atrophy

借自法語 atrophie，源自拉丁語 atrophia，源自古希臘語 ἀτροφία (atrophía, “衰弱”)，源自ἄτροφος (átrophos, “营养不良的，饮食不足的”)，源自ἀ- (a-, “不”) + τροφή (trophḗ, “营养”)，源自τρέφω (tréphō, “使...变胖”)。等价于a- + -trophy。

萎缩，退化 （自17世纪初）


atrophy

衰弱，枯萎，衰退 （自18世纪初叶）

Boy. I love summer vacation. I can feel my brain beginning to atrophy already.

1987年June13日, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):

The M10 highway looks normal enough at the southern limits of St. Petersburg, but then, with a jolt, it begins to atrophy. For the next 430 miles the surface of the highway, while paved, varies from corduroy to jaw-rattling patchwork.

2013年October13日, Ellen Barry, “The Russia Left Behind: A journey through a heartland on the slow road to ruin”, 出自 The New York Times:

使...衰弱，弱化To cause to waste away or become abortive; to starve or weaken.

Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion


undesired

more undesired (comparative)
most undesired (superlative)


troubadour

经由古法語 troubadour源自古奧克語 trobar (“找到”)。trouveur 的同源對似詞。

Sitting in the courtroom ..., their laptops and tablets propped before them, power cables snaking through convoluted adapters, the Twitterati have sight of witnesses at all times – the troubadours, or perhaps the tricoteuses, of the digital revolution.

2014年April24日, Alan Cowell, “At Pistorius trial, Twitterati have their day in court”, 出自 The New York Times:


angler

源自中古英語 angler、angleer、angeler，等价于angle + -er。

/ˈæŋ.ɡlə(ɹ)/

The angler lured a smaller fish into reach with the appendage on its head.

鮟鱇会用头上的附属物将小鱼吸引至自己够得到的范围。

Jonas was a consummate angler when it came the company's leave policy; he had it figured so he only needed to work six months out of the year.

Jonas是玩弄公司请假制度的老手，他弄清楚了如何一年只用工作六个月。

用钩子从商店橱窗等偷东西的小偷

They are sure to be clyd in the night by the angler, or hooker, or such like pilferers that liue upon the spoyle of other poore people.

c. 1608–1610, Samuel Rid, Martin Mark-all, Beadle of Bridewell:

Rogue or rascal, frater, maunderer, / Irish Toyle, or other wanderer; / No dimber damber, angler, dancer, / Prig of cackler, prig of prancer

1834, William Harrison Ainsworth, Rookwood, 第 2 卷, Oath of the Canting Crew，第 339–340 頁s:

A throng of anglers lined the trout stream on opening day of trout season.

在鲑鱼季节到来时，一大群垂钓爱好者沿着鲑鱼小溪旁站着。


LLC

limited liability company (“有限责任公司”)之簡寫。


adventurous

< 中古英語 aventurous, aunterous ，借自古法語 aventuros（參見现代法語 aventureux）

more adventurous (comparative)
most adventurous (superlative)

（指人）倾向冒险的；愿意去面对风险的；倾向从事有风险的行业的；大胆的。

（指行为）充满风险的；有风险倾向的；面临危险的；需要勇气的；草率的。


ass

源自中古英語 asse，源自古英語 assa，逆构自assen (“母驴”)，源自凱爾特語族（对比古愛爾蘭語 asan、上古康沃爾語 asen），源自拉丁語 asinus。取代了古英語 esol，其源自原始西日耳曼語 *asil，亦借自同一个拉丁语词。

In this section "animal" means any horse, cattle, ass, mule, sheep, pig, goat or dog.

1972, Parliament of the United Kingdom, “Part I, section 20(3)”, 出自 Road Traffic Act 1972，第 14 頁:

That new kid left the cap off the syrup bottle again! What an ass.

那个新来的小孩又没盖糖浆瓶的盖子，真是脑袋有点问题。

Sometimes by way of joke, and sometimes by way of irritation, compositors are called Asses by the pressmen.

1841, William Savage, Dictionary of the Art of Printing，第 24 頁:


ass

arse的北美变体。最终源自中古英語 ars、ers，源自古英語 ærs、ears，源自原始西日耳曼語 *ars，源自原始日耳曼語 *arsaz（对比古高地德語 ars（德語 Arsch）、古諾爾斯語 ars、古弗里斯蘭語 ers），源自原始印歐語 *h₃érsos（对比古希臘語 ὄρρος (órrhos)）。
有不少人认为该词曾为委婉词，但它其实原是为了反映舌尖音（尤其是/s/）前/ɹ/被合并的发音拼写（更早期的形式arse仍通用于英国、澳大利亚、新西兰等地），该现象在中古英语起的非标准口语中就有出现。该现象与之后出现R音脱落不同，因为/ɹ/在能影响其前驱音之前就已经脱落。该现象影响到的其他词（部分词保留了两种形式且词义有所不同）有cuss←curse、gash←garsh、bass (“鲈鱼”)←barse、bust←burst、passel←parcel，参见:en:Category:English terms with assimilation of historic /ɹ/。

On a recent episode of "The Justin Dunning Podcast," Starkel shared his thoughts on Martell, a former Ohio State quarterback, saying "he's ass my dude" in reference to Starkel.

2019年February5日, Alex Miller, “Former Texas A&M QB Nick Starkel breaks down old Twitter beef with Tate Martell”, 出自 Dallas Morning News:

For some reason, the teenager thought it’d be a good idea to criticize Newton and say he's "ass" and that he’s "about to be poor" because he's a free agent.

2021年February21日, Thomas Carannante, “Patriots: Cam Newton getting disrespected by a teenager is everything that’s wrong with society”, 出自 Fansided:

"You're so ass," Murray says to another player.

2021年October28日, Josh Weinfuss, “What we learned about Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray by watching him on Twitch”, 出自 ESPN:


ass

poontang

性交对象 （粗俗地强调了其身体而非其人格）

poon

性交对象 （粗俗地强调了其身体而非其人格）

punani

性交对象 （粗俗地强调了其身体而非其人格）

pussy

性交对象 （粗俗地强调了其身体而非其人格）

tail

性交对象 （粗俗地强调了其身体而非其人格）

tang

性交对象 （粗俗地强调了其身体而非其人格）

性交对象 （粗俗地强调了其身体而非其人格）

I'm going to go down to the bar and try to get me some ass.

我准备去酒吧找个屄来肏。

Acid, booze, and ass / Needles, guns, and grass

1971, Joni Mitchell （作曲作詞）, “Blue”, 出自 Blue:

讨厌的东西，差劲的东西，垃圾

I feel like ass today.

This room smells like ass.

What a bunch of ass.

家伙，人 （能指代自己。可指代身体，安全，或者比喻性地指代工作，将来等）

同類詞：face、hide

Get your lazy ass out of bed!

We risk our asses out there every day.

I'ma get medieval on your ass!


ass

-ass (形容词强调助词)之同義詞

That was one big ass fish!

That's an expensive ass car!


aghast

源自中古英語 agast、agasted，agasten (“使...恐惧”)的过去分词，源自古英語 a-（对比哥特語 𐌿𐍃- (us-)、德語 er-，原指“外，出”） + gæstan (“惊吓，虐待”)：对比哥特語 𐌿𐍃𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (usgaisjan, “惊吓”, 字面意思是“通过恐惧定住”)，与拉丁語 haerere (“粘住，附着于”)同源。对比gaze、hesitate。

more aghast (comparative)
most aghast (superlative)

惊呆了的，惊诧的；恐惧的

I was aghast when the incident unfolded in front of me.

事情在我眼前发生，把我吓住了。

And while the revellers stood aghast at the fury of the man, one more wicked or, it may be, more drunken than the rest, cried out that they should put the hounds upon her.

1902, Arthur Conan Doyle., The Hound of the Baskervilles:

I am agog! I am aghast! Is Marius in love at last?

1985, Les Misérables, the song "Red and Black"

We sat at a long table with a huge salmon on a platter in the center, prepared Szechuan style. Dad sat at one end of the table, and regaled all present with his stories. In the middle of one convoluted yarn, he rose and went around to the salmon in the center of the table. Using his fingers, he dug an eyeball out of the fish, popped it in his mouth and swallowed it whole as we looked on, aghast. “A real delicacy,” he said, with a boyish smirk.

2003, Brian Herbert, “Xanadu”, 出自 Dreamer of Dune, New York: Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC，第 259 頁:

Hart, for one, will not remember the night for Lambert's heroics. Morrison, not closed down quickly enough, struck his shot well but England's No1 will be aghast at the way it struck his gloves then skidded off his knees and into the net.

2013年August14日, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian:


anchovy

源自西班牙語 anchova，源自热那亚利古里亞語 anciôa或相关的科西嘉語 anchjuva、anciua。最终来源不详，有人认为其可能衍生自一个不可考的通俗拉丁語词*apiuva，源自拉丁語 aphyē、apua，源自古希臘語 ἀφύη (aphúē)（可能形式为梵語 अभ्व (ábhva-, “怪兽”)）；另一些人认为其来自巴斯克語 antxu、anchu (“干鱼”)，源自anchuva (“干的”)，前提是那个巴斯克语词本身没有经由一些中间词形衍生自拉丁语。


aflame

more aflame (comparative)
most aflame (superlative)

She said nothing and simply stared at him, eyes aflame.

她一言不发，只盯着他看，眼睛里燃着怒火。


snivel

古英語 *snyflan，还有记载作snyflung (“鼻涕，粘液”)，源自snofl，最终源自snout的词根。
与sniff、snuff有关。.

snivels
snivelling
sniveling
snivelled
sniveled

[…] a Hagg, a Fury by my side;

1611, Josuah Sylvester (translator), Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes, London, Book 4, Week 2, Day 4, p. 623,

[…] in severe frosty weather, snivelling and tears are produced by the coldness and dryness of the air.

1794, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia, London: J. Johnson, Volume 1, Section 16, Subsection 2, p. 149,

[…] he began to snivel, and wherever he tried to hide he was found out by the terrific explosions of his suppressed sneezes.

1937, J. R. R. Tolkien, 章號 9, 出自 The Hobbit, New York: Random House, 出版於 1982，第 187 頁:

啜泣，呜咽；哭哭啼啼，哭诉

Let things come to the Worst; when we have Overturned the Government;—Polluted the very Altar, with our MASTERS BLOOD—Cheated the Publick, &c. ’Tis but to Whine and Snivel to the People; tell them we were mis-led, by Cardinall Appetites;

1660, Roger L’Estrange, “No Fool to the Old Fool”, 出自 A Short View of Some Remarkable Transactions, London: Henry Brome，第 95 頁:

[…] after a good deal of sniveling and sobbing, she owned, that so far from being an heiress of a great fortune, she was no other than a common woman of the town, who had decoyed me into matrimony […]

1748, Tobias Smollett, 章號 61, 出自 The Adventures of Roderick Random, 第 2 卷, London: J. Osborn，第 267 頁:

I never snivel over trifles like that.

1868, Louisa May Alcott, 章號 15, 出自 Little Women:

ANNE: Aunt Sara’s in the garden, snivelling in a deck chair.
BASTON: What a hard child you are.
ANNE: It’s no good being mushy, is it? It’s the truth that matters. and she is snivelling.
BASTON: You could have said “crying.”
ANNE: But crying’s quite a different thing.

1957, Graham Greene, The Potting Shed, New York: Viking, act 1, scene 1，第 17 頁:

I, the Socman, am shorn of my lands that you may snivel Latin and eat bread for which you never did hand’s turn.

1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, 章號 9, 出自 The White Company:

‘Oh, hell! I’d snivel psalms to oblige the padre, but I can’t stick the way these damned native Christians come shoving into our church.’

1934 十月, George Orwell [筆名；本名 Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 2”, 出自 Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:


snivel

So Parson Hugh, with Groan and Snivel
Made half his Congregation drivel,

1692, John Dennis, “The Triumvirate: or, The Battle”, 出自 Poems in Burlesque, London，第 2 頁:

[…] after a bit of a snivel, for you know I am a woman in these matters, I had her treated with all decency, and then committed her to Davy Jones’s locker; and for want of a chaplain, I said the burial service myself […]

1792, Charles Dibdin, 章號 5, 出自 Hannah Hewit: or, The Female Crusoe, 第 1 卷, London，第 50 頁:

Uriah Heep gave a kind of snivel. I think to express sympathy.

1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, 章號 42, 出自 The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], 出版於 1850, →OCLC:

He did let his snot and snivel fall in his pottage […]

1653, Thomas Urquhart（譯者）, The First Book of the Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, London: Richard Baddeley, Book 1, Chapter 11, p. 53:

In streams the blood and snivel flows

1770, Thomas Bridges, A Burlesque Translation of Homer, London: S. Hooper, 3rd edition, Volume 2, Book 8, p. 44,

On quitting this den of furious heat, I got a sight of a lair, exceeding all the rest I had seen in Hell, but one, in frightful stinking filthiness, where was a herd of accursed drunken swine, disgorging and swallowing, swallowing and disgorging, continually and without rest, the most loathsome snivel.

1860, Ellis Wynne, 譯者 George Borrow, The Sleeping Bard; or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell, London: John Murray，第 86 頁:

[…] he ran his sleeve under his nose to stop the snivel.

1952, Flannery O’Connor, 章號 3, 出自 Wise Blood, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 出版於 1962，第 59 頁:


décolleté

借自法語 décolleté，源自décolleter (“露出脖子或衣領”)。

more décolleté (comparative)
most décolleté (superlative)

"She does not remember my short frocks at all, Lord Henry. But I remember her very well at Vienna thirty years ago, and how décolletée she was then."
「她根本不記得我的短連衣裙，亨利勳爵。但我記得很清楚，三十年前她在維也納，那時她是多麼的露骨。」

1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch. XV:


tulip

源自法語 tulipe，源自早期形式tulipan，源自鄂圖曼土耳其語 دلبند (tülbent, dülbent, “薄纱棉布”)，源自古典波斯語 دلبند (dulband, “包头巾”)。turban 的同源對似詞。

"The sturdy burghers of Holland took the tulip mania so badly that single bulbs that could not flower till another year would sell for more than $2000 apiece."

1876 — "The Tulip Mania", Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. CCCXL, April 1876, Vol. LII.


starchy

starchier (comparative)
more starchy (comparative)
starchiest (superlative)
most starchy (superlative)


sine die

:源自拉丁語 sine （“無…”） + diē——diēs （“日，天”）的奪格單數。字面含義為“沒有一日”。


work the soil

works the soil
working the soil
worked the soil

犁土，農作物種植前之農地犁土整理。


windows

window的单数第三人称现在式。


dictionaries

dictionary的单数第三人称现在式。


prosopagnosia

:源於一份由神經學家 Joachim Bodamer 在1947年發表的德語論文的標題 Die Prosop-Agnosie，源自古希臘語 πρόσωπον (prosopon)（“臉”）和 αγνωσία (agnosia)（“不知”）。

/ˌpɹɒsəpaɡˈnəʊzɪə/

/ˌpɹɒsəpaɡˈnəʊsɪə/

/ˌpɹɒsəʊpaɡˈnəʊzɪə/

/ˌpɹɒsəʊpaɡˈnəʊzɪə/

/ˌpɹɑsoʊpæɡˈnoʊʒə/

面盲症（面孔識別困難紊亂）


athermic

/ˌeɪˈθɜɹmɪk/


aurothiomalate

/ˌɔːɹəʊˌθaɪəʊˈmæleɪt/


azobisformamide

音頻（美式，北卡羅萊納）


azodicarbonamide

音頻（美式，北卡羅萊納）


rösti

煎土豆丝饼（瑞士德语区的传统早餐，在锅中加入黄油或脂肪来油炸土豆，大多情况下会加入其他成分，如熏肉、洋葱、奶酪、苹果或新鲜香草。）


floruit

源自拉丁语floruit（“他/她活跃”）。

（人、组织或文化的）鼎盛时期。


simple English

由查尔斯·凯·奥格登所创建的仅使用少数英语单词的一种人工语言。

最初为航天业维修手册而开发的一种约限自然语言。

简单英语维基百科所采用的英语形式（使用较少的不常见词汇）。


no zuo no die

仿譯自漢語 不作死就不會死／不作死就不会死 (bù zuōsǐ jiù bùhuì sǐ)。


!的故意誤拼，模仿打感叹号太激动时没有按住shift键导致的情况。

A:sum1 hlep me plz im alwyz l0zin!!1!?!/?

（大意）A：“谁快帮帮我，我老是输”

B:Thts bcuz ur st00pid!!!!!11!!oneone!!1!!eleven!1

（大意）B：“那是因为你太蠢了”


180 的截斷形式。 （180°旋转）


requin

The big gullet of the requin shark, for example, could do so. It has been killed with men inside whole.

1893, Rev. H. J. Foster, “Jonah”, 出自 The Thinker, 第 9 卷，第 124 頁:


dost

do的一般现在时第二人称单数形式。


busboy

餐厅男服务员，服务生。店小二。


Chinese checkers

中国跳棋，跳棋(一般特指“中国跳棋”)，星盘跳棋，波子棋(玻子棋)，玻珠棋，弹玻棋。


get a grip

gets a grip
getting a grip
got a grip
got a grip
gotten a grip

But the bannock ran […] down the road to the next house, and in and snug by the fireside. The folk were just sitting down to their soup, and the goodwife scraping the pot. "Look," quoth she, "there's a wee bannock come in to warm itself at our fireside."
"Shut the door," quoth the goodman, "and we'll try to get a grip of it."
When the bannock heard that, it ran out of the house and they after it with their spoons, […]

1894, Joseph Jacobs, “More English Fairy Tales”, 出自 The Wee Bannock, D. Nutt:

I attempted to get a grip in the snow with my frozen fingers, to stem myself with my heels, but with no success, […]

1898, Arnold Henry Savage Landor, In the Forbidden Land, Heinemann, Chapter XIII:

Thereupon the conger, taking the offensive, made a grab at him; it tried to seize him again […], but in both cases it failed to get a grip of the slippery skin, and the next minute the otter was at the surface.

1909, John Coulson Tregarthen, The Life Story of an Otter, John Murray, page 111:

Heber, using the argument which he felt would be of most avail, tried to frighten the man into soberness by picturing his wife's wrath; whereupon the adroit scamp replied that he knew what that would be, and had taken the precaution to have his hair cut short, so that she could not get a grip on it.

1912, Agnes Repplier, Americans and others, Houghton Mifflin Company, page 67:

"The Government needs to get a grip on the cost of electricity," she noted.

2022年February9日, Tom Allett, “Network News: Improved planning the key for advancing rail freight”, 出自 RAIL, 第 950 期，第 28 頁:

[…] the great antiquarian, Duald MacFirbis […], who was able to penetrate and get a grip of the long forgotten language of the ancient law tracts […]

1913, Douglas Hyde, “Eugene O'Curry”, 出自 Catholic Encyclopedia, The Encyclopedia Press:

"Grogan, the truth is, I travel to keep away from New York. There I'm lost: too many friends. When I'm at sea I get away from it all and kind of get a grip on life again. You understand?"

1917, Harold MacGrath, The Luck of the Irish, Harper & Brothers, page 206:

"You're looking at the thing wrong end to. Get a grip on your facts first. […]"

1918, William MacLeod Raine, The Sheriff's Son, Houghton Mifflin Company, page 65:

He needs to get a grip if he's getting that angry over such a little thing.

如果他要为这么小的事生那么大的气的话，那他得冷静点了。

She made her innocent bow, and retired without a suspicion that she had been an embarrassment. Nothing would have happened, now, perhaps, if quiet could have been maintained for a few minutes, so that the people could get a grip upon themselves, but the strain overpowered my old maid partner and she exploded like a bomb; a general and unrestrained crash of laughter followed, of course, the happy tears flowed like brooks, and no one was sorry of the opportunity to laugh himself out and get the blessed relief that comes of that privilege in such circumstances.

1907, “Mark Twain's Fables of Man”, 出自 John S. Tuckey 編, Little Nelly Tells a Story Out of Her Own Head, University of California Press:

When I reached this stage of visual chaos I stopped for a moment to get a grip on myself. It would not do to let my nerves get the better of me at the very outset of what would surely be a trying experience, […]

1929, H.P. Lovecraft, Zealia Bishop, The Mound, Part VII:

Panic thoughts chased about in my brain. I attempted to get a grip upon myself.

1950, William Frederick Temple, The Triangle of Terror:

Fuck all you hoes.
Get a grip, motherfucker.

1994, 片头起0:00, 出自 Juicy (Hip Hop), 角色 The Notorious B.I.G.:


nerd

（俚语，贬义）泛指将大量时间用于钻研某些事物(多为学术问题)而很少参加社交活动的人群，这类人群通常也不擅长体育活动，较为瘦弱。与中文“书呆子”，日语“御宅族”有类似含义。

（非正式，贬义）对某事有强烈兴趣的人。

（俚语，贬义）不起眼的，令人讨厌的，无聊的，不受欢迎的人；笨蛋。


JK

Jakarta之縮寫，印度尼西亚的一个特区


JK

just kidding (“说笑，开玩笑的”)之首字母縮略詞。


low blow

拳打腰下 （拳击中的犯规攻击）


kamuy

源自阿伊努語 カムィ (kamuy)。


klutzy

klutzier (comparative)
klutziest (superlative)

笨拙的，笨手笨脚的；不善言辞的


Azores

借自葡萄牙语 Açores (“亚速尔”),源自 açores ,açor (“苍鹰”)的复数形式。

亚速尔群岛（葡萄牙下属的群岛，位于北大西洋上）；亚速尔自治区


Libyan

Libya + -an。自16世纪开始使用此词。


Libyan

Libya + -an。自16世纪开始使用此词。

利比亚阿拉伯语（Libyan Arabic）的简称。


Alger

艾尔加（男子名），Elgar的变体。


Azorean

亚速尔群岛的，与亚速尔群岛有关的。


QC

魁北克省（Quebec），加拿大省份。

魁北克市（Quebec City），魁北克省的首府。


QC

（英国皇室的）御用大律师（Queen's Counsel）。

（航空）快速切换（quick change）:指一种能在客运和货运之间快速切换的飞机。


Quebecker

（加拿大） Quebecer的另一種拼寫法


Québec

Quebec的另一種寫法


mirasol

一种辣椒，晒干后叫做 guajillos。


extraprovincial

/ˌɛkstɹəˈpɹɒvɪnʃəl̩/


extra-

源自拉丁文extra（“在……之外、除了、超出”，副词或介词），源自拉丁文exter（“在外面”）。

خارج عن

在……之外的，超出……的

extra-

在……之外的，超出……的

ekstra-

在……之外的，超出……的

extra-

在……之外的，超出……的

außer-

在……之外的，超出……的

extra-

在……之外的，超出……的

eachtar-

在……之外的，超出……的

extra-

在……之外的，超出……的

超

在……之外的，超出……的

ちょう

在……之外的，超出……的

extra-

在……之外的，超出……的

вне-

在……之外的，超出……的

экстра-

在……之外的，超出……的

extra-

在……之外的，超出……的

在……之外的，超出……的


son of a gun

美国海军出版的 Nomenclature of Ships (John Snelling, 1981) 如下描述了这个短语的起源:
*In an attempt to keep down the large number of deserters in the British Navy, the sailors were kept on board their ships while in English ports. But "wives" were allowed on board; one per man, with no questions asked. Cramped conditions on the ships caused the "ladies" to sling their hammocks between the guns in the 'tween decks. The phrase "son of a gun" originated here. In fact, the expression questioned the legitimacy of anyone. The old definition of a man-o'-war's man was "Begotten in the galley and born under a gun. Every hair a rope yarn, every tooth a marlin's spike, each finger a fishhook and in his blood, right good Stockholm tar."


what the hell

#什么鬼？
#什么玩意？


在注释中，把一个词标为祈使语气

manĝi, manĝu, manĝis "eat, eat!, ate"


nase

软口鱼属，一属淡水洄游鱼类。


BS

（汽车）普利司通，轮胎公司名。


BS

（棒球）救援失败（blown saves的缩写）。

（会计学）资产负债表（balance sheet的缩写）。


topless

（常指女性）赤裸上身的，上空的。

议会投票允许在海滩上裸体游泳。

The council voted to allow topless swimmers on the beach.

（指地方）以赤裸上身的女性（通常为脱衣舞者）为特征的。

只有她最亲近的朋友知道，詹妮为了大学费用，在一个脱衣舞酒吧工作。

Only her closest friends knew that Jenny was working at a topless bar to help with college expenses.


topless

（汽车）无顶或顶部以其他方式打开的敞篷车。


AMT

（交通）蒙特利尔大都会交通局（Agence métropolitaine de transport的缩略）。


Thera

古典写法，借自拉丁语 Thēra ← 古希腊语 Θήρᾱ (Thḗrā)。

Thira的另一種拼寫法


kk

Okay okay 的缩写，表明对某一主题不需要进一步解释，或者表示该信息已被理解，并将在没有进一步确认的情况下采取行动。。

Okay cool 的缩写，对话结束时常用的简短的回答。

（旅游，航空）确认，批准（confirm的缩略，最初是GDS状态码，现在常用作速记）。


stoke

源自中古英语 stoken ← 中古荷兰语 stoken (“刺，戳”) 或中古低地德语 stoken (“刺，戳”) ← 原始日耳曼语 *stukōną (“坚硬, 推”) ← 原始印欧语 *(s)teug- (“推, 击打”)。和中古高地德语 stoken (“刺，戳”), 新挪威语 stauka (“推, 刺”)同源。 另一派生出中古英语 stoken 的词源是古法语 estoquer, estochier (“刺, 击打”), 其来源是相同的日耳曼词源。另见 stock 。


stoke

stoker 的逆构词，源自荷兰语 stoker ← 荷兰语 stoken (“烧火, 煽动”) ← 中古荷兰语 stoken (“刺，戳”) ← stock (“刺”), 另见: tandenstoker 。最初的起源与词源①一致。


Nox

（罗马神话）诺克斯，罗马神话中的夜之女神。


prepend

源自 pre-（在……之前） + (ap)pend（追加，在末尾附加），类比自 append（追加，在末尾附加）。

(计算机术语，及物动词) 在开头附加


prepend

(罕用，及物动词) 预先考虑


-'s

The dog’s running after me!

The dog’s been chasing the mail carrier again.

（非正式）(lang=參數) does的紧缩 (只和does的辅助义搭配使用，用在疑问词后)

What’s he do for a living?

What’s it say?

Where’s the n in Javanese come from?

（非标准，有时被禁用） are (常用在where, here, 和there后)

Where’s the table tennis balls?


-'s

(lang=參數) as的紧缩 (当as（不正式地）作为关系代词时)

All’s he wanted was to go home.

(lang=參數) us的紧缩 (用于let’s中，组成第一人称复数祈使语气)

What are you guys waiting for? Let’s go!


-'s

源自中古英语 -s, -es ← 古英语 -es（“-'s”, 阳性和中性的单数属格的结尾） ← 原始日耳曼语 *-as, *-is（阳性和中性的单数属格的结尾）。 和荷兰语 -s, -es， 德语 -s, -es ，丹麦语 -s, -es同源。

You need a driver’s licence.

These are popular boy’s T-shirts.

(這些是熱門的男裝T恤。)

Alex can be a girl’s name.

(Alex可以是女孩的名字。)

That's a girl’s toy.

(设计给女孩玩的玩具) — 同形异义: That's a girl’s toy. (特指某个女孩的玩具)

所有格的标志词，表示某物属于这个带有标志词的名词。

The cat bit the dog’s tail and ran. (the dog + ’s)

(那隻貓咬了那隻狗的尾巴然後跑了。)

The cat bit the dog with the shaggy fur’s tail and ran. (the dog with the shaggy fur + ’s)

(那隻貓咬了那隻毛髮蓬鬆的狗的尾巴然後跑了。)

women’s contributions to science

在没有指定的情况下，用来表示“……的家/地方/店”。

We’re going to Luigi’s for dinner tonight.

可指Luigi家（“Luigi’s house”） 或Luigi的饭店（“Luigi’s restaurant”）

I'm going to the butcher’s for a steak.

I bought it at Tesco's.

(這些我在特易購買的。)


-'s

相当于-s，撇号可以不加。

用于组成外来词的复数，以明晰发音，比如 “banana’s” 或 “pasta’s”。

（错误用法）组成名词复数（然而正确用法是只用加“s”即可）。这种现象被称为 greengrocer’s apostrophe。

Apple’s 50p a pound

（有时不用） 用于组成数字、字母、某些缩写和某些名词的复数形式，通常是因为不带撇号会引起歧义和混淆。

There are four 3’s in my phone number.

“Banana” has three a’s and one b.

You can buy CD’s in that shop.

These are the do’s and don’ts.


agricultural

/ˌæɡɹɪˈkəltjʊəɹəl/

/ˌæɡɹɪˈkəlt͡ʃəɹəl/


scrawny

方言词scranny (“薄的，骨瘦如柴的，欠缺的，劣质的”)的变体，可能是源自古諾爾斯語 skran (“垃圾”) + -y。对比挪威語 skran (“骨瘦如柴的”)、英語 scrannel (“瘦的，无价值的”)。
另可能源自古諾爾斯語 skrælna (“枯萎”).

scrawnier (comparative)
scrawniest (superlative)

“Tell him, in these words, that I will have his scrawny bones before me now. Tell him, Byar, and bring him if you must arrest him and those filthy wretches who disgrace the Children. Go.”

1992, Robert Jordan, “Chapter 31: Assurances”, 出自 The Shadow Rising (The Wheel of Time; 4), London: Orbit Books, 出版於 2021, →ISBN，第 498 頁:


knock up

（草草地）做出，拼凑出（参见knock together）（自16世纪）

I'll just knock up a quick demo for the sales presentation.

我准备给销售量报告会稍微做个很快的演示。

敲门吵醒，敲门叫醒； 叫醒，叫来； （在选举日）上门提醒...投票 （见knocker up）（自17世纪）

“Very sorry to knock you up, Watson,” said he, “but it's the common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she retorted upon me, and I on you.”

1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Speckled Band, page 1:

‘I didn't knock you up when I came in,’ Peregrine said. ‘There seemed no point. It was getting light. I just thought I’d leave the note to wake me at seven. And oddly enough I did sleep. Heavily.’

1966, Ngaio Marsh, Death at the Dolphin，第 160 頁:

使...筋疲力竭，使...无法再继续 （自18世纪）

‘Now, mamma,’ he said, when he went out, ‘take notice, you are not to knock up your god-daughter with gossip,’ [...]

1835, Charlotte Brontë, 章號 XVII, 出自 Villette:

The day being exceedingly hot, the want of food had knocked up my followers […]

1861, John Petherick, Egypt, the Soudan and Central Africa，第 389 頁:

筋疲力竭；无法再继续下去 （自18世纪）

[…] the horses were beginning to knock up under the fatigue of such severe service […]

1856, Thomas de Quincey, Memorials，第 81 頁:

I met one of your dons at tea, and he said that your degree was not in the least a proof of your abilities: he said that you knocked up and got flurried in examinations.

1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, VII [Uniform ed., p. 87]:

使...怀孕（尤指婚外孕，参见knocked up） （自19世纪）

I guess his summer plans are shot now that he knocked his girlfriend up.

看来他把女朋友整怀孕了以后暑期计划要泡汤了。

“And how many other girls has he knocked up?” “Would you keep your voice down? Mom's home.” She pressed her hands to her head. “I just don't understand how you could ditch Rowan and get knocked up by Scott, like, right away.”

2015, Jaime Loren, Waiting for April, Pan, →ISBN:

练习来回击球（参见knock-up） （自19世纪）

Official Knock up: if the players knock up together a maximum of five minutes shall be permitted; if they knock up separately each player shall be permitted to knock up for a maximum of five minutes.
（請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

The Tennis & Rackets Association - Tournament Rules

使...边缘整齐，装订成册

to knock up printed sheets


Vatican

源自拉丁语 Vātī̆cānus（“梵蒂冈山”） ← vāticinārī（“预告；预言”）


Vatican

梵蒂冈的，与梵蒂冈有关的


MCGS

Monitor and Control Generated System的缩写；通用监控系统。


nite

#night的一种变形写法


icing on the cake

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

We went out for dinner and dancing and the icing on the cake was when my boyfriend proposed to me as we danced.

我们出去吃饭和跳舞，锦上添花的是我的男朋友在我们跳舞的时候向我求婚。


wings

wing的第三人称单数一般现在时形式。


Diyarbakır

迪亚巴克尔，土耳其城市。


tetrathiomolybdate

* tetra（四）+ thio（硫代）+ molybdate（钼酸盐），其中molybdate由molybdenum（钼）延伸而来

硫代钼酸盐，含有MoS₄原子团的无机化合物

硫代钼酸酯，含有MoS₄基团的有机化合物


Dubrovnik

杜布羅夫尼克，克罗地亚海滨城市。


syncretize

*来自古希腊语συγκρητίζω（sunkrêtizô，结合起来）


synthesizable

more synthesizable (comparative)
most synthesizable (superlative)

可合成的、易合成的、易制备的


cobaltate

钴酸盐（一类化合物名或矿物名）


-ate

派生自拉丁語第一變位動詞的完成被動分詞後綴 -ātus、-āta 和 -ātum。在中古英語中寫成 -at。-ee 的同源對似詞。


rooms

音频 (美国发音，有 /u/)


rooms

音频 (美国发音，有 /u/)

room的第三人称单数一般现在时形式。


blossoms

blossom的单数第三人称现在式。


bottles

bottle的单数第三人称现在式。


monkeys

monkey的单数第三人称现在式。


lawyers

lawyer的单数第三人称现在式。


carpets

carpet的单数第三人称现在式。


cabbages

cabbage的单数第三人称现在式。


swans

swan的单数第三人称现在式。


snakes

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-snakes.wav


snakes

snake的单数第三人称现在式。


bicycles

bicycle的单数第三人称现在式。


benches

bench的单数第三人称现在式。


towels

towel的单数第三人称现在式。


towers

tower的单数第三人称现在式。


spiders

spider的单数第三人称现在式。


surnames

surname的单数第三人称现在式。


colleges

/ˈkɑləd͡ʒɪz/

/ˈkɒlɪd͡ʒɪz/


speeches

speech的单数第三人称现在式。


flowers

flower的单数第三人称现在式。


crowds

crowd的单数第三人称现在式。


monks

monk的单数第三人称现在式。


kings

king的单数第三人称现在式。


roofs

roof的单数第三人称现在式。


combs

comb的单数第三人称现在式。


tombs

tomb的单数第三人称现在式。


ghosts

ghost的单数第三人称现在式。


blueberries

blueberry的单数第三人称现在式。


cashiers

cashier的单数第三人称现在式。


sketches

sketch的单数第三人称现在式。


streets

street的单数第三人称现在式。


seasons

season的单数第三人称现在式。


tend

源自中古英語 tenden ← 古英語 tendan (“点燃，放火”)（通常出现在复合词 ātendan, fortendan, ontendan） ← 原始日耳曼語 *tandijaną (“点燃”)，最早来源未知。与丹麥語 tænde (“点燃”)，瑞典語 tända (“点燃”)，哥特語 𐍄𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽 (tandjan, “点燃”)，冰島語 tendra (“点燃”)，德語 zünden (“点燃”)同源。与tinder相关。


tend

源自中古英語 *tenden ← 古法語 tendre (“伸出”) ← 拉丁語 tendere (“伸展，延伸”)。

（后接 to 不定式）形容事情往往会发生；倾向于，往往会，常常就。（自14世纪中叶起使用）

They tend to go out on Saturdays.

It tends to snow here in winter.


tend

源自中古英語 tenden，为 attenden (“照顾”)的非重读字首省略形式。另见 attend。

（接 to）照顾，照料（如病人）。（自14世纪前叶起使用）

We need to tend to the garden, which has become a mess.

我们需要照料花园，花园已经变得一团糟了。

Shepherds tend their flocks.

（航海）在潮水转向时控制好锚泊船，以防止在摇摆时其缆绳发生缠绕。


girls

（僅複數） 女性的胸部。

Talk about lucky stripes: This push-up top features pads to provide oomph and make sure the girls stay sunny-side up.


girls

girl 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


autonym

本语的称呼，而非其他语言的称呼。


trifluoroacetate

（化）三氟乙酸盐；三氟醋酸盐

（化）三氟乙酸酯；三氟醋酸酯


monofluoroacetate

（化）单氟乙酸盐，氟乙酸盐

（化）单氟乙酸酯，氟乙酸酯


mono-

来自古希臘語 μόνος (mónos, “單，一”)。


uni-

* 来自拉丁语unus（一）


yuri

* 来自日语“百合”（yuri）


interspersed

more interspersed (comparative)
most interspersed (superlative)

When comparing two files, diff finds sequences of lines common to both files, interspersed with groups of differing lines called hunks.
當比較兩檔案的差異時，diff命令會找到兩檔案中共通的行的序列，其間交雜著叫做hunks的內容不同的行的群體們。

Comparing and Merging Files: Hunks, GNU Diffutils Manual:


deus ex machina

非同化借詞，源自拉丁語 deus ex māchinā (即设备，脚手架等机械, 字面意思是“来自机械的神”)，源自古希臘語。

dei ex machina (plural)
dei ex machinis (plural)
deus ex machinas (plural)

强行生硬，不合逻辑的故事转折，故事结尾

The repeated tactic of deus ex machina (without a deus) has a deplorable effect on both the plot and the dialogue.

2007年August12日, Christopher Hitchens, “Harry Potter: The Boy Who Lived”, 出自 New York Times:

Despite the government shutdown, at the end of the last season Knope is able to put on a children's concert in the abandoned lot she's been trying to turn into a park due to a quick deus ex machina.

2011年January20日, Dave Thier, “‘Parks and Recreation’: Comedy Imitates Life (Sort Of)”, 出自 The Atlantic:

Compared to that, the season-four finale “Server Error” felt comparatively tame, focusing mostly on Richard’s maniacal efforts to create a new kind of internet, which were helped along by a confusing deus ex machina.

2017年June26日, David Sims, “How Will ‘Silicon Valley’ Work Without T.J. Miller?”, 出自 The Atlantic:

意外且依靠外部力量的解决方案，鬼使神差

Handler’s bad advice for generals […] is mostly notable as the most extreme expression of peculiar pleas by Trump opponents who seek some deus ex machina that will stop the president: generals simply disobeying the president, other civil servants refusing to follow through on orders, or even the invocation of the 25th Amendment to remove him from office.

2017年August14日, David A. Graham, “The Search for a Magical Way to Stop Trump”, 出自 The Atlantic:

机械降神 （在希腊或罗马戏剧中，依靠舞台器械登台救场的神祇）

I was going to wait for Monsieur Hyppolyte and, like a craven, hand the whole thing over to him. Let the deus ex machina fly in out of the clouds...

1959, Mary Stewart, 章號 XVII, 出自 Nine Coaches Waiting, M. S. Mill Company，第 268 頁:

（协助此种角色登台的）活板门，吊车等器械


memento mori

源自拉丁語 mementō morī (字面意思是“留心死亡”)。

memento moris (plural)
mementos mori (plural)

死亡的象征物 （提醒人自己终有一死的物品，比如骷髅等）

I have often heard you express your dislike of any impertinent memento moris—you have even thought it irreligious, and unthankful for present good; and tending to chill the life-blood, the little that is left in the old, and to throw a wet blanket over the cheerfulness of the young, out of which cheerfulness elastic manhood is to spring, and to take upon itself to do the manly responsible duties of life vigorously. I repeat that you have always maintained, that to thrust a memento mori in every man’s face, or to carve it upon his walking-stick, is irreligious, because it is essential unthankfulness.

1854 October, “Civilisation.—The Census.”, 出自 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 第 LXXVI 卷, 第 CCCCLXVIII 期, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood & Sons, […]，第 447 頁，第 2 列:

On All Saints’ day, Toussaint, the festival of the dead, the fête des morts, the whole town, and especially the cemetery of Rheims, was a scene of lively, and I may say cheerful, excitement. Along the street leading to the latter were arranged on both sides stalls and tables, gayly festooned with crowns, crosses, and memento moris, and attended by female hucksters.

1867, Robert Tomes, “A Cheerful Resort—Cemetery at Rheims—Death and Champagne— […]”, 出自 The Champagne Country, New YorK, N.Y.: […] [Melancthon M.] Hurd and [Henry Oscar] Houghton, […]，第 193–194 頁s:

The series of moments [which] the clock records is not only a succession of “nows” but a memento mori diminishing the number of seconds that remain before death.

1995, Richard Klein, “Introduction”, 出自 Cigarettes are sublime, Paperback版, Durham: Duke University Press, 出版於 1993, →ISBN, →OCLC，第 8 頁:

And there were even stranger sides to this kind of behaviour: when his mother died, Bruckner commissioned a photograph of her on her death bed and kept it in his teaching room. He had no image of his mother when she was alive, just this grotesque-seeming token of her death staring out at him as an unsettling memento mori.

2014年April1日, Tom Service, “Sex, death and dissonance: the strange, obsessive world of Anton Bruckner”, 出自 The Guardian:

As a student of the fossil record, I can assure you that it’s not often that creatures are transformed, in flagrante delicto, into memento mori.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History，第 65 頁:

Bright enamel is a feature of posies around the late sixteenth to mid-seventeenth century, with darker enamels continuing into the eighteenth century on memento moris like this example.

2021, Jo Ahmet, 50 Finds 源自Kent: Objects from the Portable Antiquities Scheme, Amberley Publishing, →ISBN:


bon voyage

/ˌbɒn vwaɪˈɑːʒ/

/ˌbɒn vɔɪˈɑːʒ/


pyro-

* 来自拉丁语 pyr ← 古希腊语 πῦρ (pûr, “火”)。


sayonara

/ˌsaɪəˈnɑːɹə/


urothermal

以脲衍生物为溶剂的热合成法的，脲热合成的


sociometry

/ˌsəʊsɪˈɒmətrɪ/


OP

I don't think your response really answers the OP's question.

我觉得你没有回答楼主的问题。


OP

I know they are going to tweak stuff in the next few weeks with patches as they find one class is OP and another is sucking...

2012年August29日, “Re: 5.0.4 first blush”, 出自 alt.games.warcraft (Usenet), message-ID <k1l1nq$emb$1@dont-email.me>:

overplayed (“放得过多的”)之首字母縮略詞。

out of print (“绝版的，已停印的”)之縮寫。


OP

源自日語 OP (OP)（オープニング），源自英語 opening


antidisestablishmentarianism

/ˌæn.ti.dɪz.ɪs.tæb.lɪʃ.mənˈtɛə.ɹɪə.nɪ.z(ə)m/

/ˌæn.taiˌdɪs.ɛsˌtæb.lɪʃ.məntˈɛː.ɹi.ənˌɪ.zm/

被公認為最長單字，有28個字母跟12個音節，可能是英語中非技術和非人為因素下最長的單詞。帶幽默性質的 floccinaucinihilipilification 比本詞要多一個字母。


metal-organic framework

金属有机框架，金属有机框架材料


psycho-

* 来自古希腊语ψυχή（灵魂）

表示和灵魂、精神或心理有关的事物


ethanoate

乙酸盐；乙酸酯（IUPAC名）


asterism

* 来自古希腊语ἀστερισμός (asterismós, “星群”)。


Downing Street

以其建立者喬治·唐寧爵士命名。

唐宁街，英国伦敦街道名，英国首相与财政大臣在此居住。


chryso-

* 来自古希腊语χρυσός (khrusós, “金”)。


cryo-

*来自古希腊语κρύος (krúos, “寒冷”)。


Hangul

Hangeul的另一種拼寫法


break down

breaks down
breaking down
broke down
broken down
broke down


emoji

借自日语 絵文字 (えもじ, emoji)，絵 (え, e, “图片”) + 文字 (もじ, moji)。虽然看起来与英语 emotion和emoticon有关联，实际上只是一个巧合。

同類詞：emoticon、kaomoji、sticker

In order to communicate quickly, many mobile phone users use emoji characters (similar to emoticons) while sending messages. Service providers have also created a set of emoji characters and have added support for it.

2002, Language International: The Business Resource for a Multilingual Age, 第 14 卷, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC，第 45 頁:

One of the most exciting announcements at Twitter's Chirp conference this week was "Annotated Tweets". […] The data attached doesn't have to be simple text. Twitter suggests examples such as MIDI data (for music) or emoji (for fancy emoticons).

2010年April17日, Martin Bryant, “Twitter Reveals Details of New ‘Annotated Tweets’ Feature”, 出自 The Next Web，於2017-02-22歸檔自原頁面:

So what do a bunch of dudes with iPhones do when they haven't eaten all day, are waiting at your restaurant table, starving, annoyed, and need to pass the time. They innovate. They bring emojis to life. In public. […] Give it a shot – it's probably the one semi-practical thing you can do with an emoji[…].

2011年April5日, Sam Biddle, “IRL Emojis: Our New Favourite Way to Waste Time on the Phone”, 出自 Gizmodo，於2013-03-20歸檔自原頁面:

Like any natural language grammar, the distribution of emoji in texts, as well as the construction of phrases and sentences with emoji symbols in them, implies a systematic structure, otherwise it would be impossible to literally "read" the emoji texts.

2017, Marcel Danesi, “Emoji Grammar”, 出自 The Semiotics of Emoji (Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics), London, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN，第 77 頁:

At present, Emoji functions not to replace the linguistic mode, but to complement it – the good old-fashioned English word is not going to be in danger any time soon. Emoji enables, arguably for the first time, a multimodal component to text-based digital communication, providing a code that fills out the communicative message in the linguistic mode, conveyed through text.

2017 August, Vyvyan Evans, “What’s in a Word?”, 出自 The Emoji Code: The Linguistics behind Smiley Faces and Scaredy Cats, 1st US版, New York, N.Y.: Picador, →ISBN，第 102 頁:

Apple wants to introduce new emojis to better represent people with disabilities. A guide dog, a wheelchair user and prosthetic limbs are just some of the symbols it's suggested.

2018年March24日, “Apple Wants to Introduce New Emojis for Disabled People”, 出自 BBC News，於2018-07-09歸檔自原頁面:


think through

thinks through
thinking through
thought through


Poroshenko

源自乌克兰语 Пороше́нко (Porošénko)。

波罗申科，乌克兰语姓氏。


Medvedev

借自俄語 Медве́дев (Medvédev)。

梅德韦杰夫，源自俄語的姓氏

德米特里·阿纳托利耶维奇·梅德韦杰夫


sex ratio

性别比，人群/生物群中男女数量的比例。


Bayliss

贝利斯（姓氏，源自职业）


chthonian

* 来自古希腊语χθόνιος（khthónios，地里、地下）

more chthonian (comparative)
most chthonian (superlative)

地下的，地里的，属于地下世界的


zhoosh

zhoosh (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 zhooshes，現在分詞 zhooshing，一般過去時及過去分詞 zhooshed)本詞語需要翻譯為漢語。請協助添加，並移除{{rfdef}}模板。


motorbikes

motorbike 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


Jung

专指卡尔·荣格，瑞士精神病医生和心理医生，创立了分析心理学。


Jung

源自朝鲜语정 (jeong)的转写。


Tulu

源自圖陸語 ತುಳು (tuḷu)。

图陆语，一种达罗毗荼语系语言，使用人数近200万，使用者称为Tuluva。


sought-after

more sought-after (comparative)
most sought-after (superlative)


applies

apply的单数第三人称现在式。


tells

tell的单数第三人称现在式。


cooks

cook的单数第三人称现在式。


seems

seem的单数第三人称现在式。


holds

hold的单数第三人称现在式。


howdy

"how d'ye do" (how do you do) 或 "how do you fare?"的省稱。


howdy

不正式地問候（尤指以"howdy"問候）


homed

home的过去式和过去分词。


pre-crastination

: 把 procrastination (“拖延症”) 的前缀改成 pre- (“在……之前”)。

/pɹiːˌkɹæstɪˈneɪʃə̆n/


Santali

桑塔利語，主要使用於印度的南亞語系語言。


dehydrazination

脱肼（化学反应中失去肼分子）


butyl alcohols

butyl alcohol 的複數指丁醇的多种同分异构体


mirative

（不可数）意外语气，用于表达意料之外的情况或新信息

（可数）具有意外语气的词


mediopassive

中（被）动态，中间被动语态


full English breakfast

传统的英式早餐，搭配有培根、鸡蛋、番茄、蘑菇、烤面包、香肠等。


digs

（，唯複）住宿（源自diggings）


digs

dig 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


nor-

* 来自英语normal的简写


necro-

* 来自古希腊语νεκρός（死尸）


cast pearls before swine

源自《圣经》："Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you."

casts pearls before swine
casting pearls before swine
cast pearls before swine

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/en-au-cast pearls before swine.ogg

好东西给了不识货的人；明珠暗投；白璧三献


phosphathioethynolate

* phospha- + thio- + ethyne + -ol + -ate


thio-

来自古希臘語 θεῖον (theîon, “Sulfur”)


rehab

（特指从消遣药物的）康复


now, now

Now, now. Don't be rude.

Now, now, there's nothing to worry about.


defeat the purpose

It would defeat the purpose of running a marathon for health if you got Rhabdomyolysis from it instead.

为了健身跑马拉松，万一搞得横纹肌溶解岂不是适得其反。


vozhd

俄語 вождь (voždʹ, “领导者”)。

Вождь народов


cisnormativity

顺性别本位、顺性别正常主义。错译为“顺性别霸权”。


heteronormativity

异性恋本位、异性恋正常主义。错译为“异性恋霸权”。


homophobic

more homophobic (comparative)
most homophobic (superlative)


transphobia

It is not really a debate about privacy and personal safety versus politics, so much as an impulse towards pride and a rejection of internalized transphobia.

1998, Kate Bornstein, My Gender Workbook:


Ürümqi

借自維吾爾語 ئۈرۈمچى (ürümchi)。


swipe

源自swip（短元音）< 中古英語 swippen, swipen (“暴力地移动”) < 古英語 swipian, sweopian, swippan (“祸害，摆，打，鞭挞”) < 原始日耳曼語 *swipōną, *swipjaną (“移动”) < 原始印歐語 *sweyb- (“弯曲，转向，转弯，摇摆，旋转，席卷”)。与德語 schwippen (“鞭打”), 丹麥語 svippe (“掌掴”), 冰島語 svipa (“鞭打；迅速移动”)同源。与sweep, swoop优化。

(及物) 通过滑过读卡器进行扫描或注册；扫

(不及物) 快速地抓或扫

(不及物，计算机用语) 快通过手指划动屏幕进行交互；滑，扫

(及物) 通过滑或扫的行为进行打击


swipe

(可数) 抓，扫，滑（行为）

(可数) 通过滑或扫的行为进行打击（使用球拍或球棒）

(可数，非正式) 粗略的猜想，预计

(不可数) 差的啤酒，劣质的酒精饮料


cyka

俄語сука的伪西里尔字母写法


haka

借自毛利語 haka，源自原始波利尼西亞語 *saka。與夏威夷語 haʻa (“舞蹈”), 曼加瑞瓦語 ʻaka (“（表演）戰舞”), 拉羅湯加語 ʻaka (“舞蹈”), 薩摩亞語 saʻa (“舞蹈”), 托克勞語 haka (“舞蹈”), 湯加語 haka (“唱歌時做的手部動作”)同源。

哈卡舞（一种毛利人的舞蹈）


Sihanoukville

Sihanouk (“柬埔寨前國王諾羅頓·西哈努克”) + -ville。

西哈努克市 （柬埔寨城市） :Template:分類

西哈努克省（柬埔寨省份）


foresees

foresee 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


attune

调整以使被挑物更敏锐或反应更积极

The subject might be more attuned to their potentials after training.

训练后对象的潜能更有可能被调动。


telluridation

碲化，碲化作用，碲化反应


iodobutane

碘丁烷（多指碘代正丁烷）


ayu

源自日語 鮎 (ayu)。


war of words

The young man much resented this directness of attack, and in the war of words which followed when they met he did not scruple publicly to insult Mr Clare, without respect for his gray hairs.

1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, ch. 26:

The lower classes live in a state of war, a war of words. Their readiness is the product of the same fiery individualism as the readiness of the old fighting oligarchs. Any cabman has to be ready with his tongue, as any gentleman of the last century had to be ready with his sword.

1901, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, The Defendant, ch. 13:

[T]hese two have brutal, contemptuous wars of words — the kind you might expect from divorcing 40-somethings.

2007 Feb. 22, Virginia Heffernan, "Television: No Sex, Please, We’re Engaged," New York Times (retrieved 9 Aug 2017):


-uide

母体氢化物结合氢负离子（H⁻）形成的衍生物


MRT

mass rapid transit, mass rail transit, metro rail transit


touché

来自法語 touché，toucher (“觸摸”)的過去分詞。參見touch。


sweat like a pig

sweats like a pig
sweating like a pig
sweated like a pig

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-sweat like a pig.ogg


travel bubble

旅遊氣泡：國與國之間，免除檢疫措施，方便人員流動；可能是涉及國家層面，也可能是涉及特別行政區、地區政府層面。


引号，用来引用參照內容。


benzodiazepine

同類詞：barbiturate

That week we were in the desert I couldn't sleep—perhaps a couple of hours each night at the most even with a steady intake of benzodiazepine.

2023, Bret Easton Ellis, 章號 1, 出自 The Shards:


mic

咪高峰、米高峰、嘜克風、麥克風，microphone的縮寫，中文音譯漢字可以書寫為咪、嘜或麥


won

源自古英語 winnan。


won

I long'd to leave this wand'ring pilgrimage, / And in my native soil again to won.

1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XII, xxxiii:


won

借自朝鮮語 원 (圓, won)，源自漢語族 圓／圆 (yuán)。參見yuan，yen。

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-won (live, Korea).wav


à la carte

借自法語 à la carte (“菜單上的；卡片上的”)。

/ˌæ.ləˈkɑːt/

/ˌæ.læˈkɑːt/

/ˌɑ.ləˈkɑɹt/

/ˌɑ.lɑˈkɑɹt/


à la carte

借自法語 à la carte (“菜單上的；卡片上的”)。

/ˌæ.ləˈkɑːt/

/ˌæ.læˈkɑːt/

/ˌɑ.ləˈkɑɹt/

/ˌɑ.lɑˈkɑɹt/


azuki

adzuki的另一種拼寫法


-osis

源自古希臘語 -ωσις (-ōsis, 表示状态，异常或动作)，源自-όω (-óō)词干动词 + -σις (-sis)。

hepatosis

phagocytosis

leukocytosis


koi

源自日語 鯉 (koi)。


software patch

修復小錯誤，同時保持軟件兼容性的補丁。


-oid

源自古希臘語 -ειδής (-eidḗs)、-οειδής (-oeidḗs)（其中ο是所接词干最后一个元音），源自εἶδος (eîdos, “形状，肖像”)。

似...的，与...相像的 （暗含虽然外观相似但不是一个事物之意）

human + -oid → humanoid

sterol + -oid → steroid

lympho- + -oid → lymphoid

myeloid


nihonium

源自日語 日本 (Nihon) + -ium。2016年IUPAC因日本理化学研究所發現該元素而以日本的國名來命名。

Japanese scientists behind the discovery of element 113, the first atomic element found in Asia - indeed, the first found outside Europe or the United States - have dubbed it "nihonium" after the Japanese-language name for their country.

2016年June9日, “First element discovered in Asia named 'nihonium', after Japan”, 出自 Reuters:


Nolan

愛爾蘭語 Ó Nualláin (字面意思是“Nuallán的子孫”)（nuall的指小詞）的英語化。


-ful

加在名詞後, 就有full of的意思


circumstantial evidence

環境證據；環境證供；間接證據


copernicium

Copernicus + -ium，以Nicolaus Copernicus（尼古拉斯·哥白尼）命名

kōpərnĭsʹēəm

Copernicium is one of a group of superheavy elements made artificially in a particle accelerator by colliding ions into a heavymetal target; and, like the other superheavy elements, it is radioactive and decays very quickly.

2013, Eric Scerri, 30-Second Elements, →ISBN:


flerovium

源自Flerov + -ium，源自弗廖罗夫核反应实验室，以格奥尔基·弗廖罗夫命名。


moscovium

Moscow + -ium，源自莫斯科州。2016年6月IUPAC批准该名称，以纪念这种元素被发现的地方。


tennessine

Tennessee + -ine，源自美国田纳西州。2016年6月IUPAC批准该名称，以纪念这种元素被发现的地方。


oganesson

Oganessian + -on。2016年6月IUPAC批准该名称，以纪念俄罗斯物理学家尤里·奥加涅相。


death toll

Food, clothing, bedding, and fire, were supplied in sufficient proportions to maintain life and health; and the three years of severe suffering passed over the cotton districts without any sensible increase of disease, and without increasing the frequency of the death toll.

1866, John Watts, The Facts of the Cotton Famine，第 232 頁:

Fascinated by the fact that the death toll of this singular storm was the fifth highest on record as regards overall effects/death tolls for a natural disaster in the United States in the 20th century […]

2011, Angela Mason, Death Rides the Sky: The Story of the 1925 Tri-State Tornado:


death knell

The sound was the stroke of a bell from the tower of East Endelstow Church. . . . The death-knell of an inhabitant of the eastern parish was being tolled.

1873, Thomas Hardy, 章號 25, 出自 A Pair of Blue Eyes:

Its recurrence was regular, but as slow as the tolling of a death-knell.

1890, Ambrose Bierce, 章號 1, 出自 An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge:

The thought was a death-knell to Helen's last hope.

1901, Upton Sinclair, 章號 10, 出自 King Midas:

"It is the death knell of an orchestra if it doesn't have its own home," he says.

2004, Jamie James, "The Rise of a Musical Superpower," Time, 28 June:

A rupture would represent a death knell for the West and would harm the US worker.

2018, Michael Cottakis – LSE, “Colliding worlds: Donald Trump and the European Union”, 出自 LSE's blog:


covidiot

新冠病毒无知者，新冠疫情不对他人负责的人


FLOTUS

美国第一夫人（First Lady of the United States的简写）


Tuyuhun

源自漢語 吐谷渾／吐谷浑 (Tǔyùhún)。


konbini

借自日語 コンビニ (konbini)，源自英語 convenience store。


dodecanol

十二醇，十二烷醇，月桂醇


anglicization

(美式、牛津標準拼寫) 英国化；英语化


anglicisation

/ˌæŋ.ɡlɪ.səˈzeɪ.ʃən/

Dublin, the name of the capital of Ireland, is an anglicisation of the Gaelic name Dubh Linn.

愛爾蘭首都的名稱Dublin（都柏林），是蓋爾語名稱Dubh Linn的英語化。


hendeca-

来自古希臘語 ἕνδεκα (héndeka, “十一”)。


dodeca-

来自古希臘語 δώδεκα (dṓdeka, “十二”)。


butenoic

丁烯酸的，和丁烯酸相关的


at odds

The witness' statement seems to be at odds with the evidence, not a good sign for the prosecutor.

證人的說法似乎和證據不符合，這對檢察官來說不是一個好的信號。

He flashes into one gross crime or other

c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act I, Scene 3,


dilawan

来自塔加洛語的dilawan。

自由主义、自由党或阿基诺政权的支持者


accise

more accise (comparative)
most accise (superlative)


holo-

派生自古希臘語 ὅλος (hólos, “全部”)。


azidoadamantane

叠氮基金刚烷，叠氮金刚烷


amaranthine

amaranth + -ine，源自古希臘語 ἀμάραντος (amárantos, “不變的，不褪色的”)。

amaranthine：


amaranthine

more amaranthine (comparative)
most amaranthine (superlative)


trichloroacetic

三氯乙酸的，和三氯乙酸相关的


deprotonated

more deprotonated (comparative)
most deprotonated (superlative)


IUPAC

“International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry”（国际纯粹与应用化学联合会）的缩写


unsplit

Like it or not, we are in a motor age and we can no more turn back the clock than we can unsplit the atom.

To unsplit the split, click on the View Menu buttons and choose Unsplit Left/Right (v6.2) or Unsplit Main (v6.3).

2012, Lee Lanier, Digital Compositing with Nuke:


ISE

Integrated Synthesis Environment （集成综合环境）的简写


trimethylphosphine

In this work, phosphorous-doped single-walled carbon nanotubes have been synthesized by the thermal decomposition of trimethylphosphine using a high-vacuum chemical vapor deposition method.

2016, Georgina Ruiz-Soria, Toma Susi, Markus Sauer, Kazuhiro Yanagi, Thomas Pichler, Paola Ayala, “On the bonding environment of phosphorus in purified doped single-walled carbon nanotubes”, 出自 Carbon, 第 81 卷，第 91-95 頁s:


trimethylphosphane

三甲基膦（IUPAC名）


electrochemically

Copper acetate can be produced electrochemically.

乙酸铜可以通过电化学方法制得。


actino-

来自古希臘語 ἀκτίς (aktís, “ray”).


-metry

构成名词，表示测量或测量方法


Qur'an

借自阿拉伯語 الْقُرْآن (al-qurʔān)，قُرْآن (qurʔān, “背誦”)的定性，قَرَأَ (qaraʔa, “背誦，朗誦”)的動名詞（帶“al-”的寫法，如the Alcoran，是連同阿拉伯語的定冠詞一起寫入）。對比古典敘利亞語 ܩܪܝܢܐ (qeryānā, “閱讀；經文”)。


Qur'an

古兰经/可蘭經的特定一版。


Quranic

more Quranic (comparative)
most Quranic (superlative)


Qur'anic

more Qur'anic (comparative)
most Qur'anic (superlative)

古兰经的，与古兰经相关的


vulnerably

more vulnerably (comparative)
most vulnerably (superlative)


butylammonium

丁铵，丁基铵，丁胺阳离子


cometh

(古舊) come的第三人稱單數簡單現在時形式


transimidation

转亚氨基作用；亚氨基转移反应


bromochloromethane

* bromo- + chloro- + methane，在英语中，表示取代基的前缀按字母顺序排列。


dimethylammonium

二甲基铵，二甲基铵离子（或盐）


hexacarbonyl

六羰基化物，六羰基化合物


in silico

/ɪn ˈsɪlɪkəʊ/

经电脑模拟；在虚拟现实中


saccadic

more saccadic (comparative)
most saccadic (superlative)


in petto

借自意大利語 in petto (“在胸口”)。

（罗马天主教）被指名为主教而未公布的


in petto

借自意大利語 in petto (“在胸口”)。


skerry

源自設得蘭、奧克尼低地蘇格蘭語 skerry，源自古諾爾斯語 sker (參見丹麥語 skær、書面挪威語 skjær)。

礁，岩，嶼；小型石質島嶼，漲潮時可能被淹沒

The Seal (phoca vitulina, Lin. Syft.) which is here generally known by the name of selchy, is very common on most of our low shores, but particularly on those of the small holms and remote skerries, where it is frequently seen reposing and basking in the sun [...].

1805, George Barry, History of the Orkney Islands，第 322 頁:

Grim the Halogalander's crew sailed along Borgarfjord beyond the skerries, then cast anchor until the storm died down and the weather brightened up.

1997, Bernard Scudder, transl., Egil's Saga, Penguin Books，第 46 頁:

The three men proceeded, with a little difficulty, to scale the skerry, finding Gannets and Guillemots on the upper reaches.

2000, Jeremy Gaskell, Who Killed the Great Auk?, Oxford University Press，第 20 頁:


hexachloroosmate

六氯锇酸盐，六氯合锇酸盐


hexabromoosmate

六溴锇酸盐，六溴合锇酸盐


hexaiodoosmate

六碘锇酸盐，六碘合锇酸盐


talking-to

（又臭又长的）教训，训斥，说教


uranocene

双(环辛四烯)合铀，二(环辛四烯)铀


jùjú

祖祖音乐（一种来自尼日利亚的音乐流派）


Matsu

源自官話馬祖 (Ma³-tsu³)的威妥瑪拼音。

The new port on the Chinese mainland side, which is located in Langqi island, Mawei District, is 23 nautical miles off Matsu island, reducing the original journey by 40 minutes.

新港位於大陸一側的馬尾區瑯岐島，距離馬祖島23海里，（新港的開通）將會使通行時間減少40分鐘。

2019年May18日, “New passenger route links Mawei in Fujian with Matsu island [新航線連接福建馬尾和馬祖島]”, 出自 Mu Xuequan 編, 新華社:


Matsu

源自官話 媽祖／妈祖 (Māzǔ)的威妥瑪拼音。


-ite

在化合物中表示较低氧化态的盐或酯


demeaned

demean的过去时和过去分词形式。


do a runner

does a runner
doing a runner
did a runner
done a runner

（英式，非正式）（急急忙忙地）离开，溜走，跑路


hausse

一种小型枪炮的带刻度瞄准镜


RAR

（计算机）Roshal Archive 之首字母縮略詞，一个专有数据压缩格式。


RAR

（计算机） RAR文件，RAR档案


vernissage

借自法語 vernissage，典故是以前的艺术家有习惯在展会开始前一天给他们的绘画作品上清漆。

/vɛːnɪˈsɑːʒ/

（展会向公众开放前邀请嘉宾前来提前）私下参观


cyclo-

cyclorama, cyclometer

cyclohexane, cyclo-octasulfur


germyl

有机基甲锗烷基（甲锗烷基的有机衍生物）


nav

導航。一般作定語，如nav beacon。


anthraquinonesulfonic

蒽醌磺酸的，和蒽醌磺酸相关的


bromosuccinimide

溴代丁二酰亚胺，溴代琥珀酰亚胺


boryl

（二取代）硼基（R₂B-）


stiba-

* 来自拉丁语stibium（锑）。


singes

singe的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


singed

singe 的過去式和過去分詞


winds

wind的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


synchronized

more synchronized (comparative)
most synchronized (superlative)


constructed

construct 的過去式和過去分詞


my ass

个屁，个毛，才怪（表示否定、不信、不同意，带有厌恶语气）

She'll use my money to buy a new car, my ass!

她能用我的钱去买新车就有鬼了！

You're his brother, my ass! You look nothing alike.

你是个屁的他弟弟！你们根本不像！


my ass

我，我自己（但动词用第三人称）

My ass is tired.

Now I gotta drag my ass to work.


kiss my ass

（表示拒绝对方的请求或要求等）

When he asked me to help him fix the bike, I told him to kiss my ass.

他来找我帮忙修他的单车的时候，我让他哪凉快哪待着去。


even Homer nods

even + Homer + nods (“暂时地不小心或不谨慎”)，暗指贺拉斯的《诗艺》的第359行： indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus（“伟大的荷马打瞌睡时我很不耐烦”）。英文翻译“Homer nods”在亚历山大·蒲柏（1709年）起变为标准，但是是由于约翰·德莱顿（1677年）。


undecafluorodiantimonate

十一氟二锑酸盐，十一氟合二锑酸盐


multidentate

more multidentate (comparative)
most multidentate (superlative)


breaking-and-entering

his breaking-and-entering conviction


culture shock

Having grown up in rural Arkansas, I experienced tremendous culture shock on moving to Harlem.

出生長大在阿肯色州鄉村的我，搬到哈林區之後，深深地感受到了文化衝擊。


BGM

;背景音乐
借自日語 BGM (BGM)，英語 background music的首字母缩写。

（有时用于指与日本作品有关的）背景音乐

Bayesian Graphical Model (“贝叶斯图形模式”)之首字母縮略詞。


émeute

At court, all was uncertainty and gloom ; plots, intrigues, and conspiracies, were the ordinary topics of popular discussion ; and the outburst of some diabolical emeute to subvert the throne, was awaited with anxious apprehension.

1834: George Browning, The Domestic and Financial Condition of Great Britain

Certain rumours of an emeute in Paris had reached the quiet little village of Arques towards the end of July, and on the 28th of the month the report was confirmed by the outbreak of the Revolution.

1841: Frederic Tolfrey, The Sportsman in France

When the foeman bares his steel,
Tarantara! tarantara!
We uncomfortable feel,
Tarantara!
And we find the wisest thing,
Tarantara! Tarantara!
Is to slap our chests and sing
Tarantara!
For when threatened with emeutes,
Tarantara! Tarantara!
And your heart is in your boots,
Tarantara!
There is nothing brings it round,
Like the trumpet's martial sound,
Tarantara! Tarantara! Tarantara!

1879: W. S. Gilbert: The Pirates of Penzance


dead heat

（赛跑等比赛中）同时到达终点，并列排名

Just as Hank had predicted, we had reached the work site in a dead heat with gray dawn.

1964, Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion


photo finish

（赛跑等速度比赛中因为成绩太相近）需靠照片定名次的结果


smol

small的视觉方言形式。

smoler (comparative)
smolest (superlative)

Smol doggos with cute messy hair from the rain.

2017, "Nope/Dope", The Rocky Mountain Collegian, 28 September 2017, page 8:

However, our penchant for smol puppers means lots more people are breeding these so-called teacup dogs.

2018, Jessica Lindsay, "Meet Otis-Woody, the dog gunning for the record of smallest pug in the UK", Metro, 26 June 2018:

A baby octopus the size of a pea was hitchhiking on a piece of plastic floating in the Pacific Ocean when Hawaiian researchers spotted it and scooped up the smol, smol cephalopod.

2018 October 25, Mindy Weisberger, “Ridiculously Tiny Baby Octopus Riding Ocean Trash Is So, So Smol”, Live Science:


brownie point

不详，但可能源自brownnose，且常与女童子军中的幼女级别（6到8岁）做某些任务得到的分数关联起来，这些分数可用来兑换别在童子军制服上奖章。在20世纪60年代造出。

（常指拍马屁得到的）表扬，赞赏，肯定，好印象

You're really going to get some brownie points from the teacher for that fantastic essay!

你写的这篇优秀的论文肯定会让老师表扬你。

However, you get Brownie points for having spelled my names right—all of them, and the first time too!

1967 November, Harriette Bailey Conn, “Women legislators”, 出自 Ebony，第 14 頁:


disodium

二钠（化合物中的两个钠原子或钠离子）


tribocharged

tribocharge的过去时和过去分词形式


repassage

（给未磨光的平面）重新上胶水


démodé

借自法語 démodé。

more démodé (comparative)
most démodé (superlative)


dullahan

愛爾蘭語 dulachán，源自dubh (“黑的”) + 另一个词（对比lucharachán (“妖精，矮人”)），可能原为一个形容褐色皮肤或不高兴的人的词（对比姓氏Dullahan），后面这个词只用来形容幽灵。

无头骑士，杜拉汉（爱尔兰民间传说中一名手提着自己的头的骑士，传说其停下马步或说出某人的名字时就会有人死亡）(又叫Gan Ceann，“无头者”的爱尔兰语。)

The dullahans always came in a mist. But Devin wasn't afraid of dullahans. If he saw one, he would club it over the head. But then Devin remembered that dullahans didn't have heads. He grasped his stick a little tighter in his hand, […]

1990, Elona Malterre, The Last Wolf of Ireland, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (ISBN 9780395543818), page 3:

“A dullahan,” both Phelan and Coriel whispered. Coriel looked her square in the eye, “You did remember the gold, right?” ML blushed, “No, I didn't. I was so scared I just started running.” “Then how did you escape?” “My pocket tore on a bush. […] “You're lucky you're not dead anyway. The dullahan could have stopped or spoken your name, or both.”

2008, Jessica Borchardt, A Fairy Yarn (ISBN 9781469102535), page 53:

There is no way to bar the road against a dullahan. All locks and gates open on their own when it approaches. Dullahans do not appreciate being watched while on their errands, throwing a basin of blood on those who dare to do so […]

2014, Tony Locke, Mayo Folk Tales, The History Press (ISBN 9780750961141):

But the values of a fairy manifested into physical form in this city—a dullahan.” Celty Sturluson was not a human being. Celty was a type of fairy known as a dullahan that appeared to those close to death, signaling their impending demise.

2015, Ryohgo Narita, Durarara, volume 1 (Yen Press LLC, ISBN 9780316304825):

Because she is a dullahan, her head is not connected to her body—it's held in place by her gear.

2017, Kugane Maruyama, Satoshi Oshio, Overlord, volume 4 (Yen Press LLC, ISBN 9780316517430):


slower

slow 的比較級形式。


slower

slow 的比較級形式。


auric

和三价金（Auᴵᴵᴵ）相关的，三价金的


uptaken

uptake 的過去時分詞


relied

rely 的過去式和過去分詞


deuterated

more deuterated (comparative)
most deuterated (superlative)


deuterated

deuterate 的過去式和過去分詞


reminded

remind 的過去式和過去分詞


recalled

recall 的過去式和過去分詞


coined

coin 的過去式和過去分詞


unacceptably

more unacceptably (comparative)
most unacceptably (superlative)


spun

spin 的過去式和過去分詞


WDYM

what do you mean? (“你是什么意思？”)之首字母縮略詞。


wdym

WDYM的大小寫替代形式。


spatiotemporal

more spatiotemporal (comparative)
most spatiotemporal (superlative)


elucidated

elucidate 的過去式和過去分詞


schmooze

借自意第緒語 שמועס (shmues)，源自希伯來語 שְׁמוּעוֹת (sh'mu'ót)，שְׁמוּעָה (sh'mu'á, “报告，消息，流言”)的复数形式。

I wish he could do his job as well as he schmoozes with the boss.

我真希望他干活时能像他和老板吹牛时一样熟练。


methoxylated

more methoxylated (comparative)
most methoxylated (superlative)


toi, toi, toi

源自德語 toi, toi, toi，详见该词条。

/tɔɪ tɔɪ tɔɪ/

break a leg

加油！祝你好运！ （演出前鼓励演员的一种迷信用词。）

good luck

用于演出时会被认为是不祥的说法

加油！祝你好运！ （演出前鼓励演员的一种迷信用词。）

加油！祝你好运！ （演出前鼓励演员的一种迷信用词。）


spare the rod and spoil the child

字面意思为“省了棍子，惯坏了孩子”。
广泛认为源自：
* 钦定版圣经，《箴言》，13:24
*: “He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.”
由于“惯坏”这个概念不存在于《圣经》内，其可能源自：
* 塞缪尔·巴特勒于17世纪所作的一首叫做《Hudibras》的诗歌。诗人在诗中将爱情比作孩子，而打屁股被笑称为可以让爱情更加强大。诗歌原文为：
*: “What medicine else can cure the fits
*: Of lovers when they lose their wits?
*: Love is a boy by poets styled
*: Then spare the rod and spoil the child.”

小孩不打不成器；玉不琢不成器；棍棒底下出孝子


car park

/ˈkɑɹ ˌpɑːɹk/


carpark

car park的另一種拼寫法


eviscerate

源自拉丁語 ēviscerātus，ēviscerāre (“除去...的内脏”)的过去分词，源自e- (“出去”) + viscera (“肠子”)。

/ɪˈvɪsəˌɹeɪt/

摧毁，粉碎；使...徒劳，使...白费

移除，切除（脏器或其内容物）


rendre

render的古旧形式。


smoothed

smooth 的過去式和過去分詞


tall tale

He returned on Monday with a tall tale about a 100-pound fish he had caught.

他周一回来就在吹牛他钓到一条100磅的鱼。


methought

methinks 的過去式和過去分詞

And then methought my dream changed, and two Great Giants with heading-axes came striding over the bed, […]

1862 February, George Augustus [Henry] Sala, “The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous; a Narrative in Plain English, […] Chapter the Fourth. My Grandmother Dies, and I am Left Alone, without So Much as a Name.”, 出自 George Augustus Sala 編, Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers, 第 IV 卷, London: Office of "Temple Bar," 122 Fleet Street; Ward and Lock, 158 Fleet Street; New York, N.Y.: Willmer and Rogers, →OCLC，第 304 頁:


futanari

日語 二形/双成り/二成り/ふたなり (futanari)，“雌雄同体”，源自二つ (futa-tsu) + 形/態 (nari)，源自なる (naru, “成为”)。


sitting duck

For God's sake, Sergeant, we need to get to cover – we're sitting ducks out here.

天啊，中士，我们得找掩体，我们在这里就是活靶子。


ethereal

源自拉丁語 aetherius (“与天空、高空有关的”)，源自古希臘語 αἰθέριος (aithérios, “与高空有关的”)。可作ether + -ial分析。

more ethereal (comparative)
most ethereal (superlative)

/ɪˈθɪə.ɹɪ.əl/

/ɪˈθɪɚ.i.əl/

ethereous

缥缈的，纤薄的，轻飘飘的

delicate

缥缈的，纤薄的，轻飘飘的

light

缥缈的，纤薄的，轻飘飘的

ethereal space

ethereal regions

Since to part, / Go heavenly Gueſt, Ethereal Meſſenger, / Sent from whoſe ſovran goodneſs I adore.

既然要启程离开，就请上路，天上的客人，太空中的信使，接受派遣，来自我所崇拜的至善的上帝。

1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, 出自 Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; 再版為 Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC，第 1282–1284 行s:

The fanciful fables of fairy land are but allegories of the young poet's mind when the sweet spell is upon him. Some slight thing calls up the visionary world, and all the outward and actual is for the time forgotten. It is a fever ethereal and lovely; but, like all other fevers, leaving behind weakness and exhaustion.

1837, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ethel Churchill, 第 2 卷，第 25–26 頁s:

I trust that we shall be more imaginative, that our thoughts will be clearer, fresher, and more ethereal, as our sky,[…]

1862, Henry David Thoreau, “Walking”, 出自 The Atlantic Monthly, 第 9 卷, 第 56 期:

She was very young—at the most nineteen, with a pale somewhat refined face, yellow hair, merry blue eyes, and shining teeth. Her beauty was of an ethereal type.

1885, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Man 源自Archangel:

缥缈的，纤薄的，轻飘飘的

Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius developes itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!

1834, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Francesca Carrara, 第 1 卷，第 3 頁:

an ethereal solution


vertue

virtue的已棄用拼寫


remercies

remercy的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


cross-examination

盘问，诘问（法庭上对对方提出的证据进行质问）

When Horsley finished his testimony, Richardson began the cross-examination, which was to last for twenty-six hours over the course of an entire week.

1999, Patrick J. Gallo, The American Paradox: Politics and Justice，第 62 頁:


non-fungible token

How do you know if you need a fungible or non-fungible token for your use case?

2020年October9日, Jamiel Sheikh, Mastering Corda, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN，第 298 頁:


cryptocurrency

Bitcoin was the first decentralized cryptocurrency.

Then there is bitcoin, the cryptocurrency that has been skyrocketing in value lately. Bitcoin is basically virtual cash — anonymous, untraceable currency stuffed into a mobile wallet.

2013年November17日, Nick Bilton, “Disruptions: A Digital Underworld Cloaked in Anonymity”, 出自 New York Times:


sulfates

sulfate的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


tubes

tube的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


brushes

brush的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


crosses

cross的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


zethrene

一种有机化合物，IUPAC命名为二苯并[de,mn]并四苯


abstracts

abstract的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


selectively

more selectively (comparative)
most selectively (superlative)


untrusted

more untrusted (comparative)
most untrusted (superlative)


conjugated

more conjugated (comparative)
most conjugated (superlative)


conjugated

conjugate 的過去式和過去分詞


resulted

result 的過去式和過去分詞


remembered

remember 的過去式和過去分詞


colibactin

一种由肠杆菌代谢产生的毒素


urbanized

urbanize 的過去式和過去分詞


visiting

Come, you spirits […] make thick my blood, / Stop up th' access and passage to remorse / That no compunctious visitings of nature / Shake my fell purpose […]

Instead, he found the Sabbath in North Carolina "generally disregarded, or distinguished by the convivial visitings of the white inhabitants, and the noisy diversions of the negroes."

2003, Joseph A. Conforti, Imagining New England (page 107)


telly

I'm staying at the telly this weekend.


Malayalam

借自馬拉雅拉姆語 മലയാളം (malayāḷaṃ)，源自മല (mala, “丘陵，山”) + അളം (aḷaṃ, “地点”)。

Padmanabhan uttered a command in Malayalam, the regional language.
帕德馬納班用當地語言馬拉雅拉姆語命令道。

2012, Jake Halpern, "The Secret of the Temple", The New Yorker, 30 Apr 2012:


handled

handle 的過去式和過去分詞


regular script

仿譯源自漢語 楷書／楷书 (kǎishū)。


Đà Nẵng

借自越南語 Đà Nẵng。

峴港（城市名，位於越南）。


denoted

denote 的過去式和過去分詞


detonated

detonate 的過去式和過去分詞


glued

glue 的過去式和過去分詞


published

publish 的過去式和過去分詞


focused

focus 的過去式和過去分詞


enlarged

/ɪnˈlɑːd͡ʒd/

/ɪnˈlɑɹd͡ʒd/

enlarge 的過去式和過去分詞


panicked

panic 的過去式和過去分詞


panicked

more panicked (comparative)
most panicked (superlative)


vlog

發佈（內容）到視頻博客上


unplugged

unplug 的過去式和過去分詞


boundance

* 大約用于1400年到1500年间。
* 词首的a因被误认为是不定冠詞而被故意刪除。


adhære

adhere的已棄用拼寫


advantageously

more advantageously (comparative)
most advantageously (superlative)


patienter

patient 的比較級形式。


memorie

memory的已棄用拼寫


looks up

look up的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


uplooks

uplook的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


look up

search

追踪或搜索（過去認識的人）

track down

追踪或搜索（過去認識的人）

Things started looking up after Jim moved back in with his parents.

吉姆搬回父母家後，情況開始好轉。

I didn't know what a mitochondrion was until I looked it up in a dictionary.

在查字典之前，我不知道線粒體是什麼。

追踪或搜索（過去認識的人）

仅按字面意思，并无比喻或俗语义；参见look、up。

We stayed up late to look up at the stars.


get better

gets better
getting better
got better
got better
gotten better


get the better of

gets the better of
getting the better of
got the better of
got the better of
gotten the better of

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/en-au-get the better of.ogg

He got the better of him early in the match, but ended up losing.

他在比賽初期就取得了优势，但最終还是輸了。


get the best of

gets the best of
getting the best of
got the best of
got the best of
gotten the best of


ennuyé

借自法語 ennuyé。

more ennuyé (comparative)
most ennuyé (superlative)

Upon my entrance, Usher arose from a sofa on which he had been lying at full length, and greeted me with a vivacious warmth which had much in it, I at first thought, of an overdone cordiality—of the constrained effort of the ennuyé man of the world.

1839, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’:

You must open your doors to your friend at all hours; if when inside it suit him to sing, sing he will; and until you learn solitude in a crowd, or the art of concentration, you are apt to become ennuyé and irritable.

1856, Richard F. Burton, First Footsteps in East Africa, Könemann 2000, p. 49:


dissimule

(我們能否查找並添加Chaucer引用過本詞的語句？)


deserts

On the inspector of the constabulary informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts.

1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery:


deserts

desert的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


Ltd.

limited liability company (“有限责任公司”)之縮寫。


solus

源自拉丁語 sōlus。

（舞台上）獨自的，單獨的


sortes

源自拉丁語 sors (“命运，神谕”)的复数。

通过任意翻抽《圣经》等典籍的书页来占卜的一种方法


sporadical

more sporadical (comparative)
most sporadical (superlative)


feat.

尤用於音樂，表示共同演出。

At his peak, just how many music videos was Hype Williams directing? […] "California Love (Version 2: Mad Max)" by Tupac Shakur feat. Dr. Dre […] "If I Ruled The World (Imagine That)" by Nas feat. Lauryn Hill […]


Furongian

芙蓉世的，与芙蓉世有关的


no can do

源自洋涇浜英語，仿译自漢語 不能做 (bùnéng zuò)。

Tony Stark: If Thanos needs all six, why don't we just stick this one down a garbage disposal?
Doctor Strange: No can do.
Wong: We swore an oath to protect the Time Stone with our lives.

2018, 复仇者联盟3：无限之战:


gorgonzola

源自意大利語 Gorgonzola，意大利北部的一个镇，这种奶酪起源于此。


drills

drill的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


drilled

drill 的過去式和過去分詞


junks

junk的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


roofed

roof 的過去式和過去分詞


votes

vote的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


voted

vote 的過去式和過去分詞


scotch

源自中古英語 scocchen (“剪切”)，可能源自盎格魯-諾曼語 escocher (“砍，切”)，源自es- (程度加强前缀)（源自拉丁語 ex-）+ 古法語 coche (“切”)。与Scotch无关。

（防止轮子等物移动的）阻挡物

He was like the scotch in the smooth, happy machinery of the home. And he was always aware of this fall of silence on his entry, the shutting off of life, the unwelcome.

1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 4

a scotch for a wheel or a log on inclined ground


scotch

We have scotched the snake, not killed it.

c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, 出自 Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, 出版於 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

The rain scotched his plans of going to the beach.

下雨让他去海滩的计划泡汤了。

The prime minister scotched rumors of his resignation.

首相否认了他要辞职的传言。

The workers stopped the rig on an incline and scotched the wheels.

The pantechnicon was running away. It had perceived the wrath to come and was fleeing. Its guardians had evidently left it imperfectly scotched or braked, and it had got loose.

1911, Arnold Bennett, The Card: A Story of Adventure in the Five Towns, London: Methuen Publishing, OCLC 492063506; republished Toronto, Ont.: William Briggs, 1910s, OCLC 225424669, page 69:


scotch

more scotch (comparative)
most scotch (superlative)

Scotch (“苏格兰的”)的另一種寫法


scotch

Scotch (“苏格兰威士忌”)的另一種寫法

A waiter brought his aperitif, which was a small scotch and soda, and as he sipped it gratefully he sighed.

1963, Margery Allingham, 章號 5, 出自 The China Governess:


fait accompli

借自法語 fait accompli (“已达成的事实”)，源自fait (“事实”) + accompli (“已达成的”)。

Mr. Quiverful's appointment to the hospital was, however, a fait accompli, and Mr. Harding's acquiescence in that appointment was not less so.

1906, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, Chapter XLVII. The Dean Elect

“In quarters where the fait accompli is an object of solicitude,” said Yeovil.

1913, Saki, When William Came, Chapter VII


sussy

more sussy (comparative)
most sussy (superlative)

Brit Suspicious; suspected.

2008, The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang (2 ed.):


hold water

可能源自耶利米书 2:13的詹姆士王译本：For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

At the parlay, Tyrion also tries to claim Tywin’s murder was self-defense, which holds some water, and despite Jaime’s anger, I suspect he can see it from that side.

2017年August13日, Brandon Nowalk, “Oldtown offers one last game-changing secret as Game Of Thrones goes behind enemy lines (newbies)”, 出自 The Onion AV Club:

"Young man," he said, "upon this point I can only say that your story is grossly improbable. It won't hold water."

1888, Horatio Alger, The Errand Boy, ch. 35:


SDF

(Japanese) Self-Defence Force(s) (“（日本）自卫队”)之首字母縮略詞。

Syrian Democratic Forces (“叙利亚民主力量”)之首字母縮略詞。


run amok

runs amok
running amok
ran amok
run amok


run amuck

runs amuck
running amuck
ran amuck
run amuck


stabilises

stabilise的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


Ōyamatsumi

借自日語 大山祇 (おおやまつみ, Ōyamatsumi)。

Ōyamatsumi-no-Mikoto

大山津見，日本神話中的山神

大山津見，日本神話中的山神


Ohoyamatsumi

日語 おほやまつみ (Ohoyamatsumi)的罗马化，大山祇 (おおやまつみ, Ōyamatsumi)的歷史平假名读音。


'umra

借自阿拉伯語 عُمْرَة (ʕumra)。

副朝覲，伊斯蘭教穆斯林朝覲聖城麥加的一種，可在一年中的任何其他時間進行


śarīra

借自梵語 शरीर (śarīra, “身體”)。


ab urbe condita

借自拉丁語 ab Urbe conditā (“從[羅馬]城建成之日起”)。

自罗马城建立之时（公元前753年）算起；AUC的另一種寫法


-or

構成名詞，表示“……人”“……者”“……物”“……機”“……器”。

構成名詞，表示狀態、性質。


-ance

繼承自中古英語 -aunce, -ance，派生自盎格魯-諾曼語 -aunce 和大陸古法語 -ance，派生自拉丁語 -antia, -entia。

加在形容詞或動詞後以形成名詞，表示與動詞相關的狀態或條件，例如結果或能力

ally + -ance → alliance

perform + -ance → performance

reluctant + -ance → reluctance

加在動詞後，以形成表示過程或動作的名詞

appear + -ance → appearance

resist + -ance → resistance


-rence

源於-ence附著在某些以r結尾的詞之後。


-rupt

來自拉丁語 rumpere 的過去分詞。


-ee

源自盎格魯-諾曼語和古法語 -ee、法語 -é、-ée，构成以-er结尾的动词的过去分词的后缀。-ate 的同源對似詞。

-ed

添加至及物动词后表示该动词的接受者，受动者。

-er

添加至及物动词后表示该动词的接受者，受动者。

-or

用于构成表示合同或其他交易的另一方，与以-or结尾的一方相对。

添加至及物动词后表示该动词的接受者，受动者。

examine (“检查”) + -ee → examinee (“受检者，考生”)

interview (“采访，面试”) + -ee → interviewee (“被采访人，面试者”)

train (“训练”) + -ee → trainee (“受训者”)

employ (“雇用”) + -ee → employee (“雇员，员工”)

较少见情况下，添加至不及物动词后，表示该动作的执行者，尤其强调其被动意。

absent (“缺席”) + -ee → absentee (“缺席者”)

respond (“应答”) + -ee → respondee (“应答者”)

stand (“站立”) + -ee → standee

用于构成表示合同或其他交易的另一方，与以-or结尾的一方相对。

assign + -ee → assignee (“受托人”)

legate + -ee → legatee (“遗产继承者”)

mortgage (“抵押”) + -ee → mortgagee (“受押人”)

用于构成表示经历了某种医学过程的人的名词。

laryngectomy (“喉头切除术”) + -ee → laryngectomee (“喉头切除患者”)

不规则地添加至名词后，表示与该名词有某种联系。

barge (“驳船”) + -ee → bargee

tender (“招标”) + -ee → tenderee (“招标人”)

venereal (“性病”) + -ee → venerealee (“（弃用）性病患者”)


-ee

或为-ie和-y的变换形式

boot + -ee → bootee

goat + -ee → goatee


-ee

或为-ie和-y的变换形式

用于贬义性地模仿中文的刻板印象发音。

"No stealee. You no thinkee? Chinaman no thinkee stealee!" he said, earnestly.

1897, The Outlook, volume 56, page 1044:

A Chinaman had a toothache, and phoned a dentist for an appointment. Doctor: "Two-thirty all right?" Chinaman: "Yes, tooth hurtee, all light. What time I come?"

1938, Minnesota Journal of Education, volume 19, page 52:


allow for

The problem is that they didn't allow for the extra centimetre of overlap, so it didn't fit correctly.

问题是他们没有将重叠部分多出来的厘米计算在内，所以它不合适。


touch up

Use a small brush to touch up the paint anywhere it is uneven.

用小刷子来小修一下油漆上不均匀的地方。

The creep was trying to touch up my girlfriend.

那个变态想猥亵我的女朋友。


grapes of wrath

出自《啟示錄》，字面意为“愤怒的葡萄”。

復仇即將來臨的象徵，尤指最後的審判。


finders, keepers; losers, weepers

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/en-au-finders, keepers; losers, weepers.ogg


epiphany

源自中古英語 epiphanie，源自古法語 epyphanie，源自晚期拉丁語 epiphania，源自古希臘語 ἐπιφάνεια (epipháneia, “展示，突现”)，源自ἐπιφαίνω (epiphaínō, “出现，展示”)，源自ἐπί (epí, “之上”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “发光；出现”)。英语中Epiphany（基督教用法）自14世纪起有使用，一般用法出现于17世纪。

theophany

（神仙，超人等）降临，下凡，登场，显现

It came to her in an epiphany what her life's work was to be.

她一下子想明白了她这一生要做什么。

Instead of examining institutions and classes, structures of economic production and social control, one had to think about “moments”—moments of love, hate, poetry, frustration, action, surrender, delight, humiliation, justice, cruelty, resignation, surprise, disgust, resentment, self-loathing, pity, fury, peace of mind—those tiny epiphanies, Lefebvre said, in which the absolute possibilities and temporal limits of anyone's existence were revealed.

1989, Greil Marcus, Lipstick Traces, Faber & Faber, 出版於 2009:

But after spending most of my pocket money to get those developed, I had an epiphany: I was never going to be a professional photographer. My pictures were god-awful. I put the camera away.

2013, Chris Hadfield, 章號 11, 出自 An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN:

（神仙，超人等）降临，下凡，登场，显现

Epiphany的大小寫替代形式。


run for it

runs for it
running for it
ran for it
run for it

Quick! We'd better run for it! Someone is coming.

快！有人来了，我们得赶紧溜！

`Run for it!' I shouted, setting the example by starting up the cave as hard as my legs would carry me.

1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure:


-graphy

源自法語 -graphie，继承自拉丁語 -graphia，源自古希臘語 γράφω (gráphō)。

表示以某种具体方式展现的关于某种主题的物品。


stage fright

I did some guest-speaking at the middle school last year, and I experienced some stage fright before and during my first presentation.

我去年在中学作为嘉宾发言了，我的第一次演讲前和那期间都有点怯场。


-ane

饱和二元氢化物（如烷烃）的后缀


-ene

含有双键的不饱和氢化物（如烯烃、芳香烃等）的后缀


-yne

含有三键的不饱和氢化物（如炔烃、芳炔等）的后缀


out of the blue

略自out of the clear blue sky，将出乎意料的事比喻为天上突然掉下东西。

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

After I hadn’t heard from her in six months, she called me out of the blue to meet for lunch.

我和她没联系6个月后，她突然叫我一起去吃午餐。

I really can't understand how something like this could simply pop up out of the blue

我实在没法理解为什么这种东西能突然出现。


rigor mortis

*来自拉丁語 rigor mortis，字面意思“死亡的僵硬”

Then we carried in poor Austin from the yard. His muscles were set as hard as a board in the most exaggerated rigor mortis, while the contraction of the fibres had drawn his mouth into a hard sardonic grin.

1913, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Poison Belt:


stoat

（1400年代中期），源自中古英語 stote (“貂，夏天棕色皮毛的”)，来源不详。该单词和古諾爾斯語 stutr (“公牛”)、瑞典語 stut (“公牛”)和丹麥語 stud (“阉公牛”)（另见英語 stot）有点类似，但难以将它们的语义关联起来，除非它们共有一个来源“（棕色？）雄性哺乳动物”。

I have never seen Stoats hunt in packs, but it is certain both Weasels and Stoats do so.

1886, Transactions of the Edinburgh Naturalists' Field Club, 第 1 卷，第 135 頁:

In 1953 it was reported that the stoat had increased to a high population level, but that the weasel introduced at the same time had disappeared (de Vos et al. 1956).

2003, John Long, Introduced Mammals of the World: Their History, Distribution and Influence，第 272 頁:

European stoats were long ago introduced to New Zealand (along with ferrets and weasels!) in the mistaken belief that they would control the burgeoning populations of introduced rabbits.

2005, T. C. R. White, Why Does the World Stay Green?: Nutrition and Survival of Plant-eaters，第 91 頁:


strafe

源自德語 strafe (“惩罚”)（strafen的变位形式），源自“Gott strafe England”（“上帝惩罚英格兰！”）等英国人在第一次世界大战期间见到的短语。

（不转视角而）向侧面移动，侧步（很多第一人称射击游戏的一项技巧）

If the NPC is close to the player, he may also try using the tried-and-true Quake circle-strafing technique.

2001, Jana Hallford, Swords and circuitry: a designer's guide to computer role playing games:

A strafe is a side-to-side camera movement. If you're a fan of first-person shooter games, you know how fundamental strafing can be to a game.

2007, Stephen Cawood, Pat McGee, Microsoft XNA Game Studio Creator's Guide:


strafe

We also have added a new game control called the "defensive strafe," in which the user can press a button and stay facing forward.

2004, Marc Saltzman, Game Creation and Careers: Insider Secrets from Industry Experts:


humblebrag

humble + brag，由Harris Wittels（1984年–2015年）所造，于2010年在推特上发表。

/ˈhʌmbl̩ˌbɹæɡ/

意在自夸的谦虚 （自2010年）


humblebrag

/ˈhʌmbl̩ˌbɹæɡ/


TMI

too much information (“你说的太多了；谁想听”)之首字母縮略詞。

He began to talk about his last trip to the underwear store. I told him, TMI!

他开始说道他上次去内裤店的事。我说别说那么私密的事情！

TMI, as the youthful txters say? Too Much Information?

2008年November12日, Alex Beam, “Thank you for oversharing”, 出自 The New York Times, →ISSN:

Temperature, Magenta/Green levels, and Intensity之首字母縮略詞。

同類詞：TLI、MTO、LTO、GTO、GEO、GSO


too much information

首次由《华尔街日报》前记者Joseph Checkler在约1988年缩写为“TMI”。但到了20世纪90年代末才经由网络社群普及。参见TMI。

TMI

表示某人说到了太私密的话题导致听话人不适：太私密了你别说了。；谁想听你说这些。

表示某人说到了太私密的话题导致听话人不适：太私密了你别说了。；谁想听你说这些。

暗指接下来的话可能有“比你想听的更多的事”，如果已经前面的简单回答已经够了就不必再看下面的话。


Mary Sue

源自《星际迷航》二创小说《A Trekkie's Tale》（Paula Smith著）中一个被作者故意写得很优秀的角色的名字。

Bella may be a Mary Sue, but if we don't identify with her, and even if we do, there's no other interpretive place for us in the universe.

2010年August3日, Ta-Nehisi Coates, “A Whole New World”, 出自 The Atlantic:

She was a mashup of ideals that made her feel very fake; a Mary Sue who was popular, pretty, athletic, artistic, all the while loved by everyone who met her.

2015年January20日, Sian Cain, “Why a non-white Nancy Drew could be amazing”, 出自 The Guardian:

So here's a radical suggestion: instead of being concerned about whether her Mary Sue flawlessness is a problem, why not, just this once, enjoy it for what it is?

2015年December19日, Tasha Robinson, “With Star Wars' Rey, we've reached Peak Strong Female Character”, 出自 The Verge:


'twas

’Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, / […]

’Twas the night before Christmas, […]

1823, perhaps Clement Clarke Moore, “A Visit from St. Nicholas”:

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; / […]

1871, Lewis Carroll, “Jabberwocky”, in Through the Looking-Glass:

'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.

1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, 章號 1, 出自 Mr. Pratt's Patients:

’Twas the first of many feats so great,
A legend through and through. We sing of him,
Artorigus, the Noble and the brave.

2012年May8日, “Noble Knight Artorigus”, 出自 Galactic Overlord, Konami:


metaverse

meta- + (uni)verse。科幻义项由作家Neal Stephenson在1992造出。

It is closer, in other words, to another science fiction vision, the “metaverse” Neal Stephenson envisioned in his 1992 Snow Crash. That particular moniker has not caught on, but many of Stephenson's ideas about what the on-line world can look like are driving a new generation of entrepreneurs to try to match it.

1997年July7日, Zina Moukheiber, “The geeks have inherited the earth”, 出自 Forbes, →ISSN，第 354–356 頁s:

But now, with 350 million players who are used to hanging out in a vibrant, ridiculous online world filled with dancing bananas and cartoon skirmishes, Party Royale could be the experience that finally realises the idea of a playful, mass participation online metaverse.

2020年May15日, Keith Stuart, “Fortnite Party Royale is the most fun you can have in the metaverse”, 出自 The Guardian:

Video games like Roblox and Fortnite and Animal Crossing: New Horizons, in which players can build their own worlds, have metaverse tendencies, as does most social media. If you own a non-fungible token or even just some crypto, you’re part of the metaversal experience. Virtual and augmented reality are, at a minimum, metaverse adjacent.

2021年July10日, John Herrman, Kellen Browning, “Are We in the Metaverse Yet?”, 出自 The New York Times, →ISSN:

In the world of Snow Crash, the metaverse is not viewed as particularly cool—it is necessary, because the real world has become so unbearable.

2021年July30日, Brian Merchant, “The Metaverse Has Always Been a Dystopian Idea”, 出自 VICE:

A single-cycle universe comes to eternal rest. But further instabilities in the virtual energy domain may occur, and some of these may be potent enough to create new universes. The thesis of a metaverse giving rise to local universes is cogent, […]

2003, Ervin Laszlo, The Connectivity Hypothesis, page 108:


other-worldly

more other-worldly (comparative)
most other-worldly (superlative)

In Just My Type: A Book about Fonts (2010) Simon Garfield describes Johnston as 'a gaunt fine-boned man with a full moustache', and there's a picture of him at work with a quill pen that makes him look as other-worldly as a medieval sprite.

2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, ISBN 978-1846684777，第 160 頁:


otome game

The otome games are marketed heavily toward female gamers, something generally uncommon with video game marketing. As of this writing, several game developers have invested in localizing otome games originally released only in Japan into English.

2017, Amy M. Green, Matthew Wilhelm Kapell, Storytelling in Video Games: The Art of the Digital Narrative


thy

源自中古英語 þi，þin的无语尾音节变体，源自古英語 þīn，源自原始西日耳曼語 *þīn，源自原始日耳曼語 *þīnaz，源自原始印歐語 *téynos (“你的”)，源自原始印歐語 *túh₂ (“你”, 主格)。参见thou。

thou的所有格形式：你的，汝的（第二人称单数）


thy

僅用於for thy、for-thy，其为forthy (“因为”)的另一種寫法。

For-thy it round and hollow shaped was, Like to the world itselfe, and seem'd aworld of glass.

1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:

Wallace knew well the Englishmen would flee, For thy he thrusted in the thickest to be, Hewing full fast on whomsoever he fought, Against his dint fine steel availed nought.

1713, Robert Sanders (translator), The Life and Acts of Sir William Wallace:

For thy it bring: us nearer to the Godhead is nonsense, Daya, if not blasphemy.

1791, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, William TAYLOR (of Norwich.), Nathan the Wise. A dramatic poem，第 24 頁:


éclat

借自法語 éclat，源自éclater (“迸发”)，源自中古法語 esclater (“毁坏”)，源自古法語 esclater (“从...分离”)（亦派生为古法語 esclat），源自古法蘭克語 *slaitan (“分开，毁坏”)，源自原始日耳曼語 *slaitijaną，*slītaną (“切碎”)的使役形。与古高地德語 sleizan (“撕碎”)、古英語 slītan (“分片”)有关。详见slice、slit。slate 的同源對似詞。

The distressing explanation she had to make to Harriet, and all that poor Harriet would be suffering, with the awkwardness of future meetings, the difficulties of continuing or discontinuing the acquaintance, of subduing feelings, concealing resentment, and avoiding éclat, were enough to occupy her in most unmirthful reflections some time longer, and she went to bed at last with nothing settled but the conviction of her having blundered most dreadfully.

1815, Jane Austen, Emma, 第 I 卷, chapter 16:

"All she needs is a year or two at a fashionable finishing school, so that at eighteen she can come out with éclat," put in Aunt Clara.

1875, Louisa May Alcott, Eight Cousins, ch. 4,

Against this background, made mutable by T. J. Gerckens's ethereal lighting, simple props and gestures are used with startling visual éclat.

2002, Ben Brantley, "Theater Review," New York Times, 5 Mar., p. E1,


pull a fast one

pulls a fast one
pulling a fast one
pulled a fast one

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-pull a fast one.ogg

This isn't worth anything like what you paid them. I think they pulled a fast one on you.

这才不值你给他们的那么多钱，我觉得你被他们骗了。

President Bush today made his most aggressive assault yet on Gov. Bill Clinton, asserting that the Democratic nominee would "pull a fast one on the American people" and raise taxes by hundreds of billions of dollars.

1992年August7日, Andrew Rosenthal, “The 1992 Campaign: Bush Says Rival Would ‘Pull a Fast One’ Over Taxes”, 出自 New York Times, retrieved 2017-11-03:

The man known as Chainsaw Al pulled a fast one last week, buying three companies when everyone assumed he would be selling his own.

1998年March16日, Daniel Kadlec, “Is That You, Al Dunlap?”, 出自 Time, retrieved 2017-11-03:

7. Claimants are pulling a fast one. No. Less than 1% of the welfare budget is lost to fraud.

2013年April2日, Ricky Tomlinson, “10 lies we're told about welfare”, 出自 The Guardian, retrieved 2017-11-03:

But then came Jan. 6, when I watched my Ivy League-educated senator, Ted Cruz, try to pull yet another fast one on the American people as he fought — not long before the certification process was disrupted by a mob of Trump supporters storming the Capitol and forcing their way into the Senate chamber — to challenge the election results.

2021年January11日, Mimi Swartz, “Never Forget What Ted Cruz Did”, 出自 The New York Times, →ISSN:


noogie

未知，可能源自意第緒語 נודזשען (nudzhen, “烦扰”)或可能源自希伯來語 נוגות (nugot, “折磨”)（参见耶利米哀歌1:3）或可能经由nudge的一个变换形式，类比wedge变成wedgie的过程。

夹头并用指头戳人的头顶（常为了开玩笑）

Marti Page: Mom, is Grandpa Walter going to give me noogies? Susan Page: Of course he's going to give you noogies. He loves giving you noogies. That's how he tells you he loves you. Little Neal Page: Why doesn't he give me noogies? Susan Page: Because you get Indian burns. Little Neal Page: But I prefer noogies.

1987, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, 00:06:15

Phil then proceeds to give Harry a noogie
HARRY: HEY! WATCH THE HAIR!! THIS SHIRT GIVES!!! ALL RIGHT!!!!"

1991, shooting script of Columbia Pictures My Girl Script, see also My Girl (film)。


noogie

夹头并用指头戳...的头顶（常为了开玩笑）


tbsp

tablespoon (“一汤匙”)之縮寫。 （计量单位）


put a sock in it

可能源自一种捂住电唱机音响的粗暴方法。

puts a sock in it
putting a sock in it
put a sock in it

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-put a sock in it.ogg

He went on and on until I finally told him to put a sock in it.

他滔滔不绝没完没了，一直到我叫他住嘴。


stick a sock in it

sticks a sock in it
sticking a sock in it
stuck a sock in it


stuff a sock in it

stuffs a sock in it
stuffing a sock in it
stuffed a sock in it


smithereen

/smɪðəˈɹiːn/

/ˌsmɪðəˈɹin/


smithereens

不详，有下列几种理论，但是这些来源词的最早可考时间均晚于该英语词的：
* 源自愛爾蘭語 smidiríní、smiodairíní，源自smiodar (“碎片”) + -ín (指小后缀) + -í（-aí (构成某些名词的复数的后缀)的缩短形式）。
* 源自smithers (“碎片；原子”)插入后缀-een (在爱尔兰英语中构成指小词的名词后缀)。
* 源自爱尔兰英语（韦克斯福德）smaddereen，smattering (“少量某物；浅显的知识”)的一个变体。

The urn shattered into smithereens the moment it hit the ground.

骨灰罐碰到地上后碎成无数的小片。


show the ropes

shows the ropes
showing the ropes
showed the ropes
shown the ropes

教给...基础，帮...熟悉基础

When I got there, Bill showed me the ropes

我刚来的时候，Bill帮我指点了基础。

Bill showed the ropes to the new guy.

Bill给新人指点了基础。

Mr. Danzinger sent other roomers for Fonville to show the ropes.


yakuza

源自日語 やくざ (yakuza)。详见该词条。

日本黑帮，极道 (复数：yakuza)

日本黑帮成员 (复数：yakuzas)


sanshool

*来自日語 山椒 (“山椒”)，加上-ol后缀。


Sinitic

源自拉丁語 Sīna (“中国”) + -itic，与Semitic的后缀一样。

more Sinitic (comparative)
most Sinitic (superlative)


dead last

That high-school football team only scored 18 points all year! No wonder they were dead last in the league.

那个高中足球队全年才进了18分！怪不得他们在联赛里是吊车尾。

And compared with Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and 14 European countries, the United States ranks dead last, with the highest death rate for people under age 75 from conditions that could have been treated or prevented with timely medical care.

2008 October, Mark Jenkins, “Need surgery? Call a travel agent”, 出自 Men's Health, 第 23 卷, 第 8 期, →ISSN，第 152 頁:


at length

He went on at length about his supposed qualifications.

他说那个所谓的资格说了好久。

She led us through the tunnels for some time, until at length we reached a small door in the rock.

她领着我们在隧道里走了好久，然后我们终于到了一处石头里的小门前。

How long I slept I cannot tell, for I had nothing to guide me to the time, but woke at length, and found myself still in darkness.

1898, J. Meade Falkner, 章號 4, 出自 Moonfleet:

The proceedings of Congress are not given, since they are inserted at length in the "Congressional Globe;" but the principal bills are noticed under the date of their passage.

1800, Francis Vincent, United States Register，第 4 頁:


qaid

It would be more difficult to remove a qaid who had a diploma. Unreliable and corrupt qaids were certainly removed from time to time but they were always hard to control because they knew their areas far better than officers of the Affaires Indigènes did, and easily dominated the jemaas.

2000, C. R. Pennell, Morocco Since 1830: A History, page 183,

For that, they had a much more convincing and powerful interlocutor, one of the four qaids himself.

2003, Gordon S. Brown, The Norman Conquest of Southern Italy and Sicily, page 103,

According to Hermassi, all the qaids were appointed by the bey, whereas De Montety describes some of them as tribal notables whose position was ratified by the center.

2007, Mounira Charrad, States and Women's Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco, page 95,


K/D

kill-to-death ratio (“战损比”，“击杀/死亡比例”)之縮寫。


Amitābha

借自梵語 अमिताभ (amitābha, “无量的光”)，源自अमित (amita, “无法测量的，无尽的”) + आभा (ābhā, “光辉，光”)。

阿弥陀佛 净土宗中的主佛

Devotion to Amitābha Buddha is found within most schools of the Mahāyāna, but is the essence of Pure Land practice, which centres on the ‘Buddha invocation’ (Ch. nien-fo, Jap. nembutsu). This is the repetition of ‘Nan-mo A-mi-t’o Fo’ (Ch.) or ‘Nama Amida Butsu’ (Jap.), translations of the Sanskrit ‘Namo Amitābhāya Buddhāya’, meaning ‘Hail to Amitābha Buddha’.

1990, Peter Harvey, “Buddhist Practice: Devotion”, 出自 An Introduction to Buddhism: Teachings, History and Practices, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN，第 187 頁:

"Pure Land Buddhism" refers to a set of beliefs and practices that espouses for its aspirants the realization of the stage of non-retrogression (avaivartika; pu t'ui-chuan) either in the present life or through rebirth in a Buddha land or realm (Buddha-kṣetra; fo-kuo) called "Sukhāvatī" (Land of Bliss). […] The Buddha Amitāyus (Wu-liang-shou; Immeasurable Life) or Buddha Amitābha (Wu-liang-kuang; Immeasurable Light) is the 'transcendant' Buddha who presides over the Sukhāvatī world-realm.

1990, Kenneth K[en'ichi] Tanaka, “Pure Land Buddhist Development in India and China prior to Hui-yüan”, 出自 The Dawn of Chinese Pure Land Buddhist Doctrine: Ching-ying Hui-yüan's Commentary on the Visualization Sutra (SUNY Series in Buddhist Studies), Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN，第 1 頁:

The Shorter Sukhavativyuha Sutra is chiefly concerned with describing the wonders of Amitabha Buddha's Pure Land, although it also discusses in some detail the characteristics of Amitabha himself.

2004, Mark L. Blum, “Mahayana Scriptures”, 出自 Kevin Trainor 編, Buddhism: The Illustrated Guide, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN，第 202 頁:

Less well recognized, however, is the central role played in much of early medieval Pure Land Buddhism by deathbed practices and accompanying beliefs about the radical salvific power of one's last nenbutsu, whether understood as the contemplation of the Buddha Amitābha (or Amitāyus, Jpn. Amida) or the invocation of his name.

2004, Jacqueline I. Stone, “By the Power of One's Last Nenbutsu: Deathbed Practices in Early Medieval Japan”, 出自 Approaching the Land of Bliss: Religious Praxis in the Cult of Amitābha (Kuroda Institute Studies in East Asian Buddhism; 17), Honolulu, Hi.: University of Hawai‛i Press, →ISBN，第 77 頁:

The overall programme of the Pure Land Hall represents the process of rebirth in Sukhāvatī, and the three standing Amitābhas in the shrine represent the three possible manifestations of Amitābha to the dying believer on earth, which is the beginning of that process.

2007, Amy McNair, “Salvation for One”, 出自 Donors of Longmen: Faith, Politics, and Patronage in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Sculpture, Honolulu, Hi.: University of Hawai‛i Press, →ISBN，第 151–152 頁s:

In East Asia, the cult of Amitābha eventually became so widespread that it transcended sectarian distinction, and Amitābha became the most popular buddha in the region. In Tibet, Amitābha worship dates to the early propagation of Buddhism in that country in the eighth century, although it never became as prevalent as in East Asia.

2013, Robert E[vans] Buswell Jr., Donald S[ewell] Lopez Jr., “Amitābha”, 出自 The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN，第 35, column 1 頁:

阿弥陀佛 密宗中的五方佛之一

A letter from Mr. [Brian Houghton] Hodgson to Mr. Bayley, was then read, giving an outline of the theocracy of the Buddha system of Nepal. […] According to the information now communicated, the northern Buddhas acknowledge four sets of divine beings, or of superhuman objects of veneration. The first of these is, contrary to the generally supposed atheistical tendency of the faith, one primæval and uncreated deity. This first Buddha manifested five of his attributes, as five secondary Buddhas; in one of whom, Amitabha, or the 'immeasurably splendid,' in Prakrit and Pali, Amitabo, we recognise the Amito of the Japanese.

1827 July, “Asiatic Society of Calcutta”, 出自 The Oriental Herald, and Journal of General Literature, 第 XIV 卷, 第 43 期, London: Printed [by J. R. Gordon, 147, Strand] for the editor, and sold by all booksellers, →OCLC，第 147 頁:

In the upper corner, above Mañjushrī's sword, is the figure of the Dhyāni Buddha Amitābha, the 'One of Boundless (or Incomprehensible) Light', of whom the Tashi Lāmas are believed to be incarnations. […] Amitābha presides over the Western Paradise known as Devachān.

2000, “Description of Illustrations”, 出自 W[alter] Y[eeling] Evans-Wentz 編, The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation: Or the Method of Realizing Nirvāṇa through Knowing the Mind, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN，第 xxi 頁:

In the period in which Sávarńi shall be the Manu, the classes of the gods will be the Sutapas, Amitábhas, and Mukhyas; twenty-one of each.

1840, H[orace] H[ayman] Wilson, transl., “Of the Seven Future Manus and Manwantaras. Story of Sanjná and Chháyá, Wives of the Sun. Sávarńi, Son of Chháyá, the Eighth Manu. His Successors, with the Divinities, &c., of Their Respective Periods. Appearance of Vishńu in each of the Four Yugas.”, 出自 The Vishńu Puráńa, a System of Hindu Mythology and Tradition, Translated from the Original Sanscrit, and Illustrated by Notes Derived Chiefly from Other Puráńas, London: Published by John Murray, Albermarle Street, →OCLC，第 267 頁:


hell no

heck no

表示坚决的否定：才不。绝不，才怪

hecks no

表示坚决的否定：才不。绝不，才怪

表示坚决的否定：才不。绝不，才怪

- Will you mow the lawn? - Hell no!

——你能去修草坪吗？——才不！

No, no, hell''' no. The true answer is that there is no one answer; […]

2012年March3日, Jon Evans, “Pair Programming Considered Harmful?”, 出自 TechCrunch，於2017-07-15歸檔自原頁面:


crack wise

"Whenever I commit a crime?" expostulated Paul. "Where do you get that stuff, Ferret?" / "Out of me nut, kiddo. Why don't you stop cracking wise, and go back to the ribbon counter?"

1917, George Bronson-Howard, Slaves of the Lamp:

Reagan displayed his usual aplomb and even cracked wise about his age at a White House banquet.

1985 Aug. 5, Jacob V. Lamar Jr., "Coming Along Just Fine," Time:


ex post facto

源自拉丁語 ex (“来自”) + post (“在...之后”) + facto，factum (“行为”)的离格。拉丁语中，ex支配离格，而post支配宾格（参见英语维基百科中关于该短语语法和用法的相关讨论。）

事后的，回顾的 有追溯效力的（比如在某事之后颁布但其效力追溯回某事）

Coupled with the Constitution's proscription of ex post facto laws is a similar prohibition against bills of attainder.

1998, Daniel E. Troy, Retroactive Legislation，第 56 頁:

That the tax would take effect after some of the payments were made also raises issues. Says former Attorney General Richard Thornburg, also in an e-mail: "Such legislation could well run afoul of constitutional restrictions on bills of attainder, ex post facto laws, laws impairing the obligations of contract, unauthorized takings of property and the like."

2009年March21日, Jim McTague, “Would a Tax on Bonuses Be Constitutional?”, 出自 Barron's:


in vogue

部分仿譯自法語 en vogue。


Ragnarok

借自古諾爾斯語 ragnarǫk（现代形式冰島語 ragnarök），源自regin (“众神”) + rǫk (“命运，宿命”)。

/ˈɹæɡ.nə.ɹɒk/

/ˈɹæɡ.nə.ɹɑk/


bench-warmer

（比赛中鲜少上场的）替补


hydroxy-

含有羟基或羟基衍生物种的


chlorobenzyl

氯苄基，氯代苄基，氯苯甲基


bromobenzyl

溴苄基，溴代苄基，溴苯甲基


hydroxybenzyl

羟苄基，羟基苄基，羟基苯甲基


cold case

‘I had my researchers check the files on all the mispers and cold cases five years either side of that date estimate, on females of that approximate age. This is what they found. Fill your boots.’ He took a large gulp of his drink. / ‘I’m impressed, you've been moving fast.’ / ‘On it like a car bonnet, mate.’

2015, Peter James, You Are Dead, New York, N.Y.: Minotaur Books, →ISBN:

（用于贩卖冰凉商品的）冰柜

We'd each grab a twenty-ounce Coke from the cold case, and at the end of the movie, Kate would still have a nearly full bottle.

2015, Andie Mitchell, It Was Me All Along: A Memoir, →ISBN，第 61 頁:


have a ball

The kids had a ball playing in the fountain.

孩子们在喷泉中开心地嬉戏。

Are you hanging up a stocking on your wall? / It's the time that every Santa has a ball / Does he ride a red-nosed reindeer? / Does a ton up on his sleigh / Do the fairies keep him sober for a day?

1973, “Merry Xmas Everybody”, 演出者 Slade:

In my dreams I have a plan / If I got me a wealthy man / I wouldn't have to work at all, I'd fool around and have a ball

When the party was nice, the party was jumpin' / And everybody havin' a ball

1998, “Who Let the Dogs Out”, 演出者 Baha Men:

“Well, after they retired down here, they must have had a ball ordering anything and everything.”

2002, H.H. Fuller, It's a Wrap, Writers Club Press，第 72 頁:

I hope you had a ball in effacing lives!

2006, Chrigel Glanzmann （作曲作詞）, “Your Gaulish War”, 出自 Spirit, 演出者 Eluveitie:

Yesterday was Thursday, Thursday / Today i-is Friday, Friday / We-we-we so excited / We so excited / We gonna have a ball today

2011, “Friday”, 演出者 Rebecca Black ft. Patrice Wilson:


aid and abet

aids and abets
aiding and abetting
aided and abetted

是...的共犯，伙同...作案

A bank employee was accused of aiding and abetting the gang of robbers.

一银行职员被判为劫犯的共犯。


hold a candle

可能源自学徒帮师傅拿蜡烛来帮其照明的习俗，而意指连这种简单的活都做不好的人毫无价值。

holds a candle
holding a candle
held a candle

能与...相提并论，望其项背

The old computer just doesn't hold a candle to the latest models.

老电脑和最新型号比望尘莫及。


beat around the bush

beats around the bush
beating around the bush
beaten around the bush

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/en-au-beat around the bush.ogg

Just stop beating around the bush and tell me what the problem is!

别拐弯抹角了，和我明说问题是什么！


protic

more protic (comparative)
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warped

more warped (comparative)
most warped (superlative)

a warped sense of humour


warped

warp 的過去式和過去分詞


Calliope

源自古希臘語 Καλλιόπη (Kalliópē)。

司赋星，主小行星带内的一颗小行星


digon

源自di- (表示“二”的前綴) + -gon (用於表示含有某一數量角度的形狀的後綴)。

They [the students] also came upon new and unusual mathematical figures: the digon, a two-sided polygon on a spherical space, and the apeirogon, an open polygon with infinitely many sides […]。All these discoveries brought up even more questions. Is a circle a polygon? What makes an octagon an octagon – its eight vertices, its eight sides, or both? Can a polygon cross itself? Does a polygon need to be closed?

2013, Brent Davis, Moshe Renert, 章號 6, 出自 The Math Teachers Know: Profound Understanding of Emergent Mathematics, New York, N.Y., Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge, →ISBN，第 102 頁:


superstitious

古法語 superstitieux，来自拉丁語 superstitiōsus，来自superstitio + -ōsus。

more superstitious (comparative)
most superstitious (superlative)


unsuperstitious

more unsuperstitious (comparative)
most unsuperstitious (superlative)


'n'

（and的缩约形，主要用于rock 'n' roll等固定短语内。）和，与，且


Hel

源自古諾爾斯語 hel。与古英語 hell (“地狱”)同源。

冥界 （非光荣战死者死后所到的地方）


Fafnir

古諾爾斯語 Fáfnir，冰島語 Frænir。

法夫尔，法夫尼尔（侏儒王赫瑞德玛之子，弑父，之后化身为龙，最终被雷金和齐格弗里德所杀）


lollygag

Lovemaking and lollygagging are hereby strictly forbidden. […] The holding of hands, osculation and constant embracing of WAVES, corpsmen or civilians and sailors or any combination of male and female personnel is a violation of naval discipline. […]
（請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

1946, Captain C. F. Behrens, MC, USN, quoted in Time Magazine, volume 47, part 1, page 74, 1946:


lollygag

He likes to do his car up with blacked-out windows, and all that lollygag.

他就喜欢给他的车整什么全黑车窗之类的乱七八糟的东西。