December

來自中古英語 December、Decembre，來自古法語 decembre，來自拉丁語 december (“第十個月份”)，來自拉丁語 decem (“十”) + 拉丁語 -ber，來自形容詞後綴-bris；December 在羅馬曆法中為第十個月份。

But others were less than thrilled with this new gizmo, particularly its addictive qualities. There were reports of breakups threatened and consummated over it. “Our marriage or your Sony,” one woman told her husband, who duly sold the Walkman to a bachelor friend. A young woman named December Cole, a sales executive at a beauty magazine, recalled a trip to Atlantic City with "a basically rude" man who wouldn't stop "bopping around to his own music."

2017, Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow, Personal Stereo (ISBN 1501322834), page 45:


plight

源自中古英語 plit (“折痕，皱纹，不好的情况”)，中古英語 pliht, plight (“风险，危险”)（源自古英語 pliht (“危险，风险”)）和盎格魯-諾曼語 plit, plyte (“折叠，条件”)的异文合并，源自古法語 pleit (“条件，折叠的方式”)（源自通俗拉丁語 *plictum，源自拉丁語 plicitum (“折叠”)）。

（任何）情况，境况 （自14世纪）


plight

源自中古英語 plight (“风险，危险”)，源自古英語 pliht (“风险，危险，损坏”)，源自原始西日耳曼語 *plihti (“照料，责任，职责，使命”)。其一个带后缀形式出现于古英语pleoh (“风险，危险，伤害”，亦“责任”)和plēon (“使...危险，让...冒风险”)。与古英語 plihtan (“使...有风险”)有关。同源词包括低地蘇格蘭語 plicht (“责任”)、荷蘭語 plicht、低地德語 plicht (“使命”)、德語 Pflicht (“责任，使命”)、丹麥語 pligt (“使命”)、意第緒語 פֿליכט (flikht)。详见pledge。


plight

源自中古英語 pliȝt、plight、plyt、pleit，源自盎格魯-諾曼語 pleit (“褶，辫”)。详见plait。

Many a folded plight.

1590, 埃德蒙·斯宾塞, “Book II, Canto III”, 出自 仙后（The Faerie Qveene . […]）, London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 26:


sick

sic的变体，其又是seek的变换形式。

"Wapi," she almost screamed, "go back! Sick 'em, Wapi—sick 'em—sick 'em—sick 'em!"

1920, James Oliver Curwood, "Back to God's Country"

When we were at work swabbing the deck, necessarily barelegged, Pelle would sick the dog on us; and it was an endless source of pleasure to him when the dog succeeded in fastening its teeth in our legs and making the blood run down our ankles.

1938, Eugene Gay-Tifft, translator, The Saga of Frank Dover by Johannes Buchholtz, 2005 Kessinger Publishing edition, ISBN 141915222X, page 125,

"...is just something God sicks on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world."

1957, J. D. Salinger, "Zooey", in, 1961, Franny and Zooey, 1991 LB Books edition, page 154,

Now they find a new entertainment: they sick the dog on us.

2001 (publication date), Anna Heilman, Never Far Away: The Auschwitz Chronicles of Anna Heilman, University of Calgary Press, ISBN 1552380408, page 82,


girl

源自中古英語 gerle、girle、gyrle (“任何性别的年轻人”)，之后的来源不详。可能是源自古英語 *gyrle、*gyrele，源自原始日耳曼語 *gurwilaz，原始日耳曼語 *gurwijaz的一个指小词形式（比较北弗里斯蘭語 gör (“女孩”)、低地德語 Gör、Göre (“任何性别的孩子”)、德語 Göre (“孩童”)、方言挪威語 gorre、方言瑞典語 garre、gurre (“小孩”)），源自原始印歐語 *ǵʰer- (“短的”)（对比古愛爾蘭語 gair (“短的”)、古希臘語 χρεώ (khreṓ, “需要”)、χρήσθαι (khrḗsthai, “需要”)、梵語 ह्रस्व (hrasva, “短的，小的”)）。


Deutsch

借自德語 Deutsch (“德语”)。Dutch, thede, and tuath的同源對似詞。

Riley's father, Reuben, spoke Deutsch in his boyhood home and did not learn to speak English until after his childhood even though he came from Irish roots. Riley's ancestors kept alive many of the old folktales and stories of their lives. Few of these Deutsch tales survive.

1997, Thomas E. Q. Williams, James Whitcomb Riley: the poet as flying islands of the night, page 76:

This letter had to be written in Deutsch because neither Paul nor Harriet knew Danish.

2002, Richard Braden, Escape from Europe, page 102:

“We sing our Sunday hymns a cappella, too,” Sadie said. “But Amish songs are very different from yours. They're written in Deutsch, and there's no harmony.”

2012, Rosalind Lauer, A Simple Spring: A Seasons of Lancaster Novel, page 163:


Deutsch

more Deutsch (comparative)
most Deutsch (superlative)


Confucius

源自拉丁語 Confucius，來自官話 孔夫子 (Kǒng Fūzǐ)。


Russian

中世紀拉丁語 (11世紀) Russiānus，Russia的形容詞，為古東斯拉夫語 Русь (Rusĭ)的拉丁化。16世紀開始出現在英語中 (作為名詞和形容詞)。

一種有堅硬外殼的雜耍球，裡頭裝滿鹽、沙子或其他物質

Ok, I do think I am starting to get used to it, but you have to admit, if youve:Template:SIC been juggling bags and then start juggling Russians, they feel sooo lopsided to juggle at first!

2011, jamescoutry24, “Beanbags > Russian”, 出自 rec.juggling (Usenet):


nox

源自拉丁語 nox (“夜晚，黑暗”)，通过与lux类比，其源自拉丁語 lūx (“光；日光；白天”)。 night的同源對似詞。

毫勒克斯 （光照强度单位）


palabra

借自西班牙語 palabra (“词语”)。parable的同源對似詞。

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Wile

源自中古英語 wile。


tan

來自布利屯語；與yan (“一”)同樣受交替母音影響。

基數二，以前在凱爾特地區使用，特別是坎布里亞郡和約克郡部分地區，用於數羊和計算針數。


English

源自中古英語 Englisch、English、Inglis，來自古英語 Englisċ (“盎格魯人的；英格蘭的”)，來自Engle (“盎格魯人，日耳曼部落”) + -isċ；等同於Angle + -ish。對比荷蘭語 Engels、丹麥語 engelsk、古法語 Englesche（法語 anglais的來源）, 德語 englisch、西班牙語 inglés，最初來源為原始印歐語 *h₂enǵʰ- (“窄的”)（對比梵語 अंहु (aṃhu, “窄的”)、अंहस् (aṃhas, “緊張；罪惡”)、拉丁語 angustus (“窄的”)、教會斯拉夫語 ѫзъкъ (ǫzŭkŭ, “窄的”)）。

[…] severe prohibuit viris suis tum misceri feminas in consuetis suis menstruis, etc. I spare to English this which I have said.

1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd版, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
, page 214 (2001 reprint):

Mamma is an adaptation of a French farce by Mr. Sydney Grundy, made in the time when his chief claim to recognition as a playwright lay in his ingenious aptitude for Englishing the un-Englishable.

1901, The Speaker, the Liberal Review - Volume 3，頁號 654:

Here, the poems are Englished by twelve different translators

2011, Colin Cheney, 'Where Should I Start with Tomas Tranströmer?':


German

來自拉丁語 Germānus、Germānī (“來自Germānia的民族”)，不同於Gauls (在凱撒和塔西佗的著作中)，最初源頭不明 (可能是凱爾特語族/高盧語)。
與german (“關係密切的”)或germane無關 (來自拉丁語形容詞germānus，經由古法語)。
至少在1520年開始出現。取代了英語中較早的術語Almain和Dutch (來自原始日耳曼語 *þiudiskaz)。除了德語、日耳曼語、荷蘭語的同源詞外，其他語言中表示德國人的兩類詞源一個是Saxon的同源詞和原始斯拉夫語 *němьcь的派生詞；更多資訊參閱這些條目。

/ˈd͡ʒɜː.mən/

介於美式和撒克遜式的字體大小，約1+¹⁄₂點式


autopsy

源自新拉丁語 autopsia，源自古希臘語 αὐτοψῐ́ᾱ (autopsíā, “亲眼看”)。


galaxy

源自中古英語 galaxye、galaxie，源自古法語 galaxie，源自拉丁語 galaxias，源自古希臘語 γαλαξίας (galaxías, “银河系”)，源自γάλα (gála, “奶”)。

So may thy cheekes red outweare scarlet dye, / And their white, whitenesse of the Galaxie [...].


covert

源自中古英語 covert，源自古法語 covert，covrir (“盖”)（对应于拉丁語 coopertus）的过去分词，与cover同源。

more covert (comparative)
most covert (superlative)

Within that wood there was a covert glade, / Foreby a narrow foord, to them well knowne […]

1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.5:


baffle

不详。可能与法語 bafouer (“藐视”)或已弃用的法語 befer (“嘲笑”)有关，经由苏格兰语bauchle (“羞辱”)。

hoodwink

欺骗 （16-18世纪）

deceive

欺骗 （16-18世纪）

制止，阻止，挫败 （自17世纪）

the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim

1798, William Cowper, On the Receipt of My Mother's Picture:

It may have been the failure of Christianity to emancipate itself from expiatory theories of moral responsibility, guilt, innocence, reward, punishment, and the rest of it, that baffled its intention of changing the world.

1898, George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra:

So they had to search the world again for a sphinx. And still there was none. But they were not men that it is easy to baffle, and at last they found a sphinx in a desert at evening watching a ruined temple whose gods she had eaten hundreds of years ago when her hunger was on her.

1915, Edward Plunkett, Lord Dunsany, Fifty-One Tales:


fulminate

源自拉丁語 fulminātus，fulminō (“照亮，（雷电）劈”)的过去分词，源自fulmen (“引起着火的雷电”)，源自早期形式*fulgmen、*fulgimen，源自fulgeō、fulgō (“闪，照亮”)。fulmine的同源對似詞。详见fulgent。

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

the present owners couldn't afford the electric bills anymore, several amateur gaffers, sad to say, having already been fulminated trying to bootleg power in off the municipal lines.

2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage 2010, p. 235:


rear

来自中古英語 reren (“抬升、提升”)，古英語 rǣran (“抬升、竖立、促进、提升、创立、激发、唤醒、唤起、煽动”)，原始日耳曼語 *raizijaną、*raisijaną (“使上升”)，原始印歐語 *h₁rey- (“抬起某物本身、上升”)。
与低地蘇格蘭語 rere (“构建、建设”)，冰島語 reisa (“使提升”)，哥特語 𐍂𐌰𐌹𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (raisjan, “使上升、抬起、建立”)，德語 reisen (“旅行”, 字面意思是“起身离开”)同源，且是raise的同源對似詞。另请参见rise。
与rise（上升）和raise（提升）有关，两个词曾用于rear现在的几个古老或过时的意义，以及用于rear目前在英语其他方言中更常见的一些意义。

建造防御或房子。

在一个政府的废墟上建立另一个政府。

to rear one government on the ruins of another.


remittent

more remittent (comparative)
most remittent (superlative)

（指症状）缓和的，减轻的

[…] the long, long fever of life, which with him never knew a remittent moment, had robbed him of that which every man has a right to expect, some pleasure in the course of his existence.

1875, Charlotte Riddell, 章號 14, 出自 The Uninhabited House:


philosophy

源自中古英語 philosophie、古法語 philosophie以及两者词源拉丁語 philosophia，源自古希臘語 φιλοσοφία (philosophía)，源自φίλος (phílos, “爱...的”) + σοφία (sophía, “智慧”)。可作philo- + -sophy分析。取代英语本土词古英語 ūþwitegung。

Plato hath (in my seeming) loved this manner of Philosophying, Dialogue wise in good earnest, that therby he might more decently place in sundry mouthes the diversity and variation of his owne conceits.

1603, Michel de Montaigne, 章號 12, 出自 John Florio（譯者）, The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:


radioactive

於1898年由皮埃尔·居里和玛丽·居里借自法語 radio-actif所創的新詞，等同於radio- + active。

more radioactive (comparative)
most radioactive (superlative)

對人或思想有危險且令人厭惡的

Even sleazy tactics and his radioactive mouth may not be able to contain this debacle.

And while Biden’s other nominees have done little to provoke Republican backlash thus far, [Neera] Tanden is “radioactive,” as Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) put it.

2020年November30日, Burgess Everett, Caitlin Emma, Theodoric Meyer, 引 John Cornyn, “Joe Biden's 'radioactive' nominee”, 出自 POLITICO:

If, by some miracle, Democrats hang on to one or both houses of Congress this November, it will be because of Cawthorn, Paul Gosar, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert and other would-be G.O.P. candidates trying to be just like them — the Radioactive Republicans.

2022年April4日, Gail Collins, Bret Stephens, “Which ‘Radioactive Republicans’ Are We Betting On?”, 出自 The New York Times, →ISSN:


cordial

繼承自中古英語 cordial，源自古法語 cordial，源自中世紀拉丁語 cordiālis (“心的”)，源自cor (“心”)。

more cordial (comparative)
most cordial (superlative)

/ˈkɔɹ.d͡ʒəl/


estate

繼承自中古英語 estat，來自盎格魯-諾曼語 estat和古法語 estat（法語：état），來自拉丁語 status。state and status的同源對似詞。

狀態；條件 （自13世紀）

But when I came to mans eſtate,
With hey ho, [the winde and the raine],
Gainſt Knaues and Theeues men ſhut their gate.

c. 1601–1602 （写稿日期）, 威廉·莎士比亚, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will [第十二夜]”, 出自 Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio（第一对开本）), 伦敦: […] Isaac Iaggard和Ed[ward] Blount, 出版於 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]，頁號 275:

Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 12:16:

To remove therfore if it be possible, this great and sad oppression which through the strictnes of a literall interpreting hath invaded and disturb’d the dearest and most peaceable estate of houshold society, to the over-burdening, if not the over-whelming of many Christians better worth then to be so deserted of the Churches considerate care, this position shall be laid down; first proving, then answering what may be objected either from Scripture or light of reason.

1643, John Milton, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce:


stifle

动词派生自晚期中古英語 stuflen (“因炎热而难以呼吸；淹水，因呛水窒息”) [以及其他形式]，之后词源不详，可能源自stuffen (“通过窒息杀死；因闷热窒息；压制，灭杀；剥夺植物的生长条件”) + -el- (动词的衍生性中缀，可能意指指小，程度增强或反复性动作和事件)。 stuffen派生自古法語 estofer、estouffer (“使...窒息，勒死；（比喻义）压制，抑制”) [以及其他形式]（现代法語 étouffer），变换自estoper、estuper (“阻塞；绷紧，使...变厚”)（现代法語 étouper (“填补”)），受到了estofer (“给...装垫子”)（现代法語 étoffer）的影响。estoper派生自通俗拉丁語 *stuppāre，源自拉丁語 stuppa (“粗亚麻”)（作为填塞材料，源自古希臘語 στύπη (stúpē)、στύππη (stúppē)（对比στυππεῖον (stuppeîon)），可能源自前希臘時期的底層語言 ）+ -āre。据《牛津英语词典》，其派生自古諾爾斯語 stífla (“筑坝；阻塞”)的说法“在词形和词义方面难有说服力”。
名词派生自动词。

（动词词义的名词形式）窒息；呼吸困难；压制抑制等


archipelago

源自意大利語 arcipelago，根据古希臘語 ἀρχι- (arkhi-, “主要的”) + πέλαγος (pélagos, “海洋”)构成，为爱琴海的名称。爱琴海有很多岛屿，而“Arcipelago”原是指爱琴海的专有名词，后泛化到可以指代有很多岛屿的海，后面又到这种海中的岛屿。

archipelagos (plural)
archipelagoes (plural)

/ɑːkɪˈpɛləɡəʊ/

/ˌɑɹkɪˈpɛləˌɡoʊ/

[I]n his imagination he had settled his route, through Holland and France to Sicily, which he had long wished to see, and from thence to the Archipelago […] 。

1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview 2004, p. 413:


fret

來自古法語 frete、fraite、fraicte，可能部分和fret (“航道，海峽”)混淆。


trance

源自中古英語 traunce，源自盎格魯-諾曼語 transe (“对邪恶降临的恐惧；从生到死的过程”)，源自transir (“因恐惧而僵住；死亡”)，源自拉丁語 trānseō (“穿过”)。

entrance

使...昏迷，使...出神

The Horned Toad (kɛŋkak) tranced the rivers into being. A bakɔh bird tranced the mountains. The Scrub Bulbul (ˀɛsˀããs) drilled fire into existence with its beak. And, finally, the Bronzed Black Drongo (tɛrhɛɛh) tranced the year […]

2014, Geoffrey Benjamin, Temiar Religion, 1964-2012, page 64:

What is interesting for us here is that Chingkai and her familiars dreamed and tranced the Temiar world into being. […]

1995, Sue Jennings, Kevin Jennings, Theatre, Ritual, and Transformation: The Senoi Temiars, page 111:


tomato

源自西班牙語 tomate，來自古典納瓦特爾語 tomatl，來自原始納瓦語 *tomatl。對照tomatillo。

[tʰə̥ˈmɑːtʰəʊ]

[tʰə̥ˈmɐːtʰɐʉ]

[tʰə̥ˈmeɪɾoʊ]

[tʰə̥ˈmeɪɾə]


wait

源自中古英語 waiten，源自盎格魯-諾曼語 waiter、waitier（对比法語 guetter←古法語 gaitier、guaitier)，源自古法蘭克語 *wahtwēn (“看守，守卫”)，派生自古法蘭克語 *wahtu (“看守”)，源自原始日耳曼語 *wahtwō (“看守”)，源自原始印歐語 *weǵ- (“鲜，快乐”)。同源词有古高地德語 wahtēn (“看守，守卫”)、德國低地德語 wachten (“等”)、荷蘭語 wachten (“等”)、法語 guetter (“守候”)、薩特弗里斯蘭語 wachtje (“等”)、西弗里斯蘭語 wachtsje (“等”)、北弗里斯蘭語 wachtjen (“待命”)。详见watch。
很大程度上取代了本土词古英語 bīdan。

await

等待；期待 （现在多用wait for）

等待；期待 （现在多用wait for）

to wait one’s turn

The Court had assembled, to wait events, in the huge antechamber known as the Œil de Boeuf.

1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, 出版於 2007，頁號 30:


fig

Ginger, a showy, fast horse — as if he had been figged with ginger under his tail; a red-haired man.

1874, The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal，頁號 176:

He must be "figged." Figging consists in pushing a piece of crushed ginger into the return of the wretched creature — a practice which is now illegal, and of which information should be given to the R.S.P.C.A. whenever detected.

“Is something amiss with the horse, Parr?” His gaze left the horse for a second as he glanced at Grace. “Yes, the horse has been figged. Now I just need to figure out who the culprit is.”

2015, Becky Lower, The Cotillion Ball Saga, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:


poise

源自中古英語 poys、poyse，源自盎格魯-諾曼語 pois、中古法語 pois (“重量”)和盎格魯-諾曼語 poise、中古法語 poise (一种重量单位)，源自拉丁語 pēnsāre (“衡量，斟酌，思考”)。

使...平衡，握着...使其保持平衡 （自16世纪）


termination

[O]n this idea, in naming the bases of potash and soda, it will be proper to adopt the termination which, by common consent, has been applied to other newly discovered metals... Potasium and sodium are the names...

1808, Humphry Davy, The Bakerian Lecture, on some new Phenomena of chemical Changes produced by Electricity, particularly the Decomposition of the fixed Alkalis, and on the Exhibition of the new substances which constitute their bases; and on the general Nature of alkaline Bodies, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Part 1, p. 32.


Absalom

派生自希伯來語 אַבְשָׁלוֹם (avshalóm, 字面意思是“和平之父”)，源自אָב (av, “父親”) + שָׁלוֹם (shalom, “和平”)。

源自希伯來語的男性人名。


an

繼承自中古英語 an，來自古英語 ān (不定冠詞, 字面意思是“一”)。參見 one。

音頻 (美國)，æ-緊繃

音頻 (美國)，在短語“an egg”非重音

在標準英語中，冠詞an用在元音前，而a用於輔音前。另外an 也可以出現在h音開頭的非重音音節前，如an historic。這時h音可能變成無聲，或發音微弱。只有6%的英國人喜歡這種用法，在書面中也只是稍微常見一些。

在歷史上，an也可以出現在one跟許多首字母為 u、eu (現在讀作/juː/, /jʊ/, /jə/)的詞之前，像是eunuch、unique、utility。這是因為這些首字母被讀作元音。在書寫中，直到19世紀這些詞在獲得首輔音之後，很久一段時間 an 仍然是這些詞前的常用詞。這種情況偶爾還會出現。

相反，在非標準（通常是方言）語音及其書面表達中，元音前很少出現 a。例如：“ain't this a innerestin sitchation” (Moira Young，Blood Red Road)。

a 的所有冠詞義項均可用在 an 上。

a 的變形 (全義項)
在one和首音為 u、eu 的詞前使用，發音為 /ju/。

God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Numbers 24:8:

My hopes, from my earliest years, have been hopes of celebrity as a writer- not of wealth, or of influence, or of accomplishing any of the thousand aims which furnish the great bulk of mankind with motives. You will laugh at me. There is something so emphatically shadowy and unreal in the object of this ambition, that even the full attainment of its provokes a smile. For who does not know
'How vain that second life in others' breath,
The estate which wits inherit after death!'
And what can be more fraught with the ludicrous than an union of this shadowy ambition with mediocre parts and attainments! But I digress.

(Can we date this quote?), John Mackay Wilson, Wilson's Tales of the Borders; Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative, →OCLC，頁號 84:

President Nicolas Sarkozy of France is open to an European monetary fund but would want it to raise money cheaply on capital markets and lend it to needy euro-zone countries before they faced possible default.

2010年March22日, Paul Taylor, “Greece Debates Revive Old European Fears and Resentments”, 出自 The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC，2010-04-03歸檔自原頁面, Inside Europe:

In an unanimous vote on Monday, the city’s school board approved removing the name of Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest from Forrest Hill Academy and calling the alternative school the Hank Aaron New Beginnings Academy.

2021年April13日, Neil Vigdor, “Hank Aaron’s Name Will Replace a Confederate General’s on an Atlanta School”, 出自 The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC，於2021-04-14歸檔自原頁面, U.S.:

Having been given seven full days, Jack Smith took exactly one day to file a forty-page response in opposition, to the Supreme Court, making the argument that there was no reason for the Supreme Court to hear Donald Trump's appeal of an unanimous opinion by the second most important court in the country, the Washington, D.C. Federal Court of Appeals, which supported the trial judge's ruling that there is no such thing as immunity from criminal prosecution for former presidents.

2024年February14日, Lawrence O'Donnell, 片头起0:29, 出自 Lawrence: Jack Smith asks SCOTUS to move fast on Trump. Nixon case is proof they can., MSNBC，於2024-02-15歸檔自原頁面:

有關使用本詞的更多用例，請參閱Citations:an。


honey

來自中古英語 hony, honi，來自古英語 huniġ，來自原始西日耳曼語 *hunag，來自原始日耳曼語 *hunagą（對照西弗里斯蘭語 hunich、德語 Honig），來自早期*hunangą（對比瑞典語 honung），來自原始印歐語 *kn̥h₂onk-o-s，來自*kn̥h₂ónks。和中古威爾士語 canecon (“金”)、拉丁語 canicae 複 (“糠”)、吐火羅語B kronkśe (“蜂”)、阿爾巴尼亞語 qengjë (“蜂巢”)、古希臘語 κνῆκος (knêkos, “紅花”)、北庫爾德語 şan (“蜂巢”)、北盧里語 گونج (gonj, “蜂”)同源。


cheerio

/ˈtʃɪəɹ.i.əʊ/

/ˈt͡ʃɪəɹ.i.oʊ/

在北美很少使用。儘管其他人可能可以理解，但這個詞可能被視作幽默用法，且可能被用來模仿英式英語使用者。

Cheerio, everybody! What a delightful gathering of charming femininity!

大家好！多麼令人愉悅的、迷人女性氣質的聚會！


catamaran

借自泰米爾語 கட்டுமரம் (kaṭṭumaram)，來自கட்டு (kaṭṭu, “繫”) + மரம் (maram, “樹，木頭”)。

音頻（加拿大口音，合成）

She meddles with my prescriptions for your wife; she doctors the infant in private: you'll never have a quiet house or a quiet wife as long as that old Catamaran is here.

1889, William Makepeace Thackeray, Hobson's Choice:


cobweb

源自中古英語 copweb、coppeweb，等价于弃用词cop (“蜘蛛”) + web。对比中古荷蘭語 kopwebbe、德國低地德語 Kobbenwebbe (威斯特伐利亚)。

很久没有更新或没人访问的网页


corollary

源自中古英語，源自晚期拉丁語 corōllārium (“为花冠支付钱；礼物，酬金；推导”)，源自corōlla (“小花冠”)，corōna (“冠，王冠”)的指小词。

/ˈkɔɹəˌlɛɹi/

/kɔˈɹoʊˌlɛɹi/


cowgirl

She also cowgirled and hired out to do ranch and timber work.

1998, Linda M. Hasselstrom, Gaydell Collier, Nancy Curtis, Leaning Into the Wind: Women Write from the Heart of the West

Only 250 miles down the road a reclusive beauty named Joann Brebner was living the bucolic life, cowgirling, helping out at her family's remote ranch-based resort.

2007, American Cowboy (volume 13, number 5, Jan-Feb 2007, page 56)

Once recovered I cowgirled him to a torturously slow climax, having him begging for release as I took him to the edge […]

2016, Angela Goodnight, My Life, My Loves: True, Explicit Autobiography:


corny

源自中古英語 corny，等价于corn + -y。至于义项“陈腐的”，源自“corn catalogue jokes”，即印在邮寄作物种子目录内的笑话，常被认为质量较低。

cornier (comparative)
corniest (superlative)

kitsch

老套的，陈腐的；无病呻吟的

kitschy

老套的，陈腐的；无病呻吟的

cheesy

老套的，陈腐的；无病呻吟的

tacky

老套的，陈腐的；无病呻吟的

campy

老套的，陈腐的；无病呻吟的

schlocky

老套的，陈腐的；无病呻吟的

schmaltzy

老套的，陈腐的；无病呻吟的

Country Cornbread Muffins (page 290) / Marlene Says: The cool crunchy salad and slightly sweet corny muffins are perfect partners to the creamy, spicy black bean soup.

2012, Marlene Koch, Eat More of What You Love, Running Press, →ISBN:

There are cornbread recipes, and there are cornbread recipes. This one absolutely sings. Based on her daddy’s, and then her sister’s, beloved skillet-made bread, Maggie’s own recipe developed over time. It’s more about method, she says, but using stone-ground cornmeal and whole buttermilk are just as important. And a hot, seasoned cast-iron skillet is a must. What emerges is a rich “corny” bread, an almost melting soft interior encased in a ridiculously toothsome crust.

2014, Nancy Vienneau, The Third Thursday Community Potluck Cookbook: Recipes and Stories to Celebrate the Bounty of the Moment, Nelson Books, Thomas Nelson，頁號 180:

“CORNY” BREAD MUFFINS + HONEY BUTTER (GRAIN-, DAIRY-, SOY-, NIGHTSHADE-FREE) Well, making cornbread without corn is kinda tricky, but since corn is indeed a grain, “real” cornbread will not be found here.

2015, Jennifer Robins, Down South Paleo: Delectable Southern Recipes Adapted for Gluten-Free, Paleo Eaters, Page Street Publishing Co., →ISBN，頁號 139:

Fiesta Corny Muffins / Cornbread goes with everything: salad, soup, and chili.

2016, Stephanie Clarke, Willow Jarosh, Healthy, Happy Pregnancy Cookbook, Atria Paperback, →ISBN，頁號 83:

Have beans, bacon, and cornbread for dinner.[…]Have peas, bacon, and corny bread for dinner.

2019, George O. Wilson, Jr., Osborne Wilson’s Civil War Diaries, Christian Faith Publishing, Inc., →ISBN:


connive

源自法語 conniver (“默许而成为共犯”)或直接源自其词源拉丁語 connīvēre、cōnīvēre，connīveō、cōnīveō (“闭眼，眯眼，使眼色；忽视，不管”)（可能和两个一起私下阴谋做某事的人相互使眼色有关）的复数第三人称主动完成时直陈式，源自con- (表示使几个物体在一起的后缀) + *nīvēre（与nictō (“眨眼，使眼色”)有关，源自原始印歐語 *kneygʷʰ- (“弯，垂”)）。

This species [...] differs from other species of this genus in the upper pinnæ being contracted, which are sinuously lobed, each lacinæ and lobe bearing a sorus, furnished with a nearly orbicular indusium, the free exterior margin of which connives with the margin of the lobe, [...]

1875, John Smith, “118.—Nephrolepis, Schott. (1834).: Hook Sp. Fil.”, 出自 Historia Filicum; an Exposition on the Nature, Number, and Organography of Ferns, […], London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, part 2 (General Arrangement and Characteristics of Tribes and Genera, […])，頁號 227:


couth

We transformed the uncouths into couths, the unkempts into kempts, the inerts into erts! We did it all by speaking to teen-agers on their own terms and in their own language.

[1967, Bernice Fitz-Gibbon, Macy’s, Gimbels, and Me: How to Earn $90,000 a Year in Retail Advertising, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC，頁號 91:

I'm going to hit that "Gulf of Texas" beach with a bundle of couths and suaves because those Texas gals that hang around the big shrimp boats are used to good living.

1968 November, “C. R. Terror”, 出自 Richard L. Anderson 編, The MAC Flyer (USAF Recurring Publication; 62-5), 卷 XV, 期 11, Scott Air Force Base, Ill.: Directorate of Safety, Headquarters Military Airlift Command, →ISSN, →OCLC，頁號 28，列號 1:


exquisite

源自拉丁語 exquīsītus，exquīrō (“找出，找到”)的过去分词。

花花公子 （自20世纪初叶）

It is impossible to meet with a more finished coxcomb than a Broadway exquisite, or a “Broadway swell,” which is the designation attached to him on the spot.

1849, Alexander Mackay, The western world; or, travels in the United States in 1846-87 (page 93)

So striking was his appearance that two exquisites, emerging from the Savoy Hotel and pausing on the pavement to wait for a vacant taxi, eyed him with pained disapproval as he approached, and then, starting, stared in amazement.
#*:: 'Good Lord!' said the first exquisite.

1925, P. G. Wodehouse, Sam the Sudden, Random House, London:2007, p. 42.


xor

The argument leads to the conclusion that an omnipotent being could rationally be able to do one xor the other and still be omnipotent.

2002, "Rob Janssen", The rock argument (on Internet newsgroup alt.atheism)


enthrall

bewitch

迷住，吸引住，使...着迷

captivate

迷住，吸引住，使...着迷

charm

迷住，吸引住，使...着迷

enchant

迷住，吸引住，使...着迷

transfix

迷住，吸引住，使...着迷

enslave

使...屈服，使...成为奴隶

subjugate

使...屈服，使...成为奴隶

disenthrall

使...屈服，使...成为奴隶

使...屈服，使...成为奴隶

[…] Who oft as undeservedly enthrall / His outward freedom: Tyranny must be;

1667, John Milton, “Book XII”, 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:


cupcake

“I have thought of nothing but you for many days.” / Leticia actually blushed. “You cupcaking me?”

「我已經好幾天只想著你了。」 / Leticia 居然臉紅了。「你在跟我調情嗎？」

2016, Janey Mack, 章號 35, 出自 Choked Up, New York, N.Y.: Kensington Books, →ISBN，頁號s 247–248:

“Quit cupcaking me, sugar.” / She was sure she was imagining the warmth in his deep, crinkly eyes, but her belly did a flip and high-fived her heart, as though she truly had succeeded in making him like her.

「別再跟我調情了，甜心。」/她確信自己正在想像他深邃、皺紋滿布的眼睛裡的溫暖，但她的肚子卻翻了個身，在心裡擊掌，彷彿她真的成功讓他喜歡上了她。

2016, Pippa Grant writing as Jamie Farrell, Sugared (Misfit Brides; 4), →ISBN:

Juan winks at her. "Sorry about my language. The shock paralyzed my thinking and tongue." / She smiles brightly. "No worries. I'm a nurse. I've heard it all." / Is Juan cupcaking the She-Ra, Princess of Power?

Juan 朝她眨了眨眼睛。「對不起，我說錯話了。驚嚇麻痺了我的思維和舌頭。」 / 她燦爛地笑了。 「不用擔心，我是名護士，我什麼都聽過。」/ Juan 在和神力女超人希瑞調情嗎？

2018, Carlos Bayne, Napkin Nights: The Crunk Chronicles, [Morrisville, N.C.]: [Lulu.com], →ISBN, Chronicle VII, Chapter 2，頁號 131:

So—we offered a cup cake a day for life to anybody who would find us a better word than the word “market.”[…]She wrote to say that the Farmers Market defies description and asks why we don’t just keep on referring to it as the original Farmers Market and send the cup cakes to some home for under cup-caked children.

所以——我們提供終生每天一個杯子蛋糕，給任何能幫我們找到比「市場」更好詞語的人。 […] 她寫信說農夫市場無法用語言形容，並問我們為什麼不繼續稱其為原來的農夫市場，並將杯子蛋糕送給那些缺少杯子蛋糕的孩子們。

1942年March10日, Fred Beck, “Farmers Market Bulletin”, 出自 Los Angeles Times, 卷 LXI，頁號 2:

Winnie Ellis “cupcaked” her Decorative Stitchery group and Paul Barnett baked enough of her special bran muffins for all of the Meals on Wheels recipients.

Winnie Ellis 給她的裝飾刺繡小組送了杯子蛋糕，而 Paul Barnett 烘焙了足夠的特製麥麩鬆餅，供所有上門送餐服務的接受者享用。

1975年September11日, Kerrville Mountain Sun, 卷 94, 期 48, Kerrville, Tex.，頁號 six:

“We grew up here and love this community so anything that we can do to give back we will. We have taken cupcakes to the hospital, outreach groups, the SPCA and even the RCMP and firefighters have been cupcaked,” said [Raj] Singh, noting that they would even like to set up a scholarship for local students.

「我們在這裡長大，熱愛這個社區，所以我們會盡力回饋。我們把杯子蛋糕送到醫院、外展團體、SPCA，甚至皇家加拿大騎警和消防隊員也收到了杯子蛋糕，」[Raj] Singh 說，他指出他們甚至想為當地學生設立獎學金。

2008年December21日, Kristi Patton, “Pair display a sweet taste for business”, 出自 Penticton Western News, 卷 42, 期 153, Penticton, B.C.，頁號 9，列號 5:

Kenny started “You’ve Been Cupcaked” three years ago after she earned a following creating cakes and cupcakes for family members.

凱妮在三年前創辦了「你已收到杯子蛋糕」這個活動，在那之前，她因為為家人製作蛋糕和杯子蛋糕而贏得了追隨者。

2011年June19日, Stephanie A. O’Connell, “A baker’s delight, and that’s just icing on the cake”, 出自 Record-Journal, 144th year, 期 170, Meriden, Conn.，頁號 E4:


ennead

來自古希臘語 ἐννεάς (enneás)、ἐννεάδος (enneádos, “九人的身體”) + -ad (指定單位的後綴)；可分析為ennea- + -ad。希臘語詞彙ἐννεάς和ἐννεάδος衍生自ἐννέᾰ (ennéa, “九”) (源頭來自原始印歐語 *h₁néwn̥ (“九”)) + -ᾰ́ς (-ás, 由數字構成抽象名詞的後綴)或-ος (-os)。

任何包含九個物體的組合或系統

We may assert with confidence that no cycle of this kind, and of equal antiquity or even of inferior antiquity, is the actual existence better attested or more thoroughly authenticated than that of this octaëteris of Philammon of Delphi, or, as we may truly call it, this original Pythian ennead of primitive Hellas.

1852, Edward Greswell, “On the Lunar in Contradistinction to the Solar Modifications of the Primitive Calendar”, 出自 Fasti Temporis Catholici and Origines Kalendariæ. [...] In Four Volumes, 卷 I, Oxford: At the Oxford University Press, →OCLC, section V (The Octaëteris)，頁號s 566–567:

The exquisite language of the prophecy of Isaiah, especially in its last three enneads, may have had a nearer primary reference to, and a nearer fulfilment in, the return of the exiles under Zerubbabel, and Ezra, and Nehemiah; […]

1882, The Church Quarterly Review, 卷 XIII, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, →OCLC，頁號 172:

At one time one god was a greater favourite with the nation than another, and the cult of the god or gods which the old Babylonians preferred in the early days of their empire frequently fell into disuse and neglect in after times. The most important ennead among the Babylonians was as follows:— […]

1884, E[rnest] A[lfred] Wallis Budge, “The Babylonian Religion”, 出自 Babylonian Life and History (By-paths of Bible Knowledge; V), London: Religious Tract Society, […], →OCLC，頁號s 127–128:


Christmas

专有名词派生自中古英語 Cristemasse、Criste-mas (“圣诞节；圣诞季节；圣诞节庆祝活动”) [以及其他形式]，源自古英語 Cristes mæsse (“圣诞节”, 字面意思是“基督的弥撒”)，源自Crist (“基督”) + -es (属格标记词) + mæsse (“弥撒”)。英语词作Christ + -mas (表示节日或神圣的日子的后缀)分析。
名词、形容词和动词均派生自专有名词。
形容词词义指传统上与圣诞节联想起来的颜色。

Christmases
Christmasses
Christmasing
Christmassing
Christmased
Christmassed


frolic

源自荷蘭語 vrolijk (“欢喜的”)，源自中古荷蘭語 vrolijc，源自古荷蘭語 frōlīk，源自原始日耳曼語 *frawalīkaz。对比德語 fröhlich (“开心的，快乐的”)。
前一个元素，最终源自原始日耳曼語 *frawaz并与中古英語 frow (“匆忙的”)同源；之后的元素，最终源自*-līkaz并与-ly、-like同源。

more frolic (comparative)
most frolic (superlative)

开心的，欢快的，欢腾的，闹腾的 （自16世纪30年代）

The frolick wind that breathes the Spring,

1645, John Milton, “L’Allegro” in Poems, London: Humphrey Moseley, p. 31,

For women, born to be controul’d,

1682, Edmund Waller, “Of Love” in Poems, &c. written upon several occasions, and to several persons, London: H. Herringman, 5th edition, 1686, p. 73,

You meet him at the tables and conversations of the wise, the impertinent, the grave, the frolic, and the witty; [...]

1766, Joseph Addison, The Spectator - Volume 5 - Page 304:

Beale, under this frolic menace, took nothing back at all; he was indeed apparently on the point of repeating his extravagence, but Miss Overmore instructed her little charge that she was not to listen to his bad jokes [...].


gorgeous

源自中古英語 gorgeouse，借自中古法語 gorgias (“雅致的，时尚的”)，源自古法語 gourgias、gorgias (“华丽的；花哨的，炫耀的；精致的”)，其词源不详，但可能与古法語 gorgias (“护喉”)有关，其源自古法語 gorge (“胸部；喉咙”)。参见gorge。词义发展可能是“因自豪而挺胸”→“得意，招摇”。

more gorgeous (comparative)
most gorgeous (superlative)

非常令人愉快的；非常美味的，等

Hummus is absolutely gorgeous.


glaring

Leonard: You’re clearly upset about Amy being gone, and you’re trying to replace her with a bunch of cats.

2010, Chuck Lorre et al., The Big Bang Theory, episode “The Zazzy Substitution”


groundhog

whistle-pig

美洲旱獺，北美土撥鼠（Marmota monax）

woodchuck

美洲旱獺，北美土撥鼠（Marmota monax）


confide

源自、，源自拉丁語 confīdere (“相信，信任”)，，源自con- (“一起”) + fidēre (“信任”)。17世纪初叶首次出现于英语中。faith and fidelity的同源對似詞。

"Be calm, lovely Antonia!" he replied; "no danger in near you: confide in my protection."

1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society, 出版於 1985，頁號 269:

In thy protection I confide.


guitar

源自西班牙語 guitarra，源自阿拉伯語 قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra)，源自拉丁語 cithara，源自古希臘語 κιθάρα (kithára)。cithara, cither, and zither的同源對似詞。

We guitared and drummed and head banged and pianoed.

我們彈著吉他，拍著鼓，敲著鋼琴，搖頭晃腦。


fawn

源自中古英語 fawnen，源自古英語 fagnian，fæġnian (“庆祝”)的变换形式，其派生出中古英語 fainen、英語 fain。与古諾爾斯語 fagna同源。还见fain。


handicraft

靠工藝品維生的人；製造工藝品的人

his men were all baſe handie craftes, as coblers, and curriers, and tinkers, whereof ſome had barres of yron[…]

1596, Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traueller: or, The Life of Jacke Wilton:

The M[e]chanicks, and handy-crafts were Induſtrious, Thrifty, and the main ſupporters of the Trade of France.

1691, Sam Norris, The English Spy; Or, the Intrigues, Pollicies, and Stratagems of the French King with His Secret Contrivances, for Undermining the Princes of Christendom, Discovered:

"Why, thou knowest, father," he said, smiling, "that we handicrafts best love the folks we live by;[…]

1828 (reprinted 1842), Sir Walter Scott, The Fair Maid of Perth, Schlesinger:


hand-me-down

“See into life, don’t just look at it” is her [Anne Baxter’s] creditable credo, hand-me-downed from her famous architect grandfather, the late Frank Lloyd Wright。

1963, Celebrity Register: An Irreverent Compendium of American Quotable Notables, Harper & Row，頁號 40:

The carpet was a montage of fade and unfade indicating that when new it had been used in another office—probably Mr. Barlowe’s—and then hand-me-downed when the decorators had cut loose.

1966, Mike Cohen, The Bright Young Man, J. B. Lippincott Company，頁號 27:

The traditional family was poorly adapted to consumption: its raison d’être was rooted in sharing, hand-me-downing, and cooperative endeavor.

1990, Jan E. Dizard, Howard Gadlin, The Minimal Family, The University of Massachusetts Press, →ISBN，頁號 41:

He had scraped together the funds to traipse off to the latest Bonanza camp, to buy speculative stocks, liquor and fine Sacramento meals for his boomer friends and fancy women, while my mother cut pieces of cardboard and canvas into soles to stuff inside our shoes to stop the holes, and hand-me-downed our clothes.

1998, Oakley M. Hall, Ambrose Bierce and the Queen of Spades: A Mystery Novel, Berkeley, Calif., Los Angeles, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN，頁號 124:

The first thing Gabe saw as they pulled close was the flashing lights of Ruleton’s two police cruisers parked off to the side of the road—the new one Sheriff Dodd’s, the humble other the battered black-and-white that he’d hand-me-downed to his deputy, Ralph Simpson.

2006, Tom Bailey, Cotton Song, Shaye Areheart Books, →ISBN，頁號 283:

He could not change the past but he was determined that he would not follow in the grand family hand-me-downed legacy.

2012, Lee Beck, From a Dark Place, AuthorHouse, →ISBN，頁號 442:

Instead I changed into a blue skirt and a white blouse with a scalloped collar, hand-me-downs from Marie Dowd that she had gotten hand-me-downed from cousins in Brooklyn who went to Catholic school.

2017, Carol Zoref, Barren Island, New Issues Poetry & Prose, →ISBN，頁號 157:

He wore a white dress shirt that was buttoned uncomfortably tight around his neck, a black tie, and an oversized blazer that had been hand-me-downed from one of his older cousins.

2018, Ty Marshall, “Love Seldom. Trust Never.”, 出自 Goodfellas, Urban Books, →ISBN, chapter one (The Early Years):


irresponsible

more irresponsible (comparative)
most irresponsible (superlative)

They left the crown what, in the eye and estimation of law, it had ever been, perfectly irresponsible.

1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford, 出版於 2009，頁號 28:


gecko

现代形式可能是由荷蘭語 gekko（1718年）借入英语和其他欧洲语言 (1718）。当时在英语中的形式为chacco（1711年）和jackoa（1724年）。之后的来源不详。一些文献提出了馬來語 gekok、gekoq或gekop，它们可能是仿自壁虎的叫声。其他理论认为源自亞齊語 gèh-gòh (“忙的”)。

像壁虎一样移动（贴在垂直或朝下的平面上）

An emergency handpad, geckoed to the expanding bulkhead, slid past to one side. Sarasti grabbed it and tapped commands.

2006 October, Peter Watts, Blindsight, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN，頁號 344:

And as Dave geckoed his way along the walls, he began seeing more and more skid marks left behind by Damien's Sewer Cruiser.

2009, Wendelin Van Draanen, The Gecko & Sticky: The Greatest Power, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN，頁號 33:

"H-h-here, boss!" Angelo called, and with that Dave kicked into gear, geckoing across the rest of the ceiling to the safety of the adjacent service room.

2010, Wendelin Van Draanen, The Gecko & Sticky: Sinister Substitute, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN，頁號 121:


indemnify

源自in- (“里”) + damnify (“伤害，亏待”)，被同化入indemn和indemnify (“保障，保险；补偿”)。


jack towel

roller towel

環狀長毛巾 （自16世紀）

環狀長毛巾 （自16世紀）

Bronze declared to me that she had never seen such a thing as a jack-towel in the house, nor even the nail-holes where one had been.

Bronze 告訴我，她从来没有在房子里见过像毛巾这样的东西，甚至连钉孔都没有见过。

1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, 出版於 1986，頁號 271:


hobnob

源自hob and nob、hob or nob (干杯时所喊出的一个短语，可能意为give and take，指轮流干杯或轮流买酒，现已古旧)，源自方言词hab nab (“有或没有，指去喝酒的邀请”)，源自古英語 habban (“拥有”)（最终源自原始印歐語 *keh₂p- (“拿，掠”)） + nabban (“没有”)（源自ne（最终源自原始印歐語 *ne (“不，否”)） + habban）。

He is knight dubb'd with vnhatche'd Rapier, and on carpet conſideration, but he is a diuell in priuate brall, soules and bodies hath he diuorc'd three, and his incenſement at this moment is ſo implacable, that ſatisfaction can be none, but by pangs of death and ſepulcher: Hob, nob, is his word: giu't or take't.

c. 1601–1602 （写稿日期）, 威廉·莎士比亚, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will [第十二夜]”, 出自 Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio（第一对开本）), 伦敦: […] Isaac Iaggard和Ed[ward] Blount, 出版於 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]，頁號 269:


lingam

古典借詞，源自梵語 लिङ्गम् (liṅgam, लिङ्ग (liṅga, “標誌，標記；陰莖”)的主格單數)。

當用於“陰莖”時，主要見於含有印度教、阿育吠陀、怛特羅、瑜珈的語境下，或譯自梵語的文章。

罕用和/或委婉；參見[[#使用說明]]

Once both partners have felt the connection it is up to the woman to give the signal that permission to enter has been granted. She may whisper her invitation to enter, use her hands to guide his lingam, or press against him, causing his lingam to open her.

2013, Anaiya Sophia, Sacred Sexual Union: The Alchemy of Love, Power, and Wisdom, Rochester: Inner Traditions, →ISBN, →OCLC, →ISBN:

He still enjoys a tumble with her now as much as when they were youngsters, his voice cracking and his lingam a sprout that seemed never to get soft.

2008, John Speed, Tiger Claws: A Novel of India, New York: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, →OCLC，頁號 139, →ISBN:

When the sages saw the great god Siva so haggard and sad, they treated him with scorn and saluted him only with bent heads.
Sica:Template:SIC, tired and weary, asked only for "alms". Thus the god went about begging along the roads of Darauvanam.
As the women looked at him, they felt a pang in their heart. Their minds were perturbed and their hearts agitated by the sensations of love. They forsook the beds of the sages and followed Siva.
As the sages saw their wives following Siva, they pronounced a curse upon him;
"May his lingam fall to the ground."

1993, Hilton Hotema, Son of Perfection, Pomeroy, Washington: Health Research, →ISBN, →OCLC，頁號 50, →ISBN:

I gaze into the starry void, into Dominique’s eyes, into the blackness behind my own sealed eyelids as her lips envelop my lingam, and I feel a feedback channel opening between this creature of obsession and the dormant natural man.

2011, Norman Spinrad, The Void Captain's Tale, United Kingdom: Orion, →ISBN, →ISBN:


equinox

原始印歐語詞
 *nókʷts
繼承自中古英語 equinox、equinoxe、equynox (“一年中晝夜等長的兩個時段之一，二分點；黃道十二宮中的白羊座或天秤座，在這兩個星座中，太陽穿過天體赤道”)，來自古法語 equinoce、equinoxe (現代法語 équinoxe)或來自詞源中世紀拉丁語 ēquinoxium、ēquinoctium，來自拉丁語 aequinoctium (“二分點”)，來自aequus (“同等”) + nox (“夜晚”) (源頭衍生自原始印歐語 *nókʷts (“夜晚”)) + -ium (構成抽象名詞的後綴)。這個拉丁語詞彙，被後來衍生的中古英語和現代英語所採用，取代了古英語 efnniht (現代英語 evennight)。
罕見的另一個複數形式equinoctes將equinox視為一個拉丁語詞彙；拉丁語 nox (“夜晚”)的複數是noctēs。

evennight

分點，二分點，晝夜平分點（春分或秋分）

一種強風，被認為在春分前後頻繁出現，現在知道是一種誤解；春分大風

The Equinox drove the sand into their faces or round their legs, as they dived among the sheep-haunted hollows.

1920年September1日, Rudyard Kipling, “The Satisfaction of a Gentleman”, 出自 The London Magazine, London: Hunt and Clarke, […], →OCLC; republished on the website of The Kipling Society, accessed 7 September 2022，於2021-12-22歸檔自原頁面:


nondescript

more nondescript (comparative)
most nondescript (superlative)

undescribed

（学术文献中）无记载的，无描述的

unidentified

（学术文献中）无记载的，无描述的

（学术文献中）无记载的，无描述的


hoodwink

动词派生自hood (“兜帽，风帽”) + wink (“闭眼”)。
名词派生自动词。


mignon

源自法語 mignon，源自中古法語 mignon (“爱人”)，源自古法語 mignon (“精致的，舒心的，温柔的”)，源自古法蘭克語 *minnjo (“爱情，友情，喜爱，回忆”)，源自原始日耳曼語 *minþijō、*mindijō (“想念，关怀”)，源自原始印歐語 *men-、*mnā- (“想”)。与古高地德語 minnja (“爱，关怀，欲望，回忆”)、古撒克遜語 minnea (“爱”)同源。见mind。亦对比minion和荷蘭語 minnen (“爱”)。

可爱的人，可爱的孩子（18到19世纪）

“I wish the blow he dealt to that fine essenced mignon had beat his brains out.”

1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt 2008, p. 264:


kibosh

可能是bosh (“胡言”)的变体。

Still I wish you a 'Appy New Year, if you care for the kibosh, old Chappie, / Though 'taint 'Igh Art Cards full o' gush and green paint 'll make you and me 'appy. / Wot we want is lucre and larks, love and lotion as much as you'll carry!

1885年January3日, ’Arry [pseudonym], “’Arry on ’Appiness”, 出自 Punch, or The London Charivari, 卷 LXXXVIII, London: […] Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., […], →OCLC，頁號 4，列號 1:

Gar'n! Gives me the 'ump, all this kibosh 'bout morals, and taste, and all that.

1887年April9日, ’Arry [pseudonym], “Studies from Mr. Punch’s Studio. No. XXIV.”, 出自 Punch, or The London Charivari, 卷 XCII, London: […] Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., […], →OCLC，頁號 172，列號 2:


kibosh

She was, in very Sooth, among the highest of the Rollers, but Hiram stood for the Bills with nary a Whimper. He was proud to be the Husband of the Lady Ki-Bosh of the Local Knickerbockers.

1904 March, George Ade, “Rugged Hiram and Hiram’s Giddy Wife”, 出自 Breaking into Society, New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC，頁號 34:


perfectionist

完善論者；認為今生可以達到宗教上或道德上完美的人 （自17世紀起）


providence

源自盎格魯-諾曼語 providence、中古法語 providence，及两者词源拉丁語 prōvidentia (“远虑”)，源自prōvidēre (“提供”)的现在分词。取代了本土词古英語 foresċēawung。

预先准备，深谋远虑，远见 （自14世纪）


prevarication

源自盎格魯-諾曼語 prevaricassion、中古法語 prevarication和其来源，拉丁語 praevāricātiō (“与对手串通；偏离正轨；欺瞒”)，源自praevāricor的词干。

/pɹɪˌvæɹɪˈkeɪʃən/

/pɹɪˌvæɹəˈkeɪʃən/


passage

繼承自中古英語，源自古法語 passage，源自 passer (“通過”)。

開闢一條（尤指海上的）通道

They passaged to America in 1902.

他们于1902年移居美国。


pantomime

约17世纪，源自拉丁語 pantomīmus，源自古希臘語 παντόμιμος (pantómimos)，源自πᾶς (pâs, “全”) + μιμέομαι (miméomai, “模仿”)。

滑稽哑剧演员 （自17世纪）

[He] saw a pantomime perform so well that he could follow the performance from the action alone.

1865, Edward Burnett Tylor, Researches into the Early History of Mankind and the Development of Civilization


recluse

源自古法語 reclus，reclure的过去分词，源自拉丁語 reclūdere，reclūdō (“公开，揭露；打开”)的现在主动不定式，源自re- + claudō (“关闭”)。

more recluse (comparative)
most recluse (superlative)

a recluse monk or hermit


pussy

對女孩或女人親熱的稱呼 （16世紀－）

If Lloyd George’s endearments to mistress Frances Stevenson – “My darling Pussy. You might phone… on Friday if you can come. Don’t let Hankey see you” – had been made similarly public, would he have maintained his own reputation as a towering statesman?
如果勞埃德·喬治對情婦弗朗西斯·史蒂文森的愛慕─我親愛的小貓。你星期五…可以打電話，如果你能來的話。不要讓漢克看到你─也同樣被公開，他還能保持自己作為一個高大政治家的聲譽嗎？

2010, Jojo Moyes, "Why love letters are better left unread", The Telegraph, 3 Jun 2010:


regale

源自法語 régaler (“取悦于，款待”)，源自古法語 regale、rigale，源自gale (“欢乐”)，可能源自日耳曼語族（参见古法語 galer）。受到了古法語 se rigoler (“开心，愉悦”)的影响，其词源不详。对比中古高地德語 begalen (“迷住”)、英語 gale (“唱歌；使...陶醉”)。亦对比英語 gala。

The noise from the servants' hall was rendered more acutely painful by her headach; for her aunt, partly with a view of annoying her niece, whom she disliked—as we always dislike those we have used ill—had left orders for a general regale.

1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], 章號 IX, 出自 Romance and Reality. […], 卷 II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC，頁號 136:


bating

I replied, That he was a very unworthy man, if it were true, to speak slightingly of a family, which was as good as his own, bating that it was not allied to the peerage […].

‘There is but little I have heard from you which I did not expect to hear, and which I ought not to have expected; because, bating one circumstance, it is all very true.’


buckra

借自埃菲克語 mbakara或伊比比奧語 mbakara；對照古拉語 buckra (“白人”)。

“Dunno whether he been a buckra or not,” responded, doggedly, my Cerberus in uniform; “but I’s bound to keep him here till de corporal ob de guard come.”

1865, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, “Leaves from an Officer’s Journal” in The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865, p. 69,

What I think of Abe Lincoln? I think he was a poor buckra white man, to de likes of me.

1941, Ed Barber, interview published in Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Washington: Library of Congress, Volume 14: South Carolina Narratives, Part 1,


portly

portlier (comparative)
portliest (superlative)

英俊的，潇洒的 （自15世纪）

Portly his person was, and much increast
Through his Heroicke grace and honourable gest.

1590, 埃德蒙·斯宾塞, “Book III, Canto II”, 出自 仙后（The Faerie Qveene . […]）, London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

Be studious well to imitate
My portly motion, mien, and gait

1728, Jonathan Swift, A Dialogue between Mad Mullinix and Timothy:


belie

源自中古英語 belyen、beleoȝen，源自古英語 belēogan (“欺骗”)，源自原始西日耳曼語 *bileugan (“欺骗”)。等价于be- (“关于”) + lie (“欺骗”)。对比荷蘭語 beliegen (“说关于...的谎”)、德語 belügen (“欺骗，对...说谎”)。

slander

说关于...的谎 （自13世纪）

calumniate

说关于...的谎 （自13世纪）

misrepresent

歪曲，歪曲关于...的事实，错误代表

contradict

与...相反，与...矛盾；表明...是错误的 （自17世纪）

give lie to

与...相反，与...矛盾；表明...是错误的 （自17世纪）

give the lie to

与...相反，与...矛盾；表明...是错误的 （自17世纪）

指责...说谎 （自17世纪）

They haue belyed the Lord, and ſaid; It is not he, neither ſhall euill come vpon vs, neither ſhal we ſee ſwoꝛd noꝛ famine.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 5:12，列號 1:

Three belied you, three betrayed you! One you betrayed was three times true! Lord Voryn Dagoth, Dagoth Ur, steadfast liegeman, faithful friend, bids you come and climb Red Mountain!

2002 May 1, Bethesda Softworks, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, →OCLC，Microsoft Windows，幕：Ashlander Informant:


panentheism

借自德語 Panentheismus，1828年由卡尔·克里斯蒂安·弗里德里希·克劳泽所創造，借用古希臘語 πᾶν ἐν θεῷ (pân en theôi, “所有的神”)加上 + -ismus (“表示主義的後綴”)而成。


rubberband

Rubberband them together.

2001, Braiding: Easy Styles for Everyone ISBN 0766837645, page 71:

Long red-gray hair in a rubberbanded ponytail, […]

2013, Phil Rickman, The Fabric of Sin ISBN 1623652839:

Editors are very set in their ways of whether they prefer doing level changes within a clip by rubberbanding or by breaking the clip into pieces and adjusting the levels of each piece.

2014, Steve Hullfish, Avid Uncut ISBN 1134070632:


duodecillion

duo- + decillion；或來自拉丁語 duodecim (“十二”) + -illion。


PSU

psu (“practical salinity unit，實際鹽度單位”)的大小寫替代形式


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

泛指一系列基於Intel 8086且向下相容的中央處理器指令集架構
特別指原始的16位元版本的x86指令集架構


meme

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

將……轉變成網路迷因；（在現實生活中）使用網路迷因

to meme into existence

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

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

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

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


averse

源自拉丁語 aversus，avertere (“背过身；避免”)的过去分词。

[…] and, in this panegyrick of the Teutonick blood, I have so prolixly insisted, not only to vindicate our own, as being a stream of the same, and to evince the nobility thereof, but withal to convince the folly of those wretches among us, who aversing ours do so much adhere unto, and dote upon descents from France and Normandy.

The inconveniences aversing from clandestine marriages are pointedly depicted in the last two lines, teaching lessons of morality to all romantic babies.

1859, The Yale Literary Magazine, 卷 24, 期 7，頁號 302:


die

源自中古英語 deyen，源自古英語 dīeġan和古諾爾斯語 deyja，两者均源自原始日耳曼語 *dawjan (“死”)。取代了古英語 sweltan，其派生出现代英语 swelt。

死 后接with，表示间接死因：

And there were some who died with fevers, which at some seasons of the year was very frequent in the land.

1830, Joseph Smith, The Book of Mormon, Richards, 出版於 1854，頁號 337:


Cinderella

來自cinder（如little cinder girl）。對照法語 Cendrillon。

/ˌsɪndəˈɹɛlə/


Cinderella

/ˌsɪndəˈɹɛlə/

清洁工女性（工作多为清理火炉中的灰）


Katar

Between Katar and the nearest limits of the province of Sharja, namely, the village of Aboo-Debee, the desert comes right down to the sea

在卡塔爾和沙迦省最近的邊界之間，即 Aboo-Debee 村，沙漠一直延伸到大海

1864, W.G. Palgrave, “Observations in Central, Eastern and Southern Arabia”, 出自 Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, 卷 34，頁號 145:

Katar, the pearl-fishery coast east of Hasa. Its inhabitants, said to be 135,000 in number, find an almost exclusive occupation in the pearl trade.

卡塔爾，哈薩以東的珍珠漁業海岸。 其居民人數據說有 135,000 人，幾乎以珍珠貿易為業。

1875, Day Otis Kellogg, “Arabia”, 出自 Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 卷 2，頁號 222:


Lettland

[…] homestead of this nation is not the whole of Livonia, but only a part of which is called Lettland; […]

1800, William Tools, View of the Russian Empire:

The Government of Lettland since July 1 last pays a bonus on farm tractors put into service in that country […]


Heimweh

For the long trail stretched before us, for we heard the call, / Left the hearthstone and the homeland, felt the rover's thrall; / Wandered to the far horizon, sought the joy of life— / Now the wanderlust is waning, heimweh now is rife.

1908年December12日, Harry Davids, Tom Springer, “Christmas Sorrows”, 出自 Alfred Holman 編, The Argonaut, 卷 LXIII, 期 1655, San Francisco, Calif.: Argonaut Publishing Company, →OCLC，頁號 397，列號 1:


axioma

源自拉丁語 axiōma，源自古希臘語 ἀξίωμα (axíōma)；參見 axiom。


Francia

借自拉丁語 Francia。France的同源對似詞。

Frankia (“法蘭克尼亞”)的另一種拼寫法。


manga

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

Lately I've been reading a Brazilian manga.

最近我在讀一本巴西漫畫。


MRI

When the delirium stopped and it was safe to take Versed, her doctors doped her up and she managed to endure the MRI, on condition that I remain with her all the time. They MRIed her skull for thirty minutes, and two days later MRIed her spine for an hour.

2005, Donald Hall, The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN，頁號s 99–100:

Remarkably, no one to that point had suggested MRIing my leg, which is where my pain actually was. Everyone surmised that the issue was really in my back. Dr. Smith scheduled an MRI for that very day.

2014, Mark Herzlich, What It Takes: Fighting For My Life and My Love of the Game, New York, NY: New American Library, →ISBN，頁號 74:


abysmal

more abysmal (comparative)
most abysmal (superlative)

unending

深渊的，与深渊有关的，深不可测的 （首次可考于17世纪中叶）

profound

深渊的，与深渊有关的，深不可测的 （首次可考于17世纪中叶）

fathomless

深渊的，与深渊有关的，深不可测的 （首次可考于17世纪中叶）

immeasurable

深渊的，与深渊有关的，深不可测的 （首次可考于17世纪中叶）

深渊的，与深渊有关的，深不可测的 （首次可考于17世纪中叶）

（First attested in the early 19ᵗʰ century.）


accountable

more accountable (comparative)
most accountable (superlative)

True religion . . . intelligible, rational, and accountable, -- not a burden but a privilege.

1703, Benjamin Whichcote, Moral and Religious Aphorisms:


abominate

首次記錄於1644年。可能自abomination 的逆構詞。或者，派生自晚期拉丁語 abōminātus，abōminarī (“貶低為不祥之兆”) 的過去分詞，源自ab + ominari (“預示、預兆”)，源自omen。

more abominate (comparative)
most abominate (superlative)

/əˈbɒm.əˌnəɪt/

/əˈbɒm.ɪˌnəɪt/

可惡的、厭惡的 （首次記錄於16世紀晚期）


deo

Some men complain their deos don't work after regular use. Your underarm area can build up immunity to the same product. Alternating two deos can give you total protection.

2005, Drum: A Magazine of Africa for Africa (issues 687-694, page 32)

He brandishes a can of deodorant (deo) spray as he says this, grinning all the time. 'I started using this about two years ago. I didn't realise deos can be so useful in controlling sweating and keeping me feeling fresh. […]

2014, Damodar Mall, Supermarketwala: Secrets To Winning Consumer India:

'Maybe it's a teeny bit embarrassing, but seeing that we're good friends, Jabłonovska, don't you use any deo?' 'Any what?' 'Deo. Deodorant.' She pronounced the final T sharply and distinctly.


working girl

仅按字面意思，并无比喻或俗语义；参见working、girl。


nudiustertian

借自拉丁語 nudius tertius，源自短語 nunc dies tertius est (“现在是第三天”)。此詞為納撒尼爾·沃德 (1578–1652) 於《The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America》（1647）中所造。

One of the best Chocolate gateau^([sic，意為gateaux]) I have ever had! And I just had it nudiustertian afternoon.

2015年April14日, “Jet”, “Jamaica Blue”, 出自 Brewtiful Coffee (blog)，於2016-04-10歸檔自原頁面:

Nudiustertian – adjective Definition: Want a new way to mention something that happened on Wednesday – the day before yesterday? Here you go. Example: “I shared some corned beef hash that nudiustertian morning.”

2015年August21日, “Jaffe Morning Briefing”, 出自 NJTV，於2015-09-06歸檔自原頁面:


abe

Let it abe, I say.

1839, The New Monthly Magazine, volume 1, page 527:

But if it amuses her I let it abe.

1864, Charles Dickens, Household Words，頁號 186:

But let that abe.

1885, Charles Gibbon, Heart's Delight，頁號 154:


flabbergasted

more flabbergasted (comparative)
most flabbergasted (superlative)


WTF

where the fuck, why the fuck, when the fuck 或 who the fuck 的缩略。


ghoti

儘管常被認為是蕭伯納 (1856–1950)創造的，這個詞最晚在1855年就出現了。
讀音與fish (/fɪʃ/)相同，表現了英語中的不規則讀法：
* gh：/f/，同laugh，/læf/、/læːf/、/laːf/；
* o：/ɪ/，同women，/ˈwɪmɪn/、/ˈwɪmən/；
* ti：/ʃ/，同nation，/ˈneɪʃən/。

本詞極少使用，但很常被拿出來討論。

以英語中不規則的讀法構造出的詞，與fish讀音相同。

有關本詞的更多用例，請參閱Citations:ghoti。


ey

一種中性的第三人稱單數物主代詞，“斯皮瓦克代词”，等同於單數的they，和he + she。

Eir sentences would sound smoother since ey wouldn't clutter them with the old sexist pronouns. And if ey should trip up in the new usage, ey would only have emself to blame.

1975年August23日, Judie Black, “Ey has a word for it”, 出自 Chicago Tribune, section 1，頁號 12:

I'm not familiar with this book, but I encourage Marksmill to look for it-- and while ey is at it, to also look at a number of other books.

1996年December22日, Shirley Worth, “New To Yoga”, 出自 alt.yoga (Usenet), message-ID <32BDCA0C.6C8@worth.org>:

If a mobile user is far from eir home area, ey will pay a long-distance fee for carriage of the call *from* eir home area, just as a caller would pay long-distance on a call *to* that area.

1997年November25日, Scott Robert Dawson, “Who Pays for Cellular Calls”, 出自 alt.cellular (Usenet), message-ID <347acf56.333719@news.interlog.com>:


transexual

more transexual (comparative)
most transexual (superlative)


transexual

As an afterthought, I think I might be entitled to point out that I (and others in the same position) who have had electrolysis, taken hormones and live as a woman full time am not a transexual, are wrong. While all of these things are done by those who ARE transexuals, it does not follow that all who do them are transexuals. This is the same false logic that society follows when it in effect says (wrongly in both cases) that homosexuals wear dresses and make up, therefore all males who wear dresses and make up are homosexuals. I’m sure most of you have been resenting that implication for as long as you’ve been TVs. Naturally I resent the assumption that I am a TS for the same reason—the logic is false. I, at least, know the difference between sex and gender and have simply elected to change the latter and not the former. If a word is necessary, I should be termed a “transgenderal.”

1969 December, Virginia Prince, “Change of Sex or Gender”, 出自 Transvestia, 卷 IX, 期 60, Chevalier Publications, →LCCN，2021-12-28歸檔自原頁面，頁號 65:


nare

There is a Machiavelian plot, / Tho' ev'ry nare olfact it not;

1663, Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, part 1, canto 1


abstractively

more abstractively (comparative)
most abstractively (superlative)

抽象地 （最早見於17世紀早期）


of course

習慣的，自然的 （16世紀）

I am not using a mere phrase of course, when I say that the feelings with which I bear a part in the ceremony of this day, are such as I find it difficult to utter in words.

1849, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Miscellaneous Writings:


of course

naturally

當然，明顯地 （19世紀）

indisputably

當然，明顯地 （19世紀）

He inspired love and emulation wherever he appeared; envy and jealous rage followed of course; so that he became a very desirable, though a very dangerous acquaintance.

1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, I.20:

Not tarrying long enough in the brain to be subject to reflection, the next sensations, of course, obliterate them.

1790, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men:


Michal

源自希伯來語 מִיכַל (mikhál)。

源自希伯來語的女性人名。


absolvent

源自拉丁語 absolvēns (詞幹：absolvent-)，源自absolvō (“赦免，宣告無罪”)。

more absolvent (comparative)
most absolvent (superlative)

Patriotism, hounded on by Prussian Terror, by Preternatural Suspicion, roars tumultuous round the Salle de Manége, all day; insults many leading Deputies, of the absolvent Right-side[.]

1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History


pizza nigger

I've seen the Godfather 27 times and every time some wasp gets wacked by one of those pizza niggers.

2001, "Rush Limbush", Re: Note To PI Comic (on newsgroup alt.comedy.standup):

He brought the two mugs to the table. “Carmine says to lay off your two pizza niggers.”

他把兩個杯子擺在桌上。“Carmine 說要辭掉你們兩個意大利佬。”

2007, Vahan Gregory, Where the Sun Don't Shine，頁號 42:


advertise

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

Socrates being advertiſed, that the God of wiſdome, had attributed the name of wiſe vnto him, was thereat much aſtoniſhed, and diligently ſearching and rouzing vp himſelf, and ranſaking the very ſecrets of his heart, found no foundation or ground for his divine ſentence.

1603, Michel de Montaigne, “An Apologie of Raymond Sebond”, 出自 John Florio（譯者）, The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC，頁號 288:

[…] I am daily advertiſed by ſeveral friends and correſpondents from Oxford, that I have omitted many particulars, which it is proper to animadvert upon, in order to compleat the Secret Hiſtory of that place; and I have therefore, in compliance with their requeſt, reſolved to reſume this work, and continue to publiſh ſome part of it every Act-Term, till the whole is finiſhed, and the ſubject fully exhauſted: […]

1726, Terræ Filius [pseudonym; Nicholas Amherst], “[The Dedication]”, 出自 Terræ-Filius: Or, the Secret History of the University of Oxford; in Several Essays. To which are Added, Remarks upon a Late Book, Entitled, University Education, by R. Newton, D.D. Principal of Hart-Hall. In Two Volumes, 2nd版, 卷 I, London: Printed for R. Francklin, under Tom's Coffee-House, in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden, →OCLC，頁號 xi:


aggravate

源自拉丁語 aggravatus，aggravare (“給……增重，使變差，使煩惱”)的過去分詞，源自ad (“到”) + gravare (“使變重”)，源自gravis (“重的”)。參見grave，對比aggrieve、aggrege。

/ˈæɡ.ɹə.veɪ̯t/

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

使程度/重量增加 （自16世紀）

He aggravated the story.


Indian

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

大洋洲原住民 （自18世紀）


Indian

印度的語言（尤其指印地語）

[They said] 'Mutton can speak Indian', 'Mutton can see Kanchinjunga out of his bedroom window'[.]

1968 Anne Rider, A hilltop in hazard, page 51:


were wolf

All these tortures he resisted till the hangman gave him an intoxicating draught, and under its influence he confessed that he was a were wolf after all.

1830, The Polar star of Entertainment and Popular Science:

"Ah! Madame!" they said, "what is the use, what can we do against a were wolf?"

They say that a person turns into a were wolf when he is bitten by another lycanthrope, or even by an ordinary wolf.

2009, Ferran Alexandri, The Big Book Of Fantastic Creatures, →ISBN，頁號 19:


trahison

That this trahison would take a partly “multicultural” form was also something that was slowly ceasing to surprise me.

2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2010, p. 270:


copywrite

copywrites
copywriting
copywrote
copywritten


two hundred fifty-sixth note

When you cut four quarter notes in half, you get eight eighth notes, and so on, down the road, all the way to two-hundred-fifty-sixth notes.

2009, Phyllis Sdoia-Satz, Practicing sucks, but it doesn't have to!: surviving music lessons:


zoophilia

/ˈzəʊ.əʊfɪliə/

有關本詞的更多用例，請參閱Citations:zoophilia。


absurdness

荒謬的狀態。（最早起於16世紀中期）


quicklier

The terrified sailors would have begun to depart quicklier than they did, had not fear itself made them move slowly.

如果不是恐懼本身讓他們行動緩慢，嚇壞了的水手們會更快開始離開。

1834, Leigh Hunt, The Indicator, and the Companion，頁號 6:

The apprentice will learn much better and quicklier how to do things for knowing beforehand why he is bidden to do them in any particular way[…]

學徒會更好、更快地學習如何做事，因為他事先知道為什麼要以任何特定的方式做這些事情。

1871, The Cornhill Magazine, 卷 24，頁號 332:


smithereen

/smɪðəˈɹiːn/

/ˌsmɪðəˈɹin/


xenophobian

仇外者；有仇外心理的人。


tern

原始印歐語詞
 *tréyes
名詞義項派生自晚期中古英語 terne (“骰子點數為三”)，源自古法語 terne (“三個人，三人一組”)（現代法語 terne），源自拉丁語 ternās，ternī (“每次三個”)的陰性賓格複數，源自ter (“三次”)（源自原始印歐語 *tréyes (“三”)）+ -ī（源自-us (形容詞後綴)）。
形容詞義項可能來自名詞，也可能直接來自拉丁語 ternī (“每次三個”)。

tern flowers; tern leaves

a tern schooner


jerkoff

源自動詞jerk off (“自慰”)。

Slob or Slop for a dirty child, Beans for a child who breaks wind, Jerk-off for a child who masturbates.

髒兮兮的小孩被叫做“Slob”或“Slop”，放屁的小孩被叫做“Beans”，自慰的小孩被叫做“Jerk-off”。

1935, Lawson Gentry Lowrey, “Proceedings of the 8th- annual meeting of the American Orthopsychiatric Association”, 出自 American journal of orthopsychiatry, Volume 5 - Page 279, 卷 5，頁號 279:


nymphe

nymph的另一種拼寫法


allowed

more allowed (comparative)
most allowed (superlative)

承認屬實的 （自15世紀）


summer camp

summer camps
summer camping
summer camped


nota bene

源自古典拉丁語 notā bene (“好好留意”)。

/ˌnəʊtə ˈbɛneɪ/

對短語 nota bene 或其變體的使用。引申義：
本質上類似 nota bene 的注意、指示

對短語 nota bene 或其變體的使用。引申義：
需要得到注意的事物


Scot

源自古英語 Scottas (“愛爾蘭人”)，源自晚期拉丁語 Scotti。

轉變自姓氏的男性人名，Scott的變體。


cogitant

源自拉丁語 cōgitans，cōgitō (“想，思考”)的現在主動不定式。

more cogitant (comparative)
most cogitant (superlative)


suant

源自中古英語 suant，源自盎格魯-諾曼語 suant，源自古法語 suiant、sivant，sivre (“跟隨”) 的現在分詞，源自拉丁語 sequor。

more suant (comparative)
most suant (superlative)


suant

Peter and his wife did not get on very "suant" together.

彼得和他老婆的生活過得不是很“順利”。

1899, Sabine Baring-Gould, Book of the West，頁號 252:


old hat

不详。《牛津英语词典》认为与德語 alter Hut (名词, 字面意思是“旧帽子”)有关。

Upon which she very pertly reply'd, She had done that not with a Design to affront but to convince me of the Value she had for my Present; for that if the Pedantick Blockhead should come, he should only have a little bit of Old-Hat to stay his Stomach, till he got to some Harlot of his own Puritanical Flock […]

1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, letter XI:

'Tis a Nest, a Niche, an Old Hat, an Omnibus, an Oyster, a Palace o' Pleasure.


acker

不详，可能是eagre的变体。

The wide lovely lake lay in dreamy serenity, fretted with green undulations, ruffed with blue, patched with glades of lucid smoothness between the ackers ….

1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 436:


survivant

more survivant (comparative)
most survivant (superlative)


tewel

來自中古英語 tuwel，來自古法語 tueil, tuel, tudel (“管”)（現代法語 tuyau也經由此），來自通俗拉丁語 *tūta，來自古法蘭克語 *thūta (“管”)，來自原始日耳曼語 *þeutǭ (“管，水道，流”)，來自*þeutaną (“嚎叫，吼，鳴”)，來自原始印歐語 *tu-, *tutu- (“鳥泣鳴，尖叫”)。對照來自同一日耳曼語族源頭的西班牙語 and 葡萄牙語 tudel。

通風口、煙囪、管道（特別是通向爐子或風箱的管道）

Lamasure, M. Le Petit, French patent of, for a double-case furnace tewel supplied with water, &c., xiv. (3d s.) 29

1846, The Repertory of Patent Inventions and Other Discoveries, page 128:

Also, there are no obvious differences in the proportion of tewel pieces with attached slag in the two furnace types.

1987, Ian Hodder, The Archaeology of Contextual Meanings, →ISBN，頁號 5:

[…] the ore-smelting furnace is like a pregnant woman. […] For example, the furnace is described as the reproductive organs of a woman in one of the lessons in the Venda domba ritual while the tewel pipes are described as being symbolically male (Blacking 1969, p. 167).

2014, The Archaeology of Africa: Food, Metals and Towns ISBN 1134679424, page 502:


trucidate

借自拉丁語 trucīdāre。

even Marat and Robespierre considered themselves as denouncing, and trucidating only the enemies of the republic.

甚至馬拉和羅伯斯庇爾也認為他們自己只是在譴責和殺害共和國的敵人。

1815, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, Modern Chivalry: Containing the Adventures of a Captain and Teague O'Regan:

Butt.

1938, James Bridie, The Last Trump，頁號 15:


atterrate

借自意大利語 atterrare。對照晚期拉丁語 atterrare (“扔到地上”)。


trice

源自中古英語 trīce、tryys、tryyst，源自中古荷蘭語 trīse、trijs（现代荷蘭語 trijs (“滑轮，绞盘”)）或中古低地德語 trīsse、trītse (“起重用的绳子，索具”)；可能与[[#词源 1]]的动词trice和古英語 tryndel (“滚筒，滚轮”)（详见trend、trindle）有关。英语词与丹麥語 tridse、trisse (“滑轮”)、低地德語 trissel (“眩晕”)、德語 trieze (“吊车；滑轮”)、挪威語 triss (“滑轮”)、瑞典語 trissa (“滑轮”)同源。


Maryam

借自阿拉伯語 مَرْيَم (maryam) 和波斯語 مریم (maryam)。Mary and Miriam的同源對似詞。


lamentful

more lamentful (comparative)
most lamentful (superlative)


publicate

引自16世紀中葉的文獻，源自拉丁語 拉丁語 publicat (“發表，使公眾知道”)


transluce

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

半透明或透明，光能夠透過

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

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

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

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

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

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


Shaye

轉變自姓氏 或 源自愛爾蘭語的女性人名，Shay的變體。


Halsey

英格蘭地名，繼承自古英語 hals (“土地的頸部”) + īeġ (“島”)


epopee

借自法語 épopée。


crepuscule

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

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


Denys

源自古希臘語的男性人名，Denis 的異體拼寫


averruncate

源自拉丁語 āverruncāre (“避免”)，源自 āb (“除去”) + verruncāre (“轉動”)，但被解釋為 āb + ēruncāre (“除去，剔除”)，並使用了對應的拼寫。

Unless by providential wit, / Or force, we averruncate it.

1859, Samuel Butler, “Canto 1, Line 758”, 出自 Henry George Bohn 編, Hudibras，頁號 31:


shash

The machine shashed and crackled, broadcasting silence. Urgently the man repeated, 'Shearwater, Shearwater, Shearwater. This is Brewmarine. Keith speaking. Over. Over.' More shashing, more silence.


contrariant

繼承自中古英語 contrariaunt，源自古法語 contrariant，源自晚期拉丁語 contrāriāns，contrāriō 的現在分詞。

相反；具有相反性質的事物


icecube

ice cube的另一種拼寫法

She began to listen for the clunk and drop of the icecubes again— She fought it off.

2011, 斯蒂芬·金, 末日逼近：完整未刪節版（The Stand: Complete and uncut edition），頁號 298:


Rob

轉變自名字的姓氏，來自 Robert


Abdon

借自希伯來語 עבדון (abdon, “僕人”)。對照阿拉伯語 عَبْد (ʕabd)。

源自希伯來語的男性人名。


Stancel

可能源自：
* 古英語 stane cell，意為“石室”；或來自英格蘭村名 Stancil。
* 德語 Stenzel。
* 波蘭-猶太裔姓氏 Stencel。
* 波蘭語 Stanisław 或俄語 Станислав (Stanislav)。
* 羅馬尼亞語 stâncă (字面意思是“岩石；岩壁”)。


masturbatrix

masturbatrices (plural)
masturbatrixes (plural)

Thus under the Restoration one spoke of the branleuses or masturbatrixes of the Palais Royal, whose clients, students for the most part, came to have their hard-ons massaged away for a few centimes.

1987, anonymous author, Pleasure's Mistress:

Mony quickly divested himself of his clothes, then, cock aloft, fully rigid, he flung himself upon the two masturbatrices, attempting to separate them. But his hands slipped on their damp and gleaming bodies which were coiled about like snakes.

1995, Guillaume Apollinaire, Flesh Unlimited: Two Erotic Novellas，頁號 17:

Beresford triumphs again with this intoxicating tale, filled with castle dungeons and tightly corseted ladies-in-waiting, naughty viscounts and impossibly cruel masturbatrixes […]

1997, Michael Ford, Butch Boys: Stories for Men Who Need It Bad:

The actress wanted to stretch in a role that was 180 degrees away from the omnivorous Tramell and the masturbatrix from Sutton.

1997, Frank Sanello, Naked instinct: the unauthorized biography of Sharon Stone:


potto

源自一西非語言；對比阿坎語 apɔsɔ。


bewile

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

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

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

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


preludium

(現罕用) 前奏，序幕，先聲

[…]and ſo the dyſputation beganne, ſette a woꝛke by the Prolocutor with a verye ſhoꝛte pꝛæludium.

1563, Iohn Foxe, “Book 5”, 出自 Actes and Monuments of theſe latter and perillous dayes […] , London: Iohn Day，頁號 1006:


étincelé

大塊底色上鋪滿火花狀圖案的


absterge

源自法語和中古法語 absterger，或源自中世紀拉丁語 abstergēre，abstergeō (“擦去”) 的現在主動不定式，源自拉丁語 abs- + tergeō (“擦去”)。

cleanse

擦拭以使乾淨 （最早見於16世紀早期）

purge

擦拭以使乾淨 （最早見於16世紀早期）

擦拭以使乾淨 （最早見於16世紀早期）


adulter

源自拉丁語 adulterō。

(現罕用) 通姦者（多指姦夫）


réclame

源自法語 réclame。

宣傳；廣告 （自19世紀）


analize

Cheating babe analized and boobs jizzed

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

Sweet teen analized hard doggystyle and facialized

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


alliant

the presence and approbation also of other Princes , States , Alliants, Deputies with full Power and Authority[…]
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insultant

The insult is one of the highest art forms. It is a form of minimalism, like the minimalism of an abstract artist. The one who insults is an insultant who, rather than use a canvas, uses another person. The insultant draws lines on a person to reduce them to the person they see and want others to see; and lines which they want the insulted one to feel.

2013, Claudis Weyser, The Diary of an Aphorisiac:


malverse

more malverse (comparative)
most malverse (superlative)

[B]e what set of men they will, who would adventure to befriend and patronize such a malverse course […]。

1776, Josiah Hunter, An Inquiry Concerning the Scriptural Order，頁號 199:

Never was fellow so pestered with malverse accidents as I am; and all of my own contriving!

1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anne St. Ives, vol. II, letter 36:

It has been well remarked, that a little learning, and a little power, are apt to be more productive of mischief than of advantage to their possessors, and that this malverse propensity has been most particulary^([sic]) efficient , when such attainments and possessions have been rare and splendid.

1815, David Laurie, A Treatise on Finance，頁號 933:


Nihon

借自日語 日本 (Nihon)。

It is stooopid and insensative for you to indirectly say that AIDS will come to Nihon via Thailand. AIDS is already in Nihon! And your attempt to make Japanese racists on the incorrect fear that Thailand will bring this disease to Nihon is out of line and very evil which is a characteristic of your race!

1994年January16日, Rikiya Asano, “AIDS on the way to Japan”, 出自 soc.culture.japan (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-01:


equiparate

古典借詞，源自中世紀拉丁語 aequiparātus，aequiparō (“放在同一水平，比较”) 的過去分詞，源自 aequus (“等同的；水平的”) + parō (“地方”)。


abnegator

借自晚期拉丁語 abnegator，源自 abnegatus。等價於 abnegate + -or。

否認者，拒絕者 （自17世紀初）

On the other side, representing a serpentine generation wholy, made of fraud, policies, and practises, men lovers of the world, and haters of truth and godlinesse, fighters against the light, protectors of darkenesse, persecuters of marriage, and patrons of brothelles, abnegators and dispencers against the lawes of God […]

1605, Edwin Sandys, A Relation of the State of Religion, London: Simon Waterson:

The Catholic is theoretically a Collectivist, a self-abnegator, a Tory, a Conservative, a supporter of Church and State one and undivisible, an obeyer.

1914, George Bernard Shaw, “Preface for Politicians”, 出自 John Bull’s Other Island, London: Constable，頁號 xix:


gubernatrix

The year 1527 marked Felice's tenth anniversary as gubernatrix of the Bracciano Orsini.

1527年是费利斯担任布拉恰诺奥尔西尼领主的十周年。

2005, Caroline P. Murphy, The Pope's Daughter，頁號 VI:


abacinate

源自晚期拉丁語 abacinātus, abacinō 的完成時被動分詞；可能由 ab (“離，出”) + bacīnum (“盆”) 或 bacīnus 組成。可能與現代意大利語 abbacinare (“使目眩，使眼花”) 同源。

用燒紅的金屬棒或金屬板使人失明

"You young scapegrace," said Dandolo, "I will myself abacinate you — in the Venetian way." "How's that?" "Blind your eyes with the glare, not of hot irons, but of new ducats. Count your pile."

1905, James M. Ludlow, Sir Raoul，頁號 233:

Their straining eyes abacinated by the cup of terror, their throats stopped, their powers dead within them, they hung breathless, motionless.

1945, Robert Hardy Andrews, Burning Gold，頁號 196:

Abacinate, eyes that bleed, praying for the end of your wide awake nightmare.

1986, Jeff Hanneman （作曲作詞）, “Angel of Death”, 出自 Reign in Blood, 演出者 Slayer:

This chiasmic image of the subject's imperviousness suggests a sensory deprivation beyond sublimity, like that of abacinated anti-epistemology.

1999, Srinivas Aravamudan, Tropicopolitans, →ISBN，頁號 220:


songer

可能繼承自中古英語 songere (方言)，繼承自古英語 sangere，繼承自原始日耳曼語 *sangwārijaz (“歌手，歌唱者”)，與德語 Sänger、荷蘭語 zanger等同源，等價於 song + -er。或是上述詞素的現代構詞。

If a man who plays at ping pong is a "ponger," Then a singer of a "singsong" is a "songer"; If the "songer" is a singer. Then the "ponger" is a "pinger," And the man who says it's wrong must be a "wronger."

Will he sing it, I wonder?"
"Chantoozie, I ain't much of a songer any more. I just done that because I was told it was a colorful trait."

1976, Katie Lee, Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle:

No sound of songers chirping or jumbies, foraging for nuts.

2012, Susan St. Francis, A Tale of the Bug Fairies:


naufragate

All which Proposals we are resolved by Gods gracious assistance with unanimity, constancy, and activity, in our several stations, with our lives and fortunes, to prosecute and accomplish, to our powers, by all just and legal wayes, with what ever else may conduce to the Peace, Safety, Unitie, Wealth, Prosperity of our Lacerated, Macerated, Naufragated Church and State; […]

1660, Thomas Fuller, A happy handfull, or Green hopes in the blade; in order to a harvest, of the several shires, humbly petitioning, or heartily declaring for peace, […] John Williams […]，頁號 48:

[…] the reſtoring of collapſed Honour to the Nations, and of juſt Rights to all orders therein; ( which have been ſo many years obſtruded) the reviving of Trade, the eaſing of Preſſures,the reducing of theſe wofully toſſed and naufragated Kingdoms unto Calmneſs and Serenity again, […]

1660, Edward Reynolds, The Meanes and Method of Healing in the Church, […] Tho. Ratcliffe, for George Thomason，頁號 24:

And therefore although Gretſerus [k] be pleas'd to be diſpleas'd with this derivation thereof, yet it is ſuppoſed that others without the leaſt hazard of Naufragating their Art of Gloſſographie, may ſecurely caſt Anchor and ſafely acquieſce therein.

1661, John Godolphin, 章號 I, 出自 Συνήγορος θαλασσιος. A Vievv of the Admiral Jurisdiction, London，頁號 7:

And very few, if any, would they but weight aright, the vaſt diſproportion that is betwixt their preſent earthly ſhadows and this moſt subſtancial bleſſedneſs, would ever turn their backs on Chriſt, or Naufragate, and make Shipwrack of the Faith, to ſecure the former, and hereby deprive themſelves to eternity of the latter.

1673, John Hickes, A Discourse of the Excellency of the Heavenly Substance, London，頁號 28:

Clench's English, is of a piece with his Tuscan. For example, "Peter signifies an inexpugnable rock, able to evacuate all the plots of hell's divan, and naufragate all the lurid designs of empoisoned heretics."

1850, Thomas Babington Macaulay, 章號 VI, 出自 The History of England from the Accession of James II, 卷 II, Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company，頁號 87:

Among others^([sic，意為other]) lessons that could be derived from the Gulf War, this event showed the inner limits to ICT propaganda. The attempt to legitimise the war and to make it morally more acceptable by people because, thanks to ICT, it was an entirely new type of war, i.e. a “clean” and “quick” war without human killing naufragated clamorously, not only for the shame of military establishment but also of media that uncritically supported and propagated such a claim.

1993, Jacques Berleur, Colin Beardon, Romain Laufer 編, Facing the Challenge of Risk and Vulnerablity in an Information Society: […], IFIP，頁號 304:


abductive

The logs showed that between 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. on the abductive day, 10,718 SIMs connected with the seven […] Some people in the kidnap zone would of course have called each other innocently, but […]

2010, Steve Hendricks, A Kidnapping in Milan: The CIA on Trial, →ISBN，頁號 169:


collaboratrix

collaboratrixes (plural)
collaboratrices (plural)


calculandum

拉丁語 calculandum（ calculandus 的主格中性单数形式，而该词又是 calculō (“计算”) 的将来被动分词）在英语的名词化，对照 analysandum、cogitandum、explicandum、memorandum 等

用于计算的方程式、比率或其他定量问题


one of His Majesty's bad bargains

暗示這名士兵不值得他所得到的報酬。

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-one of His Majesty's bad bargains.ogg

無能力（因病等）或不稱職的士兵


stock market

stock market 不代表具體的地方，證券交易所應使用 stock exchange 表達。