go to great lengths

goes to great lengths (third-person singular present)
going to great lengths (present participle)
went to great lengths (past)
gone to great lengths (past participle)

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The most surprising thing was to discover that each job had its little tricks, peculiarities that had been learned in the experience of years, and one of the really pleasing features was the unlimited patience and kindliness of the chargehands and fitters, who would go to great lengths to teach the budding engineer all they themselves knew.

1944 September and October，A Former Pupil，“Some Memories of Crewe Works—I”, in Railway Magazine，頁 283:

[…] They said good-bye on the eleventh, and the Portuguese noblemen saw him off, going to great lengths to show him respect."

2008, José Rodrigues does Santos, Codex 632: The Secret Identity of Christopher Columbus (trans. from the Portuguese by Alison Entrekin), William Morrow (2008), ISBN 9780061173189, page 262:

Most scholars writing on the mafia were going to great lengths to demonstrate that it did not exist—and the mobsters wanted to keep their brotherhood secret.

2009，Diego Gambetta，Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate，Princeton University Press, 出版於 2009, →ISBN，頁 272:

As a father, I would go to great lengths to protect my children.

2013，Chad R. Torgerson，Waking Up Catholic: A Guide to Catholic Beliefs for Converts, Reverts, and Anyone Becoming Catholic，Assisi Media, 出版於 2013, →ISBN，頁 62:


pauses

pause 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


pull one's weight

pulls one's weight (third-person singular present)
pulling one's weight (present participle)
pulled one's weight (past participle)

He isn't really pulling his weight at work.

If one shares a flat one should be prepared to pull one’s weight in cleaning it.

合租一间公寓就要出力打扫。


soapbox

soap + box。比喻用法是因为美国的肥皂产品常用大木箱运到商店内，以前，常有人看到可以站上去的东西（比如这些肥皂箱子）就站上去开始向附近居民发表即兴演讲。

soapboxes (third-person singular present)
soapboxing (present participle)
soapboxed (past participle)

（站在某处）发表临时演讲

He soapboxed for whales and pressed us to write petitions and demonstrate with him—he as the leader, we as followers.

2011，Phil Wolfson，Noe: A Father-Son Song of Love, Life, Illness, and Death，North Atlantic Books, →ISBN:

[…] and various members soapboxed in Hyde Park on Sunday.

2015，Marc Matera，Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century，University of California Press, →ISBN，頁 80:


cut someone some slack

cuts someone some slack (third-person singular present)
cutting someone some slack (present participle)
cut someone some slack (past participle)

放某人一马，不严厉责备或惩罚某人

He's the new kid on the block and doesn't know the way we do things around here yet. Cut him some slack and let him learn from this.

他是这块儿新来的，还不知道这儿的规矩。这次放他一马，让他长个教训。


get back at

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

She put toothpaste in his shoes to get back at him for the frog he left in her refrigerator.

她把牙膏挤到他鞋子里，报复他往自己冰箱里放了一只青蛙。


grind to a halt

grinds to a halt (third-person singular present)
grinding to a halt (present participle)
ground to a halt (past participle)

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Work on the new high-rise ground to a halt as contractors tried to deal with all the red tape.

After the visionary's death, work on his ideas ground to a halt.

But to no avail - the suburban (Sunday) service ground to a halt, with only 20 of the 268 motormen turning up for work on Boxing Day [1949]. Kempton Park races lost 10,000 visitors, with the cancellation of 12 extra race day trains.

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


drone on

drones on (third-person singular present)
droning on (present participle)
droned on (past participle)


chalk up to

chalks up to (third-person singular present)
chalking up to (present participle)
chalked up to (past participle)

Chalk it up to fear that he didn't finish.

将他没有完成归因于恐惧。

“You can chalk it up maybe to, as one of my friends says, a nautical superstition,” he said. “Maybe I read too many Greek tragedies. I don't believe something’s going to happen like that until it’s happened.

1990年October5日，“Souter plans to get right down to work”, in Fort Worth Star-Telegram，卷 85, 期 154, section 1，頁 14:

Some of the best pre-mortems for Steve Ballmer, out-going CEO of Microsoft, have chalked up the company's problem to the "innovator's dilemma."

2013年August28日，Derek Thompson，“How Goliaths Beat Themselves: Microsoft's Mobile Failure and the Innovator's Dilemma”, in The Atlantic:


shack up

shacks up (third-person singular present)
shacking up (present participle)
shacked up (past participle)

The only thing I want to do after the war is marry some girl who's got more money than I have and shack up with lots more pretty girls.

1961年November10日，Joseph Heller，“The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […]，New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC，頁 173:

So I don't believe in alimony, okay, love? / Though I think we'd ought to / Shack up baby, shack up

The other rumor flying around thicker 'n flies on a three-day-old carcass is that new redheaded cook, Rory, is shacked up with you.


scream bloody murder

screams bloody murder (third-person singular present)
screaming bloody murder (present participle)
screamed bloody murder (past participle)


come off

comes off (third-person singular present)
coming off (present participle)
came off (past)
come off (past participle)

One of the wagon wheels came off.

He tried his Chaplin impression, but it didn't really come off.

他试了试模仿卓别林，但反响平平。

有...的感觉，看着像，表现得

I'm sorry if I came off as condescending; that wasn't my intention.

如果我表现傲慢的话不好意思，我没有这个意思。

You should be careful about how you come off during interviews.

你应该要注意自己在面试时的举止。

Well that is precisely what I did, and as I had never heard of using gloves and veil in connection with bees I suppose I came off lightly with one sting on the tip of the nose.

1952，British Bee Journal & Bee-keepers Adviser，卷 80，頁 466:

It came off as we expected.

And then the wedding came off, and the king gave a grand feast which lasted for many a day, and if they have not done feasting by this, why they are still at it.

1886，Peter Christen Asbjørnsen，譯者 H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales，頁 61:

‘I was never frightened of any job yet,’ he said, ‘and I'd do this job to-night if the house was full of rozzers,’ Hill pretended that he wasn't particular whether the thing came off or not that night, but all the while he kept egging Fred on to do it.

1916，Arthur J. Rees, John R. Watson，The Hampstead Mystery:


break in

breaks in (third-person singular present)
breaking in (present participle)
broke in (past)
broken in (past participle)

Someone broke in and stole his radio.

有人闯进来偷了他的收音机。

Thousands gathered at São Paulo’s main cathedral and made their way to the mayor’s office, where a small group smashed windows and tried to break in, forcing guards to withdraw.

2013年June18日，Simon Romero，“Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-06-21:

用久...使其更加好用，使...磨合

These shoes will be more comfortable after I have broken them in.

这些鞋子穿多了以后就会变得更舒服。

开始 （新事物或新阶段）

He broke in with the New York Yankees.

他开始了在纽约洋基队的新生涯。

While brothel patrons placed their bets / On who would be the first to break her in

2002，Allison Moorer （作曲作詞）, “Ruby Jewel Was Here”, in Miss Fortune:


pitch in

pitches in (third-person singular present)
pitching in (present participle)
pitched in (past participle)

If we all pitch in, we can raise enough money for the renovation of the church.

我们每个人都帮忙的话，我们就能为教堂的翻新筹到够多的钱。

He spent 20 minutes one afternoon describing the club he'd formed with other teenagers in his Brooklyn neighborhood. They'd each pitched in a buck a month to rent the basement of a mallet factory, which they used as a clubhouse.

2008 October，Davy Rothbart，“How I caught up with dad”, in Men's Health，卷 23, 期 8, →ISSN，頁 112:


romps

romp 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


take a load off

takes a load off (third-person singular present)
taking a load off (present participle)
took a load off (past)
taken a load off (past participle)

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


read between the lines

reads between the lines (third-person singular present)
reading between the lines (present participle)
read between the lines (past participle)

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If you read between the lines a little, you will realize that he has deeper motives.

如果你稍微多想想，你就会懂他有更深层的动机。

“I’m quite of your opinion,” Miss Van Vluyck came briskly to her support; “on condition, that is, that all grossness of language is avoided.”
“Oh, I’m sure we shall understand without that,” Mrs. Leveret tittered; and Laura Glyde added significantly: “I fancy we can read between the lines,” while Mrs. Ballinger rose to assure herself that the doors were really closed.

“Trust is as trust does. I tend to be extremely literal in what I say … One does not [need]^([sic]) to read between the lines. One can simply read the lines,” Musk said in the meeting, according to a tweet from Nola Weinstein, Twitter’s global head of brand experiences and engagement.

2022年June16日，Kari Paul，引 Elon Musk, “In rare move, Elon Musk meets Twitter employees to give ‘freedom of speech’ address”, in The Guardian:


have it in for

has it in for (third-person singular present)
having it in for (present participle)
had it in for (past participle)

对...很生气；和...有仇，对...怀恨在心

My boss must really have it in for me; that was the third lecture this week!

我老板和我有仇还是怎么回事，这星期都训了我三次了！


fall on deaf ears

falls on deaf ears (third-person singular present)
falling on deaf ears (present participle)
fell on deaf ears (past)
fallen on deaf ears (past participle)

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Every time I ask him to do something for me, it falls on deaf ears.

每次我叫他干什么，都被当成耳旁风。

My earlier warnings, both in RAIL and in an article I wrote for The Times, have not fallen on deaf ears. There are many people (I suspect most) in the [rail] industry who recognise that telling people not to use their trains will cause lasting damage, but they are silenced publicly because they are now taking the Government's shilling.

2020年June17日，Christian Wolmar，“The strategy of 'don't use the railways' must be reversed...”, in Rail，頁 44:


one up

one ups (third-person singular present)
one upping (present participle)
one upped (past participle)

Every year the neighbors try to one-up each other with their holiday lights.

每年街坊邻里都争着比谁的节日装饰灯亮。

"Time flies when you're having fun!" said one of the skiers in our party. "Yeah, but time's more fun when you're flying," Jay one-upped.

“开心的时候真是时光飞逝啊”，我们聚会上一个滑雪的人说道。“是啊，但是你飞的时候不是更开心嘛”，Jay接着他的话说道。


scrub up

scrubs up (third-person singular present)
scrubbing up (present participle)
scrubbed up (past participle)

He scrubs up well.


cut corners

cuts corners (third-person singular present)
cutting corners (present participle)
cut corners (past participle)

抄近路或违反交通规则来超过别人

[…] but I believe the old man did not ride fair, as he cut corners and joined in with them again […]

1882, Dan Seffert, quoted in “Half Hours with Dan Seffert”, in Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Volume 39, page 275:

The guy who built the fence cut corners when sinking the posts, and the fence fell over in the last storm.

建围栏的人在立杆子的时候偷工减料，上次刮暴风之后围栏倒了。

Do you know why Wendy's has square burgers? Because they don't cut corners.

你知道为什么温蒂汉堡有方形汉堡吗？因为他们都是实打实的。


keep someone on their toes

keeps someone on their toes (third-person singular present)
keeping someone on their toes (present participle)
kept someone on their toes (past participle)

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Four-year-old twins will certainly keep you on your toes!

这对四岁双胞胎可不会让你闲下来！


see fit

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

认为...合理，认为...恰当

Shepard: Don't tell me how to do my job!
Tevos: You are free to act as you see fit, Commander. Our role is to offer guidance and advice.
Sparatus: It's up to you if you're smart enough to listen.

2008，BioWare，Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC，幕：Normandy SR-1:

[Harry] Kane was the victim in incidents plucked straight from the world of wrestling in each half, and on neither occasion did any of the officials – on the pitch or in the VAR booth – see fit to intervene in what were obvious penalties.

2018年June18日，Phil McNulty，“Tunisia 1 – 2 England”, in BBC Sport，存檔自the original on 2019-04-21:


cut loose

cuts loose (third-person singular present)
cutting loose (present participle)
cut loose (past participle)

失控，没有约束 狂欢，纵情

Cut loose, let your hair down honey
Unwind, turn the lights down low
Relax, let's uncork the stopper
Come to papa, come on let's go

失控，没有约束 无拘无束

England cut loose at the end of the half, Ashton, Mark Cueto and Mike Tindall all crossing before the break.

2011年February12日，Mark Orlovac，“England 59-13 Italy”, in BBC:

Torpedoes were loosed, but the range was too short for them to actually arm, and they bounced harmlessly off the ship as it cut loose with its secondary and antiaircraft guns, smashing anything that it could see.

2021年March10日，Drachinifel，片头起14:43, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN)，存檔自the original on 2022-10-17:


cut someone loose

cuts someone loose (third-person singular present)
cutting someone loose (present participle)
cut someone loose (past participle)

The pizza chain was forced to close several locations and cut employees loose.

披萨连锁店关闭了几间店铺，解雇了多名员工。


flunk out

flunks out (third-person singular present)
flunking out (present participle)
flunked out (past participle)

（因成绩不佳，不及格而）退学或退课

He flunked out of high school as a youth, but finished school later in life.

他年轻时从高中退学了，但是后面又回去把高中读完了。

给...不及格 （尤指导致其重修这门课的情况）


brick up

bricks up (third-person singular present)
bricking up (present participle)
bricked up (past participle)

I am going to brick up the window instead of replacing the glass.

我准备用砖头把窗口堵起来，不换玻璃了。

The tunnel's mouth was bricked up because it was unsafe.

隧道口因为不安全被封起来了。

The chest was bricked up into the wall.

We've encountered servers bricked up into secret rooms many times, but never a UPS hidden behind a locked door.

2020年December11日，Richard Speed，“Oh, no one knows what goes on behind locked doors... so don't leave your UPS in there”, in The Register，存檔自the original on 2022-01-20:

She’s got a little meat along her lats and femur muscles that bricks me up more.

2023，Lula White，Drink You (Explore Men of the Hamptons; 3)，Lula White Books, →ISBN，頁 unknown:


bricked up

* (俚语义项)根据Know Your Meme，由美国的说唱歌手杰克·哈洛造出，出自其在2020年一次与Genius的采访中。见引文。

brick up 的簡單過去時和過去時分詞


do someone's bidding

听命于某人，效命于某人，为某人效劳

Once Princess in Love was published, Diana threw both Hewitt and Pasternak under the bus. Besotted to the end, her cashiered toy soldier never revealed whether or not he had done her bidding.

April 5 2022，Tina Brown，“How Princess Diana’s Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, in Vanity Fair:


cool one's jets

cools one's jets (third-person singular present)
cooling one's jets (present participle)
cooled one's jets (past participle)

Star Wars fans who positively can't cool their jets until the 19 May opening of Star Wars prequel The Phantom Menace need wait no longer than until early May.

1999年April7日，Joyce Slaton，“Phantom Menace Book Tells All”, in Wired:

Belle's boyfriend Jesse (Henry Simmons) is left to cool his jets while his woman bangs around the New York area.

2004年October6日，Kirk Honeycutt，“Taxi (film review)”, in The Hollywood Reporter:


take a crap

takes a crap (third-person singular present)
taking a crap (present participle)
took a crap (past)
taken a crap (past participle)


lop off

lops off (third-person singular present)
lopping off (present participle)
lopped off (past participle)

砍掉 （尤指某物的顶部或一端，且可以后接head指斩首）

TPE's Manchester Airport-Newcastle has both ends lopped off to become Manchester Victoria-York.

2021年June30日，Philip Haigh，“Regional trains squeezed as ECML congestion heads north”, in RAIL，期 934，頁 52:


have the hots for

has the hots for (third-person singular present)
having the hots for (present participle)
had the hots for (past participle)

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喜欢 （指爱情或性上的）

I think Donnie has the hots for Lisa.

Whoa. Wait a minute, Doc. Are you trying to tell me that my mother has got the hots for me?

1985，Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale，Back to the Future，spoken by Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox):

I met this chick and she just moved right up the block from me / And uh, she got the hots for me

2002，“Dilemma”, in Nellyville，演出者 Nelly ft. Kelly Rowland:


feel up

feels up (third-person singular present)
feeling up (present participle)
felt up (past participle)

抚摸，爱抚 （尤指胸部）

Mostly we heard her laughing and the squeaking of the porch swing while the boyfriend felt her up. All the boys went to second base with Diana Estabrook.

2013，Dan Pope，In the Cherry Tree, →ISBN:


feel up to

feels up to (third-person singular present)
feeling up to (present participle)
felt up to (past participle)

后接现在分词。feel up to应作feel + up to分析，而与feel up (“爱抚”)无关。

Since I have the flu, I don't feel up to going out clubbing tonight.

我得了流感，我觉得今晚应该没法去泡夜总会了。


hold the phone

holds the phone (third-person singular present)
holding the phone (present participle)
held the phone (past participle)

They asked me to hold the phone while they went to look up the answer.

他们说他们去查查答案，叫我不要挂电话。


mortified

mortify 的簡單過去時和過去時分詞


swingeing

swinge + -ing。swinge派生自中古英語 swengen (“击打”)，源自古英語 swengan (“冲击；使...动摇”)。

/ˈswɪnd͡ʒɪŋ/

/ˈswɪnd͡ʒɪŋ/

swinge 的現在時分詞和動名詞


stick in someone's craw

sticks in someone's craw (third-person singular present)
sticking in someone's craw (present participle)
stuck in someone's craw (past participle)

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使某人郁郁寡欢，使某人不爽

It really sticks in my craw that he never even asked me.

I will just cite you two of the matters referred to by Mr. Glavis in his letter to the President, and, from what I learn, seems to stick in the craw of Mr. Bowman.

1910，United States. Congress. Joint committee to investigate Interior dept. and Forestry service.，Compilation of Letters, Telegrams, Reports and Other Documents Offered in Evidence:

There was a pennant chase that year that would stick in his craw and the craw of every Phillies fan forever.

2005，Robert Gordon, Tom Burgoyne，Movin on Up:


strike it rich

strikes it rich (third-person singular present)
striking it rich (present participle)
struck it rich (past participle)


pop in

pops in (third-person singular present)
popping in (present participle)
popped in (past participle)

同類詞：stop off

She's popped in a couple of times on her way back from the fields to see if there's any news of the littl'un.

2009，Ann Neve，Footsteps in the Sea，Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN，頁 217:


wayfare

源自中古英語 weyfaren，原为分词形式weyfarand，源自古英語 weġfarende (“旅行中的”)，等价于way + faring。同源词包括丹麥語 vejfarende (“旅行中的”)、瑞典語 vägfarande、德語 wegfahren (“驶离”)、冰島語 vegfarandi (“旅行中的”)。还见way、fare。

wayfares (third-person singular present)
wayfaring (present participle)
wayfore (past)
wayfared (past)
wayfaren (past participle)
wayfared (past participle)


set straight

sets straight (third-person singular present)
setting straight (present participle)
set straight (past participle)

I'd like to set straight some misconceptions about recent events.

我想纠正一下最近的误解。

He misspoke, but I quietly set him straight.

他说错话了，然后我纠正了他。

Your bedroom is a mess. Set things straight before you go out tonight.

你的卧室乱成一团。你今晚出门之前整理一下。


antiquate

源自拉丁語 antīquātus，antīquāre的过去分词。
英语词antique + -ate。

antiquates (third-person singular present)
antiquating (present participle)
antiquated (past participle)


kerfuffle

可能源自低地蘇格蘭語 curfuffle，等价于ker- + fuffle，或与愛爾蘭語 cíor thuathail (“困惑”)有关。类似现代威爾士語 cythrwfl (“麻烦，动乱”)

kerfuffles (third-person singular present)
kerfuffling (present participle)
kerfuffled (past participle)


titillate

源自拉丁語 tītillātus，源自tītillō, tītillāre (“使...发痒”)。

titillates (third-person singular present)
titillating (present participle)
titillated (past participle)

The dancer titillated her audience with gyrations and suggestive movements.


let sleeping dogs lie

lets sleeping dogs lie (third-person singular present)
letting sleeping dogs lie (present participle)
let sleeping dogs lie (past participle)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-let sleeping dogs lie.ogg

本动词在作祈使句使用时类似谚语。

Eventually, they decided it would be best to let sleeping dogs lie and not discuss the matter any further.

最后，他们决定多一事不如少一事，不再谈论这个话题。

But, leaving novelists alone, on the whole we find in real life that if speech is silvern, silence is essentially golden, and that more harm is done by saying too much than by saying too little; above all, that infinite mischief arises by not letting sleeping dogs lie.

1868年August29日，“Sleeping Dogs”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art，卷 26, 號 670，頁 287:

Sometimes you just had to let stuff go. Endlessly rehashing old hurts just made things worse. It was far better, I'd learned, to let sleeping dogs lie.

2016，Helene Becker，Let Sleeping Dogs Lie，Orca Book Publishers, →ISBN，頁 217:

Crystal might have said that those perfect lips were zipped, but the kidnappers had no way of knowing that. Should he let sleeping dogs lie?

2019，Kate Atkinson，Big Sky, →ISBN，頁 261:


cotton on

cottons on (third-person singular present)
cottoning on (present participle)
cottoned on (past participle)

“That is what most people in the country have thought about the Tory party for decades. […] Tory MPs largely do not care about these poorer people. They don’t care about the NHS. And the public has kind of cottoned on to that.”

2019年July30日，Rowena Mason，“Dominic Cummings said Tory MPs do not care about poor people or NHS”, in The Guardian:

In the late aughts, a number of entrepreneurs cottoned on to the idea of reducing emissions by producing fake meat that carnivores could love.

2023年July9日，Annie Lowrey，“Open Your Mind to Unicorn Meat”, in The Atlantic:


cut one's losses

cuts one's losses (third-person singular present)
cutting one's losses (present participle)
cut one's losses (past participle)

But our culture has reinforced the belief that a good marriage just happens, and if it doesn't, you should simply cut your losses and move on to the next partner. After all, that's what we see in the movies.

2007，Catherine Weber，A Woman's Guide to Overcoming Depression，Baker Books, →ISBN，頁 47:

I mentioned already in this chapter that you need to cut your losses before they drag you down. No matter how much it hurts and no matter how much you believe that you are right, you need to close out a losing position and move on.

2011，Ann C. Logue，Day Trading For Dummies，John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN，頁 43:

Sometimes when things are not going as you expected, it's better to cut your losses and move on than to hang on and deal with the stress, financial drain, emotional drag, and loss of time.

2017，Meera Lester，Rituals for Life: Find Meaning in Your Everyday Moments，Simon and Schuster, →ISBN，頁 174:


fend off

fends off (third-person singular present)
fending off (present participle)
fended off (past participle)

They tried citronella to fend off the mosquitos, to no avail.

他们想用香茅来驱蚊，但是没有效果。

防止...撞击过重 （船等）


rock the boat

rocks the boat (third-person singular present)
rocking the boat (present participle)
rocked the boat (past participle)

Just when I'm asking myself if it's worth it to rock the boat and wondering if I should compromise, something will happen to keep me going. Like one year I got an award from a women's group for, "exposing the jockocratic values of society.

1984，Jim Bouton，Ball Four Plus Ball，頁 410:

I'd just jump in and fix it, but that's not my job, and I don't want to rock the boat.

我可以插手把它修好，但是这不是我的活，我可不想乱了规矩。


come apart

comes apart (third-person singular present)
coming apart (present participle)
came apart (past)
come apart (past participle)

仅按字面意思，并无比喻或俗语义；参见come、apart。

The jigsaw puzzle will come apart if you try to pick it up.

这个七巧板拿起来的会就会全散开。

My old clothes are all coming apart.


draw a blank

draws a blank (third-person singular present)
drawing a blank (present participle)
drew a blank (past)
drawn a blank (past participle)

I should know that person's name, but I'm drawing a blank.

我应该知道那个人的名字，但是我想不起来了。

"Oh," she replied, "when I came to think of it, I saw, that you were right. I thought, 'twas quite likely it [the lottery ticket] would draw a blank.[…]"

1856，Lucius Manlius Sargent，Dealings with the Dead，卷 2，頁 472:

When she brainstormed about what else she would do, where else she would go, her mind drew a blank.

2022，Ling Ma，“Office Hours”, in Bliss Montage，New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:


have it in one

has it in one (third-person singular present)
having it in one (present participle)
had it in one (past participle)

Do you have it in you to show any respect, politeness, patience, or, God forbid, an ounce of forbearance?

MAC: Who’s the father, Juno? JUNO: Um… it’s Paulie Bleeker. MAC: Paulie Bleeker? I didn’t think he had it in him.


Adam and Eve

Adam and Eves (third-person singular present)
Adam and Eving (present participle)
Adam and Eved (past participle)

局限于几个固定短语，比如“would you Adam and Eve it?”

Would you Adam and Eve it: I’ve only gone an’ lost me wallet, ain’t I?


pull punches

源自拳击用语，20世纪20年代。

pulls punches (third-person singular present)
pulling punches (present participle)
pulled punches (past participle)

hold back

行事谨慎克制；（尤指）小心说话避免惹麻烦

Traditionally on Okinawa (if 'traditionally' is the right word to use), protectors had been worn during sparring practise because the trainees believed that, to be effective, one should not train to pull punches.

2017，Mark D Bishop，Zen Odyssey, An Okinawan Karate & Martial Arts Journey，Lulu.com, →ISBN，頁 228:

行事谨慎克制；（尤指）小心说话避免惹麻烦

I did not pull any punches when I told them my thoughts.

我告诉他们我的想法时没有留情。

The key here is not to pull punches. Tell it to 'em straight. Don't point fingers. But don't avoid painful truths.

2005，Nick Morgan，Give Your Speech, Change the World: How To Move Your Audience to Action，Harvard Business Review Press, →ISBN，頁 78:

Father Charles Owen Rice was not one to pull punches, particularly when it came to confronting what he viewed as hypocritical behavior among Catholics.

2010，Kenneth J. Heineman，Catholic New Deal: Religion and Reform in Depression Pittsburgh，Penn State Press, →ISBN，頁 75:

This arresting autobiographical novel pulls no punches; rather, it lands them on the reader as frequently as fists descend on its subject.

2017年February1日，Neil Bartlett，“The End of Eddy by Édouard Louis review – a childhood in hell”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

A few weeks ago, Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, released an open letter that pulled no punches.

2021年February10日，Thomas L. Friedman，“Cyberspace Plus Trump Almost Killed Our Democracy. Can Europe Save Us?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


drop like flies

drops like flies (third-person singular present)
dropping like flies (present participle)
dropped like flies (past participle)

Seymour: Audrey, quick! We've got to do an emergency [flower] arrangement.

1986, Little Shop of Horrors (1986 film)

Hit 'em with a left, a left, and a right / Got 'em dropping like flies with the stars in their eyes

2017，Stray From The Path （作曲作詞）, “Good Night Alt-Right”:


face the music

起源不明。首次出现于19世纪。可能源自戏剧行业或军队：“music”可能指真实的音乐，即演员在面对可能有敌意的观众时聆听到的乐池中的音乐，或指退伍仪式中军乐团所演奏的音乐；“音乐”也可能是一种黑色幽默，是对战场上噪音的委婉的表达。

faces the music (third-person singular present)
facing the music (present participle)
faced the music (past participle)

接受或面对不愉快的结果；自食其果


munges

munge 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


adure

借自拉丁語 adūrō。

adures (third-person singular present)
aduring (present participle)
adured (past participle)

Such a degree of heat, which doth neither melt nor scorch, doth mellow, and not adure.

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


emplaces

emplace 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


dialogues

dialogue 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


divinizes

divinize 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


divinize

divinizes (third-person singular present)
divinizing (present participle)
divinized (past participle)

As to the tendency to divinise these totems, this arises no doubt partly out of question (2).

1920，Edward Carpenter，Pagan and Christian Creeds，New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co.，頁 57:


diverges

diverge 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


hospitalizes

hospitalize 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


horrorize

horrorizes (third-person singular present)
horrorizing (present participle)
horrorized (past participle)

Ely's method was to enlarge himself by praising up his cousin and to pleasure himself by horrorizing the men with true faithful portrayals of pirates caught and hanged, […]

1945，Robert Hardy Andrews，Burning Gold，頁 108:

Their ruthless divinities portrayed them as an uncivilized people with extremely low morality by letting these small gods terrorize and horrorize the common people with uncommon sense and vicious brutality.

1997，Raji Dabit，War & Peace: Between Israel & Its Neighbors，頁 2:


horrorizes

horrorize 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


hydrolyses

hydrolyse 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


humidifies

humidify 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


horrifies

horrify 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


incombers

incomber 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


incombered

incomber 的簡單過去時和過去時分詞


incombering

incomber 的現在時分詞和動名詞


incubes

incube 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


modernizes

modernize 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


monitorize

monitorizes (third-person singular present)
monitorizing (present participle)
monitorized (past participle)

The microsystem, interfaced to the instrumentation system, monitorizes computed values on digital display and analogic plotter.

1982，G. Niemeyer，Techniques in Clinical Electrophysiology of Vision，頁 55:

Two mini peak flow meters commonly used to monitorize the peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR) are compared to assess their agreement, precision and, with respect to a standard pneumotachygraph, accuracy.

1989，R Pistelli，“Comparison of The Performance of Two Mini Peak Flow Meters”, in Respiration，卷 56，頁 103:


monitorizes

monitorize 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


monologues

monologue 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


monopolizes

monopolize 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


seethe

动词派生自中古英語 sethen、seeth (“沸腾；煮沸；...”) [以及其他形式]，源自古英語 sēoþan (“沸腾；煮沸；...”)，源自原始日耳曼語 *seuþaną (“沸腾,煮沸”)，源自原始印歐語 *h₂sewt-、*h₂sew-、*h₂sut- (“四处移动；沸”)。
名词派生自动词。
同源词
* 阿爾巴尼亞語 zjej (“煮沸，沸腾”)
* 丹麥語 syde (“煮沸，沸腾”)
* 荷蘭語 zieden (“煮沸，沸腾”)
* 德語 sieden (“煮沸，沸腾”)
* 哥特語 𐍃𐌰𐌿𐌸𐍃 (sauþs，“祭品”)
* 冰島語 sjóða (“煮沸，沸腾”)
* 低地德語 seden (“煮沸”)
* 書面挪威語 syde (“t煮沸，沸腾”)
* 新挪威語 sjoda、syda (“煮沸，沸腾”)
* 低地蘇格蘭語 seth、seith (“煮沸”)
* 瑞典語 sjuda (“煮沸，沸腾”)
* 西弗里斯蘭語 siede (“沸腾”)

seethes (third-person singular present)
seething (present participle)
seethed (past participle)

bubble

（像沸腾一般）冒泡，翻滚

Deep Hell! that seethest in thy simmering pit; / Thy thousand throned horrors shall not vie, / Or ever compass it!

1887，Madison J[ulius] Cawein，“Aspiration”, in Blooms of the Berry，Lewisville, Ky.: John P. Morton and Company, […], →OCLC，頁 17:

（像沸腾一般）冒泡，翻滚

Shock Box was the skankiest bar in Hasted, complete with a cheesy jukebox, cheap pints, and a sweaty club in the basement that seethed every weekend with a superhorny boarding-school crowd.

2011 February，Kate Kingsley，章號 30, in Kiss & Break Up (Young, Loaded, and Fabulous)，New York, N.Y.: Simon Pulse, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN，頁 201:

（指某地）骚乱，群情激奋

将...煮过头； （以喝酒）使...迟钝 （身体，心智等）

Floriſhing vvits and men of good parts, good faſhion, good vvorth, baſely proſtitute themſelues to euery rogues company, to take Tobacco, and drinke, to ſing ſcurrile ſongs. […] They drovvn their vvits, ſeeth their braines in ale, […]

1624，Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton]，“Mirth and Merry Company Remedies”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […]，第2nd版, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 2, member 6, subsection 4，頁 380:

将...煮沸，炖煮；保持...煮沸

So many dead bodies were quartered, that the executioner stood ankle deep in blood. He was assisted by a poor man whose loyalty was suspected, and who was compelled to ransom his own life by seething the remains of his friends in pitch.

1849，Thomas Babington Macaulay，章號 V, in The History of England from the Accession of James II，卷 I, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC，頁 634:

When he had cooked or seethed the Peace-offering, the priest took the sodden shoulder of the ram and one unleavened cake out of the basket and one unleavened wafer and put them upon the hands of the Nazirite and waved them.

1933，“Nazir (‘The Nazirite-vow’)”, in Herbert Danby（譯者）, The Mishnah […]，London; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, 3rd division (Nashim (‘Women’)), paragraph 6.9，頁 289:

Seethe some of that in Gar Vindisc's good water and bring it to us. Bread, too, as long as you don't make it from shellbacks.

2010，James Enge，Travellers’ Rest，Amherst, N.Y.: Pyr Books, →ISBN:

Elixation is the ſeething of meat in the ſtomack, by the ſaid naturall heat, as meat is boyled in a pot; […]

1638，Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton]，“Of the Soule and Her Faculties”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy. […]，第5th版, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed [by Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 1, section 1, member 2, subsection 5，頁 20:


gobble up

gobbles up (third-person singular present)
gobbling up (present participle)
gobbled up (past participle)

（很快地）消耗，用掉，吞噬

supper gobbled up in haste

1728，Jonathan Swift，The Journal of a Modern Lady:

The city grew over the years by gobbling up land around its limits.

那座城市近年来通过吸收其周围地土地不断扩建。


fawn over

fawns over (third-person singular present)
fawning over (present participle)
fawned over (past participle)


imbibes

imbibe 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


considerin

considerin in her mind ... iffen the pleasure o gatherin some pokeberries an drawin dark purple picthures on a flat rock wi em would be worth the trouble...

2014，Lewis Carroll, Byron W. Sewell, Victoria J. Sewell，Alice's Adventures in an Appalachian Wonderland，Evertype,, →ISBN，頁 5:


aberrate

源自拉丁語 aberrātus，aberrō (“游荡，偏离”)的过去分词，ab (“出，离”) + errō (“偏离”)。

aberrates (third-person singular present)
aberrating (present participle)
aberrated (past participle)

及物义项主要用过去分词形式（即aberrated）。

偏离，走偏，畸变 （18世纪中叶）

[…] the surfaces of the concave lens may be so proportioned as to aberrate exactly equal to the convex lens, near the axis […]

1765, Peter Dollond, letter to James Short dated 7 February, 1765, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Volume 55, London, 1766, p. 55,

Such, indeed, were the primitive regulations of the greater number of monastic institutions; but the abominable and luxurious indulgences into which they afterwards aberrated, the page of history amply unfolds.

1812，John Brady，Clavis Calendaria，卷 I, London，頁 229:

[…] the barriers, which to them limit the view, and give to it, together with the contraction, all the distinctness and definite outline of limitation, are, in nine cases out of ten, the product of their own defective and aberrating vision, and not real barriers at all.

1839, Thomas De Quincey, “Lake Reminiscences: No. V, Southey, Wordsworth, and Coleridge” originally published in Tait’s Magazine, August 1839, in David Masson (editor), The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, London: A. & C. Black, 1896, Volume 2, Chapter 5, pp. 340-341,

[…] after all the Governor of a Southern state has got to try to act like he regrets having to aberrate from being a gentleman—

1951，William Faulkner，Requiem for a Nun，New York: Vintage, 出版於 1975, act 2, scene 2，頁s 173–174:

使...偏离，使...变形，使...畸变 （19世纪末叶）

He saw them through no aberrating mist of tenderness or expediency—but with the single directness of the man of action.

1893, Bret Harte, Sally Dows, Chapter 6, in Sally Dows and Other Stories, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, p. 104,

He and Phœbe had had a senseless quarrel […] and she had left. It was an aberrated fulfillment of her old jesting threat that if he did not behave himself she would leave him.

1918，Theodore Dreiser，“The Lost Phœbe”, in Free and Other Stories，New York: Boni and Liveright，頁 122:

Don’t imagine that there was any sudden and complete renunciation such as overcomes the luckless and often temporarily aberrated victim of a highly emotionalized revival meeting; this would have been, at best, but temporary.

1934，Archibald Belaney，章號 1, in Pilgrims of the Wild，London: Lovat Dickson & Thompson, 出版於 1935:

[…] sexually aberrated individuals can be treated most successfully via the method of psycho-analytic psychotherapy.

1950, Louis S. London, Sexual Deviations, cited in reviews in Time, 17 April, 1950 (“Medicine: The Abnormal”) and Journal of the Indiana State Medical Association, Volume 43, August, 1950, p. 802,

As these monographs and as these occasional exhibition catalogues on some handful of Canadian Impressionists started to appear, once again, I was surprised (to say it with the utmost respect) that they were aberrated, there was no timeline, there was no continuity.

2014年December5日，James Adams，“Group of who? A new book paints the fullest picture yet of Canada’s vision of Impressionism”, in The Globe and Mail:


refinances

refinance 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


medise

medises (third-person singular present)
medising (present participle)
medised (past participle)

medize在非牛津英式的标准拼写


medises

medise 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


insurge

insurges (third-person singular present)
insurging (present participle)
insurged (past participle)

Thus before July, 1855, Spain was again convulsed, and Catalonia insurged under Cabecilla Marsal, the Carlist chief.

1856，The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal，頁 295:

Well then, the insurgents who insurged against the other insurgents of 4th September said very wisely, that they were just as good as the other side; and certainly they had equal right with them.

1866，Belgravia，Belgravia, a London magazine, conducted by M.E. Braddon，頁 334:

They have been trying to do enough insurging to satisfy the insurgents in their district, but they will not do any more. They have done just enough to show their political interest in the question with which they are confronted[…]

Will the Insurgents, who did the work of the big importers in undermining our Tariff dam, now find as much to flatter them in the importing press as they did when insurging for a general smashing of schedule K and […]
Senator Cummins of Iowa was the original Insurgent and an early and ardent advocate of fake reciprocity. […] Naturally that Iowa idea became marvelously popular in Iowa, and the sons of the soil rose up and insurged mightily.

The Old Guard was on Taft's side, not other way around, as the insurgents complained. […] In opposing the President, there was no political downside for the Senate insurgents. […] Instead, the insurgents insurged.

2007年January9日，Michael L. Bromley，William Howard Taft and the First Motoring Presidency, 1909_1913，McFarland, →ISBN，頁 243:

Shocking as this may sound, I had recognized Insurgents before. They were our brothers, after all. They had rebelled and insurged, then gone out to the mucky marshes to plan our complete destruction and the devastation of our Regent.

2018年December9日，Katherine Hurlin，The Insurgents: Plotting to Overthrow the Regent，Lulu.com, →ISBN，頁 10:


bewile

源自中古英語 biwilen、biwiȝelien (“欺骗”)，源自古英語 *bewīlian、*bewiġlian。等价于be- + wile。beguile 的同源對似詞。

bewiles (third-person singular present)
bewiling (present participle)
bewiled (past participle)

He was utterly bewitched and bewiled by her beauty, and upon the following day an opportunity to prove his devotion occurred.

Whomever else I might bewile, I loved him well, sorry.

To that sweet thief which sourly robs from me, which though it alter not love's sole effect, yet doth it steal sweet hours from love's delight. I may not evermore acknowledge thee, lest my bewiled guilt should do thee shame.


come of age

comes of age (third-person singular present)
coming of age (present participle)
came of age (past)
come of age (past participle)

Eager to find a better life, you joined the Alliance military when you came of age. You volunteered for an expedition to Akuze: a lush world on the outskirts of Alliance space that had suddenly dropped out of contact.

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


familiarizes

familiarize 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


fertilizes

fertilize 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


excretes

excrete 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


exorcizes

exorcize 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


protagonizes

protagonize 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


protagonize

protagonizes (third-person singular present)
protagonizing (present participle)
protagonized (past participle)

Our project should be to protagonize ourselves, and yet, that project presents certain problems.

2018，Jennifer Markides, Laura Forsythe，Looking Back and Living Forward: Indigenous Research Rising Up，頁 41:

Self-protagonizing does not mean putting self first, nor maximizing self-gain. Rather, it expresses a certain sense of freedom […]

2020，Randal Joy Thompson，Proleptic Leadership on the Commons，頁 75:

For the sake of convenience, the name “Ernesto [Guevara]” will refer to the young medical student who protagonizes The Motorcycle Diaries (henceforth, Motorcycle Diaries).

2019年October14日，María Soledad Paz-Mackay, Omar Rodriguez，Politics of Children in Latin American Cinema，Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, →OCLC，頁 177:


impermeabilize

impermeabilizes (third-person singular present)
impermeabilizing (present participle)
impermeabilized (past participle)


impermeabilizes

impermeabilize 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


reexamines

reexamine 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


deplores

deplore 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


interferes

interfere 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


indenize

indenizes (third-person singular present)
indenizing (present participle)
indenized (past participle)


recases

recase 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


recapitalise

recapitalises (third-person singular present)
recapitalising (present participle)
recapitalised (past participle)


recapitalises

recapitalise 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


recentres

recentre 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


recentre

recentres (third-person singular present)
recentring (present participle)
recentred (past participle)


rediffuses

rediffuse 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


observes

observe 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


asphyxies

asphyxy 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


break wind

breaks wind (third-person singular present)
breaking wind (present participle)
broke wind (past)
broken wind (past participle)

One of the kids on the school bus broke wind.


recolonises

recolonise 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


competes

compete 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


rivalize

rivalizes (third-person singular present)
rivalizing (present participle)
rivalized (past participle)


rivalizes

rivalize 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


concentres

concentre 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


inflames

inflame 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


calumnies

calumny 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


exudes

exude 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


decores

decore 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


acquiesces

acquiesce 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


recommences

recommence 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


optimises

optimise 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


indisposes

indispose 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


nationalises

nationalise 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


adjures

adjure 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


incurves

incurve 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


temporises

temporise 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


imprimes

imprime 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


revend

源自古法語 revendre，源自拉丁語 revēndere，源自re- (“再；回”) + vēndere (“賣”)。等同於 re- + vend。

revends (third-person singular present)
revending (present participle)
revended (past participle)

resell之同義詞：再賣，轉賣

return之同義詞：賣回給原來售出的人


vends

vend 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


catalogues

catalogue 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


balances

balance 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


incloses

inclose 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


abjures

abjure 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


abomines

abomine 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


abomine

abomines (third-person singular present)
abomining (present participle)
abomined (past participle)

abominate之同義詞 （見於16世紀初至18世紀初）


incandesces

incandesce 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


ambles

amble 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


extermines

extermine 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


idealizes

idealize 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


posturing

posture 的現在時分詞和動名詞


go Chapter 11

goes Chapter 11 (third-person singular present)
going Chapter 11 (present participle)
went Chapter 11 (past)
gone Chapter 11 (past participle)


go chapter 11

goes chapter 11 (third-person singular present)
going chapter 11 (present participle)
went chapter 11 (past)
gone chapter 11 (past participle)

“No, actually they went chapter 11 so I wanted to get your opinion on how I should bill for this. Wilson told me they are willing to reimburse us and give us a small fee. We are on the way to the Waffle House; can I buy you some breakfast?”

2018年July18日，Leslie Jackson，The Rapacious Creditor (Rapatious Creditor)，卷 1, Leslie w. Jackson，頁 123:


restringes

restringe 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


analize

analizes (third-person singular present)
analizing (present participle)
analized (past participle)


analize

Cheating babe analized and boobs jizzed

2006年August14日，freepic...@hushmail.com，“Nice boobs hentai sex, Slave with ball gag gets waterbondage, Beautiful blonde babe gets rough double penetrated and cummed, Sexy blond babe takes hard ass fucking for the first time”, in alt.sex.movies (Usenet):

Sweet teen analized hard doggystyle and facialized

2006年September27日，cha...@hushmail.com，“Hardcore indian sex, Brittney skye facial cum, Monica sweetheart enjoys slurping”, in alt.sex.nfs (Usenet):


analizes

analize 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


climatize

climatizes (third-person singular present)
climatizing (present participle)
climatized (past participle)


climatizes

climatize 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


democratizes

democratize 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


buy the dip

buys the dip (third-person singular present)
buying the dip (present participle)
bought the dip (past participle)

抄底 （金融资产的市值降低时买入）

Many traders are told to “buy the dip and sell the pullback” but not exactly when to execute this. It has been left up to the trader to enter when he or she feels the time is right.

2009，Ken Wood，Trade the Patterns: The Revolutionary Way of Trading the CCI，Traders Press, →ISBN，頁 31:

During upward-sloping cycles in the Investment Rate, a long bias with proper diversification should result in positive portfolio returns, without drawn-out setbacks, if investors are willing to buy the dips, especially the big ones, at all times.

2009，Thomas H. Kee，Buy and Hold Is Dead: How to Make Money and Control Risk in Any Market，John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN，頁 35:


buy the dips

buys the dips (third-person singular present)
buying the dips (present participle)
bought the dips (past participle)


get to grips with

gets to grips with (third-person singular present)
getting to grips with (present participle)
got to grips with (past)
got to grips with
gotten to grips with

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/en-au-get to grips with.ogg

与...打斗，与...战斗

Estonia were struggling to get to grips with the game while Ireland were showing a composure and guile that demonstrated their experience in play-off ties.

2011年November11日，Rory Houston，“Estonia 0-4 Republic of Ireland”, in RTE Sport:


expulses

expulse 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


inhales

inhale 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


explanes

explane 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


galvanises

galvanise 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


galvanizes

galvanize 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


importunes

importune 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


conjectures

conjecture 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


actualizes

actualize 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


espies

espy 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


espie

Fortie yeeres olde was I when Moſes the ſeruant of the Lord ſent me from Kadeſh Barnea, to eſpie out the land, and I brought him worde againe, as it was in mine heart.

耶和華的僕人摩西，從加低斯巴尼亞打發我窺探這地，那時我正四十歲；我按著心意回報他。

1611，The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version)，London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Joshua 14:7，列 2:

O inhabitant of Aroer, ſtand by the way, and eſpie; aſke him that fleeth, and her that eſcapeth, and ſay, VVhat is done?

住亞羅珥的啊，要站在道旁觀望；問逃避的男人，和逃脫的女人，說，是甚麼事呢？

1611，The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version)，London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 48:19，列 2:


popularizes

popularize 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


vulgarizes

vulgarize 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


coming out of someone's ears

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/en-au-coming out of one's ears.ogg

本短语中少见使用其他动词代替“come”。

If you plant sixteen tomato plants, you will have tomatoes coming out of your ears by July!

种十六株西红柿，七月份长出来的西红柿多到可以把你埋了。

There will be tomatoes coming out of your ears.

西红柿会多到可以把你埋了。

You'll get tomatoes coming out of your ears.

西红柿会多到可以把你埋了。


notifies

notify 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


proclame

proclames (third-person singular present)
proclaming (present participle)
proclamed (past participle)


proclames

proclame 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


criminalize

criminalizes (third-person singular present)
criminalizing (present participle)
criminalized (past participle)

The Nixon campaign in 1968[…] had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. […] [B]y getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities.

2016年April1日，Dan Baum，引 John Ehrlichman, “Legalize It All”, in Harper's Magazine:


criminalizes

criminalize 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


impedes

impede 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


magnetizes

magnetize 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


manuscribes

manuscribe 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


marginalizes

marginalize 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


marginalize

marginalizes (third-person singular present)
marginalizing (present participle)
marginalized (past participle)

The practice of only analysing Indian English in terms of how it differs from a notional standard English that resides in the Englishes of the varieties of the Inner Circle is one of the key ways in which Indian English is marginalised.

2012，James Lambert，“Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes，頁 305:

Ideally, we would like to integrate out the parameters #92;theta, i.e. marginalize in order to obtain a prediction. Since this is again hard to realize analytically, one usually approximates the integral via sampling from the posterior.

2021，Nils Thuerey, Philipp Holl, Maximilian Mueller, Patrick Schnell, Felix Trost, Kiwon Um，章號 25, in Physics-based Deep Learning，頁 245:


wax poetic

waxes poetic (third-person singular present)
waxing poetic (present participle)
waxed poetic (past participle)


waxing poetic

wax poetic 的現在時分詞和動名詞


masculinize

masculinizes (third-person singular present)
masculinizing (present participle)
masculinized (past participle)

Returning to the sculptor described earlier, we know why that young woman suffered. She was housebound and bedbound, her face was changed by steroids, she was masculinized by her treatment, one breast was scarred, and she had almost no hair.

1982年March18日，Eric J. Cassel[l]，“The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine”, in The New England Journal of Medicine，卷 306, 期 11, →DOI，頁 642:

Impersonality always masculinizes a woman.


masculinizes

masculinize 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


maximizes

maximize 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


medicines

medicine 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


menaces

menace 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


memorizes

memorize 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


nail it

nails it (third-person singular present)
nailing it (present participle)
nailed it (past participle)

仅按字面意思，并无比喻或俗语义；参见nail、it。


hit the nail on the head

hits the nail on the head (third-person singular present)
hitting the nail on the head (present participle)
hit the nail on the head (past participle)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/en-au-hit the nail on the head.ogg

指出问题的关键；得出正确的答案；一语中的

He hit the nail on the head when he said the problem was the thermostat.

他指出问题在恒温器，简直一语中的。


metabolizes

metabolize 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


militarizes

militarize 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


mimetize

mimetizes (third-person singular present)
mimetizing (present participle)
mimetized (past participle)


mimetizes

mimetize 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


mineralizes

mineralize 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


minimizes

minimize 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


mythifies

mythify 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


digitalizes

digitalize 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


dynamises

dynamise 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


luxes

lux 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


sacralises

sacralise 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


dribbles

dribble 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


aquaplanes

aquaplane的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


aquaplane

原始印歐語詞
 *h₂ékʷeh₂
A woman riding an aquaplane in 1919.
1919年，一名女性在玩滑水板。
Two vehicles aquaplaning on a wet road.
兩輛車在潮濕的路面上發生水漂。
名詞派生自 aqua- (表示“水”的前綴) + plane (“平面”)（最終源自原始印歐語 *pleh₂- (“平坦的”)）。
動詞派生自名詞，可分析作 aqua- + plane (“滑翔；劃過水面”)。

aquaplanes (third-person singular present)
aquaplaning (present participle)
aquaplaned (past participle)

同類詞：water ski

She waved her arm—a significant and imperative signal—but she realised, almost as she did it, that there was scant chance of any one aquaplaning at thirty or forty kilometres an hour looking to the right or to the left.

1933，E[dward] Phillips Oppenheim，章號 1, in Crooks in the Sunshine，Toronto, Ont.: McClelland & Stewart, →OCLC:

So much water. They were held up by it, the tyres skating over a film of rain. Aquaplaning. Flying his sister’s fancy car through the wet air. Touching nothing.

2015，Anne Enright，“Shannon Airport”, in The Green Road，New York, N.Y., London: W[illiam] W[arder] Norton & Company, →ISBN, part 2，頁 203:


deputes

depute 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


depones

depone 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


deponed

depone 的簡單過去時和過去時分詞


labialises

labialise 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


customizes

customize 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


creosotes

creosote 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


perfumes

perfume 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


square away

squares away (third-person singular present)
squaring away (present participle)
squared away (past participle)

I have almost squared away the last of the paperwork from that job.

我快完成那个工作的文书任务了。

Accordingly, when the wheel was relieved at eight o'clock, the order was given to keep her due north, and all hands were turned up to square away the yards and make sail.

1969，Richard Henry Dana，Two Years Before the Mast: Twenty-four Years After:


enlumines

enlumine 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


nasalizes

nasalize 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


divorces

divorce 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


distends

distend 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


nasalises

nasalise 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


live off

lives off (third-person singular present)
living off (present participle)
lived off (past participle)

When I was a student, I lived off baked potatoes.

我上学的时候靠烤土豆度日。

I live off nothing in this world / Except the thick grey air that chains itself / Swirls all around and engrains itself

1985，“World Without Warning”, in Pressure Points，演出者 Anne Clark:


fly off the handle

flies off the handle (third-person singular present)
flying off the handle (present participle)
flew off the handle (past)
flown off the handle (past participle)

My dad flew off the handle when he saw the F grade on my report card.

我爸看到我成绩单上的F以后大发雷霆。


surmise

源自古法語 surmis，surmetre、surmettre (“指责”)的过去分词，源自sur- (“上”) + metre (“放置”)。

surmises (third-person singular present)
surmising (present participle)
surmised (past participle)

If, as I surmise, you see the ladies this evening, you might mention my intended visit.

如果你今晚碰到那些女士——我认为你也会碰到——麻烦跟她们说我想要拜访。


follow suit

follows suit (third-person singular present)
following suit (present participle)
followed suit (past participle)

If you are not sure of the proper etiquette, watch what others do and follow suit.

如果你不知道礼仪的条条框框，你就看别人怎么做，然后照做就行。

After World War II it took time to clear up the arrears of track maintenance on both lines and it was not until 1953 that the L.M.R. restored any two-hour schedules, the W.R. following suit a year later.

1960 February，R. C. Riley，“The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated，頁 98:

The wise man built his words upon the rocks / But I'm not bound to follow suit

1984，“So. Central Rain”, in Reckoning，演出者 R.E.M.:

I had a natural African American impulse to let this worldlywise middle-aged black woman's maternalism wash over me. And as a post-civil rights African American, I assumed that it was a white audience's job to follow suit.

2014年May28日，John McWhorter，“Saint Maya”, in The New Republic, →ISSN:

But unless there is a Damascene conversion in the Treasury, the chances of the UK Government following suit currently look slim.

2022年May4日，Anthony Lambert，“A revolution in ticketing”, in RAIL，期 956，頁 33:


level to the ground

levels to the ground (third-person singular present)
levelling to the ground (present participle)
leveling to the ground (present participle)
levelled to the ground (past participle)
leveled to the ground (past participle)

They leveled the building to the ground.


marginalises

marginalise 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


larp

larps (third-person singular present)
larping (present participle)
larped (past participle)

LARP (“临场角色扮演”)的大小寫替代形式


LARP

LARPs (third-person singular present)
LARPing (present participle)
LARPed (past participle)

“Which is why I'm thinking LARPer,” Griffith argued. “Goths interact with non-Goths more in LARPing than anywhere else. And there are non-Goth look people that hang with the Goths.”

When you think about it it really is crazy that the true sovereign of the world's imperial hegemon is basically an academic seminar in which a couple of legal scholars larp as historians all day.

Harper Spiller (Aubrey Plaza): I don't know what my problem is. I just feel like— I feel like we're LARPing as rich people.
Ethan Spiller (Will Sharpe): We're not LARPing. How— how are we LARPing?

2022年November6日，Mike White，“Italian Dream”, in The White Lotus，季数 2, 集数 2, 經由 HBO:


run by

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

run past

给...（by后的宾语）大致讲解；让...（by后的宾语）大致知道

给...（by后的宾语）大致讲解；让...（by后的宾语）大致知道

Let me run that idea by the board before we spend too much time on it.

我先给董事会简单讲讲这个想法（听听董事会意见），我们再花时间弄。

I would like to hear your opinion on this. Have you got a few minutes, so I can run some ideas by you?

我想问问你在这件事上的想法。能占用你几分钟时间，我把这些主意的大概讲给你吗？

Can you just run those numbers by me again, please? To make sure I've got them clear.

你能再过一遍这些数字吗？看看我有没有什么错误。

Run that by me again.

Can you run by the store for milk?

你能去商店帮我买牛奶吗？

仅按字面意思，并无比喻或俗语义；参见run、by。


button up

buttons up (third-person singular present)
buttoning up (present participle)
buttoned up (past participle)

义项1中宾语可在助词之前或之后，但是是代词时必须在助词之前。

Button up your shirt cuff. It has come undone

扣好自己衣物的扣子；保暖

Button up well. It's freezing outside today.

穿暖和点，今天外面很冷。

It's time to button up the meeting.

He needs to button up.

封锁 （军事载具或者设施等）

Once buttoned up, NORAD's operation center can survive for more than 30 days without aid from the outside world.

We fired at the tanks and caused them to "button up" and then we started shooting the infantry.

1997，“Statement of S/Sgt. Alfred Sueflow, Company E, 253rd Infantry”, in Battle Between the Jagst and Kocher Rivers, 4-12 April 1945，頁 136:

He turned a key. NORAD buttoned up. The outside lights, flashing for half an hour now in warning of a simulated attack, stopped. Whoever was inside would stay inside. Whoever was outside would not be able to get in […]


wincest

wince 的(古舊第二人稱單數現在時) 第二人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式

Poor is thy love who wincest at the smart
Thou know'st to wring from out dear looks and words
Given to another, making them sharp swords
Wherewith to prick and goad thy hungry heart.

1868，George Auster，“Jealousy”, in Abel Holt, and other poems，A. W. Bennett:


beat to

略自beat to the punch。(這個詞源⁽⁺⁾能找到來源嗎？)

beats to (third-person singular present)
beating to (present participle)
beat to (past)
beaten to (past participle)

抢在...前面，被...抢先

I wanted to gather up all the pinecones, but you beat me to it!

我本来想捡所有的松果的，但是被你抢先了！


go by

goes by (third-person singular present)
going by (present participle)
went by (past)
gone by (past participle)

I like to sit and watch the world go by. The rest of the day went by quickly.

我喜欢坐着看周围的人行色匆匆。 那天剩下的时间很快就过去了。

His full name is Ernest Tinkleton, but he goes by Ernie.

I'm only going by what my teacher said.

a good rule to go by

If his reputation is anything to go by, he's the best in this field.

如果他的名声是真的的话，他是这个领域里最好的。

The uncared-for external appearance of the tanks is nothing to go by, for the glass-lined tanks are kept in perfect condition.

1959 March，R. C. Riley，“Home with the Milk”, in Trains Illustrated，頁 155:

Or perhaps we will sink back into our culture of complacent exceptionalism and await the next plague that will surely arrive. To go by recent history, that moment will come sooner than we think.

2020年April9日，Richard Horton，“Coronavirus is the greatest global science policy failure in a generation”, in The Guardian:


have it out for

has it out for (third-person singular present)
having it out for (present participle)
had it out for (past participle)


pawn off

pawns off (third-person singular present)
pawning off (present participle)
pawned off (past participle)

带on表明转嫁的对象。还见palm off。

LeMaster was dealt to the even-lowlier Pittsburgh Pirates for a minor league pitcher. The Indians were so anxious to pawn him off on the Pirates that the club even paid Johnnie a $100,000 "assignment fee" to go to Pittsburgh.

1987，Bruce Nash, Allan Zullo，The Baseball Hall of Shame 3，Pocket Books, →ISBN，頁 42:


get one's claws into

gets one's claws into (third-person singular present)
getting one's claws into (present participle)
got one's claws into (past)
got one's claws into
gotten one's claws into

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/en-au-get one's claws into.ogg

Once that bank gets its claws into you, it doesn't let go easily.

一旦你上了那家银行的勾，你就没那么容易跑掉了。


get one's hooks into

gets one's hooks into (third-person singular present)
getting one's hooks into (present participle)
got one's hooks into (past)
got one's hooks into
gotten one's hooks into


brown bag

源自常用于装自制便当的棕色纸袋。

brown bags (third-person singular present)
brown bagging (present participle)
brown bagged (past participle)

带便当（而非在外面购买或使用学校或工作地的食堂）

（在公共场合从纸袋中拿酒出来偷偷地）喝酒


scare the living daylights out of

scares the living daylights out of (third-person singular present)
scaring the living daylights out of (present participle)
scared the living daylights out of (past participle)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-scare the living daylights out of.ogg


scare the daylights out of

scares the daylights out of (third-person singular present)
scaring the daylights out of (present participle)
scared the daylights out of (past participle)


put through the wringer

puts through the wringer (third-person singular present)
putting through the wringer (present participle)
put through the wringer (past participle)

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让...吃苦头；让...不好受

They really put each candidate through the wringer before choosing one to hire.

在决定聘用候选人之前，他们确实对每个候选人进行了严格的考验。

Psychiatrists say that for many people who have been put through the wringer over the past decade, the climate extremes are one crisis too many.

精神病学家表示，对于过去十年遭受过折磨的许多人来说，极端气候已经是难以承受的危机。

2023年September16日，Jason Horowitz，“How Do We Feel About Global Warming? It’s Called Eco-Anxiety.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


talk the talk

talks the talk (third-person singular present)
talking the talk (present participle)
talked the talk (past participle)

说好听话，说大话，说漂亮话；说该说的话，说表达决心的话

When it comes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, he talks the talk, but it remains to be seen if he walks the walk.

关于减排温室气体，他说的是头头是道，但是他会不会付诸实际行动还是个未知数。

Some leaders only talk the talk but aren't prepared to take any risks.

一些领导人只会说漂亮话，但是从来不愿意冒风险。

Byford talks the talk, and he does it well.

2020年December2日，Andy Byford talks to Paul Clifton，“I enjoy really big challenges...”, in Rail，頁 55:


walk the walk

walks the walk (third-person singular present)
walking the walk (present participle)
walked the walk (past participle)

When it comes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, he talks the talk, but it remains to be seen if he can walk the walk.

关于减排温室气体，他说的是头头是道，但是他会不会付诸实际行动还是个未知数。

"The SNP like to talk the talk about net zero targets, but they can't walk the walk. We need a fares freeze for everyone if we want to get serious about greening the economy and a public railway run in the public interest."

2023年June28日，Conrad Landin，“Network News: Scottish 4.8% rail fares rise labelled 'bad news'”, in RAIL，期 986，頁 18:


live down

lives down (third-person singular present)
living down (present participle)
lived down (past participle)

to live down slander

He has never been able to live down his electoral defeat.

他从一直没能选举失败的阴影中走出来。

I'll never live down this mistake.

我这辈子都走不出这个错误的阴影了。


assail

源自中古英語 assailen，源自古法語 assaillir, assalir，源自晚期拉丁語 assalīre，源自拉丁語 ad (“向”) + salīre (“跳”)。见assault。

assails (third-person singular present)
assailing (present participle)
assailed (past participle)

攻击，袭击 （亦比喻义）；困扰

Muggers assailed them as they entered an alley.

他们进小巷以后被强盗袭击了。

Our ears were assailed by her joyous efforts on her new saxophone.

她津津乐道地讲她的萨克斯怎么样怎么样，说得我们都烦了。

With greedy force he gan the fort assayle,
Whereof he weend possesse soone to bee,
And win rich spoile of ransackt chastitee.

1590，埃德蒙·斯宾塞，“Book I, Canto VI”, in 仙后（The Faerie Qveene . […]），London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC，頁s 76-77:

“[…] for the next six months or so those children will assail her in public with demands for an improper story!”

1897，Saki，“The Story-teller”, in Beasts and Super-beasts，London: John Lane, 出版於 1914，頁 238:

We got married immediately after I finished my work […] which should have been the happiest day of my life. […] ¶ But, it was not my happiest day. I was assailed by doubts.

1942，Zora Neale Hurston，章號 14, in Dust Tracks on a Road，New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 出版於 1969，頁 258:

He did not like being in crowds, foul smells galore assailing his nostrils.

2007, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Wizard of the Crow, Nairobo: East African Educational Publishers, Book 2, Chapter 3, p. 64,


go belly-up

源自鱼死亡时肚子朝上飘浮的现象。

goes belly-up (third-person singular present)
going belly-up (present participle)
went belly-up (past)
gone belly-up (past participle)

沦落，落魄，失败；破产，关门大吉

I was sorry to hear that my favorite little restaurant went belly-up.

我听说我最爱去的饭店关门了以后感觉很难过。


press someone's buttons

presses someone's buttons (third-person singular present)
pressing someone's buttons (present participle)
pressed someone's buttons (past participle)

But I'm pretty persuasive, and I've learned how elected officials think. I know how to press their buttons.


botted

bot 的簡單過去時和過去時分詞


knocked up

knock up 的簡單過去時和過去時分詞


cook up

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

Let me cook up some eggs and bacon before you go.

你走之前我再做点鸡蛋和培根吧。

To cook up a batch of biodiesel, scientists stir together methanol and vegetable fat.

科学家将甲醇和植物油搅拌在一起来制取生物柴油。

Owsley Stanley started cooking up those famous purple LSD tabs.

Owsley Stanley开始着手制作那些著名的紫色LSD（麦角酸二乙酰胺）片剂。

下位詞：whip up

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

金融学家们创造了一种名为债务担保证券的工具。

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

他这回扯的故事真的有点东西的，说什么空难啥的。

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

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

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

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

仅按字面意思，并无比喻或俗语义；参见cook、up。


tide over

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

（在金钱上）帮...撑过困难

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

你能借我10英镑帮我撑到发工钱吗？

Would a small snack tide you over until dinner?

吃点零食能让你撑到晚饭吗？

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

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

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

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

2001，Swami Parmeshwaranand，Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Puranas:


tee off

tees off (third-person singular present)
teeing off (present participle)
teed off (past participle)

打第一杆，开球 （见tee）

I always check the wind direction before I tee off.

我开球前总会确认一下风向。

（为了打本垒打而）重击 （球）

Reyes teed off on a hanging curve to give the Cardinals a 3-1 lead.

雷耶斯打出了一个无效曲线球而让圣路易斯红雀3-1领先。

Boy, do his jibes ever tee me off!

天，他的嘲讽真是气死我了。


walk the beat

walks the beat (third-person singular present)
walking the beat (present participle)
walked the beat (past participle)

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巡逻 （多指警察或保安在工作时巡逻）


throw one's toys out of the pram

throws one's toys out of the pram (third-person singular present)
throwing one's toys out of the pram (present participle)
threw one's toys out of the pram (past)
thrown one's toys out of the pram (past participle)

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（得不到自己想要的东西而）大吵大闹，胡闹，闹脾气


tiff

本義為“聞”；對比冰島語中表示氣味的詞。

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

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


tiff

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

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

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


tiff

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

1841，The Asiatic journal and monthly register:


re-member

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

重新组合（被解体的事物）

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


rizz

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

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

动词多搭配up，见rizz up。

I'm gonna go rizz one of those girls.

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

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


rizz up

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

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rizz

泡，搭讪 （尤指向女性）

泡，搭讪 （尤指向女性）

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

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


see red

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


touch grass

touches grass (third-person singular present)
touching grass (present participle)
touched grass (past participle)

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远离互联网、回归现实（常用于祈使句，暗指某人脱离现实、应该多以现实角度看待问题）

仅按字面意思，并无比喻或俗语义；参见touch、grass。


eat shit

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

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

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

When he started insulting people's mothers, the bouncer made him eat shit.

他开始问候人母亲的时候，保镖过来打得他满地找牙。

仅按字面意思，并无比喻或俗语义；参见eat、shit：吃屎


eat shit

仿譯自西班牙語 comer mierda (“浪费时间”)，是古巴西班牙语。


git gud

get good的故意误拼，参见get (“成为”)。

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

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

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

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

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


skeeve

skeevy 的逆構詞，源自意大利語。

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

使...厌恶，使...恶心

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


hit on

hits on (third-person singular present)
hitting on (present participle)
hit on (past participle)

proposition

调情；为恋爱或性爱目的接近某人

come on

调情；为恋爱或性爱目的接近某人

pass

调情；为恋爱或性爱目的接近某人

make a pass

调情；为恋爱或性爱目的接近某人

调情；为恋爱或性爱目的接近某人

That's the third guy that has hit on her tonight.

这是今晚第三个和她调情的家伙了。

Guys are hitting on them almost all the time.

男生们总是跟她们眉来眼去的。

He hit on a great idea for improving the design.

他想到一个改进设计的好主意。

I think you've just hit right on the solution.

我想你刚好想到了解决的办法。

仅按字面意思，并无比喻或俗语义；参见hit、on。


pass the hat

源自用帽子在一群人之间收钱的做法。

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

（尤指在一群人间）讨钱，要钱，请求捐赠

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

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

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

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


give way

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

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The mother gave way to her crying child.

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

锈迹斑斑老桥年久失修，随时都可能会垮塌。

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

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

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

Winter gave way to spring.

At the crossing, cars must give way to pedestrians.

在十字路口车辆必须礼让行人。

（在演讲时）请...讲话，容许...打断


pull rank

pulls rank (third-person singular present)
pulling rank (present participle)
pulled rank (past participle)

对持有不同意见的下属显示权威；倚老卖老 [接 on ‘某人’]


choke on

chokes on (third-person singular present)
choking on (present participle)
choked on (past participle)

I told him what happened, but he choked on the truth.

我告诉他发生了什么，可他就是不接受事实。


sonneteer

源自sonnet + -eer，取代了派生自意大利語 sonettiere的sonnetier早期形式，源自sonetto。

sonneteers (third-person singular present)
sonneteering (present participle)
sonneteered (past participle)


vibecode

vibecodes (third-person singular present)
vibecoding (present participle)
vibecoded (past participle)

（通过反复使用大语言模型生成代码，而自己却不理解代码地）编程


rough it

roughs it (third-person singular present)
roughing it (present participle)
roughed it (past participle)

同類詞：tough it out

Out in the backwoods with only a tent and no radio or plumbing, they were really roughing it.

他们住在偏远地区的一个帐篷里，没有收音机也没有自来水，艰苦度日。


tribocharged

tribocharge 的簡單過去時和過去時分詞