abysm

繼承自中古英語 abime，源自古法語 abisme，源自晚期拉丁語 *abyssimus，abyssus (“無底洞”) 的最高級，源自古希臘語 ἄβυσσος (ábussos)。與法語 abîme 同源。參見 abyss。

深淵 （自15世紀晚期）

The abysm of hell.

1623, Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, III, xiii:

Dr. Prunesquallor had circled around Steerpike with his head drawn back so that his cervical vertebrae rested against the near wall of his high collar, and a plumbless abysm yawned between his Adam’s apple and his pearl stud.

1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, “The Grotto”

[T]he Shakespearean sonnet doesn't lend itself to a sequential narrative, because the rhymed couplet, without its paired feet trembling at that abysm of time, has to settle instead for the sound of sighing resolution, at regular intervals, over and over, before taking a deep breath and returning usually, for better or worse, to the same subject.

2015年January30日，Glyn Maxwell，“‘Ideas of Order,’ by Neil L. Rudenstine [book review; print version: Eternal lines: A guide to Shakespeare's sonnets, International New York Times, 2 February 2015, p. 7]”, in The New York Times:


déclassé

借自法語 déclassé。

more déclassé (comparative)
most déclassé (superlative)

女性主體使用 déclassée。

Having married a plebian and so become déclassée, the daughter of a patrician was barred by the patrician matrons from sacrifices at the shrine of Patrician Chastity ‘in the cattle market by the round temple of Hercules’.

一位贵族的女儿嫁给了一个平民并因此成为下等人，贵族妇女们禁止她在“大力士圆形神庙旁的牛市”的贵族贞洁神殿里献祭。

2007，John Burrow，A History of Histories，Penguin, 出版於 2009，頁 110:


opiner

That’s what drew me to it: an Internet opiner must be pretty bold so early on to liken Gates, however indirectly, to both a former Black Panther on death row and a Hollywood shoplifter.

2009年August9日，Virginia Heffernan，“Hashing Things Out”, in New York Times:


lingonberry

同類詞：blueberry、cranberry

Ze lingonberry pancake!

1998，The Big Lebowski (motion picture), spoken by Nihilist (Peter Stormare):


arctic fox

Its ʽcore faunaʼ consisted of the woolly mammoth, woolly rhino, saiga, muskox and the arctic fox. All except the woolly rhino evolved in the northern Arctic, and all had been evolving for several million years before their modern forms appeared.

2018，Tim Flannery，Europe: A Natural History，頁 205:


opinant

Could Mr. Sayers have held out for three minutes, for five minutes, for ten minutes more? He says he could. So we say we could have held out, and did and had beaten off the enemy at Waterloo, even if the Prussians hadn't come up. The opinions differ pretty much according to the nature of the opinants.

1860，The Cornhill Magazine，卷s 1-2，頁 757:


subjection

源自盎格魯-諾曼語 subjectioun，源自古法語 subjection（現代法語 sujétion），源自拉丁語 subjectiō。

Maſters commands come with a power reſiſtleſs / To ſuch as owe them abſolute ſubjection; / And for a life who will not change his purpoſe? / (So mutable are all the ways of men) / Yet this be ſure, in nothing to comply / Scandalous or forbidden in our Law.

1671，John Milton，“Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes，倫敦: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC，頁 83，行s 415–420:


débâcle

debacle的另一種寫法。

The Falklands-Malvinas débâcle provided the opportunity to restructure the military High Command; Alfonsín removed anti-democratic senior officers and replaced them with more co-operative ones.

2002，Jacqueline West，South America, Central America and the Caribbean 2002，Routledge,, →ISBN，頁 68:


take exception

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

(及物带 to) 对...感到不快，反感，受到...的冒犯；反对

I think he took exception to the joke about environmentalists.

我觉得那个开环保主义者玩笑的笑话冒犯到他了。

I take exception to the assumption that simply because I am young I am not able to discern fact from fiction.

觉得只是因为我年轻我就没办法区分现实和虚构的成见让我感到不快。

I am sorry to learn that the senior medical staff of the Dreadnought Hospital take exception to portions of Sir Henry Burdett's letter […] which was published in the Times of July 11th.

1898 July 20, Percival A. Nairne, letter, published in the Lancet of 1898 December 10, page 1575:

[…] the body of a deceased Indian, wrapped in a blanket and reposing on the limbs of an old tree in the sandhills. Horatio Walker, then President of the Club and generally so sympathetic with artists, seemingly took exception to it, and Morris felt the silent criticism […]

1984，Jean S. McGill，Edmund Morris, Frontier Artist，Dundurn Press, →ISBN，頁 165:

Upset, about 20 Kuala Lumpur-based judges met on 25 March and decided that Salleh should write to the king explaining their position. The king apparently took exception to the letter or to the manner in which it was sent […]

1989，“Asia Yearbook”, in Far Eastern Economic Review，頁 167:


dead set

The result was that everyone made a dead set on Collins. It was the same in conversation. When he put his head in everyone turned on him. He was roared down unmercifully, with the inevitable result that he lost his temper.

2018，Frank O'Connor，The Big Fellow: Michael Collins and the Irish Revolution:


dead set

more dead set (comparative)
most dead set (superlative)

hell-bent

坚定的，执著的，死心塌地的，专注而不动摇的

坚定的，执著的，死心塌地的，专注而不动摇的

If John is dead set on marrying Catherine, his parents' objection will only provoke a falling out.

如果John一定要娶Catherine，他的父母肯定会过来闹翻的。

The governor is dead set against the concealed weapons permit legislation and will veto it even if it costs her the re-election.

There are people here who are dead set on convincing everybody this hurricane is the result of climate change.

2018年September11日，Rush Limbaugh，“Hurricane Florence Heads for the Carolinas”, in The Rush Limbaugh Show (radio)，存檔自the original on 2019-04-17:


cut of one's jib

源自cut (“样子，风格”)和jib (“艏三角帆”)，原为航海用语，指通过帆的形状来辨别远处航行的船只。俗语意可能是因为三角帆形似人的鼻子而产生。

cut of their jibs (plural)
cuts of their jibs (plural)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-cut of one's jib.ogg

常作构式“to like (or dislike) the cut of someone’s jib”。

（人的） 外貌，外表，风格 （自19世纪初叶）

I have seen that girl on the deck, and I like the cut of her jib. I like the way she walks. Her independence suits me.

1896，Robert Barr，章號 XIII, in A Woman Intervenes: Or The Mistress of the Mine，New York, N.Y., London: Frederick A[bbott] Stokes Company, →OCLC，頁 122:

Jack thinks, by the cut of their jibs, they were Frenchmen, one an officer and the other his servant.

1911，John Oxenham [pseudonym; William Arthur Dunkerley]，“An Unexpected Guest”, in The Coil of Carne，Toronto, Ont.: The Copp, Clark Co., →OCLC，頁 157:

Mr Bloom watched her as she limped away. Poor girl! That's why she's left on the shelf and the others did a sprint. Thought something was wrong by the cut of her jib. Jilted beauty. A defect is ten times worse in a woman.

1922 February，James Joyce，“[Episode 13: Nausicaa]”, in Ulysses，Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey]，頁 351:

We were drawn together from the first as young men will be: we liked the cuts of each other's jibs: we were both sailors (and there is only one sea-service in spite of the guns and gold-lace) and then the far distant dim relationship gave us the feeling that many of the barriers, of race and faith and custom, were down from between us.

1934，John Masefield，The Taking of the Gry，London: William Heinemann, →OCLC，頁 22:

"By the cut of their jibs I shall know them!" That's the way Ham Hamberger summed it up as he looked ahead to his coming battle employment, and speculated upon those with whom he would be called upon to serve—not knowing. And by the cut of their jibs he did know them when the time came, and they him, […]

1959，Ken Jones，“The Eagles Gather”, in Destroyer Squadron 23: Combat Exploits of Arleigh Burke’s Gallant Force，Philadelphia, Pa., New York, N.Y.: Book Division, Chilton Company, →OCLC，頁 60:

"You don't like me much, do you?" / "Let's just say I don't like the cut of your jib, Mr. Tate."

2003 June，Ted Bell，章號 42, in Hawke […]，New York, N.Y.: Atria Books, →ISBN，頁 277:


at the mercy of

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

任凭...处置的，对...束手无策的

The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.

1897年 12月（標示為1898年），Winston Churchill，章號 1, in The Celebrity: An Episode，紐約: The Macmillan Company；倫敦：Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

The ball game is scheduled for Saturday, but we're still at the mercy of the weather.

球赛定在周六，但是还是得看天气。


retweeter

According to Stewart's analysis, current case law makes it unlikely a retweeter would be held liable for a defamatory retweet […]

根据斯图尔特的分析，目前的判例法使得转推者不太可能对诽谤性转推负责 […]

2013，Daxton Stewart，Social Media and the Law，頁 42:


overmorrow

仿譯自德語 übermorgen；等價於 over- + morrow。對照荷蘭語 overmorgen、德語 übermorgen、瑞典語 övermorgon、丹麥語 overmorgen、書面挪威語 overmorgen（亦作 overimorgen）和新挪威語 overmorgon。

/ˈəʊ.vəˌmɒɹəʊ/

/ˈoʊ.vɚˌmɔɹoʊ/

/ˈoʊ.vɚˌmɑɹoʊ/

Thē ſpake Tobias unto the virgin, and ſayde: Up Sara, let us make oure prayer unto God to daye, tomorow, and ouermorow: for theſe thre nightes wil we reconcyle oure ſelues with God: and whan the thirde holy night is paſt, we ſhall ioyne together in yᵉ deutye of mariage.
(Then spoke Tobias to the virgin and said: Get up Sara, let's make our prayer to the God today, tomorrow and overmorrow: for these nights will we recognize ourselves with God: and when the third holy night is past, we shall join together in our duty of marriage.)

然後托比亞斯對處女說：起來薩拉，讓我們今天、明天和後天向上帝祈禱：因為這三個夜晚我們將與上帝和解，當第三個神聖的夜晚過去時，我們將共同加入婚姻的責任。

1535，Myles Coverdale，The Byble, that is, the Holy Scrypture of the Olde and New Teſtament, faythfully tranſlated into Englyſhe, Tobit 8:4，頁 D.iiij:

We can go not overmorrow, but on Thursday.

我們可以後天不去，星期四去。

1925，Parliamentary Debates: Official Report，卷 188, H.M. Stationery Off.，頁 iv:

Sinowjeff and myself go to Caucasus overmorrow.

Sinowjeff 和我後天去高加索。

1969，James Klugman，引 Bucharin, History of the Communist Party of Great Britain: The General Strike, 1925-1927，卷 2, London: Lawrence & Wishart，頁 73:


overmorrow

/ˈəʊ.vəˌmɒɹəʊ/

/ˈoʊ.vɚˌmɔɹoʊ/

/ˈoʊ.vɚˌmɑɹoʊ/

My prescient limbs already borrow
From rare Walpurgis-night a glow :
It comes round on the overmorrow [譯 übermorgen] —
Then why we are awake we know.

1898，Johann Wolfgang von Goethe，譯者 Thos. E. Webb, The first part of the Tragedy of Faust in English，Longmans, Green and Co.，頁 197:


Dahomey

借自豐語 dã homè (“達的肚子；蛇的肚子”)。

達荷美（舊國家名，位於非洲），為現今的西非國家貝寧

The way other children hear tell of Red Riding Hood and Goldilocks, I heard of this ‘Black Sparta’, the noble kingdom of Dahomey, fighting to hold off the French to the very end.

就像其他孩子听说《小红帽》跟《金髮女孩與三隻熊》的故事一样，我小时候听说的是这“黑色斯巴达战士”的故事，讲的是崇高的达荷美王国，为抵挡法国人而战斗到底。

2016，Zadie Smith，Swing Time，Hamish Hamilton，頁s 360-361:


unsubstantiated

more unsubstantiated (comparative)
most unsubstantiated (superlative)

Such hedging is necessitated by the lack of in-depth knowledge of the contents, which also gives free rein to the scripting of unsubstantiated factoids concerning the book.

2018，James Lambert，“Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography，卷 31, 期 4, →DOI，頁 487:


victimate

源自拉丁語 victimatus，victimare (“犧牲”) 的過去分詞。

victimates (third-person singular present)
victimating (present participle)
victimated (past participle)

They had Officers go Victimate […]to kill in Sacrifice

1695，John Bullokar，An English Expositour:


volatilise

volatilises (third-person singular present)
volatilising (present participle)
volatilised (past participle)

Other factors could also be at play: if fertiliser is not carefully stored and handled it can volatilise, with important proportions of its precious nitrogen content simply wafting up into the air.

其他因素也可能在起作用：如果肥料储存和处理不当，它可能会挥发，其中很大一部分宝贵的氮含量会飘散到空气中。

2015年August5日，Francisco Toro，“Dodgy fertiliser is keeping Uganda hungry”, in The Guardian:


vandalise

vandalises (third-person singular present)
vandalising (present participle)
vandalised (past participle)

Unfortunately, one side of the new five-car train is daubed in graffiti, having been vandalised in Wembley Yard, en route from Switzerland.

2023年March8日，“Network News: First Tyne & Wear Metro '555' already 'tagged'”, in RAIL，期 978，頁 9:


gaydar

[…]This is not your hallmark im Ames, Iowa. And there is “family” working there . . . no radar like gaydar, I always say.

1982年July15日，Gloria Godqueen，“What's in a card”, in Bay Area Reporter，卷 12, 號 28，頁 7:

The research, which went viral this week, used a sample of online dating photos, limited only to white users, to demonstrate that an algorithm could correctly distinguish between gay and straight men 81% of the time and 74% for women, suggesting machines can potentially have much better "gaydar" than humans.

2017年September9日，Sam Levin，“LGBT groups denounce ‘dangerous’ AI that uses your face to guess sexuality”, in 衛報，倫敦: 衛報媒體集團, →ISSN, →OCLC，存檔自the original on 2023-04-29:


get the ball rolling

gets the ball rolling (third-person singular present)
getting the ball rolling (present participle)
got the ball rolling (past)
got the ball rolling
gotten the ball rolling

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

Did you ever get the ball rolling on your plans to build a shed?

你有没有开始着手你的建小屋计划？

The execution of Littlefinger is formal, although his trial admittedly gives us ample opportunity to appreciate the tables finally turning on the man who got the ball rolling on all this bloodshed.

2017年August27日，Brandon Nowalk，“Game Of Thrones slows down for the longest, and best, episode of the season (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:


utilise

源自法語 utiliser，源自意大利語 utilizzare，源自utile (“有用的”)，源自拉丁語 ūtilis，源自ūtī (“使用”)。最早見於c. 1810。

utilises (third-person singular present)
utilising (present participle)
utilised (past participle)

許多寫作風格指導會建議讀者不使用 utilize 及 utilise，認為直接用 use 更好（同樣地，名詞 use 也要優於 utilization 和 utilisation）。在一般場景下，使用本詞可能會顯得比較浮誇（如“please utilise the rear door when exiting the aircraft”），因此權威辭書也會建議謹慎使用。
但在某些情況下，utilise 比需要迂言的 use 更合適，比如：

“投入使用”，如“... utilise the production capacities of the local industries fully before ordering from foreign industries”；

“消耗、消費”，如“... utilise the support that the system provides, such as by making the most of tax exemptions and special supplies”；

“充分利用”，如“... farmers must utilise their land fully to boost food security”.

The bodywork employs, where possible, the same constructional methods as for the standard B.R. coaching stock, in order to utilise existing jigs and press tools.

1959 March，“The 2,500 h.p. electric locomotives for the Kent Coast electrification”, in Trains Illustrated，頁 125:

Since then we have had the opportunity to travel in them and were much impressed by the internal styling and comfort of the seating (with the minor exception of the single seats which have been tucked in longitudinally alongside some of the entrance vestibules and which are so cramped that only the slimmest of female figures could be comfortable in them; the space they occupy would have been better utilised to increase standing room).

1960 December，“The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated，頁 715:


amate

amates (third-person singular present)
amating (present participle)
amated (past participle)

Shall I accuse the hidden cruell fate, / And mightie causes wrought in heauen aboue, / Or the blind God, that doth me thus amate, / For hoped loue to winne me certaine hate?

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

Upon the walls the pagans old and young / Stood hush'd and still, amated and amazed.

1600, Edward Fairfax (translator), Jerusalem Delivered, Tasso, XI, xii:

For the last […], he will be much amazed, he will be much amated.

:Template:RQ:Montaigne Florio Essayes, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.230:

Thou didst die / A half-blown flow'ret which cold blasts amate.


amate

More lucklesse disadventures did amate

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


stigmatize

源自中世紀拉丁語 stigmatizo (“給……留下烙印”)，源自古希臘語 στιγματίζω (stigmatízō，“標記”)，源自 στίγμα (stígma)。

stigmatizes (third-person singular present)
stigmatizing (present participle)
stigmatized (past participle)

We stigmatize the Indians, also, as cowardly and treacherous, because they use stratagem in warfare in preference to open force; but in this they are fully justified by their rude code of honor.

我们还指责印第安人懦弱和奸诈，因为他们在战争中使用计谋而不是公开武力；但在这一点上，他们粗鲁的礼法是完全正当的。

1819-1820，Washington Irving，The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon:

Helen Hardacre, in her study of discourses stigmatizing women who have had abortions, argues that there has been a marked rise in media interest in women's sexuality since the 1970s.

海伦·哈达克在研究污名化堕胎女性的言论时指出，自1970年代以来，媒体对女性性行为的兴趣显著增加。

2010，Mark McClelland，“The 'Beautiful Boy' in Japanese Girls' Manga”, in Manga: An Anthology of Global and Cultural Perspectives，The Continuum International Publishing Group Inc, →ISBN，頁 78:

This chapter examines the social determinants of depression in black men because no other race-by-gender population group has been stigmatized as much as black men.

本章探讨了黑人男性抑郁症的社会决定因素，因为没有其他按性别分类的人口群体像黑人男性那样受到如此多的污名化。

2012，Daphne C. Watkins，Harold W. Neighbors，“Social Determinants of Depression and the Black Male Experience”, in Social Determinants of Health Among African-American Men，Jossey-Bass, 出版於 2013, →ISBN，頁 55:


consanguinea

The media jurisprudentia, i.e. the opinions of the jurisprudents, excluded altogether females descended through males except sisters so descended (consanguinea;).

Indenture between Henry de Grymshagh, son and heir of Adam de Grymshagh and Cecilia, daughter and one of the heirs of Henry de Clayton on the moors (1), and Henry de Rissheton and Margaret his wife and cousin (consanguinea), the other heir of Henry de Clayton (2), who agree to share the lands in Clayton and Huncotes thus.

1921，Remains, Historical & Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester，頁 80:

If, in an action brought against a man and wife, it be pleaded that the consanguinea is in fact the wife named in the writ, the demandant will not be allowed to aver that the consanguinea is dead, but must say that the tenant is a different person, and assign a diversity of father and mother.

2012，Luke Owen Pike，Year Books of the Reign of King Edward the Third, →ISBN，頁 320:


seminate

源自拉丁語 seminatus，seminare (“種，播種”) 的過去分詞。

seminates (third-person singular present)
seminating (present participle)
seminated (past participle)

If this Cross were seminated all over with Flowers de lis , shewing upon the fides or edges thereof but the halves of some of them , then it should be blazoned Semie de flowers de lis

1611，John Guillim，A Display of Heraldrie:


neonazi

“Miller launched the #SayYesToHate campaign the night before Trans Day of Remembrance in 2020, and last month took to defending the neonazi activist James Goddard over an arrest for anti-LGBTQ Twitter posts,” she adds.

2023年February17日，Brenna Ehrlich，“Brianna Ghey’s Vigils Have Become Protests — But to Friends, She Was Just ‘Bri’”, in Rolling Stone:


rosier

源自古法語 rosier。rosary 的同源對似詞。

/ˈɹəʊzjə(ɹ)/

Ne other tire ſhe on her head did weare,
But crowned with a garland of ſweete roſiere.

1590，埃德蒙·斯宾塞，“Book II, Canto IX”, in 仙后（The Faerie Qveene . […]），London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC，頁 19:


munt

可能派生自北恩德貝勒語 umuntu，重音落在第一個音節，而這並非恩古尼語支的常見重音形。

Munt was a derogatory term used by the [Rhodesian] security forces to refer to blacks.

Munt 是[羅德西亞]安全部隊用來指代黑人的貶義詞。

2006，Geoffrey Nyarota，Against the Grain: Memoirs of a Zimbabwean Newsman，Zebra Press，頁 63:


swish

swisher (comparative)
more swish (comparative)
swishest (superlative)
most swish (superlative)

This restaurant looks very swish — it even has linen tablecloths.

这个饭店看起来很高级，居然还有亚麻桌布。

All the shabby railway buildings in front of the station concourse have either been removed or transformed into a shopping complex and swish homes.

2020年June3日，Howard Johnston，“Regional News: Cambridge”, in Rail，頁 23:

When the boys go swish, they always score

2004，“Ladyflash”, in Thunder, Lightning, Strike，演出者 The Go! Team:

The Saints, who started the day third in the table, went marching on thanks to their own swish play and some staggering defending by the visitors.

2014年October18日，Paul Doyle，“Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter”, in The Guardian:


swish

"Fairies, nances, swishes, fags, lezzes — call 'em what you please — should of course be permitted to earn honest livings […]

1992，Leigh W. Rutledge，The gay decades: from Stonewall to the present:


swish

swishes (third-person singular present)
swishing (present participle)
swished (past participle)

The cane swishes.

In the stern of the low-laden canoe his paddle swished steadily and powerfully, with thrust of straight, stiff upper arm backed by a twisting swing of the body from the waist, and with every stroke the little craft leaped as if a giant hand had shoved her forward.

After Virginia came the twins, who were usually called "the Star and Stripes", as they were always getting swished.

Doctor Wordsworth and assistants would swish that error out of him in a way that need not here be mentioned.

c. 1842, William Makepeace Thackeray, Character Sketches


swish

嗖 （模仿快速拂过空气时发出的声音）

"Just like parade it had been a minute before then stumble, bang, swish! Wiped out!" he said.

1898，H.G. Wells，The War of the Worlds，London: William Heinemann，頁 84:


taskmaster

耶和華說，我的百姓在埃及所受的困苦，我實在看見了；他們因受督工的轄制所發的哀聲，我也聽見了，我原知道他們的痛苦。

1611，The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version)，London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 3:7:

It all looked so easy when the competent were at the helm, but reality is a cruel taskmaster, and all the excuses that worked as an underling wear thin once the incompetent are in leadership roles.

当有能力的人掌舵时，这一切看起来很容易，但现实是一个残酷的工头，一旦无能者担任领导角色，所有作为下属工作的借口都会变得无用。

2023年June4日，Charles Hugh Smith，What Happens When the Competent Opt Out?:


beat one's meat

beats one's meat (third-person singular present)
beating one's meat (present participle)
beat one's meat (past)
beaten one's meat (past participle)
beat one's meat (past participle)

I beat my meat instead of having intercourse.

我沒有性交，而是在自慰。

1948，Psychiatric quarterly (New York State Dept. of Mental Hygiene)，卷 22，頁 243:

7. Is masturbation harmful? Does it cause acne, etc.?
8. How does a girl beat her meat?

7. 自慰對身體有害嗎？會導致青春痘之類的嗎？
8. 女生怎麼自慰？

1967，American Academy of Psychotherapists，Voices: The Art and Science of Psychotherapy，頁 41:

You get in a heat, you get in a sulk
But you still keep a-beating your meat to pulp
And you're an orgasm addict,

He had had the theory that all this space stuff was just the Soviet Union beating its meat, shooting off into space. Other than that he couldn't imagine the slightest use for it all. Space was, after all, space — with nothing in it.

他是這麼想的，蘇聯發射上太空的那些東西，就像是打飛機一樣，在做無用功，他想不出這到底有任何的用處。畢竟，太空就是太空，裡頭什麼也沒有。

1991，William Barton，Michael Capobianco，Fellow Traveler，Spectra, →ISBN:


beat the meat

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

Then, he would sit on the toilet and with his soapy hand he would beat the meat ...

然後，他會坐在馬桶上，用沾滿肥皂水的手打飛機……

2014，Donald L. Kaufmann，Bramble, Infant Martian，Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:

“Hell, after a battle, all you could hear in the barracks were groans as males beat the meat.”

“见鬼，打完仗，军营里就只听到男人撸管的呻吟声。”

2014，Billi Jean，Midnight Star，Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD), →ISBN:

... and Ronnie beat the meat, still horny from his unfinished encounter on the loading dock.

……罗尼自慰着，他那次在装卸码头未完成的相遇仍然让他感到很饥渴。

2010，Herb Schultz，RonnieandLennie，Major Terata Publications, →ISBN，頁 211:

Bud rarely had to beat the meat. There was always a willing woman somewhere within reach; all he had to do was look.
巴德很少自慰。他想要的时候，身边总会有一个心甘情愿的女人等着他；他所要做的就是看。

year unknown, Lisa Marie Rice, Midnight Run, Oliver-Heber books

“Beat the meat, buddy,” he growled, “and remember what it was like to be inside that sweet pussy.”

“打个飞机吧，老哥，”他咆哮道，“回味回味插进那个美屄里感觉有多爽。”

2019，Jasmine Haynes，Jennifer Skully，Take Your Pleasure and Take Your Pick Duo，Redwood Valley Publishing LLC, →ISBN:


hit it

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

He looks at the band behind him and says, “Hit it, boys!” The band launches into its own rendition of happy birthday.

2010，E. K. Schiller，Holly Schiller，The Midnight Hour，頁 196:

If I say you look fuckable, how would you react?
 Starin' at you, daydreamin' 'bout hittin' it from the back


beat it

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

[…] and he said, "You beat it." So I beat it two squares up to Seventeenth Street and went into a saloon.

1916，United States. Commission on Industrial Relations, Francis Patrick Walsh, Basil Maxwell Manly，Industrial relations: Final report and testimony，頁 10986:

Showin' how funky and strong is your fight / It doesn't matter who's wrong or right / Just beat it

1983，Michael Jackson （作曲作詞）, “Beat It”, in Thriller:


satirizer

It is a drive-by satirizer of Christians, Jews, old people, police chiefs, groundskeepers, schoolteachers, doctors and the nuclear power industry.

这是对基督徒、犹太人、老人、警察局长、场地管理员、教师、医生和核电行业的讽刺。

2007年July29日，Anthony Ramirez，“Buzz Cola and Sprinklicious Doughnuts: A Mecca for ‘Simpsons’ Fans”, in New York Times:


satirical

more satirical (comparative)
most satirical (superlative)

/səˈtɪɹɪkəl/

Spitting Image was a famous satirical television program.

Spitting Image 是一个著名的讽刺电视节目。

Given his remarks in The English People about the dangers of Standard English, and the fact that the satirical Newspeak of Nineteen Eighty-Four is an engineered language[…]

2000年October15日，John E. Joseph，Limiting the Arbitrary: Linguistic Naturalism and Its Opposites in Plato's Cratylus and Modern Theories of Language, →ISBN，頁 155:


eurozone

Eurozone的大小寫替代形式

Greece, Spain, and other eurozone periphery countries could explode any day, given their high unemployment and deepening strains of austerity. In the US, which is considered the home of quiescent workers, the call for living wages is becoming louder, as seen in the current strikes by fast-food restaurant workers.

2013年September6日，Ha-Joon Chang，“The rich have an addiction to bubbles”, in The Guardian Weekly，卷 189, 期 13，頁 19:


archaeon

科學拉丁語，對應 Archaea 的單數形式。

古菌（Archaea）（自20世紀）

Then, the theory goes, a rogue archaeon gobbled up a bacterium to create an entirely new type of cell that would go on to form the basis of all complex life on Earth, from plants to humans.


scrotal

Male maturity is evident from descent of the testes; adult males are scrotal year-round, whereas subadult males are partially or nonscrotal.

从睾丸的下垂可以看出雄性个体的成熟；成年雄性个体的阴囊全年都可见，而亚成年雄性个体的阴囊部分可见或不可见。

2008，Melissa A. Hillegass et al.，“The influence of sex and sociality on parasite loads in an African ground squirrel”, in Behavioral Ecology，卷 19, 期 5, →DOI，頁s 1006–1011:


Spanish influenza

以西班牙命名，該國是第一次世界大戰的中立國而報道了許多案例，其他國家的報道則因為戰時審查制度甚少流出，導致公眾誤以為該疾病集中爆發於西班牙。

By systematic organization and effort we have been endeavoring to combat Spanish Influenza in Luzerne County, with its population of 350,000 souls.

通过系统的组织和努力，我们一直致力于在拥有35万人口的卢泽恩县抗击西班牙流感。

1920，Oscar Jewell Harvey，The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918，Pennsylvania: Wilkes-Barre，頁 25:


Spanish flu

In the wake of the devastation of the Spanish flu, the world came together to develop unprecedented scientific collaborations to take on future pandemics. In 1947, the WHO Interim Committee of the United Nations established a Global Influenza Programme to track the changes in the virus.

在西班牙流感肆虐之后，全世界齐心协力开展前所未有的科学合作，以应对未来的流行病。1947年，联合国WHO临时委员会设立了全球流感规划以追踪病毒的变化。

2018，World Health Organization，“Pandemic influenza: an evolving challenge”, in WHO official website:


lightskin

有时候贬义地泛指娘娘腔的黑人，无论其肤色深浅。

A man who is getting ahead tends to seek a lighter mate, and because “a good man is hard to find,” it would be difficult for a lightskin girl consistently to reject darker people. A darker man who offers security, through social position and other advantages, may well be preferred to a lightskin man of little enterprise.

1941，W. Lloyd Warner, Buford H. Junker, Walter A. Adams，“Lightskin Women”, in Color and Human Nature: Negro Personality Development in a Northern City，Washington, D.C.: American Council on Education，頁 193:


wide awake

more wide awake (comparative)
most wide awake (superlative)

完全清醒的；警醒的，警觉的

"They are almost awake, not quite," said Lucy. She knew she herself was wide awake, wider than anyone usually is.

1951，C. S. Lewis，Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia:

I woke with a start. With the blackout curtains closed I didn't know what time it was. I looked at my watch. It said four o'clock. I had been asleep for only two hours, but I was wide awake.

1978，Richard Nixon，“The Presidency 1973-1974”, in RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon，Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL，頁 1085:


shut-eye

With the night so quiet and peaceful, though, there was nothing he could do except return to camp and try to get a little shut-eye himself.

2008，William W. Johnstone，J. A. Johnstone，Preachers Showdown，Pinnacle Books, →ISBN，頁 172:


pooped

more pooped (comparative)
most pooped (superlative)

Well, I've walked 35 miles since yesterday to get here, so I'm pooped

2000，Jeff Alt，A Walk For Sunshine: A 2,160 Mile Expedition for Charity on the Appalachian Trail，頁 138:


grab some z's

grabs some z's (third-person singular present)
grabbing some z's (present participle)
grabbed some z's (past participle)

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

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

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

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

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

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


grab some Z's

grabs some Z's (third-person singular present)
grabbing some Z's (present participle)
grabbed some Z's (past participle)

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

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

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

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


grab some Zs

grabs some Zs (third-person singular present)
grabbing some Zs (present participle)
grabbed some Zs (past participle)

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

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

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

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

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


lameo

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

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


goofball

麻醉药 （尤指巴比妥类药物）

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


stargaze

stargazes (third-person singular present)
stargazing (present participle)
stargazed (past participle)

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

那天晚上天空很晴，我就停下来去看星星了，一直看到觉得冷了就回屋里了。

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

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

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


chillaxing

more chillaxing (comparative)
most chillaxing (superlative)

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

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


Obama-esque

more Obama-esque (comparative)
most Obama-esque (superlative)

‘24’ presidential story line has Obama-esque feel / A youngish, African-American politician becomes president. He’s relatively untested and rode to the highest office in the land on a wave of goodwill — but is he ready for the job? Does it sound like the hypothetical presidency of Sen. Barack Obama, Illinois’ own presidential hopeful?

2007年January21日，Chicago Tribune，160th year, 期 21, section 7，頁 16:

John McCain’s Obama-esque remarks about our “wasted” resources in Iraq weren’t the only comments that landed him in hot water after a recent appearance on “Late Show With David Letterman。”

2007年March7日，radaronline.com（被引）, “E-Opinion: The best of the political blogs”, in Daily News，頁 27:

[Mitt] Romney, the cautious consultant, is pivoting to stress his corporate competence, and is rebranding himself as an Obama-esque change agent, but he will never make the sort of daring break that independent voters will demand if they are going to give the GOP another look.

2008年January2日，David Brooks，“If Romney wins, so will Democrats”, in Intelligencer Journal，214th year, 期 168, Lancaster, Pa.: Lancaster Newspapers Inc.，頁 A10:

After beginning with some more high-minded, even Obama-esque comments about what our country is, [Joe] Biden turned to the coronavirus.

2020年August22日，Aaron Blake，“Democrats’ four big takeaways”, in Star Tribune，卷 XXXIX, 期 140，頁 A5:


Obamaesque

more Obamaesque (comparative)
most Obamaesque (superlative)

He’s [W. Lane Startin] a top Democratic candidate at U4prez.com, a Web site for those who dream of one day holding the nation’s premier political title. Since joining the site last month, Startin’s meteoric rise can be described only as Obamaesque.

2007年March13日，Matt Christensen，“Hail to the chief: Twin Falls man has (virtual) aspirations”, in Times-News，頁 D5:

[John C.] Turner, who lives in Cumberland on Vancouver Island, has joined his joke-party’s horny Rhinos Redux comeback. He’s trumpeting an Obamaesque campaign promise of “change you can’t believe in.”

2008年March1日，Doug Ward，“Rhino party wants to abolish the environment”, in The Vancouver Sun，頁 B8:

While campaigning in Pennsylvania last week, presidential hopeful Barack Obama bowled a 37 and the world has pretty much flipped on its head as a result.[…]I once contemplated ending my current relationship based on an Obamaesque performance by the GF at a bowling outing.

2008年April9日，Pete Cunningham，“Don’t let bowling ability skew opinions”, in The Homer Index，卷 136, 期 15，頁 four:

“Critics say that my plan is too big, that it costs $1.9 trillion,” was [Joe] Biden’s Obamaesque reply to questions regarding his $2 trillion plan.

2021年March2日，David Harsanyi，“It’s Christmas for Democrats”, in The Star Democrat，卷 220, 期 136, Easton, Md.，頁 A4:


peace out

peaces out (third-person singular present)
peacing out (present participle)
peaced out (past participle)

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

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

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

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

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

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

催眠；走神；出幻觉 （意识，感觉被改变）

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


exposé

借自法語 exposé。

"What shall be said to my sister? We cannot steal from her without saying something, as she would conclude we were murdered, apply to the ambassador, and bring on the very exposé we desire to avoid."

1842，[anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon]，章號 XXVIII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […]，卷 II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC，頁 65:


modernise

modernises (third-person singular present)
modernising (present participle)
modernised (past participle)

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

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

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

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


femdom

female domination 或 female dominance 的截斷形式。

I'm acutely aware that I'm on my knees in front of a gorgeous femdom.

2017，D. L. King，Unspeakably Erotic: Lesbian Kink:

She wished she had some fuck-me stiletto thigh-high boots on to give her more of a Domme appearance, but she had seen plenty of femdoms at the club wearing comfortable walking shoes.

2018，Kallypso Masters，Box Set: Rescue Me Saga Books 4-6 and Bonus Western Dreams:


DILF

dad I'd like to fuck 的首字母縮略詞，仿照 MILF 所造。

形容性感的中年乃至老年男性

Sexy DILF butler Bates looks like he's finally going to get it on with housemaid Anna, after spending all of Series One mooning after her like a calf on Wobbly Eggs.


stave off

staves off (third-person singular present)
staving off (present participle)
staved off (past participle)
stove off (past participle)

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

他喝了很多橙汁，希望能够抵御办公室里的冷气。

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

2011，Jamie Noguchi，Yellow Peril: The View:

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

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


whip up

whips up (third-person singular present)
whipping up (present participle)
whipped up (past participle)

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

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

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

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


Dutch wife

源自Dutch (这里有“次等代替品”的意思) + wife

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

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


stark naked

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

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

1870，Langford Cecil，Fenacre Grange，頁 15:


go to town

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

She really went to town with the party preparations.

她准备派对准备得很开心。

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

2014年November12日，Calum MacLeod，“As with 2008 Olympics, China spends big to look good”, in USA Today, →ISSN, →OCLC，存檔自the original on 2014-11-14:

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

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

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

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

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

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


vicariate

His next was to claim, in virtue of this vicariate, the mediatorial “power in heaven and in earth”

他的下一步是憑藉代理主教的職權，主張「天上地下的權力」。

a. 1678 (date written)，Isaac Barrow，“(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). A Treatise of the Pope's Supremacy”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […]，卷 (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], 出版於 1830–1831, →OCLC:


tooshie

tushie的另一種拼寫法

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

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

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

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


tooshy

tushie的另一種寫法

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


MILF

mother/mom/mama I'd like to fuck (“我想肏的媽媽”) 之首字母縮略詞。

yummy mummy

富有性吸引力的母親；熟女，辣媽，性感少婦

富有性吸引力的母親；熟女，辣媽，性感少婦

Dude, that chick's a MILF!
兄弟，那女的真是個性感熟女！

1999, Adam Herz, American Pie (screenplay):

She was instantly a gay icon (for men and women), and latterly has become a bit of a milf to young straight guys.

她在同性戀圈子（不論男女）裡一直是偶像般的標誌人物，後來也成了年輕直男眼中的性感熟女。

2009年June8日，Veronica Lee，“Au revoir, Margaret Mountford”, in The Guardian:

有關使用本詞的更多用例，請參閱Citations:MILF。


fraidy cat

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

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


bell-end

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

我管他什么人，他就像个傻屄一样。

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

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


pack heat

packs heat (third-person singular present)
packing heat (present participle)
packed heat (past participle)

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

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


japonise

japonises (third-person singular present)
japonising (present participle)
japonised (past participle)

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

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

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

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

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

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


marxisant

more marxisant (comparative)
most marxisant (superlative)

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

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


triff

As I remember it, Elite screwed up the first time it had a go at this one, and ended up having to get Gargoyle (who?) to cobble something together in about two weeks or something ridiculous. You wouldn't believe it, though. This one's triff through and through.

1989, Jonathan Davies, Scooby-Doo (video game review in Your Sinclair issue 46)

Our daughter thinks you're wonderful. “Cool” I think was the adjective she used. […] Or maybe it was “triff”.


elbow grease

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

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

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

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

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

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


snooty

snootier (comparative)
snootiest (superlative)

好自夸的，高傲的，自命不凡的

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

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

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

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


latibulate

源自拉丁語 latibulum (“躲藏處”) + -ate，源自 lateō (“隱藏起來”) + -bulum。

latibulates (third-person singular present)
latibulating (present participle)
latibulated (past participle)

在字典和單詞表之外很罕見

He is probably after the manner of his prototype Kellogg, "latibulating" in some secure position, in breathless expectancy that His Excellency, will again uphold usurpation[…]。

他可能遵循他Kellogg原型的方式，在某個安全的位置躲藏著並屏息凝氣，期望閣下將再次支持篡奪 […]

1874年November16日，The Wheeling Daily Register，Wheeling, West Virginia，頁 2，列 1:

有關使用本詞的更多用例，請參閱Citations:latibulate。


an apple a day keeps the doctor away

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

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

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

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-us-an apple a day keeps the doctor away.oga

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Excalibur

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

在亚瑟王的传说故事中，年轻的亚瑟王成功地将石中剑拔出，证明了自己的命运是成为王。当他当上王以后，湖夫人将一把剑赠给了他。在早期版本的传说中，这把湖中剑就是王者之剑，而另有版本说，湖夫人所赠的剑才是王者之剑。近来的故事复述将两把剑描述为同一把剑。

王者之剑，断钢圣剑，斩铁剑 （亚瑟王的圣剑）

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

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

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

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

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

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


Nosferatu

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

/ˌnɒsfəˈɹɑːtuː/

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

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

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

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

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

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


abacination

abbacination (alternative)
abacinations (plural)

灼燒，用滾燙金屬使人致盲的行為

That blind general lost his sight by the process of abacination.

1902，James Meeker Ludlow，Incentives for Life, Personal and Public，頁 144:

Her warmth and radiance had blinded him, a self-inflicted abacination.

1972，Trevanian (pseud.)，The Eiger Sanction，第1984 Ballantine ed.版, →ISBN，頁 105:

I, who had seen so many brandings and abacinations, and had even used the iron myself (among the billion things I recall perfectly is the flesh of Morwenna's cheeks blistering), could scarcely force myself to go and look at him.

1994，Gene Wolfe，Sword & Citadel, →ISBN，頁 134:


Fenrir

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

芬里尔 （古诺尔斯神话中的一匹巨狼）

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

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

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

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

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

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


flesh and blood

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

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

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


industrializing

more industrializing (comparative)
most industrializing (superlative)

正經歷工業化的；變得更加工業化的

[T]he Lunar Society of Birmingham […] aimed to develop knowledge useful to an industrialising society and included among its luminaries the potter Josiah Wedgwood (1730–95), the physician William Withering (1741–99), the chemist Joseph Priestly and James Watt.

1997，Roy Porter，The Greatest Benefit to Mankind，Folio Society, 出版於 2016，頁 247:


fuck with

fucks with (third-person singular present)
fucking with (present participle)
fucked with (past participle)

roll with

与...合作，与...有关联； 喜欢，中意

与...合作，与...有关联； 喜欢，中意

特別用於非洲裔美國人白話

I fuck with you heavy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


unfuckwithable

more unfuckwithable (comparative)
most unfuckwithable (superlative)

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

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

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

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

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

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


wushu

借自官話 武術／武术 (wǔshù)。

中華人民共和國創建的一項以中國傳統武術為基礎的現代表演和全接觸運動，又稱現代武術或當代武術。

The techniques of contemporary wushu are indeed those which at one time were used for self-defense, but the basis and development of wushu are different from kung fu.


malacologist

軟體動物學家 （自19世紀）

In the early 1800s the French malacologist Pierre Denys de Montfort published an account of a British ship of the line that he claimed had been sunk, and its crew devoured, by a Colossal octopus, or Kraken.

1800年代初期，法國軟體動物學家皮埃爾·德尼斯·德蒙福特發表了一篇報導，稱一艘英國戰列艦被巨型章魚 (Kraken) 擊沉，船員被吞食。

2012，Caspar Henderson，The Book of Barely Imagined Beings，第2013版, Granta Books，頁 233:


源自HTTP狀態碼 404。當伺服器／服務器無法為客戶端正常提供網頁訊息，或是無法回應且不知原因時，就會返回此代碼。

/ˈfɔːɹəʊˌfɔː(ɹ)/

找不到（尤其是網際網路／互聯網上的網頁）

Return 404s for all deleted pages. Some search engine marketers suggest redirecting old products to semantically related products instead of 404ing. This preserves link equity, whereas a 404 does not.

對所有已刪除的頁面返回404。一些搜索引擎營銷人員建議將舊產品重定向到語義相關的產品，而不應返回404。這麼做可以保留連結的價值，而404則不能。

2007，Cristian Darie，Jaimie Sirovich，Professional Search Engine Optimization with ASP.NET: A Developer's Guide to SEO，John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN，頁 113:


/ˈfɔːɹəʊˌfɔː(ɹ)/

返回「找不到網頁」的錯誤


tremulous

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

more tremulous (comparative)
most tremulous (superlative)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


amogus

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

电子游戏《Among Us》中的船员或内鬼角色；阿莫古斯

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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sussy baka

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

一般有讽刺意味，使用时一般是直接开这个词的玩笑，而非用于辱骂。

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

2021年May4日，Harry Ainsworth，“What does 'sussy baka' mean and why does everyone on TikTok say it?”, in The Tab，存檔自the original on 2022-10-25:

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

2021年May5日，Theo Salaun，“What is "Sussy Baka" on TikTok? Among Us & anime trend goes viral”, in Dexerto，存檔自the original on 2022-10-24:

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

2022年May6日，Cody Raschella，“What does 'Sussy Baka' mean and where did it originate?”, in We Got This Covered，存檔自the original on 2022-08-11:

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

2022年June30日，Austin Sanders，“Decruiting APD Artists/Activists Imagine a World Without Police, One Cop at a Time”, in The Austin Chronicle，存檔自the original on 2022-08-11:


Jidda

Jeddah的另一種寫法

at last the Suva appeared, with Captain Boyle, who took me back to Jidda.

最後，蘇瓦號出現了，博伊爾船長帶著我回到了吉達。

1926，T.E. Lawrence，Seven Pillars of Wisdom，New York: Anchor, 出版於 1991，頁 109:

When we landed in Jidda, Saudi Arabia, the temperature was above 100 degrees.

當我們降落在沙烏地阿拉伯吉達時，氣溫已經超過100度。

1978，Richard Nixon，RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon，Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL，頁 1012:


to write home about

重要的，厉害的，值得一提的

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

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


cold fish

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

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

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


triturate

triturates (third-person singular present)
triturating (present participle)
triturated (past participle)

通過針頭等狹窄開口將生物組織破碎成單獨的細胞

Just over the external jugular vein there were two punctures, not large, but not wholesome-looking. There was no sign of disease, but the edges were white and worn-looking, as if by some trituration.

1897，Bram Stoker，章號 10, in Dracula，New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:


towards

繼承自中古英語 towardes，繼承自古英語 tōweardes、tōwærdes，等價於 toward + -s (副詞後綴)。

[tʰə̥ˈwɔːdz]

[tʰə̥ˈwɔɹ̠d̠z]

[tʰw̥ɔɹ̠d̠z]

toward

toward的另一種寫法

fromward

toward的另一種寫法

fromwards

toward的另一種寫法

toward的另一種寫法

Towards the following morning, the thermometer fell to 5°; and at daylight, there was not an atom of water to be seen in any direction.

1835，Sir John Ross，Sir James Clark Ross，Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage …, Volume 1，頁s 284–5:

To the left towers the Jungfrau, with the train heading directly towards it.

1960 December，Voyageur，“The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated，頁 752:

But with Goodison Park openly directing its full hostility towards Atkinson, Liverpool went ahead when Carroll turned in his first Premier League goal of the season after 70 minutes.

2011年October1日，Phil McNulty，“Everton 0-2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:


towards

[tʰə̥ˈwɔːdz]

[tʰə̥ˈwɔɹ̠d̠z]

[tʰw̥ɔɹ̠d̠z]

Thus as he spake, lo far away they spyde / A varlet running towards hastily […]

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


nurk

Ives, who is better known for sliminess than courage, approached Samson who was dutifully attending his feudal lord Grouty as usual, and remarked:
'I think you're a stupid nurk, Samson.'

1979，Paul Ableman，Porridge: The Inside Story，頁 90:


meeter

[…] being five minutes earlier than his judgement of when whoever he was meeting would arrive, which could have become confusing for the meeter if the meetee had twigged to the tactic and adjusted his timepiece by another five minutes.

2018，Ian Burns，Messing With Your Mind，頁 283:


Cainozoic

We have treated in the preceding chapters of the Tertiary or Cainozoic strata […]

我們在前面的章節中已經討論過第三紀或新生代地層

1874，查爾斯·萊爾，The Student’s Elements of Geology:


gold mine

This oil deposit is a regular gold mine. We make more and more money every year!

這個油礦是一個定期的金礦。我們每年賺的錢越來越多！

The possessors of Salisbury & Yeovil Railway shares had ample compensation for the anxiety which the first few years of the company's existence had given them, for the concern proved a veritable gold mine.

索爾茲伯里和約維爾鐵路公司股票的持有者在公司成立後的頭幾年裡焦慮不安，但現在他們已經得到了充分的補償，因為事實證明該公司是一座名副其實的金礦。

1939 December，John D. Hewitt，“Some Notable British Main Lines: II. Salisbury and Exeter, S.R.”, in Railway Magazine，頁 407:

[Hal Varian] went to work helping Page, Brin, and Schmidt develop more efficient auction algorithms and build the auction model that became such a gold mine for Google.

[哈爾·瓦里安]幫助佩奇、布林和施密特開發更高效的拍賣算法並建立拍賣模型，該模型成為谷歌的金礦。

2019，Rana Foroohar，Don't Be Evil: The Case Against Big Tech，Penguin UK, →ISBN:


subsidiarize

subsidiarizes (third-person singular present)
subsidiarizing (present participle)
subsidiarized (past participle)

將公司劃分為法律上不同但財務上相關的子公司

In July 1990, Co. formed Uco Sportswear N.V., out of a previous division, a factory and a finishing plant. Restructuring Development: In 1989, Co. initiated a restructuring program to subsidiarize, accompanied by decentralisation.

1992，Moody's International Manual，卷 1，頁 386:


whack off

whacks off (third-person singular present)
whacking off (present participle)
whacked off (past participle)

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

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

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

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


teeter

teeters (third-person singular present)
teetering (present participle)
teetered (past participle)

He teetered on the brink of the precipice.

他在峭壁的边缘摇摇欲坠。

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

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

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

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


friend with benefits

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

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

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

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

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

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

2005，Jennifer Klein，University of Pennsylvania:


wind up

winds up (third-person singular present)
winding up (present participle)
wound up (past participle)

roll up

把...摇起来 （车窗，井的水桶等）

raise

把...摇起来 （车窗，井的水桶等）

snitches get stitches and wind up in ditches

wind down

把...摇起来 （车窗，井的水桶等）

roll down

把...摇起来 （车窗，井的水桶等）

lower

把...摇起来 （车窗，井的水桶等）

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

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

Mess around with drugs and wind up broke.

沾上毒品结果就是身无分文。

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

我跟着路标走，结果走到了不知道啥地方。

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

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

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

2013年January18日，Brian Hayes，“Father of Fractals”, in American Scientist，卷 101, 期 1，頁 62:

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

2020年December9日，Drachinifel，片头起15:25, in Guadalcanal Campaign - Cape Esperance (IJN 1 : 2 USN)，存檔自the original on 2022-12-04:

终止，关停 （合作关系，公司等）

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

虽然他讲了坏消息，但他还是想以正面的语气结束演讲。

同類詞：wind down

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

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

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

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


cut it

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

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

有时候还是得用专业工具，平常的解决方法还是不够的。

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


coop up

coops up (third-person singular present)
cooping up (present participle)
cooped up (past participle)

使...窝在；将...困在 （处于一个狭窄受限的地方或出于束手无策的境地）

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

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


bite the big one

bites the big one (third-person singular present)
biting the big one (present participle)
bit the big one (past)
bitten the big one (past participle)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


eigh

"Eigh, eigh! he's killed me!" Mr. Utley shrieked. But none of the students made a move out of their seats.


octadecahedron

octadecahedra (plural)
octadecahedrons (plural)

The cell structure was considered to consist of spherical holes but for the purposes of calculation, the cells were assumed to be octadecahedra. ln this model, a compressive force along the principal axis of the octadecahedron and parallel to.

1974，International Polymer Science and Technology，頁 202:

In fact the structure of 2 can be related to the octadecahedron and the pentacapped trigonal prism in an interesting fashion


ragequit

ragequits (third-person singular present)
ragequitting (present participle)
ragequit (past participle)
ragequitted (past participle)

/ˈɹeɪd͡ʒˌkwɪt/

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

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

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

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


ragequit

/ˈɹeɪd͡ʒˌkwɪt/

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

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


herstory

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

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

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


tum tum

tum-tum (“肚子”)的另一種寫法

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

tumtum (“一种鼓”)的另一種寫法

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

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


tightening

There are lingering feelings among some board members, especially in the developing world, that the fund joined with the United States and other wealthy countries in demanding overly austere budget cuts and other fiscal tightenings for the countries that were bailed out in the previous decade.

2007年September28日，Steven R. Weisman，“I.M.F. Faces a Question of Identity”, in New York Times:


plentifully

繼承自中古英語 plentefully、plentefullych、plentyfullyche，等價於 plentiful + -ly。

more plentifully (comparative)
most plentifully (superlative)

O love the Lord, all ye his saints: for the Lord preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.

耶和華的聖民哪，你們都要愛他；耶和華保護誠實人，足足報應行事驕傲的人。

1611，The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version)，London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 31:23:


ofloxacin

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

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


trepidation

借自拉丁語 trepidātiō，源自trepidō (“不安”)。

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

我迟疑了好久，最后还是决定让他不带我开我的车走了。

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

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

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

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

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

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


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）。

transluces (third-person singular present)
translucing (present participle)
transluced (past participle)

使光能夠透過，從而讓被照耀的物體半透明

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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:


translucid

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

more translucid (comparative)
most translucid (superlative)

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

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

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

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


trepidatious

more trepidatious (comparative)
most trepidatious (superlative)

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

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

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

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


muti

借自祖魯語 umuthi (“灌木，樹；醫術”)。

非洲傳統醫學 （自19世紀）

The witchdoctor shop with its muti, its vulture eggs, the skins and hair and nails and horns and unmentionable excretions, its useless whorl of incense; and the Indian owner glaring at one like a dark wooden mask.

1978，André Brink，Rumours of Rain，Vintage, 出版於 2000，頁 179:

Lekota's handing on a plate ammunition against himself, scrapping our genuine African herb medicine, Affirmative Action, that national muti.

2012，Nadine Gordimer，No Time Like the Present，Bloomsbury, 出版於 2013，頁 300:


placename

With a complex site, different site elements may not be terminologically distinguished, or else a generic term may be optionally added to the placename to distinguish a site element, such as a hill, well, or claypan at the location.

2012，Nick Thieberger，The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Fieldwork，頁 401:


taxonomist

Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.

1992年，魯道夫馬蒂亞斯舒斯特，The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian，卷 V, 伊州芝加哥: 菲爾德自然史博物館, →ISBN，頁 vii:


taxonomic

With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…]


clears

只過篩一次、較硬的粗麵粉

Pastry flour: patent and clears from soft wheat flours may be blended to produce pastry flour.

2003，Handbook of Postharvest Technology: Cereals, Fruits, Vegetables, Tea, and Spices，頁 313:


sand dollar

Adult echinoderms have a five-part body plan corresponding to the arms of a sea star or the design on the "shell" of a sand dollar.

成年棘皮动物的身体结构由五部分组成，对应海星的手臂或沙钱“壳”上的条纹。

2000，Sandra Alters，章號 I, in Biology: Understanding Life，頁 692:

If you look carefully, a sand dollar is merely a sea urchin in flattened form.

如果你仔细观察，就会发现沙钱只不过是扁平状的海胆。

2001，Jennifer Hahn，Spirited Waters: Soloing South Through the Inside Passage，出版於 2009，頁 135:


ocean sunfish

ocean sunfishes (plural)
ocean sunfish (plural)

At well over a tonne, and sometimes more than two, and 3.3 metres (11 feet) across when fully grown, the Ocean sunfish is the world's heaviest bony fish.

翻车鱼成熟后的重量远超过一吨，有时超过两吨，直径为3.3米（11 英尺），是世界上最重的硬骨鱼。

2012，Caspar Henderson，The Book of Barely Imagined Beings，Granta Books, 出版於 2013，頁 242:


Brussels

借自荷蘭語 Brussel 和法語 Bruxelles，源自原始日耳曼語，由 *brōk (“沼澤，濕地”) + *sali (“建築物，房間”) 組成。“歐盟行政機構”的轉喻義是基於歐盟總部設在布魯塞爾的事實而來。

布魯塞爾（首都名，位於比利時）。

Buying bread from a man in Brussels / He was 6'4", and full of muscle

从布鲁塞尔的一个男人那里买面包 / 他身高1米93，肌肉发达

1981，Men At Work （作曲作詞）, “Down Under”, in Business as Usual:


Brussels

If the same design be produced in a Brussels and in a Tapestry it will be found that the Brussels shows sharp, clean-cut outlines, where the Tapestry gives ragged, uneven effects, […]

1911，Dry Goods Economist，卷 65, 期 3，頁 51:


dining

就餐，用餐 （作為一社交功能）

For my own part I preferred to remain with the ship, and I am now glad that I did so, for the welcome we received at Havana; the cheering crowds upon the quay; the friends we met and made; the dinings in and dinings out […]


shopping centre

The streets radiated out from the new shopping centre like the spokes of a wheel.

街道从新的购物中心向外辐射，就像车轮的辐条一样。

1968，Carl Ruhen，The Key Club，Sydney: Scripts，頁 20:


big house

作俚语时总是后接于“the”。

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

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


alienator

To one like Elia, whose treasures are rather cased in leather covers, than closed in iron coffers, there is a class of alienators more formidable than that which I have touched upon; I mean, your borrowers of books—those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

1820 December，Charles Lamb，“The Two Races of Men”, in The London Magazine，卷 2, 期 12，頁 624:


anthropological

more anthropological (comparative)
most anthropological (superlative)

He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.

2012 March-April，John T. Jost，“Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist，卷 100, 期 2，存檔自the original on 2017-06-21，頁 162:


Frankie

男性人名 Frank 的指小詞；亦用於 Francisco、Francis 或 Franklin

Before arriving in Miami, he was known by his real name of Frankie King. Not Frank but Frankie; his mother had named him after the singer Frankie Laine.

在抵达迈阿密之前，他的真名是弗兰基·金。不是弗兰克，而是弗兰基；他的母亲以歌手弗兰基·莱恩的名字为他命名。

1991，Carl Hiaasen，Native Tongue，Knopf, →ISBN，頁 62:


Debra

Deborah 的變體，最早用於20世紀。

源自希伯來語的女性人名，流行於20世紀50-60年代。

"She's Debra Jean," the children shouted in chorus. "We decided last night with Daddy." - - - So her name is Debbie, I thought to myself. With a pretty name and a family to love her this baby has to make it.

“她叫黛布拉·吉恩，”孩子们齐声喊道。“我们昨晚和爸爸一起决定的。”——所以她的名字叫黛比，我心想。有了一个漂亮的名字和一个爱她的家庭，这个宝宝一定能健康成长。

1966，Marilyn M. Segal，Run Away, Little Girl，Random House，頁 6:


Doug

男性人名 Douglas 的指小詞。

Come and have a drink,' he said, 'and my Christian name is Douglas on this side of the Rye, mind that. Dougal Douglas at Meadows Meade and Douglas Dougal a Willis's, mind. Only a formality for the insurance cards and such.'
'I better call you Doug, and be done with it.'

1960，Muriel Spark，The Ballad of Peckham Rye，New Directions Publishing, 出版於 1999，頁 70:


Vanessa

由喬納森·斯威夫特造出，來自其女性朋友 Esther ("Essy") Vanhomrigh 的名字。

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

Vanessa be the Name / By which thou shalt be known to Fame. / Vanessa, by the Gods enroll'd: / Her Name on Earth - shall not be told.

1726，Jonathan Swift，Cadenus and Vanessa:

A kind of girl that May had before only seen in the pages of fashion magazines, bored, disdainful, elegant, reluctantly admitted her. - - - She was asked to see Vanessa on the way out. She knew that the girl would be called something like Vanessa.

1978，Maeve Binchy，Victoria Line, Central Line，Arrow, 出版於 1993, →ISBN，頁s 178, 179:


Jacquelyn

源自法語的女性人名，Jacqueline 的變體之一

Faith laughed, pointing out, "All of their names rhyme—Gwendolyn, Jacquelyn, Joelyn. It's kind of weird, don't you think?'

费思笑着指出，“他们的名字都押韵——格温多林、杰奎琳、乔林。这有点奇怪，你不觉得吗？”

2009，Karin Slaughter，Genesis，Century, →ISBN，頁 143:


Jacqueline

法語 Jacques (相當於英語的James) 的陰性小稱。源自希伯來語 יעקב (Ya‘akov)，源自希伯來語詞根עקב (‘akev，“腳跟”)，因為雅各出生在以掃後，而他拽著以掃的腳跟，不讓他先出生。

Jacqueline was so named simply because their mother had liked the ring of the word, sounding Parisian and worldly and auguring, to her mind, a good life.

1993，Oscar Hijuelos，The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien, →ISBN，頁 6:


Jacqui

The second woman was older but not at all wiser. Her name was Jacqui and she spelled it twice in case there should be any misunderstanding.

第二个女人年纪更大，但一点也不聪明。她的名字叫杰奎，她拼了两遍，以防产生任何误解。

2008，Maeve Binchy，Heart and Soul，Anchor, 出版於 2009, →ISBN，頁 27:


unexplained

Why this already very fast train should be speeded up still further, when none of the other more easily timed S.R. West of England trains has a single minute pared from its schedule, is unexplained - unless this is a playful dig at the Western Region, most of whose expresses, by reason of additional stops, will be decelerated from the same date.

1961 October，“The winter timetables of British Railways: Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated，頁 593:


Siobhan

愛爾蘭語 Siobhán 的英語化拼寫，源自中古愛爾蘭語 Sibán，源自盎格魯-諾曼語 Jehane 或 Jehanne，源自古法語 Jehanne，源自中世紀拉丁語 Johanna，Joanna 的變體，源自通用希臘語 Ἰωάννα (Iōánna)，源自希伯來語 יוֹחָנָה (Yôḥānāh，字面意思是“主是仁慈的”)，יְהוֹחָנָן (Yəhōḥānān)的陰性形式，該詞也派生出 John 及其眾多同源對似詞。
Ivana、Jana、Jane、Janice、Janis、Jean、Jeanne、Jen、Joan、Joanna、Joanne、Johanna、Juana、Shavonne、Sian、Shane、Shaun、Shauna和Sheena 的同源對似詞。

源自愛爾蘭語的女性人名。

I think
about biblical names, Tamara, Michaela,
Mira, Shoshana, and Celtic names I can
barely pronounce, Siobhan tangling
between teeth and tongue.

2002，Dave Margoshes，“Faith, Hope, Charity”, in Purity of Absence，Dundurn Press Ltd., →ISBN，頁 106:


stond

Nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit but may be wrought out by fit studies; like as diseases of the body may have appropriate exercises.

1625，Francis [Bacon]，“Of Studies”, in The Essayes […]，第3rd版, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:

when he saw the Damsell passe away,
He left his stond, and her pursewd apace

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


spin-off

源自动词短语spin off。

hive-off

（从母公司的）独立，剥离，拆分；（由此产生的）独立公司，拆分公司

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

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


Bornean

To him it seemed that the Bornean rainforests, the tallest on Earth, were places that had: 'remained untouched and unchanged since remote geological epochs[.]'

2018，Tim Flannery，Europe: A Natural History，頁 55: