grab some z's

grabs some z's
grabbing some z's
grabbed some z's

Thought I'd just crash here for the evening. Grab some z's.

2007, Denise Hildreth Jones, The Will of Wisteria, →ISBN，第 278 頁:

Have the men grab some z's. I'll take the first watch.

2011, Charles F. David, Fire Base X-Ray, →ISBN，第 84 頁:

No use thinking about it tonight. Time to grab some z's. I'm sure this will make more sense in the morning.

2017, Lynn Cahoon, Fatality by Firelight, →ISBN:


grab some Z's

grabs some Z's
grabbing some Z's
grabbed some Z's

You look beat, buddy. Grab some Z's on the way home.

1994, Dana Stabenow, A Cold-Blooded Business, →ISBN，第 85 頁:

Would you like a pillow, Mr. Mann? Looks as if you're about ready to grab some Z's.

Dean typed a quick reply to Colt with another heart, letting him know they were home safe and they were going to grab some Z's and call if he needed anything.


grab some Zs

grabs some Zs
grabbing some Zs
grabbed some Zs

I'll just chat with you while I finish up and then I'll be gone and you can grab some Zs.

2000, Bud Jones, Snake, Rolling in Hot, →ISBN，第 323 頁:

At the time, I thought it a good bit of practice for Nicolas to be able to just lie down most anywhere and grab some Zs, as it would serve him well his first year in college.

2003, A. Lee Chichester, Falcons and Foxes in the U.K.: The Making of a Hunter, →ISBN，第 102 頁:

He'd let her grab some Zs as soon as he could. In fact, having her sleep while he and Chaos worked would keep her out of trouble.


chillax

Let's watch a movie with Maria and chillax tonight.

我们今晚和Maria看部电影放松一下吧。

Chillax dude, or they are going to know you are tripping.

冷静点兄弟，不然他们就看出你吸了。

Oi, chillax sunshine, or there's gonna be trouble!

喂，老实点小伙子，不想惹上麻烦吧。


lame-o

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lameo

I need a father who's a role model, not some horny geek-boy who's gonna spray his shorts whenever I bring a girlfriend home from school. What a lame-o. Someone really should just put him out of his misery.

1999, Alan Ball, American Beauty (motion picture), 角色 Jane Burnham（Thora Birch）:


lameo

more lameo (comparative)
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Television reruns are often lameo.


low on the totem pole

派生自totem pole，印第安人所做的图腾柱，这种柱子从下到上常刻有几个图案。上下顺序曾被非印第安人误认为是按地位的高低排列的。

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低级的，较低贱的，地位较低的

Gaston said, however, that the boycott would not substantially affect Negroes because they are "so low on the totem pole."

1965, 7th of April, Washington Observer, King Defends Alabama Boycott, Answers Critics


goofball

傻子，傻瓜 （指人或动物）

If that goofball would put half the effort into her studies as she does into her juggling, she might do very well.

如果那个傻子把耍杂技一半的力气放到学习上，可能真能整出点名堂来。

麻醉药 （尤指巴比妥类药物）

Strong Cobb & Co. of Cleveland announced a new barbiturate which in overlarge doses will turn the stomachs of "goofball" addicts and would-be suicides.


goofball

He announced, with his usual goofball humor, that he'd like to marry me!

他开他那个傻傻的玩笑说要和我结婚。


stargaze

It was a very clear night so I paused to stargaze until I got cold and went in.

那天晚上天空很晴，我就停下来去看星星了，一直看到觉得冷了就回屋里了。

"That's right," declared Browning's companion. "I was out stargazing last night. Looked at the Long-Handled Dipper a long time, and it gave me an awful thirst. I've had it with me all day. Yes, mine's ale."

1903, Burt L. Standish [pseudonym; Gilbert Patten], Frank Merriwell at Yale:

Before books came into my life, I was given to stargazing and daydreaming. When books were given me, I fell upon them as a glutton pounces on his meat after a period of enforced starvation.


chillaxes

chillax的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


chillaxing

more chillaxing (comparative)
most chillaxing (superlative)

But these chillaxing engineers, led by Zuckerberg, were the ones who could bring the site back up with a few hours of frantic coding, and everyone else, considered ‘duller, incapable of quick and intelligent thought’, was there to serve the thing they had created and, therefore, them.

2013, Joanna Biggs, “Tell me everything”, 出自 London Review of Books, 第 35 卷, 第 7 期:


chillaxed

chillax 的過去式和過去分詞


peace out

Lauren was peaced-out in her bedroom, and almost everyone had gone home. I started chilling by the pool with the bartender,

2007, Dana Vachon, Mergers & Acquisitions，第 154 頁:

The suspect ate a light bulb and bit through a man’s neck before peacing out in a stolen taco van.

2008年October29日, “JELLO spells death for some”, 出自 The Daily Evergreen, WA:

I cracked him with a stone I'd picked up in the garden. The inscription on the stone read PAZ. The man, peaced out, fell back

2005, David Terrenoire, Beneath a Panamanian Moon，第 253 頁:

催眠；走神；出幻觉 （意识，感觉被改变）

And she gets all peaced out and says she feels the presence of the Lord

1982, Stephen Levine with Ondrea Levine, Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying，第 177 頁:

After experiencing the totally peaced out acid trance, the first thing that occurred to most users was "Let's dose the President!"

1994, Douglas Rushkoff, Media Virus!: Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture，第 2 59 頁:

"As they say out in Californication" — I try to sound peaced-out like someone from Santa Cruz — "Isabella's way bitching."

2005, Carter Coleman, Cage's Bend，第 360 頁:

consider it some sort of "peaced out utopian higherminded enlightenment"

2008年April24日, “The light and dark side of DNA”, 出自 MSNBC:

I am peacing out of that hellhole. Are you still thinking about leaving?"

2007, Dan Brown, The Great Expectations School: A Rookie Year in the New Blackboard Jungle，第 237 頁:


contended

contend 的過去式和過去分詞


militarises

militarise的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


miniaturise

miniaturize在非牛津英式英語的标准拼写


miniaturises

miniaturise的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


modernise

The principal locomotive workshops now in use are those of the former Rhymney Railway at Caerphilly, modernised and re-equipped to meet the requirements of the new regime.

1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, 出自 Railway Magazine，第 159, 161 頁s:

The same applies to the toilets. Simply the ability to remove those labels that read "do not flush while the train is at a station" (a sticker that dates a train as 'old') modernises them no end.

2019年October23日, Pip Dunn, “The next king of Scotland”, 出自 Rail，第 50 頁:


modernises

modernise的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


municipalises

municipalise的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


naturalises

naturalise的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


nomadises

nomadise的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


occidentalises

occidentalise的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


oralises

oralise的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


orientalise

orientalize在非牛津英式英語的标准拼写：Orientalize的大小寫替代形式。


orientalises

orientalise的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


stave off

staves off
staving off
staved off
stove off

He drank plenty of orange juice, hoping to stave off the cold making the rounds at the office.

他喝了很多橙汁，希望能够抵御办公室里的冷气。

LANCE: Only through my training as a sex machine am I able to stave off genital turgidity.

2011, Jamie Noguchi, Yellow Peril: The View:

So it was perhaps political backlash from the trebling of public transport times between Harlech to Porthmadog if buses took over that staved off immediate talks of closure and the release of a £241,000 subsidy (2020: £3.8m).

2020年April8日, Howard Johnston, “East-ended? When the ECML was at risk”, 出自 Rail，第 69 頁:


whip up

（匆匆）制作 （尤指食物）

I'll whip up a quick meal for our unexpected guests.

我匆匆地为突然拜访的客人很快地做好了简单的菜。

使...激动，激起...的热情

His speech whipped the crowd up into a frenzy.

他的演讲点燃了人们的热情。

Hurricane force winds damaged the North Clydeside catenary on January 17 and 18 and on February 12, causing interruptions to the Helensburgh services; in the neighbourhood of Craigendoran and Cardross, the seas in the Firth of Clyde were whipped up to the height of the conductor wires and the insulators themselves.

1962 April, “Motive power miscellany: Scottish Region”, 出自 Modern Railways，第 285 頁:

Greater Anglia 745005 whips up snow as it passes Fox Street (near Colchester) on February 8, with the 1000 Norwich-London Liverpool Street.

2021年February24日, “Network News: ... but snow and ice forces Greater Anglia to sideline Class 745s”, 出自 RAIL, 第 925 期，第 13, photo caption 頁:


Dutch wife

源自Dutch (这里有“次等代替品”的意思) + wife

His eyes wide with surprise and fear, he clutched tightly the bolster — sweat- absorbing bedfellow of sleepers in the East — known as a Dutch wife. [...] "What do you mean? Who are you?" Maniam's great eyes, his black skin oiled with sweat, Maniam's hands pudgily clutching his Dutch wife.

1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), 出版於 1972，第 490 頁:


save something for a rainy day

saves something for a rainy day
saving something for a rainy day
saved something for a rainy day

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stark naked

中古英語 stert naked（steort nakt, sternaked, star naked），前半部分源自古英語 steort (“尾巴”)。词形从“start-naked”变为“stark-naked”应该是因为该词被误解成了“starkly naked”一个变体。


stark naked

"Give us a glass of 'stark naked,' Job! This plaguey fog's well nigh choked me," said Rube, spluttering and coughing, and vituperating it.

1870, Langford Cecil, Fenacre Grange，第 15 頁:


anticlimactic

more anticlimactic (comparative)
most anticlimactic (superlative)

令人失望的，落差大的，虎头蛇尾的

After all the build up, the ending of the story was an anticlimactic letdown.

铺垫了那么多，结果故事的结尾令人失望透顶。


go to town

goes to town
going to town
went to town
gone to town

仅按字面意思，并无比喻或俗语义；参见go、to、town。

She really went to town with the party preparations.

她准备派对准备得很开心。

The greatest impact, good and bad, fell on the city's northeast suburbs, 60-plus minutes from the downtown Huairou district, a key APEC venue. Obama and other VIPs spent just seven hours there Tuesday, but Huairou went to town as perhaps only China can. The district spent about $4.9 billion preparing for APEC, according to state media including the Beijing Youth Daily and China Daily newspapers.

2014年November12日, Calum MacLeod, “As with 2008 Olympics, China spends big to look good”, 出自 USA Today, →ISSN, →OCLC，於2014-11-14歸檔自原頁面:

Never slow to bang the drum, the English press went to town, calling Lineker the “Matador of Madrid” and announcing that “Spain are Linekered.”

2018年October15日, Steven Pye, “When Gary Lineker scored four goals to help England win 4-2 in Spain”, 出自 The Guardian, →ISSN:

The news channels had been the first to figure out that particular wrinkle, but the religions really went to town with it.

2018 November, N. K. Jemisin, How Long 'til Black Future Month?, Hachette, →ISBN:

Oh, I went to town in the last lockdown, spent a lot of money on the paints, the brushes, the figurines for a game called Hero Quest.

2022年May29日, Tom Lamont, 引 Jim Howick, “‘We were always trying to push boundaries’: Jim Howick on breaking taboos, coping with life and the joy of dogs”, 出自 The Observer, →ISSN:


in the nick of time

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eleventh hour

正好，正是时候；踩着点，在最后时刻

under the wire

正好，正是时候；踩着点，在最后时刻

just in time

正好，正是时候；踩着点，在最后时刻

正好，正是时候；踩着点，在最后时刻

He finished writing his paper and slid it under the door just in the nick of time.


fine and dandy

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tushie

源自tuchus，源自意第緒語 תּחת (tokhes)，源自希伯來語 תַּחַת (tákhat, “臀部”)。


tooshie

tushie的另一種拼寫法

Tooshie is a collage of humor, faith, stories and the psychology of food/body image issues.

2014, Cherrie Herrin-Michehl, Tooshie: Defeating the Body Image Bandit, →ISBN:

“I didn't see his tooshie in my bed.” Technically true. She'd dug her nails into it, but she hadn't seen it until he'd gotten up for his shower. ⸺“Whose tooshie?” ⸺“No one's!”

2017, Allyson Charles, Why Did It Have to Be You?, Lyrical Press, →ISBN，第 239 頁:


tooshy

tushie的另一種寫法

To the small child, feces and urine done in the diaper are warm and moist also. “No toilet!” protests a verbal two-year-old. “Why, darling?” “No, no, Mommy. It makes my tooshy too cold.”

1959, Dorothy Walter Baruch, “The Training Period and Sex”, 出自 New Ways in Sex Education, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, 出版於 1961, section 3 (Sex Education that Grows with Your Child)，第 80 頁:

“Well, I’m certainly not going to go traipsing down there and get my tooshy shot off.”

1981, Ron Goulart, Brinkman, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN，第 70 頁:

When Mr. Leiter falls he also makes a joke about hurting his “tooshy.”

1981, The New York Times Theater Reviews，第 158 頁:

‘Eyes in her toochus, this one,’ Gus said admiringly. […] George laughed as she followed Gus and reached out to pinch his own bottom hard. ‘Since when did you learn to speak American? This is your tooshy, not your however you said it.’

1997, Claire Rayner, Fifth Member (A Dr George Barnabas Mystery), Leicester: Charnwood, 出版於 1998，第 355–356 頁s:

You’re going to get a spanking for that one. Your tooshy will be sore.

1998年April9日, “Horoscopes”, 出自 The Stoutonia, 第 88 卷, 第 23 期, Menomonie, Wis.: University of Wisconsin–Stout，第 5 頁:

When I sat down I discovered what the mats were for. They were much cooler on my tooshy than the hot lumber.

2001, William N. Harris, “Banya”, 出自 Siberian Shivers, →ISBN，第 73 頁:

Fake snow covered the counter by the register and a four-foot dancing Santa wiggled his tooshy next to the front door.

2009, Denise Belinda McDonald, Second Chances, Macon, Ga.: Samhain Publishing, Ltd., →ISBN，第 149 頁:

Frank had to give me a shot of progesterone every night in the tooshy and if I did get pregnant, every night for three months – yikes!

2015, Stephanie Bachman, Solving the Infertility Puzzle: One Couple’s Journey to Parenthood, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN:

Just as I had accepted my seemingly inevitable demise, a pair of arms wrapped around me, catching me right before my tooshy met the icy concrete.

2022, Susan Hatler, The Christmas Competition, →ISBN:


tushy

tushie的另一種寫法


fraidy cat

MURROW: Do you remember the most severe disciplinary action taken against you when you were a youngster, Mr. President?
TRUMAN: Well, I was one of these fraidy cats who usually obeyed the rules and they didn't have to get after me very often.

1964, Harry S. Truman, Edward R. Murrow, 片头起13:07, 出自 MP66-7 Harry S. Truman Interviewed by Edward R. Murrow, February 1957 (5 of 12), Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162:


the cat's pyjamas

大概与the bee's knees、cat's whiskers等相似词语一同，在1922年起即已在美国普及，有时被认为与漫画家Tad Dorgan有关。

很厉害的东西，很精致奢华的东西

That new car was really the cat's pyjamas.


bell-end

I don't care who he is: he's acting like a bell-end.

我管他什么人，他就像个傻屄一样。

is that onion badgies, you meant. or perhaps you are referring to that infamous collection of bellends, known as w.b.a. (win bugger all). it seems they are doing quite well, although they are playing against part-timers. quit

1992年September28日, A. Dowson, “Re: West Bromwich Albion”, 出自 rec.sport.soccer (Usenet), retrieved 2017-08-03, message-ID <92272.160610ADOWSON@ESTEC.BITNET>:


that does it

that tears it

够了 （用来表达自己的耐心已经到达极限）

that's torn it

够了 （用来表达自己的耐心已经到达极限）

够了 （用来表达自己的耐心已经到达极限）

That does it! I'm not waiting here any longer. I'll come back tomorrow instead.

我受够了！我不等了。我明天再来。

好了 （用来表示完成了某项工作）。


pack heat

If the current trend toward relaxation of concealed-weapons laws continues, soon the most important gun restrictions may involve destinations: the states will probably allow various venues—public gathering places, offices, stores—to ban firearms on the premises. The only problem will be how to know who is packing heat.

1995年March27日, David Van Biema, “Peekaboo: The New Detector”, 出自 Time:


japonise

But Japanese political predominance, and constant intercourse during three centuries, have almost japonised the island.

1895, Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan，第 5 頁:

Not methods alone are borrowed wholesale, but even plots, the proper names which occur in the stories being slightly japonised, as Shimizu for Smith, Risa for Eliza, and details being altered so as to suit Japanese social conditions.

1927, B.H. Chamberlain, Things Japanese，第 274 頁:

But japonise it into Benkei and the difficulty vanishes, to say nothing of the apparent prop given to the story of Yoshitsune's visit to Yezo, by the fact of the name of his celebrated henchman Benkei thus figuring in the geography of the island.

1996, Kirsten Refsing, Early European Writings on the Ainu Language:


japonises

japonise的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


lobotomises

lobotomise的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


localises

localise的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


lyophilises

lyophilise的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


manualises

manualise的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


martyrises

martyrise的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


marxisant

more marxisant (comparative)
most marxisant (superlative)

Certainly Bosher's approach differs significantly from that of a marxisant sociologist like George Comninel[…]

1993, Gwynne Lewis, The French Revolution: Rethinking the Debate，第 111 頁:


masculinise

masculinize在非牛津英式的标准拼写


masculinises

masculinise的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


elbow grease

It is astonishing what miserable saws are sometimes used by mechanics, or those claiming to be such. The only way they can be coaxed or driven through the wood is by having an enormous set, a liberal use of oil, and another lubricator called elbow-grease.

1864, Henry Wells Holly, 章號 3, 出自 The Art of Saw-Filing，第 12 頁:

When we were young we used to be told, in our house at home, that "elbow-grease" was the one essential necessary to getting a tough piece of work well done. If a mahogany table was to be made to shine, it was elbow-grease that the operation needed.

1879, Anthony Trollope, 章號 5, 出自 William Makepeace Thackeray:

Some soapy water and a little elbow grease and we'll have the Glam Van clean in no time.

2019 Sunny, "Violet's Adventure", Sunny Day


snooty

snootier (comparative)
snootiest (superlative)

好自夸的，高傲的，自命不凡的

He left out Town & Country, the magazine for snooty East Coast liberals.

ever since she landed the National gig sheʼs got very snooty about struggling theatre mates, as if she alone has discovered the secret to being successful

2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020)，第 43 頁:

Sir Sydney was an arrogant, snooty, bigoted prig, so it was with some satisfaction that I wrote out his parking ticket.

Her parties were snooty affairs; custom-designed cocktail dresses that cost more than a decent luxury car were de rigueur.


an apple a day keeps the doctor away

源自英国。一类似谚语记载于1866年的威尔士，彭布罗克郡：“Eat an apple on going to bed, / And you’ll keep the doctor from earning his bread.”但是，苹果能治病的说法甚为古老。在英国作家John Clavell（1601年-1643年）所著戏剧The Soddered Citizen（首次演出约1631–1633年）中，有情节暗示胃灼热的人吃苹果后睡上一觉，第二天就会痊愈。

/əˈn‿æpəl‿ə ˈdeɪ ˈkiːps ðə ˈdɒktəɹ‿əˈweɪ/

/əˈn‿æpəl‿ə ˈdeɪ ˈkips ðə ˈdɑktɚ əˈweɪ/

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Now, an apple is one of the most wonderful of fruits, and the most wholesome. The old adage went, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away," and my young son, three years ago, when he was only three years old, came to me with an amendment to that and said: "Father, two apples a day keeps the dentist away," because there is not a better toothbrush than the apple, and he got the idea that two apples a day would keep the dentist away.

1919年August26日, Harvey W[ashington] Wiley, witness, “Statement of Dr. Harvey W. Wiley—Resumed”, 出自 Cold-storage Legislation: Hearings before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Sixty-sixth Congress, First Session on Cold-storage Legislation […], Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC，第 861 頁:

The apple has been as formidable in history as it has been in recipe books. […] It has inspired legend (Johnny Appleseed), nicknames (New York, "the big apple") and any number of old saws ("An apple a day keeps the doctor away").

1973年October18日, Thomas Grubisich, “When you deal with millions of apples a day”, 出自 The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC; quoted in “Statement of Bert E. Perry, Monitor Advocate, Virginia Employment Commission”, 出自 Oversight Hearing on Department of Labor: Certification of the Use of Offshore Labor: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Agricultural Labor of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, First Session […], Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975年March20日, →OCLC，第 82 頁:

The saying "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" is often countered with the one "an onion a day keeps everybody away". Whether these were even proven true or not I do not know but I do know that both apples and onions were among the staples kept in our home.

1984, Louise E. Efnor, “Kill or Cure”, 出自 Tales from Two Rivers III (A Corncrib Publication), Macomb, Ill.: Two Rivers Arts Council, College of Fine Arts Development, Western Illinois University, →OCLC, part IV (Receipts by Folks)，第 118 頁，第 1 列:

an apple a day keeps the doctor away—an apple is nutritious and you will stay healthy if you eat one every day. My mother always told us that an apple a day keeps the doctor away, so we would eat apples to stay healthy.

2000 January, “Phrases from the Garden”, 出自 Melvia A. Hasman 編, English Teaching Forum: A Journal for the Teacher outside the United States, 第 38 卷, 第 1 期, Washington, D.C.: United States Information Agency, →ISSN, →OCLC，第 51 頁，第 1 列:

An old saying in Western countries goes, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away", so now there is a new saying in China, "A sea cucumber a day keeps the doctor away".

2004, Jiaxin Chen, “Present Status and Prospects of Sea Cucumber Industry in China”, 出自 Advances in Sea Cucumber Aquaculture and Management (FAO Fisheries Technical Paper; 463), Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization, →ISBN, session I (Status of Resources and Utilization)，第 35 頁:

He advocated the increased use of fruit, for he believed in the old saying, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away."

1887年November26日, “The Pomological Show”, 出自 The Wrexham Advertiser, and North Wales News, 第 XL 卷, Wrexham, Clwyd: Selina Bayley, Charles George Bayley, and George Bradley, →OCLC，第 5 頁，第 6 列:

The old adage, "an apple a day keeps the doctor away," might quite as well have read "a carrot or an onion a day," and probably the result would be about the same as regards reducing the doctor's bill. Vegetables of all kinds are necessary in the diet, but particularly valuable are those available in the spring and summer, say specialists of the United States Department of Agriculture.

1921年June3日, “Vegetables are cheap for food”, 出自 Frank F. Prescott 編, Weymouth Gazette and Transcript, 第 LV 卷, 第 22 (number 2882 overall) 期, Weymouth, Mass.: Gazette and Transcript Publishing Company, →OCLC, 2nd section，第 11 頁，第 3 列:

Many people believe that the concept of an "apple a day keeps the doctor away" is just a played out, overused saying that adults made up to get their children to eat healthier.

2010年August5日, Michael C. Allen, 章號 2, 出自 An Apple a Day: Getting Back to Basics Achieves Total Health and Wellness, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN，第 5 頁:


an apple a day keeps the doctor at bay

an apple a day keeps the doctor away的另一種寫法


lamentful

more lamentful (comparative)
most lamentful (superlative)


synergistical

more synergistical (comparative)
most synergistical (superlative)


Ereshkigal

最终源自蘇美爾語 𒀭𒊩𒌆𒆠𒃲。


Excalibur

源自中古英語 Excalaber，源自古法語 Escalibor、Escaliborc，Calliborc的修复形式，其为Calibourne的变换形式，源自中世紀拉丁語 Caliburnus（Geoffrey of Monmouth，约1136年），受到了calibs (“steel”)的影响（因为chalybs），变换自古威爾士語 Caledbulch（对比现代Caledfwlch），其为由caled (“硬的”)和bwlch (“裂缝”)构成的复合词。与愛爾蘭語中的圣剑名Caladbolg有关，其字面意思为“坚硬的腹部”，即“贪婪的”。

王者之剑，断钢圣剑，斩铁剑 （亚瑟王的圣剑）

Until recently, suppression of ethnicity has perhaps been the leading characteristic of the trend of thought of these Jewish intellectuals. Some, like Noam Chomsky and I. F. Stone, have been considered by some Jews to be so suppressed—or at least so overcompensating for their being Jewish—as to be regarded as anti-Semitic on some issues. Such men flaunt their universalism like Excaliburs of truth and objectivity.

1974, Stephen D. Isaacs, Jews and American Politics, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN，第 53 頁:

And we would see fish swimming among the tall bulrushes that rose like Excaliburs out of the lake.

1998, Imogen Stubbs, “The Undiscovered Road: Northumberland”, 出自 Amazonian: The Penguin Book of Women’s New Travel Writing, Penguin Books, →ISBN，第 228 頁:

You and I, we are not alone, and our screwdrivers are our flashing Excaliburs as we sally forth to make small parts of the fragmented world whole again.

2017, James May, The Reassembler, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN，第 19 頁:


Fimbulwinter

芬布尔之冬 （诸神黄昏的前兆）


Nosferatu

可能源自一个指吸血鬼的罗马尼亚语词。该词在布莱姆·斯托克于1897年所著小说《德拉库拉》和F·W·穆瑙执导的1922年德国电影《不死殭屍—恐慄交響曲》的影响下得到普及。参见英语维基百科中关于该词词源的解释（以及其参考资料）。

/ˌnɒsfəˈɹɑːtuː/

"Friend Arthur, if you had met that kiss [...] you would in time, when you had died, have become nosferatu, as they call it in Eastern Europe, and would all time make more of those Un-Deads that so have filled us with horror."

1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, 出版於 1993，第 192 頁:

Those of us who have dabbled much in the lore of the nosferatu tend to think of them as imaginative creations of the German and English Romantics, and not without reason.

2018 November, Kevin Jackson, “Something to Sink Your Teeth Into”, 出自 Literary Review:

While it may have been capable of flight, it almost certainly spent its time on Hateg crawling about on its wrists, with its great leathery wings folded over its body like a shroud. A gigantic kind of Nosferatu comes to mind.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History，第 26 頁:


Fenrir

借自古諾爾斯語 Fenrir (“沼泽栖息者”)、Fenrisulfr (“芬里斯狼”)。

芬里尔 （古诺尔斯神话中的一匹巨狼）

Lokasenna, stanzas 37-40, comprise an exchange between Týr and Loki. Loki boasts that Fenrir tore off Týr's arm; Týr responds that although he may be missing his hand, Loki is missing Hródrsvitnir, that is, the famous wolf, Fenrir.

2001, John Lindow, Handbook of Norse Mythology, ABC-CLIO，第 113 頁:

Feared and misunderstood, Fenrir was the bringer of doom to the gods and was known as "an axe-age, a sword-age, a wind-age, a wolf-age before the wrecking of the world."

2009, Sarah Bartlett, The Mythology Bible, Sterling Publishing Co.，第 294 頁:

It is my own opinion that the Black Shuck is another manifestation of Fenrir, the large and terrible wolf, who is the eldest child of Loki and the giantess Angrboda.

2011, Nick Redfern, “Phantom Hounds of the Woods”, 出自 Brad Steiger 編, Real Monsters, Gruesome Critters, and Beasts from the Darkside, Visible Ink Press，第 46 頁:


dispones

dispone的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


flesh and blood

[Minnesota Senator Steve] Daines isn’t the only example of right-wing politicians who wish to wield anti-Semitism as a convenient cudgel against their political enemies, with scant if any evidence. But Montana’s vanishingly small Jewish population makes it particularly clear that this strategy has little to do with flesh-and-blood Jews at all.

[明尼苏达州参议员史蒂夫·]戴恩斯并不是唯一一个希望利用反犹太主义作为打击政敌的右翼政客的例子，但证据却很少。但蒙大拿州犹太人口极少，这一点特别清楚地表明，这一策略与实际上的犹太人根本没有关系。

2019年July17日, Talia Lavin, “When Non-Jews Wield Anti-Semitism as Political Shield”, 出自 GQ:

含有血和肉的，含有身体组织的


flesh and blood

How dare you say such a thing to your own flesh and blood?

你怎敢对你的骨肉至亲说这种话？

等量混合的白兰地和波特酒


eek out

eke out的拼寫錯誤。


FW

firmware (“固件；韧体”)之縮寫。

flash warning (“注意闪光”)之首字母縮略詞。


fuck with

roll with

与...合作，与...有关联； 喜欢，中意

Don't fuck with that gang! They all carry guns!

别惹那个黑帮！他们都有枪的！

Don't take it serious, man, I'm just fucking with you.

别认真啊，兄弟，和你开个玩笑而已。

The thought that she might be cheating on me is really fucking with me.

一想到她可能给我戴绿帽了，我就寝食难安。

与...合作，与...有关联； 喜欢，中意

特別用於非洲裔美國人白話

I fuck with you heavy.

“I’m promoting you, dawg. I’m planning an early retirement, and I gotta know that my business is in good hands. I worked hard to get shit to this point, yo. You think you could handle being the boss one day?” “Muthafuckin’ right,” Smurf said beating his chest. “I’m ready to do whatever is asked of me for the team.” “That’s why I fuck with you, Smurf,” Dink said with a sly smile.

2005, Lisa Lennox, Crack Head, →ISBN，第 211 頁:

“Yo, Kid, Dude is my cousin.” “Oh well! I’m sorry, Son, but your cousin fucked up!” “Nah, I mean, you’re my peoples. I fuck with you heavy. I don’t even fuck with that nigga like that, but he is family. If you kill him, then I gotta go to the funeral.”

2012, Michael Archer, Trunk-Space: The Retribution of A Psychopath, →ISBN:

How can I fuck with the fun again, when I'm known?

2013, “Tennis Court”, 出自 Pure Heroine, 演出者 Lorde:

“Boss, no disrespect. I fuck with you, and what shorty just pulled was foul. I know y’all got history, but I hope you ain’t planning on going back to the bitch anytime soon.”

2017, Dana Shontale, Naked Truth, Naked Truths, →ISBN:

RODOLFO RAMIREZ (played by Amaury Nolasco):What do you know about how we roll on the West coast? TOMMY EGAN (played by Joseph Sikora): Not much. But I fucks with that Cali herb hard.

2019年October7日, Courtney A. Kemp, Theo Travers, Andre J. Ferguson, 章號 7 (片头起21:15), 出自 Power(Like Father, Like Son) (6) (TV series), 角色 Tommy Egan（Joseph Sikora）:


unfuckwithable

more unfuckwithable (comparative)
most unfuckwithable (superlative)

Ideally they should just be clones of some client image downloaded from a server which is centrally managed and unfuckwithable thereafter.

1995年December4日, Gromit, “AlphaStations UNSECURE!!!!”, 出自 comp.sys.dec (Usenet), retrieved 2023-03-25:

It can make you as close to unfuckwithable as any tough guy is likely to get.

2013, Adrian Van Young, The Man Who Noticed Everything:

I put on my wet suit, grabbed my surfboard, and went to battle the unmerciful Pacific Ocean — fierce by nature, unforgiving by force, and totally unfuckwithable in every way.

2015, Bill Kreutzmann, Benjy Eisen, Deal: My Three Decades of Drumming, Dreams, and Drugs with the Grateful Dead:


infantilise

infantilize在非牛津英式的标准拼写


infantilises

infantilise 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


infixes

infix 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


informatises

informatise 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


initialises

initialise 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


insensibilises

insensibilise 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


instrumentalises

instrumentalise 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


intellectualises

intellectualise 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


innerve

To imbue with nervous energy; to give increased force or courage to.


innerves

innerve 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


thingamajigger

玩意，东西 （不知名的物品）

What was that thingamajigger he was playing with during school?

他在学校玩的那玩意是啥？


tremulous

源自拉丁語 tremulus，源自tremō (“抖动”)。与古希臘語 τρέμω (trémō)同源。

more tremulous (comparative)
most tremulous (superlative)

"Thank God!" he cried brokenly, all the pent emotion of the long night vibrant in his tremulous voice.

1919, William MacLeod Raine, 章號 27, 出自 A Man Four-Square:

Light filtered in through the blinds of the french windows. It made tremulous stripes along the scrubbed pine floor.

1956, Delano Ames, 章號 12, 出自 Crime out of Mind:

"You have lived here long?" Felix asked, with tremulous interest, as he took a seat.

1891, Grant Allen, 章號 15, 出自 The Great Taboo:

This, hard on the heels of the death of Julia Child in 2004, makes one tremulous about the future.

2009年October7日, Christopher Kimball, “Opinion: Gourmet to All That”, 出自 New York Times, retrieved 2012-08-18:


amogus

詞源樹
英語 among
英語 us
英語 amogus
Among Us的变体，其是Innersloth在2018年发行的一款社交推理游戏。因谜因在约2021年1月传播开来，最初形式为一个StoneToss漫画图中的台词被编辑成“amogus”，从而得到形式谬误的诙谐效果。

电子游戏《Among Us》中的船员或内鬼角色；阿莫古斯

Can I get a^([sic]) ipad,^([sic]) and pillow that looks like Amogus and a Baby Alive. Love, Kyleigh […] For Christmas, I would like an Among Us plushy^([sic]) because I love Among Us. […] Love, Jaxton

2021年December15日, “Santa Letters”, 出自 The Cadiz Record, 第 138 卷, 第 50 期，第 S5 頁:

While the peak of Among Us memes has been comfortably left in 2021, there are still dark remnants of the past remaining in pop culture today. One has to look no further than a surprise "amogus" in LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga.

2022年April13日, Jamie Dunkin, “You can't escape 'Among Us' memes, even in 'LEGO Star Wars'”, 出自 We Got This Covered:

We reached out to Innersloth to hear the devs' thoughts on the popular amogus art template. Community director Victoria Tran sent over a brief comment.

2022年October17日, Austin Wood, “Among Us is now the best worst art tool, and the devs say it's "absolutely inspired"”, 出自 GamesRadar+:

For example, the Scholar’s Scavenge that spanned most of the first day sent randomised teams to the Siam Amazing Park to tick off a list of increasinbly bizarre ice-breaking prompts, including “film a singing duel between the best and worst singers”, “show a WSC staff member a wild amogus”, “Initiate a dinosaur-alpaca feud”, and many, many more.

2022年September30日, “Winning World Scholars at the Global Round!”, 出自 Patana News, 第 25 卷, 第 7 期, Bangkok Patana School，第 4 頁:

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sussy baka

源自sussy (“可疑的”) + baka (“蠢的”)。在约2021年由TikToker Akeam Francis的影响下普及开。

"Sussy" and "sus" are words used in the videogame Among Us to describe someone shifty or suspicious, whilst baka means "fool" in Japanese. So to be a sussy baka is to be a suspicious fool, presumably – although it appears that the meme has taken this meaning and ran with it a little.

2021年May4日, Harry Ainsworth, “What does 'sussy baka' mean and why does everyone on TikTok say it?”, 出自 The Tab，2022-10-25歸檔自原頁面:

Hopefully, that research means that, even if we're "sussy bakas," we're not entirely "dekus."

2021年May5日, Theo Salaun, “What is "Sussy Baka" on TikTok? Among Us & anime trend goes viral”, 出自 Dexerto，2022-10-24歸檔自原頁面:

There's no telling what the next big thing will be, but one thing is certain: viral phrases are here to stay. So the next time you want to make fun of your friend, just call them a "Sussy Baka!"

2022年May6日, Cody Raschella, “What does 'Sussy Baka' mean and where did it originate?”, 出自 We Got This Covered，2022-08-11歸檔自原頁面:

How did these law-and-order guys end up in this video? Well, Cameo, of course – the video platform that allows people to pay celebrities to record videos of themselves saying anything the buyer wants. Sometimes, this produces hilarious results (Dean Norris, aka Hank Schrader from Breaking Bad, calling Walter White "a sussy baka" comes to mind).

2022年June30日, Austin Sanders, “Decruiting APD Artists/Activists Imagine a World Without Police, One Cop at a Time”, 出自 The Austin Chronicle，2022-08-11歸檔自原頁面:


let's say

比方说，假如说 （引出假设）


softlock

软锁（电子游戏可操作但无法继续游玩的状态，通常是由于设计或程序错误导致）

I defeated the boss, but got hit at the exact same time; now I'm stuck in a softlock and can't exit the level.

我击败了头目，但就在同时也受到了伤害；现在我陷于软锁状态，没法退出关卡。


softlock

处在软锁状态中或导致软锁（处在可操作但无法继续游玩的状态）


to write home about

重要的，厉害的，值得一提的

‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough! […] What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’

1963, Margery Allingham, 章號 15, 出自 The China Governess:


next to nothing

I got it for next to nothing in the January sales.

在一月的促销中，我几乎没花多少钱就买到了它。

He pretends to be knowledgeable, but actually he knows next to nothing.

他假装知识渊博，但实际上几乎一无所知。


humanises

humanise 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


grow out of

grows out of
growing out of
grew out of
grown out of

从...处出现，从...长出来，产生自，是...的成果

长大后不再适合 （尤指衣物）

I give my old clothes to charity when I've grown out of them.

我会把我穿不下的旧衣服捐给慈善机构。

长大成熟后不再有，长大后改掉 （爱好，习惯等）

Still, I see you mean well enough, and are merely suffering from the debilitating cheerfulness of youth. You will soon grow out of that.

2002, House of the Seven Gables - Page 37


cold fish

He wouldn't have thought her such a cold fish. Pity. Still, there was plenty of time. Perhaps when she got used to his company she would thaw a little.

You're a cold fish. You have no heart.

2003, Robert Wilson, The Blind Man of Seville, →ISBN，第 13 頁:

Ah, don't be such a cold fish!


good riddance

最初见于a great riddance或a fair riddance之类短语。比威廉·莎士比亚更早的使用是在 1597 年 8 月 3 日伯尔勋爵给罗伯特·塞西尔爵士的一封信中，该信出现在与爱尔兰有关的国家文件中第364页——“or in good riddance”。
后期则见于莎士比亚的悲剧作品《特洛伊羅斯與克瑞西達》的第2幕第1场。

/ˌɡʊd ˈɹɪdns/

用于表达对某人或某事物离去的欣慰、喜悦等

Goodbye and good riddance!


cunny

cony (“兔子”)的棄用形式。


cunny

主要用於日本動畫和日本漫畫

主要用於日本動畫和日本漫畫

主要用於日本動畫和日本漫畫


cunny

more cunny (comparative)
most cunny (superlative)

Nevertheless, she was a "cunny Jamaican woman" who knew 'what side her bread was buttered on.'

2000, Donna Maxine Weir, Beyond Binaries: Creolized Forms of Resistance in African-American and Caribbean Literatures，第 175 頁:


globalises

globalise 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


grammaticalises

grammaticalise 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


whack off

Did I mention that when I was fifteen I took it out of my pants and whacked off on the 107 bus from New York?

1969, Philip Roth, “Cunt Crazy”, 出自 Portnoy’s Complaint, New York: Random House:

[…] why is it that I am discomfited by the bizarre fact that the one thing she will do, though in a pleasureless and rather perfunctory way, is to whack me off hour after hour until I am a lifeless and juiceless stalk, exhausted and even humiliated by this dumb pursuit?

1979, William Styron, 章號 14, 出自 Sophie’s Choice, New York: Random House:


teeter

He teetered on the brink of the precipice.

他在峭壁的边缘摇摇欲坠。

The concrete floors of B2B sheds were already being built to an exacting degree of flatness, calibrated using lasers, so that forklifts would not teeter while lifting pallets to the highest shelves.

2019年November21日, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, 出自 The Guardian:

This is not a land of blowouts. It’s a middle ground, and that’s reflected in voter registration rolls. Nearly 2.6 million North Carolinians declare themselves unaffiliated, while just over 2.4 million identify as Democrats and just under 2.2 million as Republicans. We don’t tilt. We teeter.

2023年May4日, Frank Bruni, “Republicans Are Running Wild in My State”, 出自 The New York Times:

We teetered on the fence about buying getaway tickets and missed the opportunity.

我们之前犹豫要不要买度假的票，结果错过了机会。

Despite appearances, the firm was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy.

虽然表面光鲜，但是公司已经濒临破产。


friend with benefits

可能首次由艾拉妮丝·莫莉塞特使用于1995年歌曲“Head over Feet”中，但是在这个歌词语境中，其似乎特指正式的交往关系而非随便的性伴侣关系。

“I’m just saying that usually when you have a friend who’s a girl, it’s not just that she’s your friend. Either you’ve known her a long time, or she’s a friend with benefits.”

Gender norms influence how young men orient themselves to sexual partners and girlfriends, and men’s procreative consciousness is sometimes affected by how they define a potential or actual sex partner (e.g., casual or serious girlfriend, “friend with benefits”, hookup).

2003, William Marsiglio, “Making Males Mindful of Their Sexual and Procreative Identities: Using Self-Narratives in Field Settings”, 出自 Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 第 35 卷, 第 5 期:

“Can I be so bold as to ask if I can be a friend with benefits?”

2004, Cynthia Henry, Discovering Normal:

The College Relationship is the hook up that turns into a “a person to hang out with,” more or less, a friend with benefits. This is a person whose company you sincerely enjoy, and you choose to spend extra time both hanging out and hooking up with, but there is no spoken commitment involved.

2005, Jennifer Klein, University of Pennsylvania:


wind up

roll up

把...摇起来 （车窗，井的水桶等）

raise

把...摇起来 （车窗，井的水桶等）

snitches get stitches and wind up in ditches

wind down

把...摇起来 （车窗，井的水桶等）

roll down

把...摇起来 （车窗，井的水桶等）

lower

把...摇起来 （车窗，井的水桶等）

I wound up the spool of rope.

I wound up the clock.

Your pocket watch will run for a long time if you wind up the spring all the way.

你给你的怀表完全扭好发条以后它可以转好久的。

The movie wound me up emotionally.

那部电影绷紧了我的神经。

Try not to wind up the kids too much right before bedtime.

睡觉前别让孩子们玩的太疯了。

Of all their regrets, it was their inability to score an away goal that might wind up Klopp the most. Sadio Mané wasted a glorious chance in the first half and, late on, Mohamed Salah turned his shot against a post after a goal-line clearance had spun his way.

2019年May1日, Daniel Taylor, “Lionel Messi magic puts Barcelona in command of semi-final with Liverpool”, 出自 The Guardian:

把...摇起来 （车窗，井的水桶等）

Wind up your window — it's starting to rain.

把窗摇起来，开始下雨了。

Mess around with drugs and wind up broke.

沾上毒品结果就是身无分文。

I followed the signs, and I wound up getting nowhere.

我跟着路标走，结果走到了不知道啥地方。

The Hound's afraid to go in. Maybe he's afraid the occupants will tell on him, but Beric points out that there's no smoke in the chimney or livestock in the yard, so it's probably deserted. It's not. Inside are the decaying corpses of the farmer and his little girl, in bed together with a knife on the floor. Beric CSIs that they were starving to death, so the man ended the suffering for both of them. And they might not have wound up that way if they hadn't met the Hound.

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

Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.

2013年January10日, Brian Hayes, “Father of Fractals”, 出自 American Scientist, 第 101 卷, 第 1 期，第 62 頁:

Now, things got even more confusing. Farenholt and Laffey hadn't spotted the incoming Japanese Navy vessels, and were winding up to full speed to more-quickly bypass the cruisers. Duncan, of course, could see the radar contacts to its starboard, and so assumed that this increase in speed by its compatriots was the start of a general assault on the enemy. And so, not wanting to be left behind, it broke off and headed off into the darkness to start what turned out to be a one-ship torpedo assault.

2020年December9日, Drachinifel, 片头起15:25, 出自 Guadalcanal Campaign - Cape Esperance (IJN 1 : 2 USN)，於2022-12-04歸檔自原頁面:

终止，关停 （合作关系，公司等）

Even though he had bad news, he tried to wind up his speech on a positive note.

虽然他讲了坏消息，但他还是想以正面的语气结束演讲。

同類詞：wind down

A general feast, of which all the male inhabitants of the town partake, winds up the proceedings at the close of the nineteen days.

1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, 第 8 卷，第 231 頁:

In late April, residents were sent a blunt letter telling them that the town's ancient market, which had stopped because of the pandemic, and which really did date back to the reign of Queen Anne, would be wound up.

2020年September1日, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, 出自 The Guardian:

Twenty quid? Are you winding me up?

Paige seemed to be winding up for a fastball but then switched it up.

Paige似乎做了个准备投快球的姿势，但最后又换了。


cut it

Sometimes, professional tools are necessary and homespun solutions just don't cut it.

有时候还是得用专业工具，平常的解决方法还是不够的。

I couldn't cut it as a poor man, stealing


born at night but not last night

born yesterday

还是了解情况的，没那么好骗的

还是了解情况的，没那么好骗的


externalises

externalise 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


familiarises

familiarise 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


favorises

favorise 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


stroll on

真的吗？不是吧？（表达惊讶，难以置信）

Barry and Carrie are getting married? Stroll on!

Barry和Carrie要结婚了？不是吧！？


what's the big idea

什么意思？想怎样？ （表达对另一个人行为的惊讶和不满，尤指对听话人。）

I heard you been chatting up my girl. What's the big idea?

我听说你经常找我女朋友聊天。你想找茬吗？

Hey, what's the big idea, you telling everybody I'd left town?

喂，你干嘛告诉别人我已经走了。


coop up

使...窝在；将...困在 （处于一个狭窄受限的地方或出于束手无策的境地）

This was a fine day's outing for anybody who had been cooped up in the shops for a few months.

1944 September and October, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—I”, 出自 Railway Magazine，第 285 頁:


fraternises

fraternise 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


bite the big one

bites the big one
biting the big one
bit the big one
bitten the big one

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/en-au-bite the big one.ogg

"I thought all of dad's relatives bit the big one a long time ago."

1983, Susan Arnout, The Frozen Lady，第 397 頁:

Whatever air-conditioning system the car had once possessed had bitten the big one years ago; ...

1988, Barbara Hambly, The silicon mage，第 5 頁:

Empire of the Sun was an enormous literary and commercial success in Britain but pretty much bit the Big One on its own in the United States.

1990, Norman Spinrad, Science fiction in the real world，第 183 頁:

To Verdi, it bit the big one, but that was the way it worked.

1996, Stephen Kimball, Death duty，第 9 頁:


ragequit

ragequits
ragequitting
ragequit
ragequitted

/ˈɹeɪd͡ʒˌkwɪt/

Having had my share of ragequitting teammates and unfinished campaigns -- I still haven't completed a L4D2 campaign on Expert -- I'll take a positive outlook and say that the complaints about difficulty amount to a longer and taller learning curve, that will give this game a longer lifespan than the first.

2009年November28日, rms, “What have you been playing... IN NOVEMBER 2009?”, 出自 comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action (Usenet), message-ID <herjp3$ucc$1@news.eternal-september.org>:

Cheap insta-kill attacks have made me ragequit at least twice.

2010年February8日, Chris Whitworth, “Pow, Wallop & Bam”, 出自 uk.games.video.misc (Usenet), message-ID <slrnhn0725.gik.usenet.chris@parm.vs.topper.me.uk>:


ragequit

/ˈɹeɪd͡ʒˌkwɪt/

Hardison: I don't know what happened. I had 'em and then I just—
Nate: Didn't anticipate the ragequit.
Hardison: You know gamer terminology?
Nate: I know the key to a good game is balancing boredom and frustration. Now the game — the puzzle's too easy, then the mark — the player — gets bored and walks away. The puzzle's too hard, then the player gets frustrated, and quits in a rage: ragequit.

2012年January1日, “The Gold Job”, 出自 Leverage, 第 4 季数, 第 16 集数 (Television), 角色 Alec HardisonandNate Ford（Aldis HodgeandTimothy Hutton）:


smoking-room

To the "Nut" then, with its dirty little smoking-room, clouded with fumes arising from baccies of every description; curling upwards from the short black Irish clay bowl, full of strong ship's baccy, as well as from the best of Havannahs […]

1882, Chums: A Tale of the Queen's Navy, 第 1 卷，第 200 頁:

“It's a rum start, old John Madingley's coming down to Tunnleton,” said Grafton, one evening in the smoking-room; […]

1887, Hawley Smart, A False Start, 第 2 卷，第 69 頁:

That night he strolled into the Palette Club about eleven o’clock, and found Trevor sitting by himself in the smoking-room drinking hock and seltzer.

1891 [1887], Oscar Wilde, “The Model Millionaire”, 出自 Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories:

I dined alone and sat after dinner in the smoking-room, for Odell never suggested the library, though I would have given a lot to fossick about that place.

1924 July, John Buchan, “Our Time is Narrowed”, 出自 The Three Hostages, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 出版於 January 1926, →OCLC，第 227 頁:

He saw marriage as a settling down to the serious business of life; a settling down that was symbolized in the large stuccoed house in St John's Wood Park, with its long mahogany dining-table, its family portraits, its oak-panelled smoking-room, its leather-bound books running in long, dusty rows from floor to ceiling; its drawing-room whose heavily brocaded windows looked out on a trim garden, its thick carpets, its kitchened basement, its high, wide bedrooms, its airy nursery.

1932, Alec Waugh, That American Woman，第 20 頁:

The most chairful of chairs are to be found in the smoking-rooms of clubs.


herstory

her + history 組成的混成詞，其将history前半部分解释为his (“他的”)，并将其替换为了her (“她的”)。

Nobody thought of it as history, herstory, my-story, your-story, or our-story.

1969?, “Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, "1969 Mother Stonewall and the Golden Rats"”, 出自 The Stonewall Reader, Penguin Classics, 出版於 2019, →ISBN，第 107 頁:

女性有关或女性创作的史料


tum tum

tum-tum (“肚子”)的另一種寫法

(Turns towards me, opens his eyes and mouth, and hums the REPRISE somewhere down in his throat.) […] Friend No. 1 (stopping in his tum tum tum). What's he say?

tumtum (“一种鼓”)的另一種寫法

The toombah, a drum with tin jingles and shells, accompanied songs and dances of Africans on Antigua. A report in 1844 mentions the “tum tum” (toombah) and […]

2017, Dale A. Olsen, Daniel E. Sheehy, The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, Routledge, →ISBN:


ensiles

ensile 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


ofloxacin

Ofloxacin and ceftriaxone had the highest sensitivity pattern to these uropathogens.

2015年July24日, Fidelis Agwu Onu et al., “Profile and microbiological isolates of asymptomatic bacteriuria among pregnant women in Abakaliki, Nigeria”, 出自 Infection and Drug Resistance, 第 8 卷, →DOI:


candrabindu

源自梵語 चन्द्रबिन्दु (candrabindu, 字面意思是“月亮点”)。


zip one's lip

zips one's lip
zipping one's lip
zipped one's lip

Why don’t you just zip your lip? I’m tired of listening to you.

你能不能别说话了？我听都听烦了。


trepidation

借自拉丁語 trepidātiō，源自trepidō (“不安”)。

I decided, with considerable trepidation, to let him drive my car without me.

我迟疑了好久，最后还是决定让他不带我开我的车走了。

She reached it soon after half-past two. She found its gloomy nineteenth-century façade, black with the smuts of ninety years, a little daunting, and mounted its broad steps in some trepidation. But she rang the bell hard and knocked firmly.

1915, Edgar Jepson, “The Reluctant Duke”, 出自 Happy Pollyooly: The Rich Little Poor Girl, Indianapolis, Ind.: Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC，第 135 頁:

She opened the drawing-room door in trepidation. Would she find Esther drowned with her head in the goldfish bowl, or hanged from the chandelier by her stay-lace?

1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, 章號 VII, 出自 A House is Built:

The Midlanders will hope the victory will kickstart a campaign that looked to have hit the buffers, but the sense of trepidation enveloping the Reebok Stadium heading into the new year underlines the seriousness of the predicament facing Owen Coyle's men.

2011年December10日, Marc Higginson, “Bolton 1 – 2 Aston Villa”, 出自 BBC Sport:


transluces

transluce 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


transluce

形態上似乎來自拉丁語 trānslūceō (“閃耀；半透明”)，但亦有可能逆構自 translucent（來自同一拉丁語動詞）。

使光能夠透過，從而讓被照耀的物體半透明

[…] for her stainless soul transluced the fairest skin, making simplicity a grace, filling her large blue eyes with gentle rays; and her arch laughter with innocent mirth.

1904, John P. Lonargan, Cwan and Genevieve: A Tale of Love and Romance in the Days of Roderick, Last Monarch of All Ireland，第 35 頁:

By translucing the paper when the negative is otherwise finished the grain can be reduced to a minimum. The following translucing media may be mentioned: (1) Vaseline, (2) paraffin waxin paraffin, (3) castor oil and alcohol, (4) white wax ...

1915, The Photographic Journal of America: The Oldest Photography Magazine in America，第 111 頁:

The less transparent consciousness is, the less translucent will the world itself be. In other words, when consciousness is very opaque, it is not able to transluce the world. Now to transluce the world means to make it understandable.

1970, Robert S. Hartman, Robert. E. Carter, "Dialogue on Intrinsic Value" (1970), pages 122-23, quoted in 2014, Rem B. Edwards, John W. Davis, Forms of Value and Valuation: Theory and Application, Wipf and Stock Publishers (ISBN 9781625648471), page 119:

In his refusal to allow tropes to transluce into meaning, Donne locates spiritual significance not in the disembodied and abstract sphere but in the body itself.

2014, Kimberly Johnson, Made Flesh: Sacrament and Poetics in Post-Reformation England, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN，第 32 頁:

半透明或透明，光能夠透過

holy are the doors that admit
holy are the rivets that bind
holy are the windows that transluce

2006, Alexander Levering Kern, Becoming Fire: Spiritual Writing from Rising Generations, Andover Newton Publications，第 5 頁:

At the end of the dance, when “matter turned to spirit,” the two cliffs once again came together to form an arch but both rock structures were now lighted to transluce and transform into stained glass.

2007, Nicanor G. Tiongson, Salvador F. Bernal: Designing the Stage:

Cook the bacon in a pan, add the onion and cook until they start to transluce, then add the garlic and cook for another minute.

2018, Mattis Lundqvist, 25 Low-Carbohydrate Recipes for the Slow Cooker: Delicious low carb recipes for all slow cooker fans - part 1: Measurements in grams, BookRix, →ISBN:


translucid

源自拉丁語 translucidus，源自trans (“across, through”) + lucidus (“lucid”)。对比法語 translucide。See translucent。

more translucid (comparative)
most translucid (superlative)

The cause is , for that in anger the spirits ascend and wax eager ; which is most easily seen in the eyes , because they are translucid ; though withal it maketh both the cheeks and the gills red

1631, Francis [Bacon], “9。Century.”, 出自 Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd版, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

This insight, which expresses itself by what is called Imagination, is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuit of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.

Overcoming the gravity of representation and the figurative, automatism and acquired reflexes, she mixes brute force and translucid emotions to paint an ontological, disquieting, enigmatic human figure free from artifice, universal in its expression.


trepid

源自拉丁語 trepidus (“紧张的”)。

more trepid (comparative)
most trepid (superlative)

the trepid mouse


trepidatious

more trepidatious (comparative)
most trepidatious (superlative)

He looks a little trepidatious too, and we both laugh awkwardly as he nears me.

2020, Sophie Kinsella, Love Your Life, Dial Press, →ISBN:

Factor in Grammer’s outspoken Trumpism, which complicates the legacy of his defining role, and fans may be forgiven for feeling trepidatious.

2023年February27日, Elle Hunt, “‘Don’t make Frasier best friends with Elon Musk!’ Writers and comics offer their reboot tips”, 出自 The Guardian, →ISSN:


parasomnia

源自para- (“超越，在...之上；异常”) + 拉丁語 somnus (“睡眠”)。


pig in a blanket

pigs in a blanket (plural)
pigs in blankets (plural)


big house

He was 38 years old and had been in the big house twice for shooting scrapes.

1948年November15日, “The End of Bad Boy Collins”, 出自 Time:

仅按字面意思，并无比喻或俗语义；参见big、house。


get the lead out

“get the lead out of one's shoes”或“...one's pants”的缩短形式，其中lead指很重的金属，因此这句话可能指“把拖后腿的重物丢掉然后加快脚步”。

gets the lead out
getting the lead out
got the lead out
got the lead out
gotten the lead out


ring a bell

rings a bell
ringing a bell
rang a bell
rung a bell

His face rings a bell. I wonder if I know him from somewhere.

他看着有点眼熟，我是不是在哪遇到过他。

让人回忆起什么，有点耳熟

仅按字面意思，并无比喻或俗语义；参见ring、a、bell。


epi-

来自古希臘語 ἐπί (epí, “在……之上”)。


exorcises

exorcise 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


redresses

redress 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


spin-off

源自动词短语spin off。

hive-off

（从母公司的）独立，剥离，拆分；（由此产生的）独立公司，拆分公司

We are about to broach the fraught saga of the Circle Line, but there is another Metropolitan spin-off that comes first, one that has always appealed to me by the baleful beauty of its name: the City Widened Lines or 'The Widened Lines' for short.

2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, ISBN 978-1846684777，第 51–52 頁s:

Space research often provides a spin-off for everyday technology.

太空研究常常会给日常科技带来意外的收获。

外传作品，番外作品，衍生作品

"Frasier" was a spin-off from the sitcom "Cheers".

（从母公司的）独立，剥离，拆分；（由此产生的）独立公司，拆分公司


sunquat

lemonquat

酸橘，一种柑橘类，柠檬(可能是北京柠檬) 和金橘的混种。Citrus × japonica.


rough up

The gangsters roughed him up a little.


wreak havoc

wreaks havoc
wreaking havoc
wreaked havoc

The storm wreaked havoc on his garden.

风暴把他的花园弄得面目全非。


wreck havoc

将常用词wreck与罕用词wreak混淆造成的。这两个词词义相近，均指“破坏”，且词源相似。

wrecks havoc
wrecking havoc
wrecked havoc


surveillant

more surveillant (comparative)
most surveillant (superlative)


surveilles

surveille 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


unpossible

源自中古英語 unpossible，等价于un- (“不”) + possible。

more unpossible (comparative)
most unpossible (superlative)

’Tis a hard matter therefore to confine them, being they are so various and many, unpossible to apprehend all.

1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd版, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.280:

In the evening we fired a few rackets, which flying in the ayre so terrified the poore Salvages, they supposed nothing unpossible we attempted […].

1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, Kupperman, 出版於 1988，第 97 頁:

[S]o prodigiously various are the works of the Creator, and so All-sufficient is he to perform what to man would seem unpossible […].

1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XXI:

Ralph Wiggum: Me fail English? That's unpossible!

I think we can all agree that this is unpossible.

2008, David Goldberg, “meeting with HKS”, 出自 Mimecast:


stone the crows

在20世纪10年代原为澳大利亚英语，“指以前看守农田并用石头砸糟蹋庄稼的乌鸦的职业”。

天啊 （表达惊讶或仅强调的一般化叹词）

“Why, stone the crows! I′ll look yous up,” sez ′e. / “I need some friends: I ain′t got wife nor chick.”

1924, C. J. Dennis, “Rose Of Spadgers”, 出自 Sentimental Bloke and Other Verses, 出版於 1988，第 86 頁:

The he pinched himself to make sure he was really awake, "Stone the crows!" he said softly. "Stone the crows!"

1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books，第 141 頁:

So I says to meself: stone the crows, I′m a doomed man, might as well shoot through. It was cyclone time, see, and there′s been flash floods and this rock as big as a house has gone.

1988, Janette Turner Hospital, Charades，第 63 頁:

‘Stone the crows,’ I whispered in sheer relief.

2008, Norman Jorgensen, Jack′s Island, ReadHowYouWant, 出版於 2011，第 170 頁:


weaselly

more weaselly (comparative)
weasellier (comparative)
most weaselly (superlative)
weaselliest (superlative)

The writer had just entered into his eighteenth year, when he met at the table of a certain Anglo-Germanist an individual, apparently somewhat under thirty, of middle stature, a thin and weaselly figure, a sallow complexion, a certain obliquity of vision, and a large pair of spectacles.

1857, George Borrow, The Romany Rye, 2nd版, London: John Murray, 出版於 1858, Volume 2, Appendix, Chapter 11, p. 359:

“Pretty?”
[…] Mr. Prestcott considered. “Fair to middling. Bit weaselly, if you know what I mean. Wouldn’t have been much without makeup. As it was, she managed to look quite attractive.”

1942, Agatha Christie, 章號 6, 出自 The Body in the Library, New York: Pocket Books, 出版於 1965，第 54 頁:

At three minutes past six the door opened to admit the naked, scrawny figure of Tingaling Bell. He had a sharp weasely face and a miserable body on which each bone showed.

1956, Ian Fleming, 章號 13, 出自 Diamonds Are Forever, London: Pan Books, 出版於 1958:

On still weasellier, greasier members of the clique.

1996, Will Self, The Sweet Smell of Psychosis, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, →ISBN:

I lifted the extension, slowly released the button, easing in mid-ring like the weaselliest weasel.

2009, Sean Beaudoin, Fade to Blue, New York, N.Y., Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, 出版於 2011, →ISBN:

He looks like a shorter, thinner, weasellier version of Tom Jones, and he sure knows how to work a crowd.

That was when the constantly complaining but unseen dog showed itself, if it was actually a dog. The weaselly little creature crawled out from under the couch—more rodential than canine, Pepe thought.

2015, John Irving, 章號 1, 出自 Avenue of Mysteries, Canada: Knopf:

More members arrive. […] Lucifer, small and fat and weasellier (e.g. more like a weasel) than ever, and a few other nonentities whose names Fricka can never remember.

2016, Ian Murray-Watson, A Stitch in Time, Matador, →ISBN，第 20 頁:

With intellect weaselly, artist has easily earned all his bacon and greens by it,

1864, W. S. Gilbert, “Sixty-Three and Sixty-Four” originally published in Fun, V (2 January 1864), p. 162, later published in Bab Ballads, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1970, p. 37,

“Ah was vara weaselly. Ah wasna going home without yon stoof for Captain Harker. Vara coonning ah was.”

1927, John Masefield, The Midnight Folk, London: Heinemann，第 221 頁:

Menemencioglu could see no good reason why this weasely document should not be interpreted so as to keep Turkey out of a war in which he and the other Turkish leaders were convinced she could do no better than be uselessly crushed […]

1947, William B. King, Frank O’Brien, 章號 19, 出自 The Balkans: Frontier of Two Worlds, New York: Knopf，第 239 頁:

“There’s a poem I like,” Harry said. “By Robert Graves. About cats. Cats, he says, make their point by walking round it. It’s all right for cats. For humans, as you say—weaselly. Why don’t they come out with it?”

1967, Richard Lockridge, 章號 2, 出自 With Option to Die, Philadelphia: Lippincott，第 30 頁:

It was one of the strangest elections I have ever witnessed, even odder than the 1988 presidential race, when two yahoos named George Bush and Michael Dukakis ended what Hunter S. Thompson declared “The Generation of Swine” by conducting the weaselliest, most vacuous, idealess campaign in the nation’s history.

1997年August31日, Jeff Cox, “Legacy of the yahoos”, 出自 Standard-Speaker, Hazleton, Pa.，第 C1 頁:

Charles Lucas received the most weaselly rejection, the directors hoping they might be able to programme his symphony, but adding that they ‘would by no means wish to prevent his so doing elsewhere’.

2000, Simon McVeigh, “The Society of British Musicians (1834–1865) and the Campaign for Native Talent”, 出自 Music and British Culture 1785–1914: Essays in Honour of Cyril Ehrlich, Oxford University Press, →ISBN，第 147 頁:

“Rat-faced. Never trust a reporter. They’re weasellier than rodents!”

2004, Jan Carr, The Elf of Union Square, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN，第 56 頁:

So gas rustlers are the horse thieves of the 21st century. The weaselliest are the pump-and-run variety. They strike even in broad daylight. They fill ’er up, then skedaddle without paying.

2008年July17日, Mike Strobel, “Like Old West horse thieves: As gas prices rise, fuel rustlers are out there riding the range”, 出自 The Kingston Whig-Standard，第 5 頁:

There’s a weaselly feel to the plan, a sense that tough decisions were postponed even as President Obama warns about our “perfect storm of financial problems.”

2009年February11日, Maureen Dowd, “Trillion Dollar Baby”, 出自 New York Times:

If the prompting is necessary, email (or text) is arguably the worst, weaselliest possible way to do it.

2017年August23日, Carolyn Hax, “Man and daughter won’t make up”, 出自 Appeal Tribune, 第 136 卷, 第 36 期:


weasely

weaselier (comparative)
weaseliest (superlative)

"It's just, we decided even the slimiest and weaseliest of friends deserve second chances," said Lily.

2005, Lauren Mechling with Laura Moser, The Rise and Fall of a 10th-grade Social Climber，第 289 頁:


Chindian

more Chindian (comparative)
most Chindian (superlative)


épopée

借自法語 épopée。

epopee的另一種寫法


walk like an Egyptian

有时古埃及画作中有如此姿势的人。

walks like an Egyptian
walking like an Egyptian
walked like an Egyptian

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-walk like an Egyptian.ogg

像埃及人一样走路 （一边上臂水平，下臂垂直向上，手腕弯曲，手垂直向外，另一边上臂水平，下臂垂直向下，手做同样姿势）

“Get ready for pharaohs, pyramids and walking like an Egyptian.” He held bent arms in front and behind him. A laugh bubbled through the room as Mac walked back to his desk and found his Egypt teaching plan.

2008, Patricia S. Otto, The Gelidus Factor，第 28 頁:


meet one's maker

多种宗教均认为人死后会到达天堂等可以见到造物主的地方。

meets one's maker
meeting one's maker
met one's maker

On the gallows high he has met his Maker...Your victim waits for you to meet your Maker

1871, Unknown (Execution ballad), “Execution of Frederick Baker.”, 出自 Curiosities of Street Literature, Comprising "cocks," Or "catch Pennies"，第 205 頁:

This parrot is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late parrot! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed it to the perch it would be pushing up the daisies!

1969年December7日, Monty Python, “Full Frontal Nudity, Dead Parrot sketch”, 出自 Monty Python's Flying Circus, 角色 Mr Praline（John Cleese）:


pallier

pally 的比較級形式。


lose one's mind

loses one's mind
losing one's mind
lost one's mind


lose one's marbles

loses one's marbles
losing one's marbles
lost one's marbles

There it was again, the suggestion that the governor had lost his marbles. And, to be truthful, Breslin is a bit late on the loony angle.

1981 April 13, New York magazine, vol. 14, no. 15,

If my golfing friends would see me now, they'd crap in their pants laughing at me. They'd say that poor jerk had lost his marbles.

2004, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Dick Gerde, A world for Julius:

Jimi's obsession with his guitar garnered him a nickname around Clarksville: Marbles. He was so named because people thought he had "lost his marbles" and was crazy as a result of his excessive practicing.

2005, Charles R. Cross, Room full of mirrors: a biography of Jimi Hendrix:

On the substance of Smith’s grumble – that Microsoft’s remedies for the cloud part of the gaming market were sufficient – opinion obviously differs, but the CMA hasn’t lost its marbles.

2023年April27日, Nils Pratley, “Ignore Microsoft’s whines about the Activision takeover. The CMA did its job”, 出自 The Guardian, →ISSN:


wear one's heart on one's sleeve

wears one's heart on one's sleeve
wearing one's heart on one's sleeve
wore one's heart on one's sleeve
worn one's heart on one's sleeve

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Iago: For when my outward action doth demonstrate
The native act and figure of my heart
In compliment extern, 'tis not long after
But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.

约1603–1604年, 威廉·莎士比亚, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice [奥赛罗]”, 出自 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 1, scene 1]，第 64 行:

There was something very direct and childlike in Virginie Poucette. She could not pretend; she wore her heart on her sleeve.

1915, Gilbert Parker, 章號 18, 出自 The Money Master:

I'm not being smart or trying to be cold on my part / And I'm not gonna wear my heart on my sleeve / But you know people get all emotional

1978, Lou Reed （作曲作詞）, “Street Hassle”, 出自 Street Hassle:

I feel so close to you right now, it's a force field / I wear my heart on my sleeve, like a big deal

2011, “Feel So Close”, 演出者 Calvin Harris:


open book

好懂的事物，易懂的事物，一目了然的事物

There is one, with a dark and thoughtful eye,
Who is to all others a mystery;
But his soul is to me an open book,
And I read his mood in his slightest look; ...

1860, Abby Maria Hemenway, “The Priest and The Maiden”, 出自 Poets and Poetry of Vermont:

This is the secret of Hegel, and the key to his hieroglyphics, and, if consistently used to interpret the sayings of his logic, it becomes an open book.

1898, John Wesley Powell, Truth and Error or the Science of Intellection:

On the surface of the ground or through the swaying branches of the trees the spoor of man or beast was an open book to the ape-man, but even his acute senses were baffled by the spoorless trail of the airship.

1921, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan the Untamed:

But I have never argued – and never will – that our most sensitive national security matters should be an open book.

2009, May 21, Barack Obama, speech, Protecting Our Security and Our Values

直白的人，坦率的人，很容易看透的人，胸无城府的人

He is an open book. Everyone can see that he removes nothing, conceals nothing, reserves nothing for himself.

1986, Adrienne von Speyr, Hans Urs von Balthasar, The Christian State of Life:

Chapter 3: Are You an Open Book? How Much Do I Need to Disclose?

1997, Matthew J. DeLuca, Best Answers to the 201 Most Frequently Asked Interview Questions:

Emile's most striking characteristic is that he hides nothing. He is an open book, acting the same in private as in public — "Emile is worse at disguising his feelings than any man in the world."

2002, Linda Lange, Feminist Interpretations of Jean-Jacques Rousseau:


turn in one's grave

turns in one's grave
turning in one's grave
turned in one's grave

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死不瞑目，棺材板都压不住

Beethoven is probably turning in his grave at the way that rock group mangled his Ninth Symphony.

贝多芬看到那个摇滚乐队这样糟蹋他的《第九交响乐》的话，他估计都得从坟里爬出来。

The new scientific discovery about the gravitation particle could make Isaac Newton turn in his grave.

关于引力粒子的新科学发现可以让牛顿从坟墓里爬出来。

Brought forth wind that made critics rave / While Verdi turned round in his grave

1937, Rodgers and Hart （作曲作詞）, “Johnny One Note”:

If he ever finds out who's hijacked his name / He'll cut out his heart and turn in his grave

1989, The The （作曲作詞）, “Armageddon Days Are Here (Again)”, 出自 Mind Bomb:

仅按字面意思，并无比喻或俗语义；参见turn、in、one's、grave。


as fuck

得不得了，得一屄，得要死

It was hot as fuck outside today.


troupe

1825年可考，借自法語 troupe，参见该词条。troop 的同源對似詞，可能也是thorp和dorp 的同源對似詞。

Meanwhile, the bills on the main stages skewed towards mainstream pop, with mixed results. Lorde’s Friday evening Other stage appearance was one of the weekend’s highlights. The staging and choreography were fantastic – a giant glass tank on a hydraulic platform, in and around which a troupe of dancers acted out the highs and lows of a teenage party

2017年June26日, Alexis Petridis, “Glastonbury 2017 verdict: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Lorde, Stormzy and more”, 出自 the Guardian:


troupe

（与歌剧团一起）巡回演出


robed

robe 的簡單過去時和過去時分詞


robed

more robed (comparative)
most robed (superlative)


demeanour

demeanor的英國、澳大利亞、新西蘭、 和 加拿大拼寫法

By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect.

1922, Ben Travers, 章號 4, 出自 A Cuckoo in the Nest:


break a leg

不详，有很多未证实及争议不断的说法。最有说服力的是，其源自意第緒語 הצלחה און ברכה (hatslokhe un brokhe, “成功和祝福”)，因阿什肯纳兹犹太人在美国戏剧界的重大影响而传播开来，其源自德語对该短语的错误理解产生的词Hals- und Beinbruch (“脖子断腿断”)。意第绪语短语本身源自希伯來語 הַצְלָחָה וּבְרָכָה (hatzlakhá u-v'rakhá, “成功和祝福”)。另一理论认为其源自祝霉运反而不会给演员带来霉运的说法。

toi, toi, toi

祝你好运！加油！ （对即将出演戏剧等的演员的祝福，也可用于其他祝福成功的场景。）

Go out there and break a leg tonight. Put on a great show!

I told my friend to break a leg, before she went on stage.

我给我朋友祝了好运，她就上台了。


outstand

源自中古英語 outstanden、utstanden，等价于out- + stand。同源词有薩特弗里斯蘭語 uutstounde (“忍耐”)、荷蘭語 uitstaan (“容忍，忍受”)、德語 ausstehen (“容忍，忍耐”)、瑞典語 utstå (“忍受，经受”)。

坚持得比...久，保持不变得比...久

仍保持原样 （比如未修复，未支付，未解决等等）

outstanding contracts


honey bucket

A wood stove had been fashioned from a fifty-five gallon drum, matching the design of the honey bucket in the outhouse, the fish smoker on the riverbank and, its barrell sliced diagonally and mounted on a nose wheel, the wheelbarrow in the garden.

1995, Dana Stabenow, Play with Fire, →ISBN，第 106 頁:


transgresses

transgress 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


smack-dab

正正地，不偏不倚地；（尤指）在正中

I tossed the water balloon and it landed smack-dab on the top of his head.

我把水气球丢了出去，正中他的脑门。

Things build and build, and it becomes clearer and clearer that a battle is about to take place. In “Stormborn,” a bang above deck is all the warning we get, and suddenly the Yara Greyjoy fleet is smack dab in the middle of Euron’s Iron Fleet, and the party begins.

2017年July23日, Brandon Nowalk, “The great game begins with a bang on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, 出自 The Onion AV Club:


wipe the floor with someone

wipes the floor with someone
wiping the floor with someone
wiped the floor with someone

The young newcomer is wiping the floor with the more experienced players.

那个新来的年轻选手远远超过了那些更有经验的老将。

横扫某人，彻底击败某人，使某人一败涂地

"Courage? Blast it all, lad, if I were twenty years younger I'd wipe the floor with you now."

1936, F.J. Thwaites, 章號 I, 出自 The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards，第 6 頁:


sunder

源自中古英語 sunder，源自古英語 sundor- (“不同的”)，源自原始日耳曼語 *sundraz (“分离的”)，源自原始印歐語 *snter-、*seni-、*senu-、*san- (“离；独自”)。同源词有古撒克遜語 sundar (“特别的”)、荷蘭語 zonder (“没有，不带”)、德語 sonder- (“特别的”)、德語 sondern (“分离”)、古諾爾斯語 sundr (“分离”)、丹麥語 sønder (“分开”)、拉丁語 sine (“没有，不带，无”)。

more sunder (comparative)
most sunder (superlative)


sunder

源自中古英語 sundren (“分离，分开”)，源自古英語 sundrian (“分离，分开”)，源自原始日耳曼語 *sundrōną (“分离”)，源自原始印歐語 *sen(e)- (“没有，不带，分离”)。同源词有低地蘇格蘭語 sinder、sunder (“分离，分割”)、荷蘭語 zonderen (“隔离，隔开”)、德語 sondern (“分离”)、瑞典語 söndra (“分割”)。详见sundry。

In Taran's hand the sundered bone had turned into gray dust, which he cast aside.

Two souls, the shores wave-mocked of sundering seas: —

1881 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Severed Selves, lines 8-9

… Carlo finally saw Everything, before it sunders into things; he saw Knowledge before it sunders into knowing; he saw Integrity before it sunders in integrals; he saw Unity before it sunders into units.

2003, Dean Barton, Searching for the Evergreen Man, Llumina Press, →ISBN，第 69 頁:

Where a fair opportunity offers, and the grass is perfectly dry, the hipples are sundered; that is, broken out into beds in the usual manner, turned, and again got up into cocklets, of such size as the state of dryness requires.

1788, William Marshall, The Rural Economy of Yorkshire:

Except under abnormal conditions, protection can be afforded to a field by cutting a strip half a chain in width all round the field, with a reaper and binder for preference, when the crop is in the best condition for hay, and then ploughing or sunder-cutting the stubble.

1941, The Queensland Agricultural and Pastoral Handbook，第 82 頁:

The trees and shrubs all around us began to show the signs of death; dried branches, leafless gray and molding wood. The ground here was as hard as stone, the dirt and dust dry as bone sundered in the desert scorch.

2010, Stony Stern, Run Past The Hunter，第 143 頁:

The world, a good deal of it, sundered, scorched.

2013, Thomas Glave, Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh，第 165 頁:


sunder

He would not stay for me to stand and gaze.
I shook his hand and tore my heart in sunder
And went with half my life about my ways.

1939, Alfred Edward Housman, Additional Poems, VII, lines 2-4:


bit on the side

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I'm married to Paula, but Jackie, my bit on the side, is far more fun.

我妻子是Paula，但是我的小三Jackie可比她有意思多了。


wee small hours

源自低地蘇格蘭語 wee sma' hours，首次可考于1819年。

He worked into the wee small hours to get everything perfect for the opening day.

他一直工作到后半夜，来确保开幕日一切准备妥当。


steer clear

steers clear
steering clear
steered clear

I always told Sir John to steer clear of too much journalizing.

1835, James Fenimore Cooper, The Monikins, Introduction:

Foreign youth steer clear of the gymnasium; its rules are too severe.

1880, Mark Twain, 章號 4, 出自 A Tramp Abroad:

"You steer clear of that rascally teacher and young Merwell," advised Dave's father. "They are a bad lot."
"I'll steer clear if I can," answered Dave.

1914, Edward Stratemeyer, 章號 10, 出自 Dave Porter in the Gold Fields:

But unless you are also philosophical and like to listen to a lot of dialogue—or, worse yet, read reams of subtitles—I think you'd be wise to steer clear.

1964年January28日, Bosley Crowther, “Movie Review: The Seventh Juror (1962)”, 出自 New York Times, retrieved 2014-01-15:

If you think you can steer clear of government surveillance by staying off-line, think again.

2013, “Surveillance State: Three Ways You're Being Watched”, 出自 BloombergBusinessweek Videos, retrieved 2014-01-15:


doom and gloom

rainbows and unicorns

悲观的人或物，绝望的人或物

sunshine and rainbows

悲观的人或物，绝望的人或物

悲观的人或物，绝望的人或物

The economic forecast contained the usual doom and gloom.

经济前景预计还是一如既往的悲观。

His sister was all doom and gloom after she lost the part.

他妹妹丢掉那个角色以后就一直很悲观。

Doom and gloom abounded among copyright scholars, including many who shared Mr. Gates's basic premise—that software should be covered by property rights.


crepuscule

Van watched them with the same pleasurable awe he had experienced as a child, when, lost in the purple crepuscule of an Italian hotel garden, in an alley of cypresses, he supposed they were golden ghouls or the passing fancies of the garden.

1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, 出版於 2011，第 54 頁:


tranq

"I gave her a tranq," he said with anguish. "She asked for one and I found this bottle in the medicine cabinet and gave it to her."

She needs you like she needs her tranqs / To tell her that the world is clean.

The cops were forced to call in reinforcements to shoot the zebra with tranquilizer darts in an effort to calm him down. Unfortunately, the tranqs did the opposite, setting the zebra off in a panic, as it ran into a nearby lake.

2016年March29日, N/A, “Escaped zebra drowns at golf course: Zebra gets tranqed, dies in Japan - TomoNews”, 出自 TomoNews US (Usenet):


tranq

He was about to stand up and start on another rant, which only would have led to Sam tranqing him.

2007, Michele LeBlanc, Belt Buckles and Pajamas，第 65 頁:

He fumbled at the dart but the needle was barbed and wouldn't come out. His fingers slid from it as a powerful numbness began to creep over his extremities. “Got him!” the man who had tranqed him shouted to his buddies.

2008, Charlotte Boyett-Compo, In the Arms of the Wind，第 144 頁:


swan song

仿譯自德語 Schwanenlied（源自Schwan + Lied）或Schwanengesang，源自疣鼻天鹅不会叫，但会在死前歌唱的说法。

绝唱 （隐退前最后的表演或成就）

Yet, on the whole, our good Saint-Pierre is musical, poetical though most morbid: we will call his Book the swan-song of old dying France.

1837, Thomas Carlyle, 章號 VIII, 出自 The French Revolution: A History […], 第 I (The Bastille) 卷, London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book II (The Paper Age):

"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"[…]—a pretentious volume which Mark Twain really considered his last. "It's my swan-song, my retirement from literature permanently," he wrote Howells, though certainly he was young, fifty-four, to have reached this conclusion.

1916, Albert Bigelow Paine, The Boys' Life of Mark Twain:

[…]McCartney III could mark the end of his recording career. For a musician as continually prolific as McCartney (this is his 18th solo record), that seems unlikely. But if it is indeed a swan song, McCartney III will stand as a proper coda for the singer-songwriter we’ve been listening to for fifty-odd years: sentimental yet strong, a bit wistful, but as always, looking ahead.

2020年November9日, Gwen Ihnat, “With McCartney III, Paul McCartney offers lessons from a legendary life”, 出自 The A.V. Club:

Merkel’s political and scientific sides slug it out in swan song presser [title]

2021年July22日, Philip Oltermann, “Merkel’s political and scientific sides slug it out in swan song presser”, 出自 The Guardian:

[S]pielberg was keen to stress that The Fabelmans is not a full stop: “It is not because I decided to retire, and this is my swan song, don’t believe that.”

2022年October22日, Wendy Ide, 引 Steven Spielberg, “‘It’s a way to bring my mum and dad back’: Steven Spielberg on the new wave of cine-memoirs”, 出自 The Guardian:


play hooky

对于hooky的词源，参见该词条；该词构成类似play truant。

Plenty of people played hooky from work to go see the movie on opening day.

电影上映那天好多人旷工去看那部电影。


play truant

plays truant
playing truant
played truant


truant

源自中古英語 truant、truand、trewande、trowant（平行于中古荷蘭語 trouwant、trawant、truwant），源自古法語 truand、truant (“流浪汉，乞丐；乞丐一样的”)，源自凱爾特語族，可能源自高盧語 *trugan，或源自布列塔尼語 truan (“悲惨的”)，源自原始凱爾特語 *térh₁-tro-m，最终源自原始印歐語 *terh₁-。
同源词有蘇格蘭蓋爾語 truaghan、愛爾蘭語 trogha (“贫困的”)、trogán、布列塔尼語 truc (“乞丐”)、威爾士語 tru。

He didn't graduate because he was chronically truant and didn't have enough attendances to meet the requirement.

因为他习惯性地翘课导致出席时间达不到要求，所以他没能毕业。

旷工的；无所事事的，懒散的

While truant Jove, in infant pride, / Play'd barefoot on Olympus' side.

1772, John Trumbull, The Owl and the Sparrow，第 149 頁:

Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.[…]She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.

1910, Emerson Hough, 章號 I, 出自 The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:


truant

the number of schoolchildren known to have truanted

Tis double vvrong , to truant vvith your bed

c. 1594, William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, 出自 Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, 出版於 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

By this means they lost their time and truanted on the fundamental grounds of saving knowledge.


take a shine to

takes a shine to
taking a shine to
took a shine to
taken a shine to

He took a shine to jazz.


put the kibosh on

puts the kibosh on
putting the kibosh on
put the kibosh on

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Someone really needs to go put the kibosh on that noisy party.

那个聚会真的吵死了，得找人让他们停下来。

For Belgium put the kibosh on the Kaiser; / Europe took the stick and made him sore; / On his throne it hurts to sit, / And when John Bull starts to hit, / He will never sit upon it any more.

1914, Mark Sheridan （作曲作詞）, “Belgium Put the Kibosh on the Kaiser”:

I'm not sure how it became a trope to call second albums "sophomore." But if Olivia Rodrigo's debut, Sour, hadn't become one of the biggest releases of 2021, winning her a Grammy for best new artist and putting the kibosh on her post–high school plans, the 20-year-old might be a literal sophomore now.

2023年September8日, Carl Wilson, “The Olivia Rodrigo–Taylor Swift "Beef" Is Really About Something Deeper”, 出自 Slate，於2023-09-09歸檔自原頁面:


shoot the breeze

shoots the breeze
shooting the breeze
shot the breeze

We were just standing around shooting the breeze.

Oh, I've just been upstairs with your boss, shooting the breeze… shooting his fish.

1989, Lethal Weapon 2 (motion picture), 角色 Martin Riggs（Mel Gibson）:

Listen, I came here to do some business, not shoot the breeze. If you want to expound your personal philosophies, write another book.

1999, The Ninth Gate (motion picture), 角色 Dean Corso（Johnny Depp）:


phony-baloney

more phony-baloney (comparative)
most phony-baloney (superlative)


phoney-baloney

more phoney-baloney (comparative)
most phoney-baloney (superlative)


blind as a bat

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bupkis

借自意第緒語 באָבקעס (bobkes)，באָבקע (bobke, “羊的粪便”)的复数形式，源自באָב (bob, “豆”) + ־קע (-ke)，仿译自波蘭語 bobek (“椭圆形粪便”)，最终源自原始斯拉夫語 *bobъ (“豆，蚕豆”)。

We searched for hours and found bupkis.

我们找了几个小时，啥也没找到。

But we did nothing, absolutely bupkis that day / And I say, what the hell am I doing drinking in L.A. at 26?

1997, “Drinking in L.A.”, 演出者 Bran Van 3000:

She answered her own question. “Without the connection to other people,” she said, “you have bupkis.”

2022年April20日, John Leland, 引 Robin Solod, “How Loneliness Is Damaging Our Health”, 出自 The New York Times, →ISSN:


tough luck

真倒霉 （用来给经历坏事的人一种无所谓的回应）

Your car broke down? Well, tough luck, you're due at work in 15 minutes. Better run.

你的车坏了？真惨哪，离上班时间还有15分钟，你得跑过去了。


sideswipe

侧面撞击，擦撞 （如车辆在转弯时不小心撞到来车侧面）

As he turns left from Central into Jackson he nearly sideswipes a milk truck idling yards out from the kerb.

1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run'，第 36 頁:


sideswipe

In her haste, she sideswiped the 4x4 truck that was ahead of her as well as two other cars. “Help!” she yelled as she sped through the orange construction cones. “They're going to kill me!”

2012, Curtis L. Alcutt, Fatal Intentions，第 175 頁:


side-swipe

A semi had side-swiped my patrol car, breaking windows and destroying the driver's door.

The author was involved in a rail accident not included in this analysis, when his train was side-swiped by a freight passing in the opposite direction, which contained derailed wagons.

2022年January26日, John Crosse, “When the tide turned to a safer railway...”, 出自 RAIL, 第 949 期，第 52 頁:


buzz up

用楼栋电子门禁放...上楼

I'll be back in ten minutes; can you buzz me up then?

我10分钟以后回来，到时候帮我按一下门锁。


convertite

对比意大利語 convertito，convertire (“轉變”) 的過去分詞。


plumbata

一种中世纪和古代使用的飞镖

The plumbata was an ancient Roman version of the lawn dart—a weighted projectile with a sharp point that was lobbed underhanded toward its target. And like the lawn dart, the plumbata killed its share of people. […] A typical Roman legionary could carry up to four plumbata inside his shield, […]

2013, John O'Bryan, A History of Weapons: Crossbows, Caltrops, Catapults & Lots of Other Things that Can Seriously Mess You Up, Chronicle Books, →ISBN，第 68 頁:

"These plumbata make marching difficult," he complained to Claudius, who was marching beside him.

2016, Rexford Walker, Strike of Venus, →ISBN:


giddyup

giddyups
giddyuping
giddyupping
giddyuped
giddyupped

Not expecting any traffic, he giddyuped them onto the main road.

2011, Janet Dailey, Foxfire Light, →ISBN，第 30 頁:

But she just kept bopping up and down and telling me to giddyup, so that I had to turn and make my way properly on the stairs for fear of her pulling us both over.

2012, Celine Kiernan, Into the Grey, →ISBN:

“Yeah, been partying since I was fourteen, never thought I'd wind-up in a place like this,” I sat there for a moment in quiet reflection, “been high most of my life . . . on one thing or another . . . guess it's time I giddyuped and got going on this clean up my act thing, I've hit the break point . . . gotta' do something . . . do something or it's going to kill me."

2012, Thaddeus Deluca, At Bully Hills: Confessions of an American Oxycontin Addict, →ISBN，第 32 頁:


stick 'em up

举起手来 （刻板印象中抢匪抢劫，特别是持枪抢劫时命令受害者投降的用词）


to wit

The directors of the company, to wit, Fred Smith and Albert Jones, inform us that…

The defendant is charged with possession of a controlled substance, to wit, cocaine…

被告人被控持有管制药物——可卡因...

Thus, I had so long suffered in this quest,
Heard failure prophesied so oft, been writ
So many times among "The Band"─to wit,
The knights who to the Dark Tower's search addressed
Their steps - that just to fail as they, seemed best,
And all the doubt was now—should I be fit?

1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section VII:

Though the animation code above demonstrates how a thread could be included as part of an object while still making that object be serializable, there is a major problem with it if we recall how Java creates objects. To wit, when we create an object with the new keyword, the object’s constructor is called only when a new instance of a class is created.

July 2000, Todd Greanier, Discover the secrets of the Java Serialization API


schmancy

schmancier (comparative)
schmanciest (superlative)

But thanks to the charmless chunk of schmancy condos now going up on Brooklyn’s Fourth Avenue (the Champs Élysées of auto parts stores), the rooftop sunsets we savored in summers past were, it turns out, our last.

2007年August10日, Lynn Harris, “On the Roof, a Weaning From Weeding”, 出自 New York Times:


fancy-schmancy

more fancy-schmancy (comparative)
most fancy-schmancy (superlative)


stop short

stops short
stopping short
stopped short

hold back

停下 （使某物停在某个点）

急停，猛然停下 （尤指说话时或驾车时）

停下 （使某物停在某个点）

Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.

1914, Louis Joseph Vance, 章號 III, 出自 Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, 出版於 1915, →OCLC:

He stopped short of saying the story was true but accused the palace of lying when they "squashed" it.

2022年December15日, Jack Royston, “Prince Harry throws more accusations at Prince William than ever before”, 出自 Newsweek:

停下 （而没能到某个点）

Thirteen people were injured in August 1957 when this Bristol freighter skidded on the runway at Southend Airport when landing with a flight from Calais. It ploughed through the boundary fence, but thankfully stopped short of the railway and the 1,500V overhead wires. A tripwire was installed on this section of Shenfield-Southend line to warn train drivers of instances such as this.

2020年December30日, Tim Dunn, “The railway's mechanical marvels”, 出自 Rail，第 58, photo caption 頁:


make a pass

He clumsily made a pass at the prom queen, and she responded with a scowl.

Men seldom make passes / At girls who wear glasses.

1926, Dorothy Parker, “News Item”, 出自 Enough Rope，第 85 頁:

You know, all those nights we stayed up talking…How come you never made a pass at me?

1985, Joel Schumacher, Carl Kurlander, St. Elmo's Fire (motion picture), 角色 Julianna "Jules" Van Patten（Demi Moore）:


emplead

en- + plead: compare 古法語 emplaidier (en- + plaidier).


stopped short

stop short 的簡單過去時和過去時分詞


perseveres

persevere 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


absconded

abscond 的簡單過去時和過去時分詞


turpitude

借自中古法語 turpitude，源自拉丁語 turpitūdō (“卑鄙”)，源自turpis (“下流的”)。

卑鄙，无耻，下流；邪恶，恶毒

As for the moral turpitude that man unveiled to me, even with tears of penitence, I cannot, even in memory, dwell on it without a start of horror.

1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde:


wait for

Wait for the light to change before you cross the street.

过马路前要等信号灯变颜色。

What are you waiting for?

And now we're waiting for the very same people to establish GBR, drive through urgently needed fares reform, and come up with imaginative and effective train operating contracts...

2022年January12日, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, 出自 RAIL, 第 948 期，第 3 頁:

I'm waiting for my date.

I'm waiting for the train.


nocive

源自拉丁語 nocīvus，派生自noceō (“伤害”)。

more nocive (comparative)
most nocive (superlative)


up to no good

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-up to no good.ogg

He seems like an angel on the surface, but I can tell he's up to no good.

他看起来像个天使一样，但我知道他肯定很调皮。


all over the place

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/en-au-all over the place.ogg

at random

乱七八糟，前后矛盾；胡乱，随意；前言不搭后语

They started firing all over the place.

In Genoa there are stray cats all over the place.

I've been looking for you all over the place.

I couldn't believe it. “This is insane! You don't know what you're getting into, Dad. We can't have lots of people swarming all over the place. You're supposed to be getting rest.”

2004, Ruth Ozeki, All Over Creation, Penguin, →ISBN，第 267 頁:

乱七八糟，前后矛盾；胡乱，随意；前言不搭后语

I asked each person in turn, and their answers were all over the place.

我把他们一个个问过去，他们的回答前后不搭。


call the shots

calls the shots
calling the shots
called the shots

In today's health care system, insurance companies call the shots. They pick whom they cover and how they cover them. They can cut off your benefits when you need your coverage the most. They are in charge.

1994年January25日, Bill Clinton, William Jefferson Clinton's Second State of the Union Address:

Myanmar's Shan state, which borders both China and Thailand, is the wild wild east. And in many parts of the state, it's well-armed ethnic militias, not Myanmar's military, who call the shots.

2019年July4日, Michael Sullivan, “In Myanmar, Methamphetamine, Synthetic Drug Production Soars”, 出自 NPR.org:

The conventional wisdom in Washington is that Iran’s elections are insignificant. Regardless of who wins, the argument goes, in the end, it’s the supreme leader who calls the shots.

2021年June22日, Ali Vaez, Dina Esfandiary, “The Hard-Liners Won in Iran. That’s Not All Bad News.”, 出自 The New York Times, →ISSN:


push someone's buttons

pushes someone's buttons
pushing someone's buttons
pushed someone's buttons

惹怒某人，惹恼某人； 激起某人性欲； 引诱某人作出激烈反应

You really knew how to push my buttons.

I end up cleaning up after her, which I’ve repeatedly told her makes me upset. She’s a smart, talented kid. So why does she keep pushing my buttons?

2019年April10日, Cheryl Maguire, “How to Stop Thinking Your Teen Is ‘Pushing Your Buttons’”, 出自 The New York Times, →ISSN:


clue in

It looks like somebody finally clued them in that the intercom was broken the whole time.

看来终于有人告诉他，他的内部对讲机一直是坏的了。


do time

if you can't do the time, don't do the crime

My wife is unavailable for three months, as she's doing time for fraud.

我妻子这三个月都没空，她因为诈骗蹲监狱了。


dressed to kill

She's a scented magazine/Looking sharp and living clean/Living well and dressed to kill/But she looks like hell to me

2000, Tré Cool （作曲作詞）, “Fashion Victim”, 出自 Warning, 演出者 Green day:

During the 1980s, its vivid streetlife became a symbol of the “consumer socialism” that distinguished Hungary from other Eastern Bloc states, but Budapesters today are rather less enamoured of Váci: dressed-to-kill babes and their sugar daddies would rather pose in malls, and teenagers can find McDonald's anywhere, leaving Váci utterly dependent on tourists for its livelihood and bustle.

2002, Charles Hebbert, Dan Richardson, The Rough Guide to Budapest, 2nd版, London: Rough Guides, →ISBN，第 73 頁:


mustachioed

mustachio 的簡單過去時和過去時分詞


mustachioed

The Greek stocks and fever were at their highest, when a cargo from Missolonghi of turbaned and mustachioed gentry arrived, and cast anchor in the river.

1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], 章號 XIV, 出自 Romance and Reality. […], 第 I 卷, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC，第 137 頁:

One of the intruders, a mustachioed bug-eyed man with unkempt long hair, looked over the woman and asked for money and jewelry.

1988, Jay Robert Nash, Murder among the rich and famous, →ISBN:

I noticed a short, well built man with cropped dark hair who wore a mustachioed goatee; I watched him as he stepped off the elevator.

2012, Thaddeus Deluca, At Bully Hills: Confessions of an American Oxycontin Addict, →ISBN，第 219 頁:

With a trembling hand, the mustachioed man opens the breast pocket of his uniform, takes out his I.D., and hands it over.

2012, Fr. Henryk Maria Malak, Shavelings in Death Camps, →ISBN:


JO

jerk off之首字母縮略詞。

job order之首字母縮略詞。

job offer之首字母縮略詞。


JFK

第35任美国总统John Fitzgerald Kennedy (“zh:约翰·費茲傑拉爾德·肯尼迪; zh-hans:约翰·菲茨杰拉德·肯尼迪; zh-hant:約翰·費茲傑拉爾德·甘迺迪;”)之首字母縮略詞。

各种以该词俗称的建筑物、设施、船舶、桥梁、高速公路等，尤指

约翰·肯尼迪国际机场（John F. Kennedy Airport），位于纽约。

I flew into JFK, then took a cab to my hotel in Manhattan

我飞到JFK机场，然后坐出租到我在曼哈顿的宾馆。

Fortunately, most of these were former French colonies, and through a combination of quiet diplomacy and well-placed French nationals in the various air-traffic-control centers, the 300-mile-long stream of American aircraft flew the width of Africa as uneventfully as a red-eye flight from LAX to JFK.

1994, Tom Clancy, Armored Cav: A Guided Tour of an Armored Cavalry Regiment, New York: Berkley Books, →ISBN，第 281 頁:

各种以该词俗称的建筑物、设施、船舶、桥梁、高速公路等，尤指

约翰·肯尼迪市政厅（John F. Kennedy Federal Building），位于曼彻斯顿波士顿。

各种以该词俗称的建筑物、设施、船舶、桥梁、高速公路等，尤指

约翰·肯尼迪纪念大桥（John F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge），位于肯塔基路易斯维尔。

Traffic on the JFK was delayed by construction of the new bridge.

各种以该词俗称的建筑物、设施、船舶、桥梁、高速公路等，尤指

肯尼迪号航空母舰 (CV-67)（USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67)）

各种以该词俗称的建筑物、设施、船舶、桥梁、高速公路等，尤指

肯尼迪号航空母舰 (CVN-79)（USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79)）

各种以该词俗称的建筑物、设施、船舶、桥梁、高速公路等，尤指 美国中大量以此命名的学校之一。

Steubenville beat JFK, scoring in the final minute of play.


JFK

Kennedy

（纪念约翰·肯尼迪的）50美分硬币

（纪念约翰·肯尼迪的）50美分硬币


JFK

杀掉，暗杀 （尤指因政治原因）

I am not saying choosing McCain would necesarrily lead to Kerry getting JFKed but Democratic presidential runners need to be aware of the problem.

2004年April5日, JonZ, “Poll Picks McCain as Kerry's Vice President”, 出自 alt.politics.bush (Usenet):

The way he is decimating the CIA will more likely get him JFKed.

2009年November14日, Eddie Haskell, “Obama resists Pentagon pressure on Afghanistan quagmire - will he be JFKed?”, 出自 alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet):

If Obama tried to do the right thing he'd be JFKed. If Obama tried to live up to his promises, if he opposed the neocons and military-industrial complex ...

2010年June20日, Johnny Asia, “If Obama tried to do the right thing he'd be JFKed”, 出自 alt.politics (Usenet):

This may seem a little presumptious, but I feel that this group is pretty much JFKed out.

1991年April19日, Steve Feinstein, “JFK Survey”, 出自 sci.skeptic (Usenet):

I'm going to give 'nobody' the benifit of the doubt , seeing by his own admission that he's been JFKing it for just a couple of months now .

2009年November14日, cdddraftsman, “More indications of the investigative”, 出自 alt.assassination.jfk (Usenet):

The point is that the JFK world is a very polarized world, and it does not reflect the general population. In a word, JFKing can screw-up a person's head. Look at the ridiculous assertion of Robert Harris from the other day where he said that he took Ruby's shooting of Oswald as a clear sign that Oswald was guilty.

2016年August14日, Ralph Cinque, “There are two kinds of people: JFKers and non-JFKers”, 出自 alt.assassination.jfk (Usenet):

有与约翰·肯尼迪类似的政治观点

(from the standard code-word remark "I'm a JFK liberal") Examples: "He's useless...he JFKed a long time ago",

2003年November10日, zepp, “The Wingnut Dictionary”, 出自 talk.politics.misc (Usenet):

JFKing is symbiotically related to the "Even Some Liberals Agree" gambit, since JFKers quickly establish their roles as the reliable house liberals who provide neocons with all their even-some-liberals-agree examples.

2004年October6日, Alex, “OT / Right Wingnut Debate Dictionary”, 出自 alt.true-crime (Usenet):

He could've JFKed all the overweight babes he wanted to and that's that.

2010年May20日, Bill Bonde, “evangelical Repulican quits over sex scandal”, 出自 alt.activism.death-penalty (Usenet):


get a load of

gets a load of
getting a load of
got a load of
got a load of
gotten a load of

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-get a load of.ogg

One night Bernette happened to get a load of Peggy doing a rumba with Jackie.

Get a load of the "eyesome femininity" at the International Casino, as the Times put it.

2004年June13日, David W. Dunlap, “The Crossroads of the Crossroads”, 出自 New York Times，第 CY3 頁:


water under the bridge

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-water under the bridge.ogg

water over the dam

过去的事 （过去的无可挽回，只能接受、原谅的事）

过去的事 （过去的无可挽回，只能接受、原谅的事）

They agreed that their old disputes were water under the bridge and decided to make a fresh start.

他们同意忘了以前的争吵，重新开始。

Ilsa: It's been a long time.
Sam: Yes, ma'am. A lot of water under the bridge.

1942, Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch, Casablanca:

Lot of water under the bridge; lot of other stuff, too / Don’t get up, gentlemen, I’m only passing through

2000, Bob Dylan （作曲作詞）, “Things Have Changed”:


hit the bottle

hits the bottle
hitting the bottle
hit the bottle

（尤指因心情不好而长时间地）饮酒

He's been hitting the bottle hard since his wife left him.

他妻子离开他以后他就一直在酗酒。