émigré

借自法語 émigré。

法國大革命期間逃亡出法國的人（尤指保皇派）

Any émigré who had returned to France without obtaining government consent was required to leave France forthwith […]

任何未经政府同意返回法国的移民都必须立即离开法国 […]

2002，Colin Jones，The Great Nation，Penguin, 出版於 2003，頁 516:

（尤指因政治原因）流亡在外的僑民

In retrospect, Sǒ's unqualified championship of the elective principle may seem somewhat naive. At the time, however, he believed his conviction was vindicated by the example of the self-governing Korean émigré settlements in Russian Manchuria (Siberia). After visiting them and observing their daily activities, British geographer Isabella B. Bishop had praised their contented lives and attributed this situation to the good leadership of their elected headmen.

1991，Vipan Chandra，“Korean Human-Rights Consciousness in an Era of Transition: A Survey of Late Nineteenth-Century Developments”, in Human Rights in Korea: Historical and Policy Perspectives, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC，頁 70:

In 1621 in Plymouth, émigré English Calvinists struggled to make their way in the harsh climate of this New World.

2007, Eve LaPlante, The opposite of Thanksgiving:

His latest novel sheds light on an émigré writer’s woodshedding period.

2007年July23日，“A Free Life”, in Publishers Weekly:

[…]the capital of a country that, like its Communist (and later post-Communist) sisters to the east, had long been known for turning its younger residents into aspiring émigrés.

2008年September20日，David Amsden，“The Dubliners”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

In that essay, Said distinguishes between exile, refugee, expatriate and émigré.

2014年February20日，James Wood，On Not Going Home London Review of Books:


woning

繼承自中古英語 woning、wuning、wunnunge，繼承自古英語 wunung (“居住、生活；套間”)，繼承自原始西日耳曼語 *wunungu，等價於 wone + -ing。同源詞包括低地蘇格蘭語 wonnyng、wonyng、wonyn (“居住、住宅、庇护所”)、荷蘭語 woning (“住宅、房屋”)、德語 Wohnung (“住宅，公寓”)、瑞典語 våning (“層，公寓”)。

Near it is a timbered house; an old inn close to the bridge is thought to be the \"woning\" of \"Elynor Humming,\" the famous ale wife, whose "tunning" is celebrated by Hen. VII.'s poet laureate, Skelton.

[…] ordained as a place and a woning for the Holy Ghost, and as of Christ able and possible for to come to endless bliss.


necrophile

/ˈnɛkɹəʊ̆faɪl/

He has seizures of erotic and macaberesque madness. He is a sort of necrophile. He has kept a journal in which he sets forth his disease with the utmost clearness.

1903，Guy de Maupassant，譯者 M. Walter Dunne, A Tress of Hair:


she-bear

繼承自中古英語 sche bere；By surface analysis, she- + bear。

Elisha [...] was able to call upon two she-bears to come and eat up the children who had treated him irreverently[.]

以利沙…能夠召喚兩頭母熊來吃掉那些對他不敬的孩子[。]

1936，Rollo Ahmed，The Black Art，London: Long，頁 52:

two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys.
#*:: 有兩個母熊從林中出來，撕裂他們中間四十二個童子。

2001, Bible Old Testament 2 Kings 2:24 (English Standard Version)


batucada

一種重複、快節奏的打擊森巴／桑巴風格

She has not only employed television and radio advertisements in Spanish and English, but has also sent batucada percussion ensembles and mobile loudspeakers playing reggaetón chants into the streets to spread her message.

2008年May25日，Larry Rohter，“Puerto Rico Gets Its Moment in the Sun (the Political One) as Primary Nears”, in New York Times:


bombee

被炸者；爆炸事件的受害者或目標

同類詞：bomber

It must be comforting to the bombee to know the bomber had a moral doubt.

知道轟炸者有道德上的懷疑，被炸者一定會感到安慰。

1973，Robert N. Kharasch，The Institutional Imperative，頁 32:


stairs

At length, one night, when the company by ſome accident broke up much ſooner than ordinary, ſo that the candles were not half burnt out, ſhe was not able to reſiſt the temptation, but reſolved to have them ſome way or other. Accordingly, as ſoon as the hurry was over, and the ſervants, as ſhe thought, all gone to ſleep, ſhe ſtole out of her bed, and went down ſtairs, naked to her ſhift as ſhe was, with a deſign to ſteal them […]

1762，Charles Johnstone，The Reverie; or, A Flight to the Paradise of Fools，卷 2, Dublin: Printed by Dillon Chamberlaine, →OCLC，頁 202:

We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time.

我们蹑手蹑脚地走进屋子，爬上楼梯，沿着走廊进入教授待过很长时间的房间。

1913，Joseph C. Lincoln，章號 13, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:


stairway

The phrase "stairway to heaven" has a variety of cultural significances.

“天堂的阶梯”一词具有多种文化意义。

Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, with something of the stately pose which Richter has given his Queen Louise on the stairway,[…]。

1897年 12月（標示為1898年），Winston Churchill，章號 5, in The Celebrity: An Episode，紐約: The Macmillan Company；倫敦：Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:


intervenue

This Crown hath now had five weak Princes, without intervenue of any one active, yet is it in no part demolished.

1650，Henry Blount，A Voyage into the Levant:


First Nations

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加拿大原住民（通常不包括因紐特人或梅蒂人），第一民族；印第安人

Generally speaking, the works of First Nations artists were made with materials such as wood, leather or cloth.

一般來說，加拿大原住民藝術家的作品是用木材、皮革或布料等材料製作的。

2001，Quebec，Francois Remillard, Hunter Publishing, Inc, →ISBN，頁 27:

澳大利亞原住民（澳大利亞土著與托雷斯海峽島民）

Among the 1692 Australian species and subspecies on the BirdLife Australia Working List V3 (excluding vagrant and introduced taxa [...]), 18.7% derive from unrelated entities (e.g. shrike-tit that is neither shrike nor tit). Just 82 reflect First Nations names for birds (1.6%) or places (3.3%)

2022，Stephen T. Garnett, Golo Maurer, Georgia E. Garrard，“Why Australian common bird names should respond to societal change”, in Emu: Austral Ornithology，卷 122, 期 2，頁 150:


stone the crows

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

可以和其他类似俗语一起使用，比如：stone the crows and pickle the lizards。

天啊 （表达惊讶或仅强调的一般化叹词）

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

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

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

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

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

1988，Janette Turner Hospital，Charades，頁 63:

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

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


weaselly

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

On still weasellier, greasier members of the clique.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


weasely

weaselier (comparative)
weaseliest (superlative)

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

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


walk like an Egyptian

有时古埃及画作中有如此姿势的人。

walks like an Egyptian (third-person singular present)
walking like an Egyptian (present participle)
walked like an Egyptian (past participle)

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

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

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


asseverate

借自拉丁語 assevērāre，源自 assevērō (“聲稱，聲明”)。

asseverates (third-person singular present)
asseverating (present participle)
asseverated (past participle)

/əˈsɛvəɹeɪt/

鄭重聲明，認真而自信地斷言

Whereas Your Maiesty hath received true information of great sums of Money endeavoured to be borrowed of Your City of London, by directions proceeding from both Houses of Parliament […] (I Your Maiesties faithfull Subiect) doe conceive, and dare asseverate, that it is intended upon no other pretence then for the Honour and defence of Your Maiesty,

1642，Sir Richard Gurney, 1st Baronet，The Lord Maior of Londons Letter to the King at Yorke, June 22，London:

The more I laughed at such theories, the more these stubborn friends asseverated them; adding that even without the heritage of legend the recent reports were too clear, consistent, detailed, and sanely prosaic in manner of telling, to be completely ignored.

1931，H. P. Lovecraft，章號 1, in The Whisperer in Darkness:

A time would come, Mr. Secombe-Hughes mysteriously asseverated, when all would be well and she would get her money.

1971，Iris Murdoch，An Accidental Man，New York: Viking，頁 31:


meet one's maker

多种宗教均认为人死后会到达天堂等可以见到造物主的地方。

meets one's maker (third-person singular present)
meeting one's maker (present participle)
met one's maker (past participle)

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

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

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

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


khagan

最终源自古突厥語 𐰴𐰍𐰣 (qaɣan)。

As early as the year 740 A.D., one of the Khazar kaghans had turned to Constantinople for a missionary versed in Christian law.

1988，Milorad Pavić，譯者 Christina Pribićević-Zorić, Dictionary of the Khazars，Vintage, 出版於 1989，頁 69:

"A kagan is the father, the mother and the lover of all his people. Nobody would lift a hand against him," said Hanukkah.

2007，Michael Chabon，Gentlemen of the Road，Sceptre, 出版於 2008，頁 52:


wear one's heart on one's sleeve

wears one's heart on one's sleeve (third-person singular present)
wearing one's heart on one's sleeve (present participle)
wore one's heart on one's sleeve (past)
worn one's heart on one's sleeve (past participle)

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

约1603–1604年，威廉·莎士比亚，“The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice [奥赛罗]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (第一对开本)，伦敦: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, 出版於 1623, →OCLC, [Act 1, scene 1]，行 64:

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

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

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

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

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

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


open book

好懂的事物，易懂的事物，一目了然的事物

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

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

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

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

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

1921，Edgar Rice Burroughs，Tarzan the Untamed:

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

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

直白的人，坦率的人，很容易看透的人，胸无城府的人

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

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

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

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

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

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


tebasaki

Although Japan’s culinary lexicon did not include deep frying until the Portuguese introduced it in the 16th century, the country now has at least three distinct fried chicken styles: katsu, with super-crisp panko or bread crumbs, is used for pounded breasts; karaage, ginger-and-garlic-marinated thighs in a light, puffy crust of sweet-potato starch; and Nagoya-style tebasaki, or wings.

2009年October7日，Julia Moskin，“Fried Chicken: A Migratory Bird”, in New York Times:


turn in one's grave

turns in one's grave (third-person singular present)
turning in one's grave (present participle)
turned in one's grave (past participle)

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死不瞑目，棺材板都压不住

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

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

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

关于引力粒子的新科学发现可以让牛顿从坟墓里爬出来。

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

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

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

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


troupe

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

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

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


social psychology

Before we discuss our two main objectives, however, and present illustrations and our specific hypotheses, an overview of social movements and their social psychology will help put our ideas in the broader context to which they are directed.

2000，Sheldon Stryker, Timothy Joseph Owens, Robert W. White，Self, Identity, and Social Movements, →ISBN，頁 191:

Georg Simmel (1902) pointed out that the money economy pervasive in a city fosters individualism, blasé attitudes, and secondary relations, thus linking urbanism with a particular social psychology.

2006，Mohammad Qadeer，Pakistan - Social and Cultural Transformations in a Muslim Nation, →ISBN:

It is essential to identify user perspectives and relate their social psychology to meaningful trust determinants in the system to be automated.

2014，Sjouke Mauw, Christian Damsgaard Jensen，Security and Trust Management, →ISBN:

The roots of black crime are threefold: a different social psychology resulting from blacks' exclusion from the dominant experience with factory, bureaucracy, and schooling; a heritage of economic and other insecurities; and a long and complex experience with criminal activity.

2015，Orlando Patterson，The Cultural Matrix: Understanding Black Youth, →ISBN，頁 107:


riffed

Several ships could be sunk by the copious tears being shed by riffed reservists.

被裁的预备役军人流下的大量眼泪可能会击沉几艘船。

1958，Air Force Magazine - Volume 41，頁 86:

Riffed teachers are unlikely to return to teaching, for they often have found other challenging, financially rewarding work that they might otherwise never have tried.

被裁的教师不太可能重返教学岗位，因为他们经常能找到其他具有挑战性、金钱回报丰厚的工作，不然的话，那可能是他们从未尝试去找过。

1987，Nathalie Jean Gehrke，On being a teacher，頁 93:

Years ago, my job at an employment outplacement firm was to train and counsel groups of recently riffed employees.

几年前我在一家职业介绍公司上班，工作内容是对最近被裁的员工进行培训和咨询。

2008，Nancy Daniel Wesson，Moving Your Aging Parents, →ISBN:


demeanour

demeanor的英國、澳大利亞、新西蘭和加拿大拼寫法

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

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


evangelize

源自古法語 évangéliser，源自晚期拉丁語 evangelizare，源自古希臘語 εὐαγγελίζω (euangelízō)。取代了原生的詞彙 古英語 godspellian (字面意思是“傳福音”)。

evangelizes (third-person singular present)
evangelizing (present participle)
evangelized (past participle)

his Apoſtles, whom he ſends To evangelize the Nations

祂差遣使徒去向萬民傳福音

1667，John Milton，“Book X”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books，London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; 再版為 Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […]，London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC，行s 1389–1390:

向尚未歸信者宣揚任何意識形態

同類詞：proselytize

[…] nor is it the task of the Muslim to "evangelize" the unbelieving world.

[…] 穆斯林的任務也不是向不信的世界「傳福音」。

2002，Ergun Mehmet Caner, Emir Fethi Caner，Unveiling Islam: An Insider's Look at Muslim Life and Beliefs [揭開伊斯蘭教的面紗：內部人士對穆斯林生活和信仰的看法]，頁 11:


architector

借自中古法語 architecteur，源自拉丁語 architectus、architectōn + 中古法語 -eur。

Then he said that Homer was wonderfull in all his things, but that amongst others, he was an excellent architector.

1579-1603，Thomas North，Plutarch's Lives，頁 570:


honey bucket

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

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


smack-dab

正正地，不偏不倚地；（尤指）在正中

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

我把水气球丢了出去，正中他的脑门。

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

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


ha'

a (“有”)的另一種拼寫法

Well, girls have queer fancies ! Who'd ha' thought she'd ha' fancied Robin ! — though he's a brave sound-hearted little fellow […]

1833，S. C. Hall，The Buccaneer，卷s 1-2，頁 182:


undead

繼承自中古英語 undede，等價於 un- + dead。最早可考的使用見於1400年左右，名詞用法則起自20世紀早期。

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

不死的 （已死亡但还能活动的）

When Anna and John finally break out of their self-centered bubbles to the shock that they must battle to the death an undead neighbor in a giant snowman costume, it plays like a poignant comment on movie teenagers' tendency to indulge their inner lives, ignorant of the world around them.

2018年November27日，April Wolfe，“Anna And The Apocalypse is a Holiday-horror Cocktail of Singing, Maiming, and Clichés”, in The A.V. Club，存檔自the original on 2019-11-04:


undead

In the zombie movie, an army of the undead accosted some nubile skinny-dipping teenagers.

在喪屍電影中，一群不死族跟一些性感的裸泳青年搭訕。

"Were another of the Un-Dead, like him, to try to do what he has done, perhaps not all the centuries of the world that have been, or that will be, could aid him."

1897，Bram Stoker，Dracula，New York: Doubleday & McClure, 出版於 1899，頁 xxiv. 319:

Harley got devoured by the undead / Lurking down in some old wizard's tomb / You can say there's no such thing as zombies / But that's how Harley Warren met his doom

2006，The H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society，“Harley Got Devoured by the Undead”, in An Even Scarier Solstice:

It’s an episode of characters returning to their own pasts as different people. They can retrench like Cersei, back on her bullshit, I mean, warpath. Or they can adapt, like The Hound. Neither way necessarily ensures success, but we know the archmaester isn’t unequivocally right. We’ve seen dragons reborn and armies of the undead. I wouldn’t be so sure that Wall will stand forever.

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


undead

"You will do me a service," the undead said to him.

“你要幫我一個忙。”不死人對他說。

Innocent VIII lent credibility to the actual existence of undeads, an action that perpetuated, and even stimulated, vampire hysteria.

依諾增爵八世让不死族的真实存在变得可信，这一行为延续了甚至刺激了对吸血鬼的恐慌。

1997，Carol Margaret Davison, Paul Simpson-Housley，Bram Stoker's Dracula: sucking through the century, 1897-1997:


saidan

Conducted in a specially designated ceremonial room, containing a Saidan, or altar, preparations for the ceremony begin with the placing of the likenesses of the Japanese gods upon the top tier, the most honorable place.

儀式在專門指定的儀式室進行，內有祭壇，儀式的準備工作首先是將日本神的神像放在最頂層、最尊貴的地方。

2000，Sean Grennan，Gangs: An International Approach，Pearson College Division:


mopper

the kitchen mopper was a short female Asian averting her gaze.

2004，Janet Kieffer，Food Chain: Short Stories，Lost Horse Press, →ISBN，頁 58:

A couple of moppers were then sent into the coffee-room with their proper implements, and quickly removed the soiling the floor had sustained.

1839，John Briggs，The history of Jim Crow，Smallfield and Son，頁 266:


garda

Garda的大小寫替代形式

A garda was ambling towards us.

有个警察正在慢慢朝我们这边走来。

A trainee garda who was sent home from Templemore Garda College after he was told the tattoo on his hand id not comply with the force's dress and uniform code said he has been “treated very unfairly”.

一名警察学员在被告知手上的纹身不符合警察着装和制服规范后，被坦普尔莫尔警察学院遣送回家，他表示自己受到了“非常不公平的对待”。

2023年August15日，Ken Foy，“Garda trainee sent home from Templemore over tattoo says he has been treated ‘very unfairly‘”, in Irish Independent，頁 6:


Can’t believe people are thanking the twins for a great season after they got swept in the first round of the playoffs. That’s like thanking someone for punching you in the 🥜 ‘s

不敢相信人们在季后赛首轮被横扫后感谢这对双胞胎度过了一个伟大的赛季。这就像感谢某个一拳打中你蛋蛋的人一样。


wipe the floor with someone

wipes the floor with someone (third-person singular present)
wiping the floor with someone (present participle)
wiped the floor with someone (past participle)

横扫某人，彻底击败某人，使某人一败涂地

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

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


sunder

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

sunders (third-person singular present)
sundering (present participle)
sundered (past participle)

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

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

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

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

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

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

1788，William Marshall，The Rural Economy of Yorkshire:

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

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

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

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

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

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


sunder

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

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


steer clear

steers clear (third-person singular present)
steering clear (present participle)
steered clear (past participle)

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

1835，James Fenimore Cooper，The Monikins, Introduction:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


doom and gloom

rainbows and unicorns

悲观的人或物，绝望的人或物

sunshine and rainbows

悲观的人或物，绝望的人或物

悲观的人或物，绝望的人或物

The economic forecast contained the usual doom and gloom.

经济前景预计还是一如既往的悲观。

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

他妹妹丢掉那个角色以后就一直很悲观。

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


fumbling

（尤指手或手指的動作）行動笨拙

From the beginning her mini-campaign, with its many missteps and fumblings, seem mired in confusion.

2009年January25日，Sam Tanenhaus，“A Fumbled Handoff of the Torch”, in New York Times:


crepuscule

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

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


United Nations General Assembly

On December 17 I addressed the UN General Assembly, stating that it was this nation's policy to help create a world that "can be safe for diversity and free from hostility."

12月17日，我在联合国大会上发言，指出我国的政策是帮助创建一个“可以安全地实现多样性、没有敌意”的世界。

1971，Lyndon Johnson，“"I feel like I have already been here a year"”, in The Vantage Point，Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC，頁 23:


perfricate

perfricates (third-person singular present)
perfricating (present participle)
perfricated (past participle)

[…] they differ from embrocations, only in not being intended, like them, to be copiously used in washing or perfricating the part on which they are applied […]

1761，Robert Dossie，Theory and Practice of Chirurgical Pharmacy:


swan song

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

绝唱 （隐退前最后的表演或成就）

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


tulle

‘Before I forget, there is one turquoise tulle fabric I think you would love . . .’

“趁我还没忘记，有一种绿松石色薄纱面料我想你会喜欢的……”

2020，Abi Daré，The Girl With The Louding Voice，Sceptre，頁 240:


truant

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

旷工的；无所事事的，懒散的

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

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

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

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


truant

truants (third-person singular present)
truanting (present participle)
truanted (past participle)

Tis double vvrong , to truant vvith your bed

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

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


maieusiophobia

The perversion of normal maternal instinct known as maieusiophobia accounts for a few childless marriages, which may be attributed principally to the erroneous ideas advanced by mothers in the education of their daughters […]

被稱為分娩恐懼症的正常母性本能的變態導致了少數無子女的婚姻，這可能主要歸因於母親在教育女兒時提出的錯誤觀念 […]

1912，American Surgical Journal，卷 26，頁 277:


put the kibosh on

puts the kibosh on (third-person singular present)
putting the kibosh on (present participle)
put the kibosh on (past participle)

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

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

那个聚会真的吵死了，得找人让他们停下来。

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

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

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

2023年September8日，Carl Wilson，“The Olivia Rodrigo–Taylor Swift "Beef" Is Really About Something Deeper”, in Slate，存檔自the original on 2023-09-09:


shoot the breeze

shoots the breeze (third-person singular present)
shooting the breeze (present participle)
shot the breeze (past participle)

We were just standing around shooting the breeze.

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

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

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

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


bupkis

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

We searched for hours and found bupkis.

我们找了几个小时，啥也没找到。

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

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

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

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


sideswipe

侧面撞击，擦撞 （如车辆在转弯时不小心撞到来车侧面）

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


sideswipe

sideswipes (third-person singular present)
sideswiping (present participle)
sideswiped (past participle)

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

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


conversus

There were again the Novices, who were not all necessarily young, for a conversus passed through a noviciate; and even a monk of another order, or of another house of their own order, and even a monk from a cell of their own house, was reckoned among the novices.

1856，Edward L. Cutts，“The Monks of the Middle Ages”, in The Art-Journal，卷 2，頁s 342–3:

The Conversi were, in fact, the servants of the Monks; or, as the chronicler more mildly phrases it, the Monks were the head and the Conversi were the arms of the conventual body.

1874，Edmund Sharpe，The Architecture of the Cistercians，卷 2，頁 9:

A story in the early thirteenth-century vita of Arnulf (d. 1228), a conversus who was Abundus’s confrere at Villers, offers us some insight into the kind of relationship Juette and Abundus may have had: […]

1995，Jennifer Carpenter，“Juette of Huy, Recluse and Mother […]”, in Power of the Weak: Studies on Medieval Women, →ISBN，頁 74:


regexp

/ˈɹɛd͡ʒˌɛksp/

I guess it also can come in handy when trying to learn regexps because it is possible to experiment with them.

我想在嘗試學習正規表示式時它也會派上用場，因為可以對它們進行實驗。

1999，Tim Altom, Mitch Chapman，Programming with Python，Prima Tech, →ISBN:


plumbata

一种中世纪和古代使用的飞镖

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

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

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

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


converted

He was a converted Jew, living in a converted chapel.

他是一名皈依的猶太教徒，住在一座經改建的會堂裡。

Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.

提到今天的银行业，人们就会想到高耸的摩天大楼里，穿着灰色西装的男人。然而在旧金山、纽约和伦敦的改建仓库和时髦办公室中，它的未来新形态正在悄然产生：在那里，穿着牛仔裤和T恤的时髦年轻人挤在笔记本电脑周围，喝着拿铁或吃着免费食物。

2013年August3日，“Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist，卷 408, 期 8847:


giddyup

giddyups (third-person singular present)
giddyuping (present participle)
giddyupping (present participle)
giddyuped (past participle)
giddyupped (past participle)

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

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

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

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

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

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


to wit

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

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

被告人被控持有管制药物——可卡因...

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

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

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

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


obasan

借自日語 小母さん (obasan)。

Some day Japanese women may be seen parading the streets bearing banners on which are written “Votes for Women,”—at least what appears to be a movement in this direction was inaugurated last week, says the Far East, when a public meeting for women was held at the Kanda Y. M. C. A. under the auspices of a woman’s periodical, the Blue-Stocking.[…]Mere male creatures were allowed to be present, and curious University students who wanted to see what all the fuss was about were obliged to ask the obasans in their neighbourhood if they could seek their protection.

1913年March6日，The Japan Chronicle，old series, number 819; new series, number 583, Kobe，頁 423:

In the novel Naomi stands between two obasans, the one of the title, her great-aunt, the other aunt Emily, her mother’s sister.

在小說中，Naomi 站在兩個歐巴桑中間，一個是書名中的姨婆，另一個是 Emily 阿姨，她母親的妹妹。

1992，Anglistentag 1991 Dusseldorf: Proceedings，Max Niemeyer Verlag，頁 380:

Even if osteoporosis is not so common in elderly Japanese women as in Caucasians when measured in terms of bone density and fractures, I am still convinced that the many obasans one sees in Japan bent nearly double did not get that way merely from planting rice.

The boys resist the Japanese names by which the obasans of the camp address them as willfully as they renounce any identification with the fragmented body of the aged grandfather.

男孩們拒絕接受營裡的歐巴桑們對他們的稱呼，就像他們拒絕與年邁祖父支離破碎的屍體有任何認同一樣。

2001，David L. Eng，Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America，Durham, N.C., London: :en:Duke University Press, →ISBN，頁 120:

“Yeah,” September replied, “old woman. Push and shove. Often Tokyo obasans cut in line for everything and when they get caught they act innocent. They have power and they know it, like old-lady Morimoto, the drycleaner in our building. Geez, whoever designs obasan clothing should be arrested. Those tan shoes you’re wearing are revolting. I dressed up in those clothes for a Halloween party a few years back. But I didn’t look half as real as you.”

2004，Janice Valerie Young，Sweet Daruma: A Japan Satire，New York, Lincoln, Shanghai: iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN，頁s 61–62:

Elderly gents in berets walked past us, elegant with walking canes, escorting obasans, grandmothers in gleaming tabi socks and geta clogs, treading lightly upon the path with a fixedness approaching solemnity.

2006，:en:Trevor Carolan，The Pillow Book of Dr Jazz: Travels Along Asia’s Dharma Trail，Ekstasis Editions, →ISBN，頁 227:

You were nearly hypnotized by the enchanting aroma of the smoke, but managed to keep a steady pace, not wanting to be pegged as a tourist by two obasans, who, cheeks red from the cold, were chatting while cradling grandchildren in their arms.

你幾乎被迷人的煙霧催眠了，但還是勉強保持著平穩的步伐，不想被兩個臉頰凍紅、懷裡抱著孫子聊天的歐巴桑當作遊客盯上。

2007，Chu T’ien-hsin，譯者 :en:Howard Goldblatt, The Old Capital: A Novel of Taipei，New York, N.Y.: :en:Columbia University Press, →ISBN，頁s 164–165:

Have you noticed what word the sales people at Shibuya 109, the Kiyoto “maiko” and night club hostesses use to refer to older women to avoid saying “obasan?”[…]Miu: Oh, wasn’t there some minister who got in trouble for calling women “reproductive machines?” Me: Exactly. That mentality. There are lots of women in their 30s and older who truly dread being called “obasan.” If it hasn’t happened already, then it could happen any second. Horrors! Miu: Moment of metamorphosis. Society decrees you useless for preservation of the species. Me: I like being obasan. I am proud of being obasan. Miu: OK, obasan. Me: Obasan is a title that you earn as a woman when you grow older and wiser and better.[…]Me: Women should be proud of being obasan. Miu: Of course. Me: Obasan Power! Miu: That’s a good way to put it. Me: But all you see in the Japanese media much of the time are obasans rushing to bargains, gossiping, taking flamenco lessons. Miu: What’s the solution? Me: I’m not sure. Data show Japanese women are choosing not to get married and not to have children, even if they do by some miracle get married.

2011，Yuri Kageyama，The New and Selected Yuri: Writing 源自Peeling Till Now，Ishmael Reed Publishing Company/Xlibris, →ISBN，頁s 107–108:

Obasans. Every block in Tokyo has one such lady who sees that everyone on the block packages their garbage correctly.

2012，History of Natto and Its Relatives (1405-2012): Extensively Annotated Bibliography and Sourcebook，Soyinfo Center, →ISBN，頁 452:

I see my best friends, Walter Okura and Alvin Wakayama, with their obasans and moms visiting the very spot where Buddha attained Enlightenment.

我看到我最好的朋友 Walter Okura 和 Alvin Wakayama 帶著他們的歐巴桑和媽媽參觀了佛陀成道的地方。

2020，R.K. Lindsey, Jr.，Waimea I Ka La’i，:en:iUniverse, →ISBN:

“Obasan, not now.” CDI Jones was unduly rude. Although Matsumoto-sama was somewhere in her forties like me, I considered rude to address her as ‘obasan.’[…]“Flowers?” Zach asked. “For the obasans.” Wakabayashi said as if it was obvious.

「歐巴桑，現在不行。」CDI Jones 太粗魯了。雖然 Matsumoto 大人和我一樣四十多歲，但我認為稱呼她為歐巴桑是不禮貌的。 […] 「鮮花？」Zach 問。「給歐巴桑們的。」Wakabayashi 說道，彷彿這是理所當然的。

2020，M. David Scoble，Zach Tragic in Forgotten Tokyo: A Near-Future Bad Luck Thriller，Moogi and Wil Books:

When I talk to the neighborhood obasans back home, I talk a lot more simply.

當我回到家鄉與鄰居歐巴桑交談時，我說話要簡單得多。

2021，Harmony Becker，Himawari House，First Second，頁 348:


schmancy

schmancier (comparative)
schmanciest (superlative)

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

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


stop short

stops short (third-person singular present)
stopping short (present participle)
stopped short (past participle)

hold back

停下 （使某物停在某个点）

停下 （使某物停在某个点）

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

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

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

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

停下 （而没能到某个点）

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

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


make a pass

makes a pass (third-person singular present)
making a pass (present participle)
made a pass (past participle)

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

Men seldom make passes / At girls who wear glasses.

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

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

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


mutine

mutines (third-person singular present)
mutining (present participle)
mutined (past participle)

反叛，叛亂，起義 （16-18世紀）

They gan to gather in tumultuous rout, / And mutining to stirre up civill faction / For certaine losse of so great expectation […].

1596，埃德蒙·斯宾塞，“Book V, Canto II”, in 仙后（The Faerie Qveene . […]），London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:


perseverate

perseverates (third-person singular present)
perseverating (present participle)
perseverated (past participle)

/pəːˈsɛvəɹeɪt/

/pɚˈsɛvəˌɹeɪt/

堅持做某事；在原始刺激結束後繼續重複某個動作

After perseverating for several more months, Woodrow Wilson accepted the offer.

2013，A Scott Berg，Wilson，Berkley, 出版於 2014，頁 84:


perseverating

more perseverating (comparative)
most perseverating (superlative)

/pəˈsɛvəɹeɪtɪŋ/

The uses in many Western languages of words meaning ‘word’ to refer to acts of speech are perseverating traces of primary orality.

在许多西方语言中，使用意思是“词”的词语来指代言语行为，这是原始口头语言持久留存的痕迹。

2011，David Bellos，Is That a Fish in Your Ear?，Penguin, 出版於 2012，頁 120:


persisting

Still, in the very fullest blaze of gospel light, while we see that both Christ and His work are most ungratefully and flagrantly dishonoured, by our persistings in the attempt to do for ourselves what He has told us we cannot do, […]

1854，Robert Aitken，The teaching of the types，頁 99:


indica

借自拉丁語 indica，因其與印度次大陸有關。

The isograms were typical of differences between two subspecies but also of those between different lines of japonicas or indicas.

这些等值线图不仅体现了两个亚种之间的差异，而且也体现了粳稻或籼稻不同品系之间的差异。

1986，Rice Genetics: Proceedings of the International Rice Genetics Symposium, 27-31 May 1985，International Rice Research Institute:

Most commonly grown strains of cannabis are sativa, indica, or a hybrid of the two. Sativas have long skinny leaves; indicas have short, fat, stubby leaves.

最常见的大麻品种是大麻、印度大麻或两者的混合品种。大麻有的叶子细长；印度大麻的叶子短、肥、粗。

2008，J. C. Stitch，Marijuana Garden Saver: Handbook for Healthy Plants:


turpitude

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

卑鄙，无耻，下流；邪恶，恶毒

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

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


wait for

waits for (third-person singular present)
waiting for (present participle)
waited for (past participle)

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

过马路前要等信号灯变颜色。

What are you waiting for?

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

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


Denis

源自古希臘語的男性人名，Dennis 的英國及愛爾蘭常用異體

Shall not thou and I, between Saint Denis and Saint George, compound a boy, half French, half English, that shall go to Constantinople and take the Turk by the beard?

1599，William Shakespeare，“The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio)，London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, 出版於 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:


Dionysius

借自拉丁語 Dionysius，源自古希臘語 Διονύσιος (Dionúsios)。

Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

但有幾個人貼近他，信了主，其中有亞略巴古的官丟尼修，並一個婦人，名叫大馬哩，還有別人一同信從。

1611，The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version)，London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 17:34:


foofoo

可能是 frou-frou 的簡化形式。

more foofoo (comparative)
most foofoo (superlative)

溫和的，不適合男人或成年人的

Here we are. A man's coffee for me, and a soy foofoo coffee for you.[…]I think the barista assumed I was buying the foofoo coffee for my girlfriend.


Parisienne

借自法語 Parisienne，Parisien 的陰性形式，源自 Paris。

It is so natural to a Parisienne, even when passion has almost mastered her, to hesitate and pause before taking the plunge.

1900, translated from Honoré de Balzac's The Works of Honoré de Balzac, page 157:

Proclaiming taste to be a learned as much as an inborn trait, they sought to establish themselves as aesthetic educators of the vulnerable, unschooled Parisienne.

2001，Lisa Tierstan，Marianne in the Market，California，頁 122:


loins

Neuertheleſſe, thou ſhalt not build the houſe, but thy ſonne that ſhall come foorth out of thy loynes, hee ſhall build the house vnto my Name.

只是你不可建殿，惟你所生的兒子必為我名建殿。

1611，The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version)，London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings 8:19，列 1:


Byelorussia

借自俄語 Белоруссия (Belorussija)。

/ˌbjɛləˈrʌʃə/

In Byelorussia, Stalin not only killed 100,000 people in purges and repression in the 1930s but also doomed 1.5 million people and 75 percent of the republic's cities and towns to death and destruction through his half-witted military strategies in World War II.

在白俄罗斯，斯大林不仅在1930年代的清洗和镇压中杀害了10万人，而且在第二次世界大战中通过他愚蠢的军事策略，注定了共和国内150万人的死亡、75%的城镇遭到破坏。

1992，Richard Nixon，“The Former Evil Empire”, in Seize the Moment，Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC，頁 57:


yack

If 't ash tree buds before 't yack, […]

Awd stiff yack nut eeasy bended, […]

1878，John Castillo，Poems in the North Yorkshire Dialect, section 25:


yack

I have got the Yacks, so do not come it. Fight cocum.

1859，Snowden's magistrates assistant，頁 498:

[…] and away I scampered with the tiddlywink-table, while Teddy Limber […] frisked the yokel of his yack and skin.

1863，George William MacArthur Reynolds，The Mysteries of the Court of London，卷 3，頁 86:


all over the place

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

at random

乱七八糟，前后矛盾；胡乱，随意；前言不搭后语

They started firing all over the place.

In Genoa there are stray cats all over the place.

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

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

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


call the shots

calls the shots (third-person singular present)
calling the shots (present participle)
called the shots (past participle)

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

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

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

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

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

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


push someone's buttons

pushes someone's buttons (third-person singular present)
pushing someone's buttons (present participle)
pushed someone's buttons (past participle)

尤其用于仅影响这个人而非其他人的动作。

惹怒某人，惹恼某人； 激起某人性欲； 引诱某人作出激烈反应

You really knew how to push my buttons.

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

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


contristate

源自拉丁語 contristatus，contristare (“使悲傷”) 的過去分詞。

contristates (third-person singular present)
contristating (present participle)
contristated (past participle)

Somewhat they [Harmonical sounds and Discordant Sounds] do contristate , but very little

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:

They are contristated to repentance.

1637，William Chillingworth，The Religion of Protestants:

For the insufferable sadness of a heart smitten almost prostrate grieves, contristates, and affects me.

1861，H. E. Dennehy，The Church of the First Three Centuries:


dressed to kill

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

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

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

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


mustachioed

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


JFK

常在以这位总统命名的公共建筑物的非正式名称中作定语。

各种以该词俗称的建筑物、设施、船舶、桥梁、高速公路等，尤指

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

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

我飞到JFK机场，然后坐出租到我在曼哈顿的宾馆。

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

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


JFK

JFKs (third-person singular present)
JFKing (present participle)
JFKed (past participle)

杀掉，暗杀 （尤指因政治原因）

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

有与约翰·肯尼迪类似的政治观点

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

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

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

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

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

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


get a load of

gets a load of (third-person singular present)
getting a load of (present participle)
got a load of (past)
got a load of
gotten a load of

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

常暗示这个事物很惊人或杰出，比如Wow, get a load of this! (“天啊，瞧瞧这个！”)

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

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

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


water under the bridge

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

water over the dam

过去的事 （过去的无可挽回，只能接受、原谅的事）

过去的事 （过去的无可挽回，只能接受、原谅的事）

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

他们同意忘了以前的争吵，重新开始。

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

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

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

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


Man Upstairs

A rhapsodic inquiry greets us from the TV screen and the radio: "Have you talked to the Man Upstairs?" God is a friendly neighbor who dwells in the apartment just above. Call on him any time, especially if you are feeling a little blue.

1972，Harold Edward Fey，The Christian Century Reader:

"Oh, you know, the Man upstairs has been good to this person." I kept on pressing for an explanation. Finally I was told, "Oh, you know, the Man upstairs—He's the One who answers prayer."

2000，Lee Roberson，Diamonds in the Rough:

God can't be found in unsanctified imaginations or in the caricatures of pop culture. He is not The Man Upstairs. He does not "help those who help themselves."

2007，Ellen Santilli Vaughn，Time Peace: Living Here and Now with a Timeless God:


remord

源自中古英語 remorden，源自盎格魯-諾曼語及中古法語 remordre，源自拉丁語 remordeō，源自 re- + mordeō；對比加泰羅尼亞語 remordir、remordre、法語 remordre、意大利語 rimordere、古奧克語 remordre、葡萄牙語 remorder、西班牙語 remorder。

remords (third-person singular present)
remording (present participle)
remorded (past participle)

Dyvers People That Remord This Rymyng
Agaynst the Scot

a. 1529，John Skelton，Agaynstethe Scottes:


fricassée

“We have nothing but some Barbacue soused in wine in the Spanish fashion, and a few fricassées, or so.”

“我们除了西班牙流行的一些用葡萄酒腌过的烧烤，还有一些焖肉之类的东西外，什么也没有。”

1858，George W[alter] Thornbury，Every Man His Own Trumpeter，卷 I, London: Hurst and Blackett, […]，頁 164:

With a quick sweep of my eye, I see fricassées, steamed bass and poached salmon, roast snipe, peacock, teal, mallard and quail, game pies and carbonados, tarts of marrowbone, neats' tongues, venison pasties, baked guinea fowl, compound salads, dishes of cream, quinces, comfits and marzipans, preserves, cheeses and fruits.

我快速扫视一眼，看到了焖肉块、清蒸鲈鱼、水煮三文鱼、烤鹬、孔雀、水鸭、野鸭和鹌鹑、野味馅饼、黑牛排、骨髓馅饼、牛舌、鹿肉馅饼、烤珍珠鸡、什锦沙拉、奶油、榅桲、蜜饯、杏仁糖、蜜饯、奶酪和水果。

1989，Rose Tremain，“Wedding Games”, in Restoration: A Novel，London: Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN; 再版 London: Random House, 2010, →ISBN:

He went to the royal quarters and found the King sitting on the floor with a dish of fricassées from which he was feeding his dogs, making them take their turns checked by a small stick he was holding.

他去到宫里，发现国王坐在地板上，手里拿着一盘焖肉，他正在用这盘菜喂狗，用他手里的一根小棍子确保它们能轮流吃上。

2000，David Fraser，Frederick the Great: King of Prussia，Penguin Books, →ISBN，頁 245:


fricassée

fricassées (third-person singular present)
fricasséeing (present participle)
fricasséed (past participle)

The hind quarters may be fricaséed, ragoûted, or done in a timbale or casserole, with any of the fine herb seasoning, and served as a first-course dish; […]

1827，a Lady，Domestic Economy, and Cookery, for Rich and Poor; Containing an Account of the Best English, Scotch, French, Oriental, and Other Foreign Dishes; […]，London: […] Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, […]，頁 414:

To Fricassée Cold Beef.

1862，Margaret Dods [pseudonym; Christian Isobel Johnstone]，The Cook and Housewife’s Manual: A Practical System of Modern Domestic Cookery and Family Management; […]，第11th版, Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, […]; London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.，頁 292:

“Frogs were killed and as conscientiously fricasséed à la mode de Paris when we had learnt all other lessons from them.”

1995，Janet Browne，Charles Darwin: Voyaging，New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN，頁 105:

That got me a wordless glare that would’ve fricasséed a squid.

2005，David Wishart，Food for the Fishes，Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN:

Then, against the wall, there were gridirons big enough for burning martyrs, saucepans in which a whole sheep could be fricasséed, a monumental plate-warmer, a marble basin filled with a continual trickle of water.

2008，Émile Zola，譯者 April Fitzlyon, Ladies’ Delight，Oneworld Classics, →ISBN，頁 281:

I didn’t know it at the time, but I was fricasséeing.

我当时并不知道，正在焖肉。

2017，Miles Jupp，Egg & Soldiers: A Childhood Memoir，Headline Publishing Group, →ISBN:


reforge

reforges (third-person singular present)
reforging (present participle)
reforged (past participle)

"For too long, there has been a missing link between the East and West Midlands, and this is our opportunity to reforge it," said Webbe.

韦伯说：“长期以来，东西米德兰兹之间一直缺失联系，而这正是我们重建它的机会。”

2022年February23日，“Network News: MP urges link between Midlands cities to be 'reforged'”, in RAIL，期 951，頁 24:


Ü-Tsang

借自藏語 དབུས་གཙང (dbus gtsang)。

衛藏，烏思藏，藏區傳統和文化上的一個地區

The government-in-exile calls Tibet “Cholka-sum”, meaning “The Three Provinces”. These historic areas are U-Tsang, which roughly corresponds to the TAR, Amdo centred around Qinghai Province, and Kham centred around Sichuan in China’s southwest.

[2008年March21日，“Who are the Tibetans, what is Tibet?”, in Reuters，存檔自the original on 2022-06-27, Global Coverage 2:

The Tibetan plateau — the geographic and cultural region associated with Tibet — has traditionally been divided into four historical regions. Three are almost entirely in China: Amdo in the north, now associated mostly with Qinghai and Gansu provinces in China, Kham in the east, split between Sichuan province and TAR, and Ü-Tsang, or central Tibet, the region is generally identified with the idea of Tibet, both culturally and administratively, although parts of Ü-Tsang extend to northern Nepal and the Indian states of Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh.

2020年July11日，Akhilesh Pillalamarri，“History of Tibet-Ladakh Relations and Their Modern Implications”, in The Diplomat，存檔自the original on 2020-07-13:


there be

补充词there源自古英語 þær，用于放在英语曾使用的动词第二顺位的第一个位置。

就近原则：当引入多于一个名词短语时，动词变位对应于第一个名词短语的单复数。There is a swing and a seesaw for kids.
有一个秋千和一个跷跷板给孩子们玩。

If there be any thing ILL in the Univerſe from Deſign, then that which diſpoſes all things, is no one good deſigning Principle.

1749, Anthony Ashley Cooper Shaftesbury, Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, J. Baskerville, page 8:

Unless there be some lesion of the stomach, there is no blood, either microscopic or occult.

1907, Southern Society for Clinical Investigation, The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, J.B. Lippincott, Co., page 627:

There ought to be representation on the broad basis of population and public discussion with open doors and free debate. . . . Nor should there be any constraint upon the opinions of any of the members of the Diet or upon their right of publishing them, even though such would meet with opposition from without.

1988，John S. Doskey, William Maclure，The European Journals of William Maclure, →ISBN，頁 204:

There may be people with drug or alcohol problems who may go into withdrawal.

1996，Diane Meyers，Disaster Response and Recovery: A Handbook for Mental Health Professionals, →ISBN，頁 75:

I just want to know the truth, you are expressing your concerns, but I also want there to be some candor between us.

1999，Christopher Shays，“Hearing Before the Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs, and International Relationsof the Committee on Government Reform”, in Anthrax Immunization Program, →ISBN，頁 35:


inequalness

Programming results indicate a marked inequalness in the incidence of the 16 feeding systems.

程式結果表明，16 種餵食方式的發生率明顯不平等。

1965，Donald C. Taylor，Income Improving Adjustments and Normative Supply Responses for Hogs and Beef in Southwestern Minnesota，頁 53:


Crimean

He also thought nothing of laying down a railway in a war zone. For example, he was one of those behind the Grand Crimean Central Railway, built during the Crimean War [...].

2021年December29日，Stephen Roberts，“Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chester (1848)”, in RAIL，期 947，頁 57:


Qapla'

借自克林貢語 Qapla' (“成功”)。

/q͡χɑpʰˈlɑʔ/

表示祝願某人好運（尤指在光榮的戰鬥中）

success (n) Qapla'

1985，Marc Okrand，The Klingon Dictionary，Pocket Books, →ISBN，頁s 103, 155:

It is hoped that this report . . . will help lead to the reconciliation of the two governments. Qapla'.

1996，Marc Okrand，The Klingon Way: A Warrior's Guide，Pocket Books, →ISBN，頁 x:

Maltz, we are honored to still be your students. Qapla'.

1997，Marc Okrand，Klingon for the Galactic Traveler，Pocket Books,, →ISBN，頁 5:

Qapla!

2000，Brian Proffitt，Add Red Hat Linux 7 to your Windows desktop in a weekend，Prima Tech,, →ISBN，頁 133:

Tina shrugged her shoulders, nodding helplessly. She was beat. “Qapla!” she said, grinning back at Leigh. / “Success!” Leigh laughed, translating the word from the alien Klingon language[…]

2000，Jacqueline Guest，Rookie Season，James Lorimer & Company,, →ISBN，頁 5:

“Well, in that case, good luck and—er—Qapla'.”

2003，L. A. Graf et al.，Day Of Honor: The bestselling Klingon™ saga—complete in one volume!:

Thank you for all the years of patiently being there, especially on those dark and stormy nights when things detonated unexpectedly and I needed rescuing yet again. Qapla'!

2004, Jacqueline Guest, Racing Fear, James Lorimer & Company, ISBN 9781550288384, 5:

Sean Penn: Qapla’!

2004, Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and Pam Brady, Team America: World Police, Paramount Pictures

Go forth and hack, Qapla!

2005 October 19-21, Andrew Chalmers, “Hurd is where I hide.”, AUUGN 2005: Conference Proceedings, Sydney, page 145:

Unable to resist a sudden temptation, he threw out his arm in a Klingon salute. / “Qapla’!” / He vanished into the photo on his phone.

2009，Greg Cox，The 4400: Welcome to Promise City，Simon and Schuster, →ISBN，頁 187:


supermoon

And should the moon happen to hit its ever-shifting orbital perigee at the same time that it lies athwart from the sun, we are treated to a so-called supermoon, a full moon that can seem close enough to embrace – as much as 12 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter than the average full moon. […] Some astronomers dislike the whole supermoon hoopla. They point out that the term originated with astrology, not astronomy; that perigee full moons are not all that rare, coming an average of every 13 months; and that their apparently swollen dimensions are often as much a matter of optical illusion and wishful blinking as of relative lunar nearness.

2014年September7日，Natalie Angier，“The Moon comes around again [print version: Revisiting a moon that still has secrets to reveal: Supermoon revives interest in its violent origins and hidden face, International New York Times, 10 September 2014, p. 8]”, in The New York Times:


Muslime

They were Christians sent to a third world country to help... They were taken
hostage by muSLIMES.... and now one is dead at the hand of the muSLIMES.....

他們是被派往第三世界國家幫助人們的基督徒……
他們被穆斯林扣作人質……現在其中一人還死在穆斯林的手裡……

2002年June7日，PiggyAllaaaah，“Missionary killed in the Philippines by muSLIMES!.”, in soc.culture.israel (Usenet):

All pukistani muslimes are TERRORISTS. The whole world despises and
hates all pukistani muslimes. Nobody in the world respects the
pukistani muslimes and finger print all pukistani muslimes in
airports. Pukistani muslimes run across the canadian border like pigs.

所有巴基斯坦穆斯林都是恐怖分子。全世界都鄙視
都討厭所有的巴基斯坦穆斯林。沒有人尊重
巴基斯坦穆斯林，機場給所有
巴基斯坦穆斯林採集指紋。巴基斯坦穆斯林像豬一樣跑過加拿大邊界。

2004年March30日，Shripathi Kamath，“Pukistani muslimes are terrorists, jihadis and pigs”, in rec.sport.cricket (Usenet):

As a Muslime I'm bound by the Quran, the Word of a dog, and the Sunnah,
the way of the Fake Prophet, and not by any other human being.
All sewage is due to Allah

身為一名穆斯林，我被狗的言語——《古蘭經》，
以及假先知的道路——聖行，而非其他人類所束縛著。
所有的污穢都拜安拉所賜

2006年June26日，Dr Vineharberg，“As a Muslime I'm bound by the Quran”, in uk.religion.islam (Usenet):

How does someone become a Muslime?
Simply by saying 'there is no god apart from God, and Muhammad Pedophile.'

有些人怎麼就成了穆斯林呢？
簡單來說，“除了真主和戀童癖·穆罕默德之外，世上再沒有其他的神。”

2007年December26日，Deport-Muslims，“How to become a muslime”, in aus.religion.islam (Usenet):

All the difference in the world, since it's the Muslimes who are causing all the problems in the Middle East now.

2014年August1日，fred1...@gmail.com，“The only thing Israel is good for is pedding the myth of God.”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):

Why quite rightly? Is there something about Muslimes fucking little kids
that you would like to hide?
Johnston Press are noted for removing reports regarding Muslimes.

2017年April14日，Mr Pounder Esquire，“Ping Harry: Protests outside court as 29 face 170 child sex charges”, in uk.legal (Usenet):

He is of course correct to say that Muslimes cannot be English.

他說穆斯林不可能是英國人，那當然是正確的。

2020年November20日，KKKernal Corn，“lol fabricant (whatwhig?) says muslims can't be british... but jews can eh! (yes under the blonde wig he's a jew...)”, in uk.politics.misc (Usenet):


iftar

借自阿拉伯語 إِفْطَار (ʔifṭār)。

Iftars can be social events, where people congregate to eat and socialize.

开斋饭可以是社交活动，人们聚集在一起吃饭和社交。

On a recent afternoon in the Tunisian coastal city of Sfax, as shoppers hurried around a market buying food and drink for that evening’s iftar meal, a small group of men from sub-Saharan Africa gathered near a stall selling phone accessories.

在突尼斯海濱城市斯法克斯，前一陣子的某個下午。市場裡的購物者匆忙買好吃的喝的，準備當晚的開齋飯。此時，一小群來自撒哈拉以南非洲的人，聚集在一家售賣手機配件的攤位旁。

2023年March30日，Simon Speakman Cordall，“Tunisian morgue overflows as more people attempt risky sea crossing [因為越來越多人無視危險嘗試渡海，突尼斯的停屍房不堪重負]”, in The Guardian:


niggerling

小黑鬼；年輕或矮小的黑人

'Yes, missey,' the niggerling acquiesced, bestowing a slow smile on Snob and Snowball, who had accompanied him into the room.

「是的，小姐，」小黑鬼默認了，對陪他走進房間的勢利者和斯諾鮑爾微笑。

1981，Ronald Firbank，Five Novels，(New Directions Publishing)，頁 142:

有關使用本詞的更多用例，請參閱Citations:niggerling。


anyon

源自 any + -on，因為當粒子交換時，它們可以具有任何相。由弗朗克·韋爾切克在1982年造出（《物理評論快報》）。

勿與 anion 混淆。

The anyon concept has been used to describe phenomena in connection with the fractional quantum Hall effect (FOHE).

1995，Erik B Karlsson，Solid State Phenomena: As Seen by Muons, Protons, and Excited Nuclei:


good news

The mainstream media hones in on bad news stories where UK railways are concerned, yet gives scant attention to the many items of good news emerging from the network.

主流媒体专注于英国铁路相关的坏消息，却很少关注网络上出现的许多好消息。

2021年December29日，Stephen Roberts，“Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Aylesbury (2009)”, in RAIL，期 947，頁 61:


amphiptere

源頭來自古希臘語 ἀμφί (amphí，“amphi-”) + πτερόν (pterón，“翅膀”)。

amphipteres (plural)
amphithere (alternative)
amphitere (alternative)

Azure, an amphiptere or, rising between two mountains argent, are the arms of Camoens, the Portuguese poet.

1969，John Vinycomb，Fictitious and Symbolic Creatures in Art，Library of Alexandria, →ISBN:


tastant

Early structure-taste theories attempted to identify certain common structural features of tastants and to attribute a specific taste to these.

2012，Trevor H. Grenby，Advances in Sweeteners，頁 4:


heart attack

Before kick-off, a section of Chelsea's support sadly let themselves and their club down by noisily interrupting the silence held in memory of the Hillsborough disaster and for Livorno midfielder Piermario Morosini, who collapsed and died after suffering a heart attack during a Serie B game on Saturday.

開球前，現場原本在哀悼，紀念星期六在一場乙級賽事中因心肌梗死而倒地身亡的利沃諾中場球員皮爾馬里奧·莫羅西尼。可一部分切爾西球迷卻以喧嘩打破了沉默，讓他們自己和球隊蒙羞。

2012年April15日，Phil McNulty，“Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea”, in BBC:


himbo

him + bimbo 組成的混成詞，首次記錄於1988年，可能受到當時美國政壇性醜聞的影響。

‘Himbo’ Flexes His Pecs in U.K. Ads [title]

1991年August12日，Stuart Emmrich，“‘Himbo’ Flexes His Pecs in U.K. Ads”, in Adweek，卷 41，頁 16:

[…] a reboot in which a cryptocurrency billionaire, maybe the son of Luke Ward, whose series arc traces an evolution from villain to beloved himbo, moves to Newport Beach and takes control of the local real estate market.

2022年March31日，David Yaffe-Bellany，“Ben McKenzie Would Like a Word With the Crypto Bros”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


tsundere

借自日語 ツンデレ (tsundere)，源自つんつん (tsun-tsun，“漠不关心地”，副词) + でれでれ (dere-dere，“含情脉脉地”，副词)。

I usually draw very peaceful, happy manga, so it has been a real challenge for me to illustrate the vice president's death glare and Ri-chan's subtle tsundere attitude.

2008，Kio Shimoku，Kujibiki Unbalance 1，Del Rey/Ballantine Books, →ISBN，unnumbered 頁:

Even Kaname's rude and overbearing tsundere personality is explained by her having gone to school in the United States where she was socialized to just bluntly say what she thought.

2010年August14日，David Johnston，“Full Metal Panic: One Night Stand”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

Despite his apparent power, the boy behaves with uncharacteristic meekness toward the formidable tsundere Misato Tachibana, whose grotesquely distorted romantic feelings for Koujirou almost invariably result in her shooting him all over the school with heavy weaponry (which seems to spring out of nowhere).

2012，Dani Cavallaro，Kyoto Animation: A Critical Study and Filmography，McFarland & Company, →ISBN，頁 157:

有關使用本詞的更多用例，請參閱Citations:tsundere。


sightsee

sightsees (third-person singular present)
sightseeing (present participle)
sightsaw (past)
sightseen (past participle)

The German team liked each other, ate, drank, sightsaw, sunbathed and worked their horses together. All were firmly rooting for Ludwig. A German victory was all that mattered.

德国队员间彼此喜欢，一起吃饭、喝酒、观光、晒日光浴、训练马匹。所有人都坚定地支持路德维希。德国队的胜利才是最重要的。

It was their first time on the Continent and they sight-saw for a week in Paris […].

这是他们第一次来到欧洲大陆，他们在巴黎观光了一星期[…]。

2013，A Scott Berg，Wilson，Berkley, 出版於 2014，頁 142:


moral code

When the moral code that requires service to the public good decays, the legitimacy of the state collapses.

当为公共利益服务的道德准则衰落时，国家的合法性就会崩溃。

2020年November27日，Charles Hugh Smith，Moral Decay Leads to Collapse:


heartwrenching

more heartwrenching (comparative)
most heartwrenching (superlative)

The interview with Sarah Mohess was both heartwrenching and inspiring.

2007年September23日，“In a Tough City, Almost an Adult; An Active Approach to Psychic Change (4 Letters)”, in New York Times:


sob story

悲惨的故事，伤感故事 （尤指用来引起人同情的）

"Dis picture is called De Tale o' Two Cities, and it's de French revolution. It's about a feller vot takes anodder feller's place and gits his head cut off; and say, dere's a sob story in it vot's a vunder."

1922，Upton Sinclair，章號 14, in They call Me Carpenter:

Mr. Martin objected at first to the bastardization of my talent, but I gave him a sob story about needing money for lessons.

2006，Keith Donohue，The Stolen Child, →ISBN，頁 56:


chevon

美國營銷用詞，來自法語 chèvre (“山羊”) + -on，-on來自mutton (“綿羊肉”)。

While goats are already established as a good source of meat (chevon) and milk, sheep are relatively new requiring further attention in terms of promotion.

1995，Annex 3: The Philippine small ruminant industry: Global Agenda for Livestock Research，unnumbered 頁:

Chevon is the meat from the goat. Chevon is sold in finer restaurants as a delicacy for huge prices. It's been reported that chevon steaks can cost over $45 on the East Coast, yet many people refuse to taste is^([sic]) when it is served from our kitchen.

2006，Mary Turner Stille，The Goat Care Handbook，第2nd版，unnumbered 頁:

If you cook chevon using too high of a heat setting, the meat will lose its moisture and become tough.

2011，Kenneth V. Oster，The Complete Guide to Preserving Meat, Fish, and Game，頁 181:


lay claim

lays claim (third-person singular present)
laying claim (present participle)
laid claim (past participle)

Spencer University lays claim to the recently published discovery.

Argentina also lays claim to what is now Queen Elizabeth Land, as well as to other South Atlantic dependencies including South Georgia and the uninhabited South Sandwich Islands.

2013年January3日，Luke Harding, Uki Goni，The Guardian:


averruncate

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

averruncates (third-person singular present)
averruncating (present participle)
averruncated (past participle)

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

1859，Samuel Butler，“Canto 1, Line 758”, in Hudibras，頁 31:


before long

They left before long. ― 他們沒多久便離開了。

It is to be hoped that some corresponding smartening up of these other schedules may be expected before long.

希望不久之后这些时刻表就会得到一些相应的改进。

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


come to grips with

comes to grips with (third-person singular present)
coming to grips with (present participle)
came to grips with (past)
come to grips with (past participle)

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

Until she comes to grips with her mother's death, she has no hope of putting it behind her.

On Thursday, Robert A. Iger, Disney’s chief executive, put the sale of the company’s “noncore” channels, including ABC and FX, on the table. He called the decline in traditional television “a reality we have to come to grips with.”

2023年July15日，Brooks Barnes，引 Robert A. Iger, “In Hollywood, the Strikes Are Just Part of the Problem”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


anyone's guess

拿不准的事情，大家都不知道的事情

It was a disappointing way for the game to finish, with Sagna guilty of leaning his head in towards Zabaleta's after a challenge by the touchline, though what the Argentine did to warrant a dismissal is anyone's guess.

2011年January5日，Jonathan Stevenson，“Arsenal 0 - 0 Man City”, in BBC:


confrontational

more confrontational (comparative)
most confrontational (superlative)

/ˌkɒnfɹənˈteɪʃənˈəl/

对峙的；（尤指）咄咄逼人的，挑衅的

It was Liverpool who once again carried the momentum after the break and the recalled Rio Ferdinand was booked for a foul on Suarez, whose confrontational approach and brilliant natural ability was proving hard to handle.

2011年October15日，Phil McNulty，“Liverpool 1 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport:


pleasantries

Signora Caterina thought it could. Weak, yet cunning—vain, yet conscious of having outlived her attractions—with one of those tempers which we conceive to be the true interpretation of the old fairy tale, where out of the mouth of the party proceeded snakes, toads, locusts, and other pleasantries.

1831，L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon]，章號 XI, in Romance and Reality. […]，卷 III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC，頁 221:


get a word in edgewise

edgewise和edgeways (“边缘向着移动方向地”)是比喻用法，比喻插话者能够进入的间隙很小。

gets a word in edgewise (third-person singular present)
getting a word in edgewise (present participle)
got a word in edgewise (past)
got a word in edgewise
gotten a word in edgewise

/ˌɡɛt ə ˈwɜːd ɪn ˈɛdʒwaɪz/

/ˌɡɛt ə ˈwɝd ɪn ˈɛdʒwaɪz/

Everyone was talking at once. I couldn’t get a word in edgewise.

大家都同时说了起来，我插不上话。

The converſation at breakfaſt began on reading, which ſhe ſaid ſhe was extremely fond of, and Joſeph, her ladyſhip, and my papa, fell into ſuch a deep diſcourſe, that I verily thought they would never have finiſhed; for, believe me, I was quite out of patience, as neither mama nor I, could ſo much as put a ſingle word in edgewiſe; for they might as well have talked Greek to us, and we ſhould have underſtood them much the ſame.

[1778 December，“[Original Letters. Miss Clifford to Miss Granby.] In Continuation.”, in The Lady’s Magazine; or, Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, Appropriated Solely to Their Use and Amusement，London: Printed for G[eorge] Robinson, […], →OCLC，頁 652，列 1:

Accordingly she was exceedingly elevated; alternately singing pieces of hymns in a hobbling broken voice, having lost her teeth, breaking out into incoherent exclamations, and relating parts of her experience; while I had not room, which indeed I did not much require, to get a word in edgewise.

1822，[James Colman]，“Letter VIII. The Contrast.”, in Walks in the Country; or, Christian Sketches of Scenery, Life, and Character, in Familiar Letters，London: Printed for the author; published by James Nisbet, […], →OCLC，頁s 100–101:

We help him push his Nash down the street, then drink awhile and talk with Evelyn a beautiful blonde woman that young Ron Blake wants and even Dave Wain wants but she's got her mind on other things and taking care of the children who have to go to school and dancing classes in the morning and hardly gets a word in edgewise anyway as we all yak and yell like fools to impress her tho all she really wants is to be alone with me to talk about Cody and his latest soul.

1962年September11日，Jack Kerouac，章號 13, in Big Sur，New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, →OCLC; 再版為 Big Sur (Penguin Modern Classics)，London: Penguin Books, 2012, →ISBN:

源自the women who write to her, Cokie Roberts has observed, "I get the feeling that the country is full of women who've never gotten a word in edgewise when the men talk politics."

1996，Louis Baldwin，“Cokie Roberts: Political Commentator (1943– )”, in Women of Strength: Biographies of 106 who have Excelled in Traditionally Male Fields, A.D. 61 to the Present，Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN，頁 177:

I sat there, letting his voice run on. Even if I'd wanted to, I couldn't have gotten a word in edgeways. Perhaps if life continued thi way, I would gradually lose the faculty of speech, [...]

1999，Zena Collier，章號 3, in A Cooler Climate，Lincoln, Neb.: toExcel Press, iUniverse, →ISBN，頁 24:

I only included the interview because it is revealing of Javanese gender relationships. The young dancer is muted and hardly gets a word in edgeways, as the (male) troupe leader and her mother hijack each question and provide answers which are sometimes contradictory.

1999，Felicia Hughes-Freeland，“Dance on Film: Strategy and Serendipity”, in Dance in the Field: Theory, Methods and Issues in Dance Ethnography，Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, →DOI, →ISBN, part II (Methodological Approaches)，頁 117:

[W]hen interacting with a member of a cultural group used to taking longer to reflect on what to say next, native English speakers virtually prevent this person from getting a word in edgewise. We feel compelled to fill the "uncomfortably long" silence with words.

2003，Sylvia Helmer, Catherine Eddy，“ESL Learners and Communication”, in Look at Me when I Talk to You: ESL Learners in Non-ESL Classrooms (Pippin Teacher’s Library; 39)，Toronto, Ont.: Pippin Publishing Company, →ISBN，頁 48:

Stanton stood up. It seemed the only way of getting a word in edgeways.

2014，Ben Elton，章號 5, in Time and Time Again，London: Black Swan, Transworld Publishers, →ISBN，頁 57:

Betsy rang me every now and then, but I couldn't get caught up in the 'fight' like she did. Besides, if I got a word in edgeways during each call I'd be lucky.

2014，Emma O’Reilly, with Shannon Kyle，“Old Wounds”, in The Race to Truth: Blowing the Whistle on Lance Armstrong and Cycling’s Doping Culture，London: Bantam Press, →ISBN，頁 248:

She must have nattered on for half an hour. Everyone else was gone when I finally got a word in edgewise and escaped.

2015 February，Eva Gates，By Book or by Crook (A Lighthouse Library Mystery)，New York, N.Y.: Obsidian, New American Library, →ISBN，頁 313:


shash

shashes (third-person singular present)
shashing (present participle)
shashed (past participle)

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


sunup

“Shagbark, that was risky on your part; even where it lies it is much closer than I like, for we shall all have to see it in the morning.”
“No, you won’t; it’ll be gone afore sunup.”

1909，Edward S. Ellis，Alden the Pony Express Rider:


piehole

源自pie + hole。由史蒂芬·金在其1983年所作恐怖小说《克丽斯汀》内所造。

“You trying to help your buddy right out of here, Junior?” “No,” I said. “Sir.” “Then shut your pie-hole.”

"[T]hey kin always do a mouth transplant on ya. Be a big improvement over the piehole you was born with."

2007，David Sherman, Dan Cragg，Firestorm, →ISBN，頁 258:


brownnose

拍马屁的人，阿谀奉承者，马屁精

A workmate reported the matter, "which is why the worker threatened to beat up the latter," calling him a "brownnose" and threatening to "wipe the floor with him."

1997，Ulrich Herbert，Hitler's foreign workers: enforced foreign labor in Germany under the Third Reich，Cambridge University Press，頁 126:

'I know, he's a natural brownnose. I guess he does have some talents.'

2007，Felicity Young，An Easeful Death，Fremantle Press，頁 13:

You don't have to be such a brownnose, at least not to me.

2010，Joseph Morse，Gods of Ruin: A Political Thriller,，頁 46:


slasher movie

(常指包含折磨、血腥镜头的） 恐怖片

Two girls, watching a slasher movie about a psycho in an Edvard Munch Scream mask who calls girls at home and then stabs them to death, get a call from a psycho who shows up in a Scream mask and stabs them to death.

2011年April15日，Richard Corliss，“Movies: Scream 4 — The Ultimate Shriekquel”, in Time:


take the edge off

takes the edge off (third-person singular present)
taking the edge off (present participle)
took the edge off (past)
taken the edge off (past participle)

Allen Gregory DeLongpre: You know what? Let's forget all the mishegoss and try to enjoy our lunch, huh? Take the edge off.

2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1):

She knew better than to drink from the bar, but she'd been so thirsty, and she needed something to take the edge off.

2011，Allison Brennan，Kiss Me, Kill Me: A Novel of Suspense，頁 1:


skulk

源自中古英語 skulke, skulken，源自北日耳曼語支，对比丹麥語 skulke (“逃避，偷懒”)、瑞典語 skolka (“偷懒”)。

A skulk of foxes, a cowardice of curs are tonight’s traffic whispering in the yards and lanes.

1973，Thomas Pynchon，章號 1, in Gravity’s Rainbow，Penguin, 出版於 2000，頁s 59–60:

A skulk of fox padded daintily over a stream-slashed meadow, and a herd of deer like iron ornaments stood stock still in their winter pelage.

2007，Millard Kaufman，章號 19, in Bowl of Cherries，San Francisco: McSweeney’s Books，頁 128:

一群狐狸一样狡猾，阴险的人

[…] a skulk of priests flapped out of the Church of San Geronimo, and women kneeling at novena put away their beads […]

1972，R. M. Koster，章號 43, in The Prince,，New York: Morrow，頁 320:

The law was served by a skulk of informers, who traded their whispers to the royal foresters and woodwards, who gilded their tales for the verderers and regarders, who presented the guilty to the forest Justices.

1982，Richard Girling，“1160: Chivalry”, in The Forest on the Hill，New York: Viking，頁 69:

[…] they went on, down the road, staggering, and shouldering each other, like a skulk of Jacobean villains.

2000，John Banville，Eclipse，New York: Knopf, 出版於 2001, Part 5, p. 190:

Ten days after the attacks, a skulk of insurance executives met with President Bush and Commerce Secretary Donald Evans to press for the creation of a multibillion-dollar government safety net to limit their exposure to future terrorist incidents.

2004，Micah L. Sifry, Nancy Watzman，章號 24, in Is That a Politician in Your Pocket?，Hoboken, NJ: Wiley，頁s 200–201:

动词的名词化形式 鬼鬼祟祟地走

A part of their company, who had been sent out on a skulk, had not returned, and great anxiety was felt lest they had fallen into an ambush and been captured.

1857，Jacob S. C. Abbott，History of King Philip, Sovereign Chief of the Wampanoags，New York: Harper, Chapter , p. 369:

There was only the danger that his horse might lame himself in the night; but then he could go back in the hills and make a skulk on foot.

1902，Frederic Remington，章號 18, in John Ermine of the Yellowstone，New York: Macmillan，頁 246:

Willie knew that the time was propitious for a skulk across Hall, thence into the class-room of Mr. Beach.

1922，Henry Williamson，“The Opening of the Flower”, in Dandelion Days，London: W. Collins，頁 120:

That gave him three or four more hours of darkness in which to plan an escape more sensible than a skulk to the hut next door.

2012，Katherine Boo，Behind the Beautiful Forevers，New York: Random House, Prologue, p. xix:

His gait was something between a slouch and a skulk.

1987，Lloyd Alexander，章號 5, in The Illyrian Adventure，New York: Dell，頁 32:

Romen had developed a kind of strut to replace his former skulk.

2003，Toni Morrison，Love，New York: Knopf，頁 109:

动词的名词化形式
逃避，规避 （责任等）

[They took] good care […] to swing their hammocks as far abaft as possible, for the twofold purpose of having a skulk in their watch below at night, and to keep clear of the sprays, which usually pour down the gratings […]

1859，George Little，章號 3, in The American Cruiser’s Own Book，Philadelphia: J.B. Smith，頁 36:

“This nonsense won’t do for me, you know; if you want a skulk, you had better pack off back to the house.”

1867，James Greenwood，章號 15, in Humphrey Dyot，卷 1, London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston，頁 224:

Bidwell is not the only one who feigns paralysis; many poison their flesh by inserting in it copper-wire or worsted; others swallow ground glass, eat poisonous insects, swallow soap and soda, or slightly maim and disable themselves. Anything by which they can secure a skulk, and escape from what Mr. Carlyle has wisely called the “sacredness of work.”

1879，anonymous author，章號 7, in Convict Life; or, Revelations Concerning Convicts and Convict Prisons，London: Wyman & Sons:

“I shall do my duty, Mr. Jackson,” replied Newton, “and fear no consequences.”
“Indeed! you saw how I settled a skulk just now;—beware of his fate!”

1832，Frederick Marryat，章號 16, in Newton Forster; or, The Merchant Service，卷 1, London: James Cochrane，頁 238:

Toward evening there was something to be done on deck, and the carpenter who belonged to the watch was missing. “Where’s that skulk, Chips?” shouted Jermin down the forecastle scuttle.

1847，Herman Melville，章號 4, in Omoo，New York: Harper，頁 32:

If you should ever need help, my son, let this be your rule—‘never ask it from the man who deserted his country in her hour of need.’ The soldier’s child will find no mercy from a skulk, depend on it.

1872，Sallie F. Chapin，章號 7, in Fitz-Hugh St. Clair, the South Carolina Rebel Boy，Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger，頁 75:

An exempt, a skulk, or one upon whom rested the faintest suspicion of evading duty or shrinking in the critical hour of impending battle, was the special object of his wrath.

1906，Henry E. Shepherd，Life of Robert Edward Lee，New York: Neale, Part 3, p. 62: