurry

1984, Nena, 99 Red Balloons (lyrics written by Kevin McAlea)

He was very insulting. Finally Jack called him out and shut him up.

他非常侮辱人。最后杰克怼了他，让他闭嘴。

She called them out on their lies.

He added: "We've always had spin, especially from Government. But this is not spin. This is dishonesty and so it's our rail media's urgent responsibility to call it out because non-specialist journalists across the country will report this and gradually these untruths will be accepted.

2022年January26日，Paul Stephen，“Network News: Government's IRP claims condemned as "dishonest"”, in RAIL，期 949，頁 7:


wheels

Like my new wheels?

rolling 18 wheels


their

源自古諾爾斯語 þeirra。古英語 hiera的代替。

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-Nattes à chat-their.wav

their可作單數義，參見they。
區分讀音相近的 “there” and “they’re”。

第三人稱複數形容詞性物主代詞：他/她/它們的。

they will meet tomorrow at their convenience; this is probably their cat


Romani

源自羅姆語 romani，romano (“羅姆人的”)的陰性形式 ← rom (“人”)。也見Roma。
與Romanian沒有直接聯繫。

羅姆人/吉普賽人（起源於印度的遊牧民族）

The Romani have long been discriminated against.


hames

(愛爾蘭、口語) 亂，糟亂

You've made a right hames of it, you eejit!

你把這整得一團糟，你這傻瓜！


what for

He wants four copies of it? What for?

Ow! What did you do that for?


what for

When your dad gets home, he'll give you what for.

等你爸回家了，他就要給你點顏色看看。

- Fagin, I'm waiting.


di-

源自古希臘語 δίς (dís，“兩次”)。

carbon dioxide


di-

源自古希臘語 διά (diá，“通過”)。

diactinic

dielectric


alcoholic

more alcoholic (comparative)
most alcoholic (superlative)

He ordered an alcoholic beverage.

The oysters were sour, and excessively alcoholic.

這些牡蠣是酸的，含了很多酒。


afar

通常前接from，或後接off。

He was seen from afar.

He loved her from afar.


dosh

詞源未知。可能是dough與cash的合詞。

(英國、澳大利亞) 錢，票子

I'd like to buy a new car, but I'm short on dosh.

我想買輛新車，但最近我手頭緊。


other than

There was no furniture in the abandoned house, other than a broken bedstead.

這間廢屋裡除了一個破床架之外，什麼家具都沒有。


slay

源自中古英語 sleen, slayn ← 古英語 slēan (“敲，擊，重打，殺，鍛造，衝撞，重踩，刺”) ← 原始日耳曼語 *slahaną (“打鬥，敲，殺”) ← 原始印歐語 *slak- (“擊，打，扔”)。與荷蘭語 slaan (“敲，擊，打”)、低地德語 slaan (“敲，擊，打”)、德語 schlagen (“敲，擊，打”)、丹麥語、挪威語, 瑞典語 slå (“敲，擊，打”)、冰島語 slá (“擊打”)同源。與slaughter、onslaught有關。

slays (third-person singular present)
slaying (present participle)
slew (past)
slayed (past)
slain (past participle)
slayed (past participle)
yslain (past participle)

另一種過去式及過去分詞“slayed”基本上用於俚語義“使人感覺良好、高興”：Harry Charles Witwer (1929年) Yes Man's Land，第 254 頁:“"Cutey, you slayed me !" grins Jackie, working fast. "I guess that's what made the rest of 'em look so bad — you was so good!"”

當然，其他義項也有使用“slayed”，但一般被視為是非標準用法。

根據COCA在美國2000年-2009年的調查中，“slayed”的使用普及度正在上升，但仍不如“slew”。BNC的調查則顯示，“slayed”在英國使用一直很少。

“slain”現在多用於新聞標題，因為比“murdered”短。

The knight slew the dragon.

Our foes must all be slain.

The Prince of Morocco:

c. 1596-97, 威廉·莎士比亞《威尼斯商人》, Act II scene i:

You must slay these thoughts.


reg

I've been going to that chat room for months, and I know most of the regs by now.

我上那個聊天室好幾個月了，現在也基本上認識了那裡的老熟客。


satiety

借自中古法語 satieté，源自拉丁語 satietas。

Eating half of that loaf of bread has left me in a state of utter satiety.

只吃半片麵包已經讓我覺得很飽了。


swart

源自中古英語 swarten ← 古英語 sweartian ← 原始日耳曼語 *swartōną。

swarts (third-person singular present)
swarting (present participle)
swarted (past participle)

to swart a living part

[…] the heate of the Sun, whose fervor may swarte a living part, and even black a dead or dissolving flesh,


speel

可能源自中古英語 spilen (“作樂，遊玩”) ← 古英語 spilian (“作樂，遊玩”) ← 原始日耳曼語 *spilōną。與荷蘭語 spelen (“玩”), 德語 spielen (“玩”), 盧森堡語 spillen (“玩”), 冰島語 spila (“玩”), 法羅語 spæla (“玩”), 瑞典語 spela (“玩”), 丹麥語 spille (“玩”), 挪威語 spille (“玩”)同源。

speels (third-person singular present)
speeling (present participle)
speeled (past participle)

(鄉村、北英格蘭、蘇格蘭) 玩，進行（娛樂）活動

To speel ba'.


speel

源自原始日耳曼語 *spilą (“舞蹈，遊戲”)。

(鄉村、北英格蘭、蘇格蘭) 遊戲

To play a good speel.


hafta

have to縮音的書寫形式。

hasta (third-person singular present)
hafta (third-person singular present)
hadda

I hafta fill in my tax return.


have to

has to (third-person singular present)
having to (present participle)
had to (past participle)

have to 後常跟動詞不定式。

I don't want to go to school, but I have to.

I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.

Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.

2013 July-August，Henry Petroski，“Geothermal Energy”, in 美國科學家，卷 101, 期 4:

I just have to have that shirt; you have to wear a seat belt

（與be動詞連用）一定（邏輯推斷）

that has to be the postman; it has to be an electrical fault

那一定是快遞員; 一定是有電器故障


mets

Mets can be found in multiple organs.

腫瘤轉移可出現在多種器官中。


short fuse

to be on a short fuse


Myanma

源自緬甸語 မြန်မာ့ (mranma.)。

Myanma Railways


Swiss

源自中古法語 Suisse（1515年左右），Switzer的形直接借自德語。

My favourite sandwich has roast beef and Swiss on rye bread.

我最喜歡的三文治有烤牛肉，黑麥麵包上有瑞士奶酪。


Tartar

源自古法語 Tartaire ← 中世紀拉丁語 Tartarus (“韃靼人，人”) ← 古突厥語 Tatar，拼寫受拉丁語 Tartarus (“（希臘神話中的）冥界”)影響，源自古希臘語 Τάρταρος (Tártaros)。

more Tartar (comparative)
most Tartar (superlative)

Tartar customs


administrate

* 古用法: 拉丁語 administratus，administrare的過去分詞。
* 現代用法: 逆構自administration（源自 administer，亦源自拉丁語 administrare）
（確切的詞源有爭議，參見下方注釋）

administrates (third-person singular present)
administrating (present participle)
administrated (past participle)

一般認為 administrate 是 administer的非標準變體，但在一些方言中這反而還是用得多的形式，在某些文段中亦作為行話使用。
某些辭書（如韋氏詞典）認為 administrate 是16世紀直接來自拉丁語，但這些來源有的也說 administer 和 administration 最早在14世紀已經出現在英語，所以 administration 的逆構是說得通的。

:Template:計算機 管理（系統、網絡等）

The job is to administrate the network.


administer

源自中古英語 admynistren ← 古法語 aminister ← 拉丁語 administrare (“管理，實行”) ← ad (“朝，向”) + ministrare (“照料，侍候”) ← minister (“侍從，侍者”)；參見minister。

administers (third-person singular present)
administering (present participle)
administered (past participle)

We administered the medicine to our dog by mixing it in his food.

我們把藥摻進狗糧裡，讓它吃下了。

(我們能否確認Macaulay引文的時間，或提供標題、作者全名和其他詳情？)

administering to the sick


canst

can的第三人稱單數現在時形。

Canst thou show me the way?

Man must begin, know this, where Nature ends;

1849, Matthew Arnold, In Harmony with Nature


allay

源自中古英語 alayen, aleyen, aleggen ← 古英語 āleċġan ← 原始日耳曼語 *uzlagjaną (“躺下”)，等同於a- + lay。與德語 erlegen, 哥特語 𐌿𐍃𐌻𐌰𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (uslagjan，“躺下”)同源。中古英語中形似allege、alloy，因而出現了意思的交叉。

allays (third-person singular present)
allaying (present participle)
allayed (past participle)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-Mélange a trois-allay.wav

to allay popular excitement

to allay the tumult of the passions

He had to pretend to be drunk in order to allay the suspicions which might have been aroused by his appearance at the gate.

1887，柯南·道爾，《血字的研究》:

The trade show’s organisers had attempted to allay concerns by announcing more stringent health and safety measures including a ban on handshakes, and taking attendees’ temperatures.

2020年February12日，Mark Sweney，“Mobile World Congress axed after firms quit over coronavirus fears”, in The Guardian:

to allay the severity of affliction or the bitterness of adversity


appease

源自中古英語 apesen ← 古法語 apeser (“使平靜”)。

appeases (third-person singular present)
appeasing (present participle)
appeased (past participle)

to appease the tumult of the ocean

'First, a little refreshment to reward my exertions. You may as well be quiet. It is not the first time, or the second, that your veins have appeased my thirst!'

1897, 布莱姆·斯托克 《德拉庫拉》 章21

They appeased the angry gods with burnt offerings.

他們用燒過的供品平息了神的憤怒。


shades

His shades are by some famous designer.

他這副墨鏡出自名家之手。


horsed

源自中古英語 horsed, i-horsed, yhorsed, y-horsed ← 古英語 horsod, ġehorsod古英語 horsian, ġehorsian (“騎馬”)的過去分詞，等同於horse + -ed。

horsed men


sowed

The farmer sowed the field with corn.


nights

源自中古英語 nightes ← 古英語 nihtes (“在晚上，到晚上”)，等同於night + -s。參見-s（詞源3）。與古弗里斯蘭語 nachtes (“晚上”), 古撒克遜語 nahtes (“晚上”), 德語 nachts (“在晚上”)同源。

I work nights.


mec

mec liquor


satiate

借自拉丁語 satiatus，satiare (“填滿，滿足”)的過去分詞，源自sat + satis (“足夠的”) + satur (“滿的”)。

satiates (third-person singular present)
satiating (present participle)
satiated (past participle)

Nothing seemed to satiate her desire for knowledge.

似乎沒有什麼能滿足她對知識的渴望。


shut up

shuts up (third-person singular present)
shutting up (present participle)
shut up (past participle)

用祈使句時，是命令他人停止談論：一般認為這樣較為無理。偏中性的表達是"be quiet"。 Shut the fuck up （shut up的語氣增強）有罕見的縮略成 fuck up。

(作格) 闭嘴，停止说话

You are talking so loud that I can't hear the music – would you mind shutting up?

你講話太大聲，我都聽不到音樂了 - 你能消停一會兒嗎？

He was blathering on about something, but I managed to shut him up.

他之前一直在叨叨些什麼，不過我最後讓他停下來了。

(僅用於祈使句) 我不信！這不可能！

I got accepted to Yale! – Shut up, really? That's awesome!

我被耶魯錄取啦！ - 我不信，真的嗎？那你也太厲害了吧！

I just heard that your wife was trying to shut you up for the insurance money.

我剛剛聽說你老婆想殺了你騙保險金。


sleepless

源自中古英語 slepeles ← 古英語 slǣplēas；等同於sleep + -less。

more sleepless (comparative)
most sleepless (superlative)

I spent a sleepless night worrying about the exams.

我擔心考試，失眠了一整晚。


speaking

源自中古英語 spekinge, spekynge, spekinde, spekende, spekande, spekand ← 古英語 specende, sprecende ← 原始日耳曼語 *sprekandz，原始日耳曼語 *sprekaną (“說”)的現在分詞。等同於speak + -ing。與低地蘇格蘭語 speikand, speikin, 薩特弗里斯蘭語 spreekend, 西弗里斯蘭語 sprekkend, 荷蘭語 sprekend, 德國低地德語 sprekend,
德語 sprechend同源。

one's normal speaking voice


speaking

源自中古英語 speking, spekinge，等同於speak + -ing。

I can read and understand most texts in German, but my speaking is awful.

我能閱讀和理解大多數德語文字，但是我說得不行。


tax collector

After the assessment has been made, the file passes to the tax collector.

評估完成後，文件會交給稅務員。


tremendously

more tremendously (comparative)
most tremendously (superlative)

The noise was tremendously loud.


trading

more trading (comparative)
most trading (superlative)

a trading company


swoon

源自中古英語 swounen, swonen (“昏厥”), aswoune (“處於昏厥狀態”)，源自古英語 ġeswōgen (“沒有知覺的，死的”)，swōgan (“發出聲音，肆虐，把……悶死”)的過去分詞（對比古英語 āswōgan (“覆蓋”)），源自原始日耳曼語 *swōganą (“發出響聲”) ← 原始印歐語 *(s)weh₂gʰ-。與低地德語 swogen (“歎息，呻吟”), 荷蘭語 zwoegen (“呻吟，大口呼吸”)，方言挪威語 søgja (“吹哨，大聲談話”)同源。參見sough。

swoons (third-person singular present)
swooning (present participle)
swooned (past participle)

發出帶有喜愛/迷戀情感的聲音

The girls swooned at the picture of their favorite actor.

女生们对着她们最喜欢的演员的照片发痴。

[Swoons] For sure. He's totally dreamy. Uh--but my heart still belongs to you, Pac-ums.

2013 (November 2) Pinky 10 minutes into episode 25 ("The Spy Who Slimed Me") of TV series "Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures" per closed captions


debone

debones (third-person singular present)
deboning (present participle)
deboned (past participle)

I am deboning a fish.


twain

源自中古英語 tweyne, tweien, twaine ← 古英語 twēġen m (“二”) ← 原始日耳曼語 *twai ← 原始印歐語 *dwóh₁。與薩特弗里斯蘭語 twäin, 低地德語 twene, 德語 zween, 瑞典語 tvenne同源。參見two。
本詞起源自中古英語詞性失去時期，作為two的形式之一，尤用於名詞後。現代用法留存於欽定版聖經、婚禮詞、詩歌（作韻尾）。

But the warm twilight round us twain will never rise again.

Bring me these twain cups of wine and water, and let us drink from the one we feel more befitting of this day.

A month or twain to live on honeycomb

1866, Algernon Swinburne, Before Parting, lines 1-2

Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.

1889, Rudyard Kipling, The Ballad of East and West, line 1

[…] all too soon we twain shall tread

1900, Ernest Dowson, Amor Profanus, lines 26-28


addle

源自中古英語 adel (“腐爛的”) ← 古英語 adel, adela (“泥潭，水池，液肥”) ← 原始日耳曼語 *adalaz, *adalô (“牛糞，液肥”)。類似低地蘇格蘭語 adill, 北弗里斯蘭語 ethel (“尿”), 薩特弗里斯蘭語 adel (“糞便”), 中古低地德語 adele (“泥，液肥”) (荷蘭語 aal (“水窪”)), 古瑞典語 adel (“尿”)，巴伐利亞語 Adel (“液肥”)。

more addle (comparative)
most addle (superlative)

addle eggs

addle brains


androgynous

源自拉丁語 androgynus (“男人-女人，雌雄同體的人”) ← 古希臘語 ἀνδρόγῠνος (andrógŭnos)，源自ἀνήρ (anḗr，“男人”) + γῠνή (gŭnḗ，“女人”) + -ος (-os，形容詞後綴)。

more androgynous (comparative)
most androgynous (superlative)

Nicknames like Pat, Sam, and Chris are androgynous, used by both men and women.

帕特、薩姆、克里斯這些暱稱都是兩性兼用的，男性女性都可以使用。


barf

barfs (third-person singular present)
barfing (present participle)
barfed (past participle)

The program barfed as a result of the invalid input.

因为输入了无效的数据，程序出毛病了。


antebellum

源自拉丁語短語ante bellum (字面意思是“戰前”)，ante (“之前”) + bellum (“戰爭”)。

希特勒統治下戰前的德國，出現了一種全新的國家榮譽的形式。


secession

源自拉丁語 sēcessiō (“脫離”)。

That year, secession was enacted on account of unreasonable policies.


extreme sport

Base-jumping is called an extreme sport, but I think it should be called an insane sport.

高空跳傘被稱為是一種“極限運動”，但我認為應該叫做“瘋狂運動”。


sexual orientation

There are more sexual orientations than simple homosexuality and heterosexuality.

性取向有很多種，不止同性戀和異性戀。


ex-boyfriend

I wish my ex-boyfriend wouldn't text me so often!

我希望前男友不要那麼頻繁發信息給我！


feel for

I feel for him: he's lost two family members in two months.

我很同情他：他一個月裡就失去了兩個家人。


tutti

源自意大利語 tutti ← 拉丁語 totus (“全部”)。

a tutti passage


cross out

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

If you make a mistake, just cross it out.

要是你犯了錯，劃掉重來就行了。


Olympic Games

源自Olympic + games，源自中古法語 ieux olympiques。

奧運會
古代奧運會 （自16世紀）

The first Olympic Games are traditionally dated to 776 BC.

傳統上認為第一屆古代奧運會舉辦於公元前776年。

In the times of the Olimpike games, with chariots exceeding all other in magnificence, he also sent poets and musitians to present his verses, with tents and pavillions gilt and most suinptuously tapistried.

1603，Michel de Montaigne，章號 17, in John Florio（譯者）, The Essayes […]，book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

Olympic Games. — Besides the ordinary confederacies that join independent states together, a singular federal bond is remarkable in the Olympic games, which for many ages cemented the Grecian commonwealths by a joint tie of recreation and religious ritual.

1840, John Dunlop, The Universal Tendency to Association in Mankind. Analyzed and Illustrated, London: Houlston and Stoneman, page 103:

奧運會
現代奧運會 （自19世紀）

Every athlete's dream is to compete at the Olympic Games.

每個運動員的夢想就是參見奧運會。

Chicago's bid to host the 2016 Olympic Games received a boost yesterday when its most famous former resident, the American president, Barack Obama, ended months of speculation by announcing that he would fly to Copenhagen before Friday's vote, in order to lobby on the city's behalf.

2009, Owen Gibson, The Guardian, 28 September:


foreign language

Irish courts will hear cases in English or Gaelic, but speakers of foreign languages must find an interpreter.

The children struggled in their Welsh lessons because they didn't have any experience of foreign languages.


doy

表示漠不關心；參見duh。

Wow, he looks pretty angry. - Doy!

哇，他好像很生氣的樣子。 - 哦。


duh

用於鄙夷地表示某事顯而易見。

It's hot in the desert. - Well, duh!

沙漠裡面很熱。 - 廢話。

用於表示模仿愚蠢的口氣。

Duhhh, I'm Jasmine, I can't even tie my shoe laces right!

嘿，我是Jasmine，我連自己的鞋帶都繫不好。


by day

He is a policeman by day and a thief by night.

他白天做警察，晚上當小偷。


by night

他白天做警察，晚上當小偷。


overregularize

overregularizes (third-person singular present)
overregularizing (present participle)
overregularized (past participle)

A child familiar with past tenses formed with "-ed" overregularizes by saying "goed" instead of "went".

熟悉過去式的孩子會過度規則化，把“went”說成“goed”。


dur

源自德語 Dur，源自拉丁語 dūrus (“硬的，堅定的，果斷的”)。

C dur


for sale

- Is this ladder for sale?
- No, it is used to reach the products on the upper shelves.

-這梯子賣嗎？
-不賣，這是用來夠著架子上層的貨品的。


extraordinaire

在複數名詞後，可類似法語複數化，作 extraordinaires ，所以既可以有 dancers extraordinaire ，也可以有 dancers extraordinaires。

He was a dancer extraordinaire.

Charlie Parker, saxophonist extraordinaire, released many records.

查理·帕克是一位傑出的薩克斯風演奏家，出版了許多唱片。


erm

用於表示說話猶豫，停頓。參見um, umm。

She was going to, erm... the salon, I think.

我覺得吧，她要去，呃……去沙龍吧。

用於表示尷尬或輕微的不同意。

Erm, I don't think that was supposed to happen.

呃，我覺得這不太可能要發生。

- Bob would never say something like that!
- Erm, he just did.

——鮑勃才不會那麼說話呢！
——呃，然而他確實那麼說了。


ex

前任（前夫/前妻/前男女朋友）

Her ex is still sending her flowers, even though she has moved on.

雖然她早就搬家了，她前任還在給他送花。


ex

more ex (comparative)
most ex (superlative)

It's too ex.


Anglish

源自Angle + -ish，最早是由英國幽默作家Paul Jennings在《笨拙雜誌》（Punch）上提出。

一種用日耳曼語族原生詞代替外來（尤其拉丁語、法語、希臘語）詞彙的英語形式。

In Anglish, you might call a dictionary a ‘wordbook’.


fure

源自原始日耳曼語 *fōrijaną。與荷蘭語 voeren (“帶領”), 低地德語 fören (“帶領”), 德語 führen (“帶領”), 盧森堡語 féieren (“帶領”), 冰島語 færa (“攜帶，移動”), 法羅語 føra (“帶領，攜帶”), 瑞典語 föra (“帶領，指揮”), 丹麥語 före (“帶領”), 書面挪威語 føre (“帶領”)同源。

fures (third-person singular present)
furing (present participle)
fured (past participle)

(英格蘭北部、蘇格蘭) 帶領

So far as his labor and his wisdom fures.

To his master, the Kings Majesty or General, that fures or leads the war.

(英格蘭北部、蘇格蘭) 攜帶

No goods should be fured upon the over-loft of the ships.


in case

I'll take an umbrella, in case it rains.


by chance

I stumbled across the exit by chance.


hadith

源自阿拉伯語 حَدِيث (ḥadīṯ) ← حَدَّثَ (ḥaddaṯa，“告訴，報告”)。

hadith (plural)
hadiths (plural)
ahadith (plural)

In addition to the Quran, many Muslims also look to the hadiths for moral and spiritual guidance in their daily lives.

There are four main Shia books of hadith and six main Sunni books of hadith.


superman

仿譯自德語 Übermensch；托马斯·康门，和super + man。德语词是由尼采在其1883年的著作《查拉图斯特拉如是说（Also sprach Zarathustra）》中提出，并由爱尔兰剧作家萧伯纳在1903年剧作《凡人與超人1909年翻译尼采著作时提出本词。有的学者认为本词并不对应 Übermensch，应使用德语词或overman。
“有超能力的人”一义是由DC漫画角色超人普及，其最早登场是1938年6月的Action Comics #1。

(哲学) 超人 （1903）

Nietzsche wrote of the coming of the superman.

Man does desire an ideal Superman with such energy as he can spare from his nutrition, and has in every age magnified the best living substitute for it he can find. His least incompetent general is set up as an Alexander; his King is the first gentleman in the world; his Pope is a saint. He is never without an array of human idols who are all nothing but sham Supermen.

1903, [George] Bernard Shaw, “Man's Objection to His Own Improvement”, in The Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion, appendix to Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy, Westminster, London: Archibald Constable & Co., Ltd., OCLC 903618586, page 194:

And Zarathustra spake thus unto the people: / I teach you the Superman. Man is something that is to be surpassed. What have ye done to surpass man? / […] What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock, a thing of shame. And just the same shall man be to the Superman: a laughing-stock, a thing of shame.

1909, Friedrich Nietzsche; Thomas Common, transl., “Zarathustra's Prologue”, in Thus Spake Zarathustra; a Book for All and None (Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche; 4), Edinburgh, T. N. Foulis, OCLC 1210069; republished as Thus Spake Zarathustra, New York, N.Y.: The Modern Library, [1940s?], OCLC 11993131, page 6:

He worked like a superman to single-handedly complete the project on time.

[page 113] The idea of superman is as old as the world. Through all the centuries, through hundreds of centuries of its history, humanity has lived with the idea of superman. Sayings and legends of all ancient peoples are full of images of a superman. Heroes of myths, Titans, demi-gods, Prometheus, who brought fire from heaven; prophets, messiahs and saints of all religions; heroes of fairy tales and epic songs, knights who rescue captive princesses, awake sleeping beauties, vanquish dragons, and fight giants and ogres—all these are images of a superman. […] [page 114] People dreamt of, or remembered times long past when their life was governed by supermen, who struggled against evil, upheld justice and acted as mediators between men and the Deity, governing them according to the will of the Deity, giving them laws, bringing them commandments.

1931，P[yotr] D[emianovich] Ouspensky，R[eginald] R. Merton, transl.，“Superman”, in A New Model of the Universe: Principles of the Psychological Method in Its Application to Problems of Science, Religion, and Art，New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →OCLC，頁s 113–114:

I had a vision of what the ideal man should be. I wanted someone whose income combined with mine could afford us a family, an apartment, a car, and all the travel, luxury, and fun we could possibly tolerate. I wanted a Superman.

2010 August，A[lex] E[chevarria] Roman，章號 25, in The Superman Project: A Chico Santana Mystery，New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN，頁 218:

What type of human weakness might a being of unfathomable power—a superman—inadvertently expose to the keen analytic mind of an avenging dark knight? Would he discover that a superhuman being who cannot be overcome, who is loved and adored by most, and who awes the commoner, desires to be overcome?

2016，Patrick J. Reider，“How Batman Cowed a God”, in Batman, Superman, and Philosophy: Badass or Boyscout? (Popular Culture and Philosophy; 100)，Chicago, Ill.: Open Court Publishing Company, →ISBN:

Early in Crime and Punishment, [Rodion] Raskolnikov has become obsessed with the notion that he himself is a "superman." Therefore, he thinks, he is not subject to the laws that govern ordinary people. […] However, his indecision and confusion throughout the novel indicate that he is not a superman. Moreover, in the course of the novel, [Fyodor] Dostoyevsky seeks to prove that there is no such thing as a superman. Dostoyevsky believes that every human life is precious, and no one is entitled to kill.

2016，A Study Guide for Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment” (Novels for Students)，Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale; Cengage Learning, →ISBN:


from time to time

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/en-au-from time to time.ogg

From time to time we all get a hankering for something a little different.

我们每个人偶尔都会渴望有点变化。

From time to time an atmosphere of compromise arises.


anagram

最早見於16世紀晚期，源自法語 anagramme，源自古希臘語 ἀνά (aná，“上，回”) + γράμμα (grámma，“字母”)。等同於ana- + -gram。

/ˈæ.nə.ɡɹæm/

異序詞，變位詞，易位詞（通過變換字母順序形成的詞）

The word "silent" is an anagram of "listen".


as usual

Though he was ill, he went to school as usual.

儘管他生病了，他仍然像平時一樣去上學。

As usual, there weren't many people at the meeting.

像往常一樣，來開會的人並不多。


in view of

In view of the present situation, we'll have to revise our original plan.

基于此现状，我们不得不修改原先的计划。

They stopped when they were in view of the town.

小镇在进入到他们的视野以后，他们就停了下来。


side dish

side

配菜，小菜 （自1702年）

side order

配菜，小菜 （自1702年）

main dish

配菜，小菜 （自1702年）

配菜，小菜 （自1702年）

She has mashed potatoes as a side dish every day for lunch.

她每天午餐配菜是土豆泥。


aneroid

源自法語 anéroïde ← 古希臘語 ἀ- (a-) + νηρός (nērós，“濕”)。

An evacuated bellows and mechanical linkage operates an aneroid barometer.


aorist

源自古希臘語 ἀόριστος (aóristos，“無盡的”)。

the aorist stem of a verb


biter

Not all dogs are biters.


blam

He kicked in the door with a blam.

他砰的一聲把門給踢了一腳。


blam

That the last zombie? Here. Let me get that for ya. *BLAM!*

那就是最後一隻僵尸？看我的，把他幹掉。*砰！*


fork out

forks out (third-person singular present)
forking out (present participle)
forked out (past participle)

The hard drive broke down, so I forked out five hundred dollars for a new one.

硬盤驅動器壞掉了，我只能花500塊賣個新的。


-ectomy

手術切除……，……切除術

appendectomy


surgical

源自中古英語 cirurgical，借自中古法語 cirurgical，源自中世紀拉丁語 cirurgicālis，源自古希臘語 χειρουργία (kheirourgía)，χείρ (kheír，“手”) + ἔργον (érgon，“工作”)。

more surgical (comparative)
most surgical (superlative)

/ˈsɜːdʒɪkəl/

The building was destroyed with a surgical air-strike.

這座大樓正正好被飛機擊中而被毀。


surgically

His cancer was treated surgically instead of with drugs or radiation.

他的癌症沒有通過服藥或化療，而是用手術治療的。


tract

源自tractate ← 拉丁語 tractatus，或借自拉丁語 tractus，trahō的完成被動分詞。參見trait。

an unexplored tract of sea

the tract of speech


alimentary canal

The mouth, oesophagus, stomach, and intestines are part of the human alimentary canal.

口、食道、胃、腸道都是人體消化道的組成部分。


biotech

I'm planning to work in biotech after college.

大學畢業之後我想在和生物技術有關的方面工作。

A lot of people invested in biotechs, back in the '90s.

上世紀90年代，很多人投資生物技術公司。


bruh

略自brother，其继承自非洲裔美国人白话英语。

You had to go to the hospital afterwards? Bruh!

你那之後去了醫院？不是吧！

Person 1: I'll pour some corn syrup in my diesel tank.
Person 2: Bruh

甲：我準備往柴油箱裡倒點玉米糖漿。
乙：你腦子沒事吧


trespass

源自古法語 trespasser，tres- (“越，過”) + passer (“通過”)。

trespasses (third-person singular present)
trespassing (present participle)
trespassed (past participle)

transgress

(現代罕見) 違法；做錯事

to trespass upon the time or patience of another

"Indeed I have, sir," was her answer. "She is a great deal too ill to be moved. Mr. Jones says we must not think of moving her. We must trespass a little longer on your kindness."
#*:: 班纳特太太回答道：“我却没有想象到会这般严重呢，先生，她病得太厉害了，根本不能搬动。钟斯大夫也说，千万不可以叫她搬动。我们只得叨光你们多照顾几天啦。”

1813 — Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.

宣佈某人因到他人土地上而犯非法侵入罪

The dean trespassed the streaker from his university.

The entire police force has in effect been trespassed from a Wellington property to stop officers checking whether a heavy-sleeping offender is complying with an overnight bail curfew.

2012年June21日，Greg O'Connor，“Criminal trespasses police officers”, in Stuff:


fella

(非正式、美國南部) 對男性的稱呼。

By the third go-around, the essence of what I wrote was, "And the same to you, fella!" I am glad that our relationship has survived that exchange.

1997，Donald Meichenbaum，“Discussion”, in The Evolution of Psychotherapy: The Third Conference，頁 90:

Am I right, fellas?


exceed

源自中古英語 exceden ← 古法語 exceder ← 拉丁語 excedō (“超過”)，ex- (“出，前”) + cedō (“走”)；參見cede 、accede等。

exceeds (third-person singular present)
exceeding (present participle)
exceeded (past participle)

The company's 2005 revenue exceeds that of 2004.

公司2005年的收入超過了2004年的。

The quality of her essay has exceeded my expectations.

她寫的文章的質量比我想象中的要好。

Name the time, but let it not / Exceed three days.

约1603–1604年，威廉·莎士比亚，“The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice [奥赛罗]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (第一对开本)，伦敦: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, 出版於 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:

Your password cannot exceed eight characters.

您的密碼字數不得超過8個字符。


WhatsApp

WhatsApps (third-person singular present)
WhatsApping (present participle)
WhatsApped (past participle)

Could you WhatsApp me the details?

你可否將詳情用WhatsApp發給我？

"What were you doing just now?" -- "I was WhatsApping".

“你剛才在做什麼？”——“我剛才在發WhatsApp。”


aborted

Spines are aborted branches.


avascular

more avascular (comparative)
most avascular (superlative)

An avascular mass was discovered during surgery.


hush money

The scandal was even greater when it was announced that hush money had been paid to keep the faulty products unannounced.

在有人宣稱（企業）給了封口費以使問題產品不被公佈之後，醜聞更是鬧得沸沸揚揚。


douchebag

That douchebag ruined my shrimp cocktail.

Why doesn't that guy get a job? He’s a regular douchebag.

It's fine to help your friends eat healthy, but don't be a douchebag and harass them about it.

That pocket protector makes you look like a douchebag.


lost cause

I tried to convince her to quit smoking, but she was a lost cause.

我嘗試說服她戒煙，但她沒有成功的希望。


https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/en-au-damned if one does and damned if one doesn't.ogg

you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't

If John leaves for New York to follow his career, his father will disinherit him. He's damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.

如果約翰去紐約開展他的事業，他父親就不讓他繼承家産。這可真是左右為難。


tranquilize

tranquilizes (third-person singular present)
tranquilizing (present participle)
tranquilized (past participle)

The escaped lion was finally tracked down, tranquilized, and safely returned to the zoo.

逃走的獅子最後被追蹤到，打了鎮靜劑，安全地回到動物園。


get across

gets across (third-person singular present)
getting across (present participle)
got across (past)
got across
gotten across

In heavy rain, the cavalry couldn't get across the river.

下大雨的時候，騎兵無法過河。

It's impossible to get across with all checkpoints closed.

所有的檢查站都關了，過不了。


fill in

fills in (third-person singular present)
filling in (present participle)
filled in (past participle)

to make land by filling in the sea with mud

After you're done laying the pipe, fill in the trench.

你把管子都放好之後，就把溝埋了。

If you know anything about this, maybe you can fill me in.

如果你在這方面有什麼知道的，可以告訴我。

He can't go on vacation very often because there is nobody to fill in for him.

他不能老是休假，因為沒人代替他。

Talk to me like that again and I'll fill you in!

再跟我那樣說話，我就把你揍扁！


blah blah blah

Oh blah blah blah. Just be quiet!

I went to go out, but couldn't find my keys; blah blah blah, my toddler had hidden them in his snow boots.

我出去了，但是沒找到鑰匙；等等等，結果是我孩子把它藏在雪地靴裡了。


take its toll

產生負面影響；損壞或退化

Time had taken its toll on the old bridge, and it was no longer sound.

時間給這座古橋帶來了侵蝕，它現在不再堅固了。

Heavy smoking and drinking will take its toll on a person's health.


gloves are off

拳擊比賽時，選手會戴上手套；“除掉手套”可能會導致受傷。

盡情去攻擊對方，動真格。

The gloves are off in this match; both teams are purposely committing fouls against opposing players!

這場比賽雙方都動了真格：兩邊都在故意對對方選手犯規！


initials

:Template:複 人名（姓、名、中間名等）的首字母，作為人名的縮寫。參見monogram。

You may leave out where you live and use either initials or an alias, since gods, buddhas and other divinities look only at our hearts.


chokehold

He put his opponent in a chokehold.

他一個鎖喉把對手掐住了。

Your country has a chokehold on our economy.

貴國把我國的經濟死死地壓住。


binge drinking

狂飲，豪飲，酗酒；喝酒喝到爛醉

Fights caused by binge drinking are a major problem in Cardiff.

在加的夫，酗酒引起的鬥毆是一個嚴重的問題。


admiration

借自中古法語 admiration，或直接來自拉丁語 admīrātiō，源自ad- (“向”) + mīrō (“看”) + -ātiō。對比動詞admire, 美式方言詞miration, mirate。

admiration of a war hero

They looked at the landscape in admiration.

他們看著風景，讚歎不已。

For in this Instance, Life most exactly resembles the Stage, since it is often the same Person who represents the Villain and the Heroe; and he who engages your Admiration To-day, will probably attract your Contempt To-Morrow.

1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Dublin: John Smith, Volume 2, Book 7, Chapter 1, pp. 4-5,

A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
#*:: 女人的想象力真敏捷；從敬慕一跳就跳到愛情，一眨眼的工夫又從愛情跳到結婚。

1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Volume 1, Chapter 6,

Dr. Veraswami had a passionate admiration for the English, which a thousand snubs from Englishmen had not shaken.

1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days, New York: Harcout Brace Jovanovich, 1974, Chapter 3, p. 40,

[…] in the towns, the storekeepers hated them because they had no money to spend. There is no shorter path to a storekeeper’s contempt, and all his admirations are exactly opposite. The town men, little bankers, hated Okies because there was nothing to gain from them.

1939, John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath, Penguin, 1951, Chapter 19, p. 257,


thank

源自中古英語 thanken, thankien ← 古英語 þancian, þoncian (“感謝”) ← 原始日耳曼語 *þankōną (“感謝”) ← 原始日耳曼語 *þankaz (“想法，感謝”) ← 原始印歐語 *teng- (“想，感覺”)。與薩特弗里斯蘭語 tonkje (“感謝”), 西弗里斯蘭語 tanke (“感謝”), 荷蘭語 danken (“感謝”), 低地德語 danken (“感謝”), 德語 danken (“感謝”), 丹麥語 takke (“感謝”), 瑞典語 tacka (“感謝”), 冰島語 þakka (“感謝”)同源。與thought有關。

thanks (third-person singular present)
thanking (present participle)
thanked (past participle)

She thanked him for the lift.

她對他載她一程表示感謝。

The Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman and the Lion now thanked the Good Witch earnestly for her kindness; and Dorothy exclaimed: […]
#*:: 稻草人、鐵皮樵夫和獅子由衷地感激甘琳達的善良。多蘿茜大聲說： […]

1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23

I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.

1913，Joseph C. Lincoln，章號 4, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

I'll thank you not to smoke in my house!

我得謝謝您不在我房裏抽菸！

Our readers would not thank us for going into the badgerings which had for some time annoyed the chancellor on the subject of arrears in his court.

1844, The Quarterly Review (volume 74, page 104)

We can thank global warming for this weather.

我們可以把這樣的天氣歸咎於全球變暖。

But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud,[…]. By the time we reached the house we were thanking our stars she had come. Mrs. Cooke came out from under the port-cochere to welcome her.

1898，Winston Churchill，章號 5, in The Celebrity:


protonate

protonates (third-person singular present)
protonating (present participle)
protonated (past participle)

protonate the carbonyl group


let alone

何況，莫講，更不用說，遑論

I did not know that, as a father, I could enter the delivery room, let alone cutting the umbilical cord.

我不知道作為父親是可以進入產房的，更何況剪肚臍帶。

He couldn't boil water, let alone prepare a dinner for eight.

他連水都不會燒，更別說準備一份八人大晚餐了。


let alone

lets alone (third-person singular present)
letting alone (present participle)
let alone (past participle)

I wish he would let me alone so I could get some sleep.

我希望他別打擾我，讓我能睡一會兒。


meh

* 因《辛普森一家》的 "Sideshow Bob Roberts"一集而流行。

表示漠不關心，不在乎或缺乏興趣。

“What do you want for dinner?” — “Meh. I’m not really hungry.”

“晚飯你想要吃什麼？” — “嗯。我還不是很餓。”

“That film was awesome!” — “Meh. I’ve seen better.”

“那部電影很好看啊！” — “哦，我看過比這還好的。”

Marge: [weaving on a loom] “Hi Bart, I’m weaving on a loom!”
Bart: “Meh”.

1995年March19日，“Lisa’s Wedding”, in The Simpsons:

Scientists say that while the public may think of the moon as a problem solved and a bit retro – the place astronauts visited a half-dozen times way back before Watergate and then abandoned with a giant "meh" from mankind – in fact, lunar studies is a vibrant enterprise that is yielding a wealth of surprises.

2014年September7日，Natalie Angier，“The Moon comes around again [print version: Revisiting a moon that still has secrets to reveal: Supermoon revives interest in its violent origins and hidden face, International New York Times, 10 September 2014, p. 8]”, in The New York Times:


sunny

源自中古英語 sunni ← 古英語 *sunniġ。與西弗里斯蘭語 sinnich, 低地德語 sünnig, 荷蘭語 zonnig, 德語 sonnig同源。等同於sun + -y。

sunnier (comparative)
sunniest (superlative)

Whilst it may be sunny today, the weather forecast is predicting rain.

雖然今天可能是晴天，但是天氣預報說會下雨。

the sunny side of a hill

I would describe Spain as sunny, but it's nothing in comparison to the Sahara.

我會說西班牙經常天晴，但是和撒哈拉就沒有可比性了。

a sunny disposition

My decayed fair / A sunny look of his would soon repair.

c. 1590, William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors Act I scene 1

A gleam of sun shining through the unsashed window, and chequering the dark workshop with a broad patch of light, fell full upon him, as though attracted by his sunny heart.


leap-year

Stateside, a presidential election is a leap-year event.

在美國，總統選舉是個閏年進行的活動。


autist

:Template:網(4chan俚語，具冒犯性) （不正常的）固執者，堅持者

autists arguing about 'muh graphics'


dunch

(非正式、罕用) 在晚餐、午餐之間用餐

For tomorrow, I’ve a lunchtime appointment so let's have dunch together instead.

明天我有個午餐會，所以咱們還是一起吃個“午晚餐”吧。


pass out

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

I pass out at the sight of blood.

I passed out on the train after drinking a bottle of vodka.

喝完一瓶伏特加之後，我在火車上醉倒了。

We'll pass out copies of the agenda.

我們會分發議事日程表的複印件。


pass away

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

一般指自然死亡或因疾病死亡。

After a long battle with cancer, the professor passed away yesterday.

在與癌症長期鬥爭後，教授於昨日逝世。

He was wise, for he had seen a long succession of mechanical toys arrive to boast and swagger, and by-and-by break their mainsprings and pass away.

1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit


pass off

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

The millennium passed off without any disasters.

這一千年沒有發生什麼災難就過去了。

He tried to pass off the imitation Rolex as genuine.

他嘗試把這隻仿冒的勞力士說成是真貨。

This goat has been passed off as a lamb.


swine

源自中古英語 swine, swin ← 古英語 swīn ← 原始日耳曼語 *swīną，源自原始印歐語 *suH- (“豬”)，等同於sow + -en。與西弗里斯蘭語 swyn, 低地德語 Swien, 荷蘭語 zwijn, 德語 Schwein, 丹麥語 svin；波蘭語 świnia, 俄語 свинья́ (svinʹjá), 拉丁語 sūinus, 拉丁語 sūs, 古希臘語 ὗς (hûs), 波斯語 خوک (xuk)有關。參見sow。

That old car is a swine to manoeuvre.


form-fitting

more form-fitting (comparative)
most form-fitting (superlative)

a form-fitting evening dress


sight for sore eyes

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When the fog lifted, the view of the glacier was a sight for sore eyes.

霧靄消散，賞心悅目的冰川美景躍然眼前。


in full

My creditors insist on being repaid in full before the end of the month.

我的債主堅持要我在月末之前全數還款。


shambles

源自古英語 sċamul，借自通俗拉丁語 scamellum, scamillum (“壟”)，源自拉丁語 scamnum。

Your room is in shambles / a shambles.

This website is a shambles.


shamble

源自中古英語 schambyll、shamyll、schamel，源自古英語 sċeamol, scamol (“椅，凳”)，源自原始日耳曼語 *skamulaz、*skamilaz，源自拉丁語 scamellum，scabellum (“腳凳”)的變體。與荷蘭語 schemel (“腳凳，椅”)、德語 Schemel (“凳”)、丹麥語 skammel (“凳”)、冰島語 skemill (“腳凳”)同源。

shambles (third-person singular present)
shambling (present participle)
shambled (past participle)

I wasn't too impressed with the fellow, when he shambled in unenthusiastically and an hour late.

这家伙漫不经心地拖着脚进来，迟到一小时的时候，给了我不是很好的印象。


louche

louches (third-person singular present)
louching (present participle)
louched (past participle)

將酒精飲料（如烏佐酒，苦艾酒）與水混合，因生成茴腦導致酒變渾濁（乌佐效应）。

Certain anise-flavored drinks have developed a mystique based on the exotic appearance of louching.

In distillation, the first few liters of absinthe to come out of the still are called the head; the last few liters are the tail. The head and tail don't have enough alcohol to keep the oils in suspension, so the absinthe comes out of the still louched.

2010，Paul Owens，Paul Nathan，Dave Herlong，The Little Green Book of Absinthe: An Essential Companion with Lore, Trivia, and Classic and Contemporary Cocktails，New York, N.Y.: Perigee Books, →ISBN:


forest fire

hotter than a fresh fucked fox in a forest fire

If the forest fire is not contained soon the town will be at risk!

如果林火沒有得到控制，很快鎮子就會受到威脅！


fucked

more fucked (comparative)
most fucked (superlative)

I can't repair your computer, it's fucked, mate.

哥們兒，我修不好你的電腦，都壞掉了。

He's lost his map in the middle of a desert! He's fucked.

他竟然在沙漠裡把地圖弄丟了！真是惹大麻煩了。

Man, I was mixing all sorts of drinks, and by the end of the night I was so fucked!

哥啊，我昨晚調了好幾種酒，最後簡直是爛醉如泥啊！

I'm so fucked – I didn't get home until 5am.

累死我了——我凌晨5點才到的家。


motivated

more motivated (comparative)
most motivated (superlative)

We're looking for a highly motivated individual who will fit into our fast-paced corporate culture.

我們正在尋找一位對工作保持高度熱情，且能融入本公司快節奏文化的人士。


yester

源自中古英語 yester, yister ← 古英語 geostran (“昨天”)。與荷蘭語 gisteren (“昨天”), 德語 gestern (“昨天”)同源。參見yesterday。

yester eve, yester even(ing), yester morning


integro-differential

/ɪnˈtɛɡɹəʊdɪfəˈrɛnʃəl/

/ɪnˈtɛɡɹoʊdɪfəˈrɛnʃəl/

An integro-differential equation is an equation that involves both integrals and derivatives of a function.

積分微分方程是一個同時涉及積分和微分的方程式。


exaggerate

源自拉丁語 exaggeratus，exaggerare (“堆積，使增加，擴大，誇大”)的過去分詞，ex (“出，上”) + aggerare (“堆積”)，源自agger (“堆，坨”)，源自aggerere, adgerere (“帶到一起”)，源自ad (“朝，向”) + gerere (“攜，帶”)、

exaggerates (third-person singular present)
exaggerating (present participle)
exaggerated (past participle)

/ɛɡˈzæ.dʒə.ɹeɪt/

/ɪɡˈzæ.dʒə.ɹeɪt/

I've told you a billion times not to exaggerate!

我都跟你說過好多遍了，不要誇大事實！

He said he'd slept with hundreds of girls, but I know he's exaggerating. The real number is about ten.

他說他睡過幾百個女人了，但是我知道這不過是他在吹牛罷了，實際上也就差不多十個。


pigs might fly

(帶諷刺) 表示不相信前面話語所描述事件會發生。

‘I am sure he'll pay you back tomorrow.’ ‘Yeah right, and pigs might fly.’

“我可以肯定，他明天就會還錢給你的。” “太陽還能打西邊出來呢（所以我不相信他明天會還錢）。”


miles

(非正式) 表示極長的距離或時間。

His final shot missed the bullseye by miles.

他的最後一射離靶心太遠了。

From the top of the hill you can see for miles.

從山頂，你能俯瞰很遠的距離。

No need to hurry. The deadline is miles away.

沒必要那麼趕，離期限還遠著呢。


miles

Her new paintings are miles better than her older ones.

她的新畫作比以前的好多了。


science fiction

Some people consider motion pictures such as the Star Wars movies more as fantasies than science fiction.

有的人認為，像《星球大戰》這類電影，與其說是科幻，不如說更像是奇幻。

仍處於想象、理論階段的技術

Despite decades of research, mass-market personal aircraft are still science fiction.

儘管經過了數十年的研究，批量化生產的個人飛機仍然還處於理論階段。


pay attention

pays attention (third-person singular present)
paying attention (present participle)
paid attention (past participle)

I was on my way to the door, but all at once, through the fog in my head, I began to sight one reef that I hadn't paid any attention to afore.

Please pay attention to the danger signs.


rickroll

2007年出現於4chan網站上，由 Rick + roll 組成，前者是歌手瑞克·艾斯里（Rick Astley）的名字，後者是則是引用了2005年該網站上把「egg」（蛋）替換成「duck」（鴨）的惡作劇，致使「eggroll」（蛋捲）變成了「duckroll」（鴨子捲）。

rick-roll (alternative)
rickrolls (plural)

You have to check out this link. Not a rickroll.

你得看看這個連結。這不是瑞克搖。


national anthem

聯邦、聯盟的組成國/加盟國的官方歌曲。

The national anthem of Wales

The national anthem of the Russian SFSR

俄羅斯蘇維埃聯邦社會主義共和國國歌


long face

Why the long face? Is something wrong?

你怎麼愁眉苦臉的？出什麼事了嗎？


tacit

源自晚期中古法語 tacite，或源自拉丁語 tacitus，源自tacere (“安靜”)。

more tacit (comparative)
most tacit (superlative)

默示的；心照不宣的，不言而喻的

tacit consent

He does this by way of a tacit reference to Homer.

1983, Stanley Rosen, Plato’s Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image, page 62:

[…] disengagement represents a tacit rejection of governing institutions and processes, especially among young people, […]

2004, Developing Democracy in Europe: An Analytical Summary (Lawrence Pratchett, Vivien Lowndes; ISBN 9287155798:


tacitly

more tacitly (comparative)
most tacitly (superlative)

Your failure to object to the request resulted in you tacitly approving the change.

你沒有反對該請求，導致你默認同意該變更。

The new accusation brought by Urban against Manfred of murdering his sister-in-law's embassador – it may be observed that, tacitly, he acquits him of parricide, fratricide, and nepoticide – requires a little explanation.

1856，Mrs. William Busk，Mediæval Popes, Emperors, Kings, and Crusaders: Or, Germany, Italy and Palestine, from A.D. 1125 to A.D. 1268，卷 IV, London: Hookham and Sons, →OCLC，頁 294:

The assumption that these are identical in meaning and usage between Indian English and Anglo-American English, while tacitly accepted, is untested, and fundamentally unknown.

2012，James Lambert，“Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes，頁 306:


belonging

I have a feeling of belonging in London.

在倫敦，我有一種歸屬感。

A need for belonging seems fundamental to humans.

Make sure you take all your belongings when you leave.

走之前記得把你的東西都帶走。

[…] Thyself and thy belongings

大約1604 威廉·莎士比亞, 一報還一報，第一場，第一幕，

In the little houses the tenant people sifted their belongings and the belongings of their fathers and of their grandfathers. Picked over their possessions for the journey to the west.

1939, 約翰·斯坦貝克，憤怒的葡萄，紐約: Compass, 1958, 第9章，第117頁，

Now, upstairs, she changed into faded Levis and a green sweater, and fastened round her wrist her third most valued belonging, a gold watch […]

1966, 杜魯門·卡波特，冷血，紐約: Modern Library, 1992, 第I部，第22頁，


free of charge

Buy two and pay for just one – the other is free of charge.

買二送一——也就是第二件免費。


free of charge

They were giving the tickets away free of charge.


nerf

源自玩具品牌 Nerf 。

nerfs (third-person singular present)
nerfing (present participle)
nerfed (past participle)

gimp

對角色、武器、技能等的削弱

對角色、武器、技能等的削弱

The lightning spell was originally pretty powerful, but in the sequel they nerfed it so it became completely useless.

閃電法術原來很厲害的，但是後來被削了，就徹底沒用了。


carbon copy

In preparing the contract, we'll make a carbon copy for our records.

準備合同時，我們會複寫一份留作記錄。

This new home is simply a carbon copy of the one down the street.

這間新房簡直就是街邊另一家的翻版。


carbon copy

carbon copies (third-person singular present)
carbon copying (present participle)
carbon copied (past participle)

Please carbon copy this contract for our records.

請將本合同抄送以供我方記錄。


socially

more socially (comparative)
most socially (superlative)

socially awkward


not yet

We have not finished an action yet.

我們尚未完成一個action。


dop

源自中古英語 doppen，源自古英語 *doppian，與古英語 doppettan同源。

dops (third-person singular present)
dopping (present participle)
dopped (past participle)

未能通過（考試、考核等）

I dopped my exams.


dop

Let's go to the bar for a dop.

Give me a dop of brandy.


hes

his (“他的”)的另一種寫法

That's hes house over there.


hes

his (“他的（事物）”)的另一種寫法

The idea was hes not mine.

這個主意是他想出來的，不是我的。


dispose of

disposes of (third-person singular present)
disposing of (present participle)
disposed of (past participle)

They disposed of the stolen property.

The national power committee has trouble disposing of nuclear waste.

國家能源委員會在處理核廢料上出現了問題。

The Commission may not be able to assess the reliability of the data provided by Member States and may not dispose of independent information sources.

委員會可能無法評估成員國所提供的數據，也沒有獨立的數據來源。


surveyor

源自盎格魯-諾曼語 surveour ← 古法語 sorveor。等同於survey + -or。

Other costs associated with selling a home include surveyor's fees, legal fees, estate agent's commission, stamp duty and the VAT.


eek

Eek! There's a mouse in the bathtub!

I almost got fired from my job yesterday. Eek!

我昨天差點就被炒了。唉！


eek

ecaf (“臉”) 的截斷形式。，源自face的倒序。

How bona to vada your eek!

Though she's a bimbo bit of hard, / she’s royal and tart. And girl, you know / vadaing her eek is always bona.

2015年October12日，Adam Lowe，“Poem of the week: Vada That”, in The Guardian:


xeno-

派生自古希臘語 ξένος (xénos，“異地的”)。

xenophilia（對陌生人或外國人的喜愛）、xenophobia（對外國人或外國習俗、宗教等的憎惡或恐懼；恐外症，仇外，懼外）

xenolith（捕虜岩）、xenomenia（異位月經）


high heels

I look sexier in high heels.

我穿著高跟鞋時看起來更性感。


stump

源自中古英語 stumpe, stompe (“樹樁”)，源自或與中古低地德語 stump (“樹樁”)有關，源自原始日耳曼語 *stumpaz (“樹樁，末端，砍下的部分”)。與中古荷蘭語 stomp (“樹樁”), 古高地德語 stumph (“樹樁”) (德語 Stumpf), 古諾爾斯語 stumpr (“樹樁”)同源。參見stop。

to stir one's stumps


stump

stumps (third-person singular present)
stumping (present participle)
stumped (past participle)

This last question has me stumped.

最後一個問題把我問倒了。

He’s been stumping for that reform for months.


seriously

more seriously (comparative)
most seriously (superlative)

no really

在語氣較為輕鬆的語句中作轉折，表示將要引出認真嚴肅的話題。

no kidding

在語氣較為輕鬆的語句中作轉折，表示將要引出認真嚴肅的話題。

no really

回應前一事項，用於表示不相信或強調的語氣。

no kidding

回應前一事項，用於表示不相信或強調的語氣。

He was hoping that we would take him seriously.

他希望我們會認真考慮他。

Jimmy jokingly called Bob a doofus. Bob took the insult seriously.

吉米開玩笑說鮑勃是個蠢蛋。鮑勃把這「侮辱」當真了。

That was a seriously unpleasant thing to say.

那是句非常令人不快的話。

在語氣較為輕鬆的語句中作轉折，表示將要引出認真嚴肅的話題。

Now, seriously, why did you forget to feed the cat today?

現在說正經的，你今天怎麼就忘記去餵貓了？

回應前一事項，用於表示不相信或強調的語氣。

You baked 10 cakes. Seriously, why did you do that?

你烤了10個蛋糕啊。說真的，為什麼你要這麼做？


of course

naturally

當然，明顯地 （19世紀）

indisputably

當然，明顯地 （19世紀）

當然，明顯地 （19世紀）

Of course I know that!

You will, of course, surrender all your future rights to the property.


of course

Will you come with me? — Of course!

你會跟我一起過來嗎？——當然啦！


bi-

bicoloured

bikont

biallelic

屬於或與基因的兩個等位基因有關的

分叉的，一分為二的； 半

bicameralism

biarticulated

biromantic

biconjugate

bicentennial

bicomplex


time-invariant

more time-invariant (comparative)
most time-invariant (superlative)

For time-invariant systems, the system properties remain constant with time.

對於非時變系統，系統的特性隨時間保持不變。


parijat

派生自馬拉地語 पारिजात (pārijāt)。

What are you betting? I looked out of the window. The flowers from the parijat tree.

In order to completely carry out this bartā, she required a flower from the parijāt tree, a tree that does not grow in the heavenly city of Indra.

She turned away and cleared the parijat flowers from the stone edge of the pool with a wet hand.


get by

gets by (third-person singular present)
getting by (present participle)
got by (past)
got by
gotten by

I'm getting by, but I've been having trouble coping with things.

我勉强撑着。但老实说，我真觉得快撑不住了。


Rwandese

more Rwandese (comparative)
most Rwandese (superlative)

In 2003, Rwanda changed its official name from "Rwandese Republic" to "Republic of Rwanda".

2003年，盧旺達將其（英語）官方名稱由“Rwandese Republic”改為“Republic of Rwanda”。


tantrum

源自tanterum，源頭不明，可能源自泰米爾語 தந்திரம் (tantiram)。

Many parents become embarrassed by their children throwing tantrums in public places.

很多家長都為自己的孩子在公共場合發脾氣而感到尷尬。

Baby Shawn threw a tantrum when he was told the bicycle was not his.

當別人告訴小肖恩，那自行車不是他的時候，他大發脾氣。

When he became frustrated, he threw a tantrum, and his mother would attempt to comfort him.

他一沮喪，就發脾氣，他母親就會嘗試安撫他。

2003，Saralea E. Chazan，Simultaneous Treatment of Parent and Child，頁 185:


allot

源自中古英語 allotten，源自古法語 aloter（現代法語 allotir）。

allots (third-person singular present)
allotting (present participle)
allotted (past participle)

Each candidate was allotted five minutes to make a presentation in front of the judges.

每名候選人都有五分鐘時間在評判員面前做報告。


touchy

源自tachy, techy, teachie, tetchy，等同於touch + -y。參見tetchy。

touchier (comparative)
touchiest (superlative)

It is an extremely touchy situation, with everybody's patience wearing thin.

這是一個極其棘手的情況，所有人的耐心都正被消磨。

He can be very touchy when you talk about his cat, so be as tactful as possible.

一旦聊到他的貓，他就會變得很敏感，所以你可別惹到他了。


poz

Her test results were poz.

她的檢測結果是HIV陽性。

At a contentious public meeting to discuss barebacking in New York in 1999, an interesting statement came from a man who described himself as the manager of the nation's largest moderated bareback computer list. He stated almost in passing that the the list was “about 98 percent poz guys.”

2002，David Nimmons，The Soul Beneath the Skin，New York: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN，頁 74:

I recall when we exchanged our HIV statuses at one point; not tonight. He's poz.

2010，Rick Reed，Tales from the Sexual Underground，頁 61:


sentencing

There were no sentencing guidelines for this crime.


ensuing

We watched the derailment and ensuing train wreck with a mixture of fascination and horror.

我们怀着既着迷又恐惧的心情看着火车脱轨和随后发生的相撞事故。


long live

Long live the King!


push back

pushes back (third-person singular present)
pushing back (present participle)
pushed back (past participle)

The scandal is growing legs. We need to start pushing back.

醜聞持續發酵，我們應該開始反制。

The Friday meeting keeps getting pushed back to the following week.

週五的會議繼續推遲到下週。


monoglot

more monoglot (comparative)
most monoglot (superlative)

只會說一種語言的，單語的

He thought Britain was more monoglot than ever.

他認為英國人比以往變得更加不會說其他語言了。


ill will

源自中古英語 ill will, il wille, ill wille，等同於ill + will。

The losing side bore no ill will toward the winners.

輸的一方對贏的一方不抱有任何敵意。


intransitive verb

In the English language, "sleep" is an intransitive verb.

英語中，"sleep" 是不及物動詞。


betacism

唇齒化，指 [b]（濁雙唇塞音）和 [v]（濁唇齒擦音）逐漸混淆，使得 /b/ → [v] 或 /v/ → [b] 的過程。

Betacism is a fairly common phenomenon: it has taken place in Greek, Hebrew, Spanish, and some Portuguese dialects, among others.

唇齒化是一種相當普遍的現象：其發生在希臘語、希伯來語、西班牙語一些葡萄牙方言中和其他語言。


adore

源自中古英語 *adoren, aouren，源自古法語 adorer, aorer，源自拉丁語 adōrō，源自ad (“對”) + ōrō (“說話”)。

adores (third-person singular present)
adoring (present participle)
adored (past participle)

It is obvious to everyone that Gerry adores Heather.

The great mass of the population abhorred Popery and adored Monmouth.

1849, Thomas Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James II, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Volume I, Chapter 5, p. 388,


theft

源自中古英語 theft、thefte、þefte、þefþe、þiefþe，源自古英語 þīefþu，源自原始日耳曼語 *þiubiþō，源自*þeubaz (“竊賊”)，等同於thief + -th 或 thieve + -th。與古弗里斯蘭語 thiuvethe, thiufthe (“盜竊”)、古諾爾斯語 þýfð、þýft，和:Template:廢荷蘭語 diefte同源。

resource theft

Bike theft is on the rise.

A suspect was arrested for the theft of a gold necklace.


Indian

源自盎格魯-諾曼語 indien, 中古法語 indien，等同於Ind + -ian。用於美洲原住民是早期探險家將其與印度人混淆。

印度餐館的菜品 （自20世紀）

We're going out tonight for an Indian.

今晚我們去印度餐館吃飯。

We're going down the Indian for a curry - wanna join us?

我們要去印度餐館吃咖喱——你也一起來嗎？


advertise

源自盎格魯-諾曼語 avertir (“告知”)、advertir、中古法語 advertir、avertir (“警告，通報”)，詞尾為-ise、-ize，可能受名詞advertisement的影響。對比advert。

advertises (third-person singular present)
advertising (present participle)
advertised (past participle)

打廣告，宣傳 （自18世紀）

It pays to advertise.

For personal needs, advertise on the internet or in a local newspaper.

根據個人需求，可在網站或地方報紙上登廣告。


publicise

publicises (third-person singular present)
publicising (present participle)
publicised (past participle)

The scandal was so publicised that he lost the next election.

醜聞被公之於眾，他因此輸掉了選舉。

They're already publicising next month's concert.

他們正在宣傳下個月的音樂會。