ham-fisted

源自ham (“火腿”) + fisted (形容词)，可能是比喻人的手部不是手，而像火腿一样笨拙。

more ham-fisted (comparative)
most ham-fisted (superlative)

cack-handed

笨拙的，不熟练的，笨手笨脚的

ham-handed

笨拙的，不熟练的，笨手笨脚的

heavy-handed

笨拙的，不熟练的，笨手笨脚的

mutton-fisted

笨拙的，不熟练的，笨手笨脚的

undexterous

笨拙的，不熟练的，笨手笨脚的

dexterous

笨拙的，不熟练的，笨手笨脚的

skilful

笨拙的，不熟练的，笨手笨脚的

[Stephen] Harper has a few weeks' grace, during which he and his ham-fisted finance minister, Jim Flaherty, can ponder the error of their ways.

2008年December5日，“Everyone benefits from prorogue”, in The Sun Times，卷 156, 期 285, Owen Sound, Ont.: Osprey Media Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC，頁 A4，列 1:

In 1973, Sonia Orwell broke David Bowie's heart by refusing him permission to adapt her late husband [George Orwell]'s final novel into a rock musical. She had rebuffed every request since the hamfisted 1956 movie version starring Edmond O'Brien, and was never likely to make an exception for a glam-rock dandy, but he was sorely aggrieved.

2019年November13日，Dorian Lynskey，“Bowie’s Books and Why Bowie Matters review – a manic turnover of new ideas”, in 衛報，倫敦: 衛報媒體集團, →ISSN, →OCLC，存檔自the original on 2023-07-16:

What an utter farce. Just like DfT [the Department for Transport]'s ham-fisted, blundering ticket office closure programme.

2023年September6日，Nigel Harris，“Comment: Leaderless and Rudderless”, in Rail，期 991, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC，頁 3:


knocked up

My name is Wendy and I first moved to New York when I was 21 to be a dancer, but I broke my big toe and then I got knocked up by this actor who dumped me to join the Peace Corps, so for the last 16 years I been raising my daughter all by myself and then two weeks ago, she tells me that she is a bisexual and that she hates me more than any person on this planet.

2000，Gina Wendkos，Coyote Ugly (motion picture), spoken by Wendy (Ellen Cleghorne):

I ask him why she doesn't get on methadone while she's knocked up. He says because she not only uses heroin but she's a crystal meth head and a crack head to boot. She got knocked up by a John she picked up one night hooking.

2011，Anna Young，I Hate Myself and Want to Die，Trafford Publishing, →ISBN，頁 179:

I walked about the streets where the best shops for ladies were, I haunted the Bazaar like an unquiet spirit, I fagged through the Park again and again, long after I was quite knocked up.

1849 May – 1850 November，Charles Dickens，The Personal History of David Copperfield，London: Bradbury & Evans, […], 出版於 1850, →OCLC:


cook up

cooks up (third-person singular present)
cooking up (present participle)
cooked up (past participle)

下位詞：whip up

The financiers cooked up an instrument called a collateralized debt obligation.

金融学家们创造了一种名为债务担保证券的工具。

He really cooked up a good one this time, something about an airline disaster.

他这回扯的故事真的有点东西的，说什么空难啥的。

For more than two years Thailand's ruling junta, which seized power in a coup in 2014, has been cooking up a constitution which it hopes will keep military men in control even after elections take place.

2017年January14日，“Thailand's new king rejects the army's proposed constitution”, in The Economist:

"RMT will not sit back while this carve-up of the rail network is cooked up in company boardrooms. [...]".

2021年September8日，“RMT on "war footing" in response to workforce cutback threats”, in RAIL，期 939，頁 15:


tide over

tides over (third-person singular present)
tiding over (present participle)
tided over (past participle)

（在金钱上）帮...撑过困难

Could you lend me ten pounds to tide me over till payday?

你能借我10英镑帮我撑到发工钱吗？

Would a small snack tide you over until dinner?

吃点零食能让你撑到晚饭吗？

Each evening, it was true, when the flare of Fleet Street would have begun really to smoke, she had, in resistance to old habit, a little to hold herself; but for three successive days she tided over that crisis.

In responding, J. P. Knight, the Traffic Manager, emphasised the company's desire to meet the wants of Brighton in every way and to develop traffic, while the question of a reduction in fares would be considered as soon as they had tided over their most pressing difficulties.

1952 December，R. C. Riley，“By Rail to Kemp Town”, in Railway Magazine，頁 832:

I will therefore suggest a way to tide over this difficulty.

2001，Swami Parmeshwaranand，Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Puranas:


oomf

oomph的另一種寫法。

“New beginnings, baby, you know what I'm saying?” “Yeah, Lucy.” “Good girl. Hey, do you want me to set you up? I know some very nice young men. Some of whom have a bit of oomf in their—” “Thanks, Luce, you can back off now.”

2014年November18日，Kris Ripper，The New Born Year，Kris Ripper:


tiff

本義為“聞”；對比冰島語中表示氣味的詞。

Something to laugh off, not make a big issue out of. We’d had a little tiff and would have forgotten about it in a couple of days.

可以一笑了之，不必大惊小怪。我们只是发生了一点小争吵，过几天就会忘掉。

1997，Haruki Murakami，譯者 Jay Rubin, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle，New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.; 再版 New York: Vintage Books, 1998, →ISBN，頁 30:

At the other extreme, couples who are married with children have heavily disguised tiffs. A man saying in a slightly strained way, 'I'm going to turn the compost', is actually saying, 'And that's all you are, Jean, compost!' Of course, what happens is eventually he apologises, they cry, make love, have another child, get overtired and the tiffing continues.

2000年September30日，Guy Browning，“How to... have a tiff”, in The Guardian:

“About a week ago we were sitting outside a restaurant having an intense debate about the children, and I held Nigella [Lawson]'s neck repeatedly while attempting to emphasise my point,” he said. “There was no grip, it was a playful tiff. The pictures are horrific but give a far more drastic and violent impression of what took place.[…]”

2013年June18日，Alexandra Topping，Ben Quinn，引 Charles Saatchi, “Charles Saatchi: accepting police caution was better than the alternative”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:


tiff

本義為“聞”；對比冰島語中表示氣味的詞。

tiffs (third-person singular present)
tiffing (present participle)
tiffed (past participle)

She tiff'd at Tim, she ran from Ralph.


tiff

源自中古英語 tiffen、古法語 tiffer、tifer (“打扮”，→法語 attifer)，源自古法蘭克語 *tipfōn、*tippōn (“装饰”)，可能与原始日耳曼語 *tuppaz (“尖，端”)有关。对比荷蘭語 tippen (“剪发梢”)、古諾爾斯語 tippa (“尖端”)、英語 tip (名词)、中古高地德語 zipfen (“蹦跳”)。

Is the Miss under a force when she culls among her trinkets with curious toil to tiff herself out in the most engaging manner

1768-1777，Abraham Tucker，The Light of Nature Pursued:


tiff

Besides that one to which the permanent residence was attached, Mr. Augustus had several outlaying factories, which he visited from time to time, to superintend the manufacture of his indigo; at all of these he had little bungalows, or temporary abodes, where we tiffed and passed the heat of the day.

1841，The Asiatic journal and monthly register:


re-member

re-members (third-person singular present)
re-membering (present participle)
re-membered (past participle)

重新组合（被解体的事物）

This metaphysical flesh is the wooden phallus with which Isis re-members Osiris, it is ...

1973，Kenneth John Criqui，Dreams of the Swift Queen Turning Back on Herself Through the Gates，頁 35:

Eventually Isis manages to recover all but one of the pieces (the phallus, of course, being the missing part, but she magically fashions a replacement for it) and to re-member Osiris, who then becomes god of the afterworld.

1988，Christine Downing，Psyche's Sisters: Reimagining the Meaning of Sisterhood，HarperCollins:

To dismember is to tear apart; / To re-member is to put back together. / The old must be dismembered / So that which was prior to it / May be remembered. / Therefore, to re-mind is / To dismember and then re-member.

2012，Roy Melvyn，The Lost Writings of Wu Hsin: Pointers to Non Duality in Five Volumes，Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:

This scene re-members the Rembrandt painting The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp from 1632. The image honours the once famous Dutch physician, his contribution to medical science and a number of his contemporary surgeon colleagues who are also captured in the moment. It suggests that medicine has long depended on re-animating corpses for its own epistemological and legitimising ends.

2020，Martin O’Brien, Gianna Bouchard，“Zombie sickness: contagious ideas in performance”, in Routledge Handbook of the Medical Humanities，Routledge, →ISBN, part IV (Medicine as performance and public engagement):


hoist by one's own petard

源自莎士比亚所著戏剧《哈姆雷特》。

/hˈɔ͡ɪst bˈa͡ɪ wˈʌnz ˈo͡ʊn pɛˈɾɑː͡ɹd/

/hˈɔ͡ɪst bˈa͡ɪ wˈɒnz ˈə͡ʊn pɛˈtɑːd/

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在美式英语中，这个形容词的第一个词作hoisted和hoist的频率基本相同，但是hoist作为动词单独使用时，其过去分词和过去式作hoisted的频率比hoist高约15倍。在英式英语中也类似，作过去式和过去分词时hoisted要远比hoist更常用，但是在这个俗语中，两种形式一样常见。写作时，在作者认为这个是发生到某人身上的一件事时常用hoisted，而表示一个状态时倾向于用hoist（对比“She's been hoisted by...” / “Now she's hoist by...”）。

He has no one to blame but himself; he was hoisted by his own petard.

他怪不了别人，根本就是自作自受。

Unhappily, the country as well as Mr. Marples has been hoist by the Minister's petard. (Mr. Marples was the Minister concerned)

1963 June，“Second thoughts on Beeching”, in Modern Railways，頁 362:

The danger with Trump would seem to be that, like Berlusconi, he would be hoist by his own petard, self-destructing precisely through the agent of his rise, and dragging the rest of us with him.

2015年August27日，Michael Signer，“What Happens When Donald Trump Stirs Up 'Passionate' Supporters”, in The Atlantic:

At last, the opposition spoke with one voice, and Boris Johnson was hoist by his own petard. It’s hard to see how he gets out of it.

2019年September4日，Jon Henley，“'Fighting for survival': European papers maul Johnson after defeat”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:


Ring of Fire

The Andes are part of the geological Ring of Fire that circles the Pacific Ocean. The Ring of Fire is a ring of active volcanoes that borders the great continental plates of the Pacific Ocean.

2003，Charles W. Maynard，The Andes，The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc, →ISBN:


rizz

约2021年5月由YouTube和Twitch主播凯·塞纳特（或他的一个朋友）造出，然后在TikTok上走红。本词在2023年进一步走红，并当选牛津大学出版社的2023年年度单词。塞纳特指出这个词不是略自charisma。

negative rizz, L rizz

负数魅力（指让异性讨厌）

Wow, that guy has no rizz whatsoever.

You got her number? W rizz!

Bruh, that girl has better rizz than I do.

Baby Gronk shared that he would be focusing not on grade school or a paper route but ... his love for video games. To be fair, the purported "rizz king" of the pre-pubescent sports world is probably not the one who actually said any of the above.

2023年June26日，Lauren Mechling，“Baby Gronk, internet stardom and the Sports Dad nightmare writ large”, in 衛報，倫敦: 衛報媒體集團, →ISSN, →OCLC，存檔自the original on 2023-07-22:

By now we all know how stilted and off-kilter ChatGPT sounds: blind confidence and a lack of shame can get you far in life, but could it really have more 'rizz' than even the most stilted and awkward human?

2024年January8日，James Greig，“Can AI finally help me to get some rizz? An investigation”, in Dazed，London: Dazed Media, →ISSN, →OCLC，存檔自the original on 2024-01-08:


rizz

rizzes (third-person singular present)
rizzing (present participle)
rizzed (past participle)

动词多搭配up，见rizz up。

I'm gonna go rizz one of those girls.

In one of De Tolla's videos, he says that Dunne "rizzed" Madden while convincing him to attend LSU. In another video, he jokes that Madden "rizzed up" Dunne and the 10-year-old stole the gymnastics star from her boyfriend, the "drip king." "Drip" refers to swagger and style.

2023年June8日，Kalhan Rosenblatt，“Who is Baby Gronk? Did Livvy 'rizz' him up? What does any of this really mean?”, in NBC News，存檔自the original on 2023-06-22:


rizz

Rizla+ 的截斷形式。

And I heard that the yutes are lizz
fuck it, I’m tryna put him in the rizz

2024年September2日，“Niz” (開頭起0:31，), Liz 作詞:


rizz up

rizzes up (third-person singular present)
rizzing up (present participle)
rizzed up (past participle)

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rizz

泡，搭讪 （尤指向女性）

泡，搭讪 （尤指向女性）

Twitch streamer and YouTube personality Kai Cenat, who popularized the term, broke it all down on a recent episode of No Jumper. "Rizz is when you're talking to a girl, and at first, shit is not going your way. It's looking bad for you, until you spit game and you're rizzing them up to where shit starts to go your way," he explained. "You're so slick with your words and what you're saying, to where the girl is like, 'OK, yeah, who is this?!' After shit goes your way, you're like, 'Yeah, I rizzed her up. I've got mad rizz.'"

2022年December15日，Eric Skelton，“Rizz, Explained”, in Complex，New York, N.Y.: Complex Networks, →ISSN, →OCLC，存檔自the original on 2023-03-20:


gyatt

詞源樹
英語 God
英語 gyatt
原为God的非洲裔美国人白话英语发音，多半来自“Goddamn!”。在YouTube和Twitch主播YourRAGE的影响下普及开。这名主播在2021年6月份曾做了一个看到美女的臀部就大喊“GYATT”的恶作剧节目。在2023年的一个视频中他曾称： Everybody used to say "god damn" or "golly" but I said it weird. I'd always say "gyatt", I would never say "god damn". Chat realized that, and a way of making fun of me in 2020, they started typing "gyatt" to mock me.
大家都说“god damn”或“golly”，但是我的发音比较奇怪，我一直都说成“gyatt”，而从来不说“god damn。聊天区的观众发现以后，2020年的时候他们为了耍我，就在聊天区里开始发“gyatt”。
Kai Cenat等其他YouTube主播也做了类似的恶搞视频，导致这个词在2023年初更加普及。

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

一般在看到丰满女性时使用。

oomf looked so good today gyatt 😍

2016年April21日，@qxeenashlehh，Twitter，存檔自the original on 2023-10-13:

Gyatt dawg that's just mean.

2019年December22日，@ULCatering，Twitter，存檔自the original on 2023-10-13:

Every time I see this picture I just imagine the things I would do to that body GYATT

2020年December13日，@FRANKLI58887299，Twitter，存檔自the original on 2023-10-13:


gyatt

（多指女性的）翘臀，美臀

Do oats actually give you a gyatt?

2023年September4日，u/A，“(post title)”, in Reddit，r/teenagers，存檔自the original on 2023-10-14:

what's he complaining for? he gets to look at gyatts for an hour or so (idk how long a volleyball game lasts)

2023年September10日，u/yeetfeetwolfie，“💀”, in Reddit，r/Zoomerchanone，存檔自the original on 2023-10-14:

Yo mama sooo skibidi that when I told her I was the rizzler she stuck her gyatt out

2023年October12日，@rollercodezter，Twitter，存檔自the original on 2023-10-14:

We here for that gyatt, ain't nobody tryna listen to them songs

2023年October12日，@ThatBoyD_，Twitter，存檔自the original on 2023-10-14:

[Out:] Mega yachts [In:] Mega gyatt

2024年January1日，Maura Judkis，“The List: What is in and out for 2024”, in Washington Post，頁 C1:


see red

可能指的是历史上一些军队在战前升起的红旗，或指的是斗牛时使用的红布，又可能仅仅指的是一般指代愤怒或警告的红色。对比欧洲语言中类似的俗语：丹麥語 se rødt、德語 rotsehen、法語 voir rouge等。

sees red (third-person singular present)
seeing red (present participle)
saw red (past)
seen red (past participle)

"So help me, God," he cried, "when I think it all over I go crazy, I see red."

Nothing but his temper, the lack of self-control that made him see red . . ., had kept Jerry out of a world championship.

1920，William MacLeod Raine，章號 22, in The Big-Town Round-Up:

Diop, sometimes criticized for passive play, saw red once this season when he lashed out at a foe who kicked away his legs.

2005年January26日，Rob Hughes，“Soccer: Trio from Senegal is having a ball”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-11-14:

Kalinic later saw red for a rash tackle on Paul Scharner before Gabriel Tamas was dismissed for bringing down Diouf.

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


suicide watch

Previously, Bob had mentioned that they had 14 clients on 'suicide watch' (where volunteers make regular contact with the men involved).

2021年March10日，Paul Bigland，“They can leave their problems at the gate”, in RAIL，期 926，頁 60:


eat shit

eats shit (third-person singular present)
eating shit (present participle)
ate shit (past)
eaten shit (past participle)

Finally, for my 13th birthday, I got a skateboard — a Black Knight with those cool black urethane wheels. I cut my teeth on that board — and ate shit on it many, many times.

2009，Laura Thornhill，The Skateboarder's Journal - Lives on Board:


git gud

get good的故意误拼，参见get (“成为”)。

一般用在祈使句中，且一般用于电子游戏语境，来回答对方关于游戏的问题。多用于讽刺挑衅对方。

They are also often cast as elitist scum who treat the larger gaming population with disdain, telling them to “git gud,” which is akin to a “put up or shut up” mentality; that is, “real” gamers overcome content through hard work and skill.

2017，Zek Valkyrie，Game Worlds Get Real: How Who We Are Online Became Who We Are Offline:

[…] showing off what he knows but more about helping out a streamer and a friend who is looking to “git gud” at this whole Twitch thing. He embodies all the best qualities of Twitch; […]

2019，Tee Morris，Twitch For Dummies，頁 278:


mobbed-up

more mobbed-up (comparative)
most mobbed-up (superlative)

In this way, cartels of mobbed-up outfits drove everyone else out of the business. The impact of organized crime on the union movement was ruinous.

2006，Guy Lawson, William Oldham，The Brotherhoods: The True Story of Two Cops Who Murdered for the Mafia:

The following morning a little detective work led me to Spiro's, a mobbed-up social club on Eighteenth Avenue that was Frankie Carbone's hangout.

2005，Lou Eppolito, Bob Drury，Mafia Cop，頁 218:


skeeve

skeevy 的逆構詞，源自意大利語。

skeeves (third-person singular present)
skeeving (present participle)
skeeved (past participle)

使...厌恶，使...恶心

I asked her, one time, if it didn't maybe skeeve her to work for a crud like Duke.

1964，Lou Cameron，The Block Busters，頁 186:

"Those are not me — preppy jackets skeeve me! I hate those shoes."

2007，Alexander Theroux，Laura Warholic, Or, The Sexual Intellectual，頁 215:

At twenty-three, Eric wasn't that much older than my nineteen, but that didn't mean his pseudo-comeons didn't skeeve me out. There was something almost menacing about him.

2013，Alyssa Rose Ivy，Soar (The Empire Chronicles #1):

His mother is repulsed by his uncle; he has heard her whisper it in the kitchen, "I skeeves him, Charley." She is Italian.

You could put that needle in your arm? Man, I skeeve that like death.

Tony's reply: "How can I skeeve you, you're the mother of my children!" Non- Italians can easily figure out that Carmela is hurt because she thinks Tony finds her physically unappealing.

2007，George De Stefano，An Offer We Can't Refuse: The Mafia in the Mind of America，頁 173:

Indeed, when baby-voiced Teresa describes the bone-crunching finishes in her new home, a 12,000-square-foot French chateau simulacrum that’s “all granite, marble and onyx,” and avers her commitment to the brand-spanking new (“I just skeeve looking at other people’s houses,” she says.

2009年May28日，Penelope Green，“Jersey Girls, Nesting”, in New York Times:

I remember Phil telling O'Maurigan after the Schuyler reading he's afraid I won't ever write a book— not because I'm lazy, or don't have the self-esteem, but because I skeeve on stealing.

1993，James McCourt，Time Remaining, →ISBN，頁 67:

“Beecher,” Clementine whispers, “if this is skeeving you out, let's just skip the room and—” ¶ “I'm fine. No skeeving at all,” I tell her, knowing full well that Iris would've had me leave ten minutes ago.

2011，Brad Meltzer，The Inner Circle, chapter 3:


skeeve

skeevy 的逆構詞，源自意大利語。

He looked so fucking competent, for a skeeve with greasy blond hair pulled into a ponytail, a beaded headband, and callused bare feet.


pass the hat

源自用帽子在一群人之间收钱的做法。

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

（尤指在一群人间）讨钱，要钱，请求捐赠

Then somebody sings out, "Take up a collection for him, take up a collection!" Well, a half a dozen made a jump to do it, but somebody sings out, "Let HIM pass the hat around!"

1885，Mark Twain，章號 20, in Huckleberry Finn:

The institutions are opening development offices, hiring professional fund raisers, investing in slick billion-dollar campaigns, and trotting out their presidents to pass the hat.

2008年December5日，Martha Ann Overland，“In Asia, American-Style Fund Raising Takes Off”, in Chronicle of Higher Education, retrieved 2008-12-11:


give way

gives way (third-person singular present)
giving way (present participle)
gave way (past)
given way (past participle)

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After years of neglect, the rusty old bridge could give way at any time.

锈迹斑斑老桥年久失修，随时都可能会垮塌。

During the day conditions worsened quickly—for example, a 2-6-0 on the Uckfield line suddenly encountered flood water high enough to enter its ashpan and extinguish its fire—until lock gates up-river at Barcombe gave way and a tidal wave rolled down the valley meeting head-on a spring tide rolling up from the coast.

1961 January，“Talking of Trains: Flooding at Lewes”, in Trains Illustrated，頁 5:

'Cause I'm praying for rain
I'm praying for tidal waves
I wanna see the ground give way
I wanna watch it all go down


raw-boned

more raw-boned (comparative)
most raw-boned (superlative)

A young nurse, a big raw-boned country lass, plodder her way down to the building.

1994，Jim Ranie，Jargodin: The Moonlighter，Brisbane: Jim Ranie，頁 194:


in a cleft stick

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Such a solution only puts the humanist in a cleft stick by trading the problem of malnutrition for that of over-population.

1964 September 3, H. Fullerton, Letters: Survival of the wild, New Scientist, Volume 23, No. 407, page 579:

But considerations in drafting Sonia Gandhi apart, the Congress leadership is clearly caught in a cleft stick, with or without the services of Rajiv Gandhi′s widow.

1991，Attar Chand，Rajiv Gandhi: His Mind and Ideology，頁 214:


machinima

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使用低端（实时）的三维引擎（常见于电子游戏）而非专业人士使用的高端、复杂的三位引擎渲染

Fiona's been off at some kind of anime camp in New Jersey – Quake movies and machinima workshops, Japanese staff who claim not to know a word of English beyond ‘awesome’ and ‘sucks’, which for a vast range of human endeavor, actually, is more than enough…

2013，Thomas Pynchon，Bleeding Edge，Vintage, 出版於 2014，頁 135:


the devil looks after his own

坏人好运多（因为有恶魔照顾他们）

On earth, lawyers rarely come to harm because the devil looks after his own.

2013，Adamu Kyuka Usman Lilymjok，The Mad Professor of Babeldu，頁 489:

Charlie was often asked how he escaped so many attempts on his life. His reply was, “The Devil looks after his own.”

2013，Deborah Frethem -，Haunted Tampa: Spirits of the Bay, →ISBN:


skint

“身无分文”一意在1925年起可考，其派生自skinned的一个变体。

skinter (comparative)
more skint (comparative)
skintest (superlative)
most skint (superlative)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-skint.wav

身无分文的，没钱的，穷的

There were a mixture of local people with cold, pinched faces and skint and harassed looking tourists sitting around fondling their itchsome facial hair, their tongues lolling into fizzy yellow pints of lager.

2000，Tim Bradford，Is Shane MacGowan still alive?:


prion

源自proteinaceous infectious particle (“蛋白质感染粒子”)首字母的重新排列。由美国的神经科学家和生物化学家史坦利·布魯希納在1982造出。

Prions retain deep mysteries, the foremost of which is what on earth they exist for.

1999，Matt Ridley，Genome，Harper Perennial, 出版於 2004，頁 277:

Five public research institutions in France have imposed a 3-month moratorium on the study of prions—a class of misfolding, infectious proteins that cause fatal brain diseases—after a retired lab worker who handled prions in the past was diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), the most common prion disease in humans.

2021年July28日，Barbara Casassus，“France issues moratorium on prion research after fatal brain disease strikes two lab workers”, in Science:


blame game

buck-passing

相互推诿，相互推卸责任，互相责怪

相互推诿，相互推卸责任，互相责怪

She was, in addition, always extremely careful to share with the friends in her Support System her belief that it would be whiny and pathetic to play what she derisively called the "Blame Game" and blame her constant and indescribable adult pain on their parents' traumatic divorce or their cynical use of her.

[1998 January，David Foster Wallace，“The Depressed Person”, in Harpers Magazine，頁 58:

The UK and France are “engaging in a blame game” over people making perilous Channel crossings in small boats, Labour has said, rather than sitting down together to try to work out a way to prevent more deaths.

工党表示，英国和法国正在就乘坐小船穿越英吉利海峡的人员安全问题互相推諉，而不是坐下来共同寻找防止更多人员死亡的方法。

2021年November28日，Peter Walker，“UK and France playing ‘blame game’ after Channel deaths, say Labour”, in The Guardian:

A blame game is taking place between Network Rail and the Football Association regarding the closure of the West Coast Main Line over the Easter Bank Holiday, which coincides with an FA Cup semi-final taking place at Wembley Stadium on April 16.

英国铁路网公司和英格兰足球协会之间就复活节公众假期期间西海岸主线关闭一事互相指责，而复活节假期恰逢4月16日在温布利球场举行的足总杯半决赛。

2022年April6日，Industry Insider，“Fixture clashes”, in RAIL，期 954，頁 68:

The estimates of the cost of “Trussonomics” will intensify a bitter blame game now being played out at the top of the Tory party.

对“特拉斯经济学”成本的估算将加剧保守党高层之间激烈的互相指责。

2022年November12日，Toby Helm, Phillip Inman，“Revealed: the £30bn cost of Liz Truss’s disastrous mini-budget”, in The Guardian:

Political parties are ensnared in a blame game, with the ruling and opposition parties blaming each other. An audit will no doubt follow.

政党陷入互相推诿的泥潭，执政党和反对党相互指责。毫无疑问，审计即将到来。

2023年August9日，Raphael Rashid，“‘Worst nightmare’: South Korea mulls disastrous Scout jamboree”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:


Sweeney

快速特警队（伦敦警察的一个分支）

It turned out the police wouldn't raid the place until the Monday morning but in the meantime there were drinks to drink and drugs to take. Even Lettsbe and the Sweeney arrived and joined in the celebrations with us.
The police, however, did hit Jill's address early on Monday morning.


vibe coding

由斯洛伐克加拿大的AI研究者安德烈·卡帕斯在2025年2月造出，参见下方引文。

反复使用大语言模型生成代码而自己基本不理解的编程

There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists.

[2025年February2日，@karpathy [Andrej Karpathy]，Twitter，存檔自the original on 2025-02-03:

With all this vibe coding going on, we had to turn to an expert for some input. Simon Willison, an independent software developer and AI researcher, offered a nuanced perspective on AI-assisted programming in an interview with Ars Technica. "I really enjoy vibe coding," he said. "It's a fun way to try out an idea and prove if it can work."

2025年March5日，Benj Edwards，“Will the future of software development run on vibes?”, in Ars Technica，存檔自the original on 2025-03-15:


embarcadère

When I left next morning the Doctor came with me in the pirogue all the way to the embarcadère at Lambaréné […]

1975，James Cameron，Point of departure，頁 173:

From here one reaches the open air when one leaves the embarcadère.

1981，Stefan Koppelkamm，Glasshouses and wintergardens of the nineteenth century，頁 96: