masala

源自印地語 मसाला (masālā) / 烏爾都語 مسالا (masālā，“香料”)，源自波斯語 مصالح (masâlih，“事情，材料，香料”)，مصلحت (maslahat，“事情，政策，最應該做的事”)的複數，源自阿拉伯語，派生自صَلَحَ (ṣalaḥa，“合適，好，可用”)。

瑪莎拉，印度菜中的混合香料

When she cooked, she reached out for bottles and masalas without glancing up.

她做飯的時候，不用抬頭就伸手拿裝瑪莎拉的瓶子。

2020，Avni Doshi，Burnt Sugar，Hamish Hamilton，頁 3:


tittle-tattle

Every idle Tittle-tattle that went about, Jack was always suspected for the author of it.

不管是怎樣的閒話，傑克都總能知道是誰說的。

1712，John Arbuthnot，章號 XI, in Law is a Bottomless Pit: Or, the History of John Bull，London，頁 136:

If I can once extirpate the race of solid and substantial humdrums, I hope by my wholesome and repeated advices, quickly to reduce the insignificant tittle-tattles and matter-of-fact-men that abound in every quarter of this great city.

1777，The Tatler; Or, Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq，卷 4, Dublin: W. Whitestone, W. Watson, J. Williams, W. Wilson, 根據Richard SteeleThe Tatler n° 268 (1710)改編的edition，頁 324:


no can do

源自洋涇浜英語，仿译自漢語 不能做 (bùnéng zuò)。

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

2018，复仇者联盟3：无限之战:


canola

芥花籽，歐洲油菜（Brassica napus）及野芥（Brassica rapa）的一類栽培品種，其芥酸和芥子油苷的含量比傳統油菜要低。

The approach taken in this study was to compare the risk management costs of wheat to that of two non-cwb-marketed Canadian grains: flax and canola.

1998, Phillip Thomas, U.S. Agricultural Trade: Canadian Wheat Issues

The carbohydrate component of canola meal accounts for about one third of the meal . . .

1997, Ronald R. Marquardt, Zhengkang Han, Enzymes in Poultry and Swine Nutrition: proceedings of the first Chinese Symposium on Feed

For a salad dressing use olive or canola oil with lemon or vinegar and herb seasonings

至於沙拉的拌料，則用橄欖油或芥花籽油，配上檸檬或者醋，以及其他香草料

2003，Jack LaLanne，Revitalize Your Life: Improve Your Looks, Your Health & Your Sex Life:


throughout

And though a philosopher may live remote from business, the genius of philosophy, if carefully cultivated by several, must gradually diffuse itself throughout the whole society.

1748, David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973, §5:

“My father had ideas about conservation long before the United States took it up.[…]You preserve water in times of flood and freshet to be used for power or for irrigation throughout the year.[…]”

“我的父親早在美國政府採取措施之前，已經有了保護的想法。 […] 你在洪水期間儲水，這樣一整年都可以用來灌溉。 […]”

1913，Robert Barr，章號 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:

But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.

但通過壟斷經營，木炭燃料的使用很快就傳遍倫敦的各類買賣和產業。到1200年代，無論是釀啤酒師還是麵包師傅，無論是製瓦匠還是吹玻璃匠，抑或是製陶工人還是其他產業的手藝人，都開始日夜不停地用起了木炭。

2006，Edwin Black，章號 2, in Internal Combustion:


tilak

源自梵語 तिलक (tilaka)。

I wore these spots of shine and silver like tilaks, the marks of colour that we Hindus wear on our foreheads as symbols of the divine.

我貼上這些像吉祥記一樣閃光銀色的點，我們印度教徒會在額頭上貼上這種代表神明符號的標誌。

He dressed in a dhoti, had a wispy white beard that trailed down to his waist, and regularly smeared across his forehead a tilaka, a pitchfork-shaped design that signifies enlightenment.

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


tik

This Tuesday Special Assignment focuses on a deepening crisis in Cape Town. Many young adults and schoolchildren as young as 10 years are in the grip of a powerful drug called crystal methamphetamine – known locally as tik. It’s been on the fringes for several years but it is now catching on fast among the youth of the Western Cape.

2004年June8日，“On the Tik-Tik express”, in SABC News，存檔自the original on 2006-06-02:

Over a third of all people seeking rehabilitation in the second half of 2005 reported that their primary problem was tik.

2005年下半年尋求戒毒的人群中，超過三分之一的人稱自己主要的問題是吸食冰毒。

Hardly a week goes by without news of a crime bust of some kind involving one of the buses travelling cross-country, with everything from mandrax to tik, marijuana and abalone finding its way on board.

2020年October10日，Mike Simpson，“More seizures of drug consignments on long-distance buses”, in The South African:


slur

來自中古英語 sloor (“稀泥”)。與中古低地德語 sluren (“走在泥裡”)同源。與方言挪威語 sløra (“草率，不上心”)、丹麥語 sløre (“搖晃，鬆垮”)有關；對比古諾爾斯語 slóðra (“慢吞吞地走”)。

slurs (third-person singular present)
slurring (present participle)
slurred (past participle)

to slur syllables;  He slurs his speech when he is drunk.

音節發音不清楚；他喝醉的時候說話含糊不清

Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.

2014年April21日，“Subtle effects”, in The Economist，卷 411, 期 8884:


severe acute respiratory syndrome

severe acute respiratory syndromes (plural)

(b) Severe acute respiratory syndromes, which are diseases that are associated with fever and signs and symptoms of pneumonia or other respiratory illness, are capable of being transmitted from person to person, and that either are causing, or have the potential to cause, a pandemic, or, upon infection, are highly likely to cause mortality or serious morbidity if not properly controlled.

2014年July31日，Barack Obama，“Executive Order—Revised List of Quarantinable Communicable Diseases”, in https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/，Office of the Press Secretary, The White House:


deliverable

more deliverable (comparative)
most deliverable (superlative)

/dɪˈlɪvɹəbəɫ/

The packages were not deliverable because the roads had flooded out.

因為道路被水沖毀，這些包裹無法派送。

In any of our worlds, if we went out to consult on options that weren't deliverable, we would rightly be heavily criticised for wasting people's time.

2021年May5日，Philip Haigh，“I think we need better than this from the rail industry”, in RAIL，期 930，頁 50:


worn out

more worn out (comparative)
most worn out (superlative)

That old tractor is worn out.

那個舊拖拉機已經破爛不堪了。

That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.

1913，Joseph C. Lincoln，章號 8, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:


upside down

早期up so down的變體，源自中古英語 up-so-doun、upsedowne、upsadowne (“翻轉，顛倒”)，等同於up + so + down。

The Union flag was flying upside down, a sign of danger.

英國國旗上下顛倒地掛著，這是危險的信號。

For, suddenly, I saw you there / And through foggy London town / The sun was shining upside down!

1937，“A Foggy Day (In London Town)”, Ira Gershwin 作詞, George Gershwin 作曲:


sharpen

源自中古英語 scharpenen、scharpnen，等同於sharp + -en。

sharpens (third-person singular present)
sharpening (present participle)
sharpened (past participle)

削尖，磨鋒利； 加強，加重

to sharpen a pencil or a knife or a musical note

The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives.[…]who, if anyone, is policing their use. Such concerns were sharpened further by the continuing revelations about how the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been using algorithms to help it interpret the colossal amounts of data it has collected from its covert dragnet of international telecommunications.

2013年July26日，Leo Hickman，“How algorithms rule the world”, in The Guardian Weekly，卷 189, 期 7，頁 26:


tote

可能源自中古低地德語 tûte、tǖte (“獸角，圓錐形紙袋”)，參見德語 Tüte (“袋”)。源頭不明。

totes (third-person singular present)
toting (present participle)
toted (past participle)

In stretches, this new Apes is an audacious, idiosyncratic piece of blockbuster filmmaking: a mix of Pixar, revenge Westerns, and Apocalypse Now, told almost entirely from the point-of-view of a posse of gun-toting, super-evolved apes as they roam the snowy Sierra Nevada foothills of the post-apocalyptic future, accompanied by a mute human girl, and bear witness to the strange cruelty of man.

2017年July7日，Ignatiy Vishnevetsky，“The ambitious War For The Planet Of The Apes ends up surrendering to formula”, in The Onion AV Club:

We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.

It took ten pallbearers to carry her coffin. There was a picture of them toting it in one of the tabloids.


traduce

源自拉丁語 trādūcō (“玷辱”)，源自trāns + dūcō (“領導，帶領”)。

traduces (third-person singular present)
traducing (present participle)
traduced (past participle)

“I am earnestly desirous then, my dear Sir, that you should let the world into the traits of your genuine character, as civil broils may otherwise tend to disguise or traduce it.

1793，Benjamin Franklin，The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, §33:


trade union

trade unions (plural)
trades unions (plural)

在部分地區（如英國）的官方用法中，trade union 的複數 trade unions 表示同一領域的不同工會：

The train drivers were divided between two trade unions.
火車司機分屬兩個工會。

There are hundreds of trades unions in England.
英格蘭有數百個工會。

When the first wave of postwar immigrants arrived in Britain in the 1950s and ’60s, it was a period of rising wages, full employment, an expanding welfare state and strong trade unions. Today, Britain’s manufacturing base has all but disappeared, working-class communities have disintegrated, unions have been neutered and the welfare state has begun to crumble.

2013年September28日，Kenan Malik，“London Is Special, but Not That Special”, in New York Times:

labor union (加拿大、美國)


whale shark

The largest fish in the world is a shark. It is a harmless plankton eater, and its name, whale shark has been confusing people for years.

1983，Richard Ellis，The Book of Sharks，Knopf, →ISBN，頁 42:


tristesse

“The peculiar resonance of his postcoital tristesse, for example.”

2007年January14日，Liesl Schillinger，引 Martin Amis, “Siberian Fields”, in New York Times:


tsar

借自俄語 царь (carʹ)，源自古東斯拉夫語 цьсарь (cĭsarĭ)，源自原始斯拉夫語 *cěsařь，源自一日耳曼語族語言，源自原始日耳曼語 *kaisaraz，源自拉丁語 Caesar。kaiser 的同源對似詞。現寫法 tsar 於19世紀開始取代舊寫法 czar。

(俄國君主)： 1721年以後，俄國君主的名稱改為imperator（импера́тор (imperátor)），不過本詞依然沿用。

除了俄國君主之外，有時也用於其他國家，如保加利亞（1908-1946）。

czar 的寫法在美國更常用，尤其是用於比喻和非正式義。學術和書面上更常用 tsar。

沙皇（俄國及南歐國家的君主）

and why, in the name of common sense, should the English call the Czar (tsar) of Russia raze?

1832年August1日，W. Barnes，“On the Origin of Language”, in Gentleman's Magazine，London，頁 129:


surreality

And when he goes to greet his mother the surreality of it all stares him in the face: in two years she's turned into a little old lady.

2008，Preeta Samarasan，Evening is the Whole Day，Fourth Estate，頁 227:

The surreality of the crash scene dawned upon him only when he saw a holy figure in the smoke.


surreally

Bonnie Lucas further anthropomorphizes the flower in her watercolors, combining it surreally with the human female figure[…]

1988年January15日，Kathryn Hixson，“On Exhibit: a gallery full of flowers”, in Chicago Reader:


playfield

The position of the playfield is here identified as lying north of this open space between it and the burn, and occupying the haugh which extended west...

1884，Alexander Maxwell，The History of Old Dundee:

It has been recommended by some recreational specialists that there should be one such playfield for each 500 children of high school age.

1974, Comprehensive Plan for Covington, Kentucky, and Environs


in between

來自in + between，可能模仿自in the middle of、in the midst of等短語。

inbetween (alternative)
in-between (alternative)

Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.

2013年June7日，David Simpson，“Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly，卷 188, 期 26，頁 36:


dramaturg

Carl Hegemann, who formerly worked with Mr. Castorf as a dramaturg, said the only endeavor that made sense for him at this point was to direct a traditional play.

2007年January14日，Sally Mcgrane，“Outrageousness, Herr Director, Is a Tough Act to Follow”, in New York Times:


absofuckinglutely

Riley, you swore to me, you absofuckinglutely swore to me you weren't going to diddle around with the expense account this time!

1990，Ivan Doig，Ride with me, Mariah Montana:

If you had asked me six months ago if I would ever be making out with Courtney McSweeney, I would have said no, absofuckinglutely not.

如果你在六個月前問我是否會和 Courtney McSweeney 親熱，我會說不會，他媽的絕對不會。


twenty-two

0.22英吋口徑的手槍或步槍

He wore a crazed expression / As he waded in the car / For some ammo and his sawn-off twenty-two.


sesquipedalophobia

But sesquipedalophobia ('hatred or fear of big words,' aptly enough) has prevailed, even among men of learning.

That hasn't helped my sesquipedalophobia one bit...

2002年March6日，derm，“Re: Are You Somebody? by O'Faolaint”, in soc.culture.irish (Usenet):

Ayesha was like a walking dictionary of phobias. She believed that I had sesquipedalophobia – the fear of long words.

2008，Abhijit Bhaduri，Married But Available，HarperCollins (2012), →ISBN:


quality of life

And almost anyone can have quality of life destroyed by pain.

1997，Myles I. Friedman，Improving the Quality of Life: A Holistic Scientific Strategy，頁 85:


doody

Petra would like to drop despondently onto a rock to pout, but you have to look before you sit, because there are goat doodies everywhere.

Petra 有時候會沮喪地坐在石頭上撅起嘴來，不過如果你要坐在石頭上的話，你得先看清楚了，因為這裡到處都是山羊屎。

2007，Brian Bouldrey，Honorable bandit: a walk across Corsica:


doody

doodies (third-person singular present)
doodying (present participle)
doodied (past participle)

Something smells poopy! It's okay if you just doodied, because we have LOTS of paper towels and extra socks.

好臭啊！不過就算你拉出來了也沒關係，因為我們有很多廁紙和襪子給你換。

2014，Jason James Johnson，Catbug Says, →ISBN:


coffee shop

coffeeshop (alternative)
coffee shops (plural)

café

小型咖啡廳或餐廳，售賣小吃和咖啡飲料

coffeehouse

小型咖啡廳或餐廳，售賣小吃和咖啡飲料

小型咖啡廳或餐廳，售賣小吃和咖啡飲料

"From behind the counter of this provincial train station coffee shop, Joanna was barista and unofficial shrink to wildly varied London-bound travellers," writes author Laline Paull. Confessions of a Barista on Platform 1 was published on February 9 by The Firle Press [...].

2021年March10日，“Stop & Examine”, in RAIL，期 926，頁 70:


black coffee

It wasn't enough. They'd be able to rouse her with black coffee.

1966, Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls, page 305-306

Boiled, percolated, pressed, or filtered, black coffee ranges from a light tea-like drink to deep black brew.

2005，Mark F. Sohn，Appalachian Home Cooking，頁 36:


coffeemaker

Upholsterer, Letter-Carrier, Foreign-Post, Coffee-maker, of each one.

1681，Thomas De Laune，The Present State of London，頁 113:

If your cook is not habitually a good coffee-maker, the coffee will most probably be sent in cold, thick, and weak—for want of some previous supervision.

1839，Eliza Leslie，The Behaviour Book，頁 35:

To be sure it had to be taken without milk, but there was plenty of sugar, and when Rod passed his tin cup for a second helping, the coffee-maker's face fairly beamed with gratified pride.

1892，Kirk Munroe，Cab and Caboose: The Story of a Railroad Boy，頁 47:

As he poured water into the coffeemaker, Ben watched several deer grazing ... While the coffeemaker gurgled, Ben remained entranced by the deer.

他把水倒進咖啡機的時候，Ben 看著幾支正在吃草的鹿……等咖啡機開始運轉的時候，Ben 還在看鹿看得出神。


bicycle helmet

Make locking up your bike as routine as strapping on a bicycle helmet.

1989 (Jul), Dennis Coello, "Lock Up Your Bike", Boys' Life, page 8

Mandatory bicycle helmet laws introduced in New Zealand in 1994 also resulted in large increases in helmet use, and reductions in the number of head injuries[…]

2004，World Health Organization，World Report On Road Traffic Injury Prevention，頁 136:


thicc

thiccer (comparative)
thiccest (superlative)

thick (“性感的，肉感的”)的另一種拼寫法

To some fans, Wicke is thicc. To others, she’s a positive representation of diverse bodies in video games.
“Thicc Wicke,” as some are calling the fan art version of the character, has become such a trend that there’s already a meme criticizing it:
And there are plenty of images that depict her as “thicc,” but not in a drooling, overtly sexualized way.

2016年September12日，“Thirsty Pokémon fans are sexualizing Wicke, Sun & Moon’s new Pokémon researcher”, in Daily Dot:

“The weight of the female Gyr given as 1396-2000g [brings it to a] mean of 1752g (n=12),” Sweet tells Inverse. That’s roughly four pounds — extremely thicc by falcon standards.

2018年February8日，“The Original "Falcon Heavy" Isn't What You Think”, in Inverse:


yadda

三疊使用，或與其他詞語結合，用於表示語句的部分說話人不願提及、難以理解或不重要。

In fact, the academic said, crime trends are influenced far more by demographics and social forces and yadda, yadda, yadda than by police work.

2006，Andrew Karmen，New York Murder Mystery: The True Story Behind the Crime […] :

The planners held all the requisite public hearings, public discussions, public meetings, public forums, yadda public-this and yadda public-that.

2002年June2日，Craig Medred，“Trails committee goes a little wild”, in Anchorage Daily News，頁 G1:


yadda

Sedona offers everything a Caravan, Voyager, T&C, yadda, yadda, yadda does, […] However, when V-6-equipped, the yaddas are a lot more quiet leaving the light or pulling into the passing lane.

2001年November8日，Jim Mateja，“Kia opens door, manually, to minivan market”, in Chicago Tribune:

Dropouts include Jason Kidd (recovering from knee surgery), Ray Allen (getting married this summer), Tracy McGrady (security concerns), Karl Malone (recovering from the NBA season; lost his mother), Jermaine O'Neal (banged up), Vince Carter (yadda), Mike Bibby (yadda), Elton Brand (yadda), and Kenyon Martin (yadda).

2004年August28日，Gary Peterson，“Tina Thompson: `I really wanted to be part of this. This is my time'”, in Contra Costa Times:

So right or wrong, good move or bad, yadda or yadda, it's an intriguing development in this gifted player's life and basketball career.

2006年May13日，“A Tough Road: Bennerman, Who Went To Hargrave, Describes Exactly What Glenn's Wallace Is Going To Be Experiencing”, in Winston-Salem Journal:


at a time

climb stairs two at a time

The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track.[…]Their example was followed by others at a time when the master of Mohair was superintending in person the docking of some two-year-olds, and equally invisible.

1897年 12月（標示為1898年），Winston Churchill，章號 IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode，紐約: The Macmillan Company；倫敦：Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC，頁s 58–59:


scotch

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

scotches (third-person singular present)
scotching (present participle)
scotched (past participle)

We have scotched the snake, not killed it.

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


scotch

Scotch (“苏格兰威士忌”)的另一種寫法

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

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


gurl

Damn white gurl Thought you was A1 Yet your existence a none

2012，Krystina V，A Diva's love Affair, →ISBN，頁 22:

An' Lee went closer to where the gurl was waitin'. His party follered an' I follered too.... Jest whin the moosic sthopped an' the gurl looked up—thin she seen Lee.

All gurl's good fur—jist To dust an' sweep, an' scold, An' sew on buttons what yo mus't Sewin' on last week. Wush't Iwuz a boy!

2013，Karen L. Kilcup & Angela Sorby，Over the River and Through the Wood, →ISBN:


gurl

gurls (third-person singular present)
gurling (present participle)
gurled (past participle)

The poor little doctor, thus rudely and suddenly aroused from his tipsy sleep, looked excessively bewildered when he opened his eyes, and met the glare of ferocious delight that Darby Kelleher cast upon him, and he gurled out, “What's the matter?” as well as the grip of Darby's hand upon his throat would permit him.

1834，Samuel Lover，Legends and Stories of Ireland:

“Weel may ye mind, yon night sae black, Whan fearfu' winds loud gurled, And mony a lum dang down—and stack, Heigh i' the air up swirled, Alangst yon brae, ye clam, and stack,

1845，Alexander Wilson，Poetical Works: With an Extended Memoir of His Life and Writings:


cocksucker

After he said the kid was a no-talent cocksucker whose teeth were always in the way ...

[在]他說這小孩口交還不熟練，牙齒老碰到雞巴……[之後]

1970，Donald Warman，Some of my best friends，頁 102:

"Bodie!... You cocksucker, you said it wouldn't snow any more! You said we could make it!"

“Bodie！……你這混蛋，是你說不會再下雪的了！是你說我們能搞定的！”

1970，Salambo Forest，On my throbbing engine，頁 120:


helluvalot

I think that, reduced to a very simple statement, it means a helluvalot to me whether Auschwitz actually happened or was simply imagined by someone.

1999, E. L. Doctorow, Christopher D. Morris, Conversations with E. L. Doctorow (page 29)

Struggling into a sitting position, I clamped both hands over my shredded thigh. There was a helluvalot of blood, but it was pouring, not pumping, which meant the bastard missed the artery.


stabilise

stabilises (third-person singular present)
stabilising (present participle)
stabilised (past participle)

Network Rail doesn't expect the line through Carmont to open for around a month, as it faces the mammoth task of recovering the two power cars and four coaches from ScotRail's wrecked train, repairing bridge 325, stabilising earthworks around the landslip, and replacing the track.

2020年August26日，“Network News: Mid-September before line reopens, says Network Rail”, in Rail，頁 10:


minnit

minute的另一種寫法：很短的時間

I see they was goin, so I said:-- "My week-minded and misgided femails, hold your hosses a minnit, until an old statesman, who has served his country for 4 yeer as Gustise of the Peece, says a few remarks to you."

1870，Various，Punchinello, Vol. II., No. 34, November 19, 1870:

"I jest stood like a dumb critter the minnit I got in," said Marty.

1876，Helen Hunt Jackson，Mercy Philbrick's Choice:

I'll go in 'ere for 'arf a minnit and sit down.

1909，W.W. Jacobs，Sailor's Knots (Entire Collection):

Wait a minnit!

Wait a minnit, I didn't show you my pitcher what was in de paper, did I?

1936-1938，Work Projects Administration，Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States:


agnostic

由托馬斯·亨利·赫胥黎在1870年造出。源自古希臘語 ἄγνωστος (ágnōstos，“無知的，不知道的”)，或源自a- + Gnostic，派生自古希臘語 ἀ- (a-，“不”) + γιγνώσκω (gignṓskō，“知道”)。

more agnostic (comparative)
most agnostic (superlative)

In matters of the intellect do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable. That I take to be the agnostic faith, which if a man keep whole and undefiled, he shall not be ashamed to look the universe in the face, whatever the future may have in store for him.

His agnostic viewpoint is summarized in his book.

他的不可知論觀點在著作中得到總結。


agnostic

The Agnostic is one who asserts—what no one denies—that there are limits to the sphere of human intelligence.

1876年June1日，Leslie Stephen，“An Agnostic's Apology”, in The Forthnightly Review，卷 25/19, 期 114，頁 840:

An agnostic thinks it impossible to know the truth in matters such as God and the future life with which Christianity and other religions are concerned.

1953年November3日，Bertrand Russell，“What is an Agnostic?”, in Look:

When I say I'm an agnostic, I only mean that the evidence isn't in. There isn't compelling evidence that God exists — at least your kind of god — and there isn't compelling evidence that he doesn't.

1985，Carl Sagan，Contact: a novel，New York: Simon and Schuster, →ISBN，頁 175:


dog days

仿譯自拉丁語 diēs caniculārēs (“小狗日”)，仿譯自古希臘語 κυνάδες ἡμέραι (kunádes hēmérai，“狗之日”)，源自κυνάς (kunás，“狗的，與狗有關的”)，源自Κῠ́ων (Kŭ́ōn，“狗”)，此處的「狗」指天狼星，在荷馬希臘語中作「獵戶座之犬」。天狼星偕日升時（在古雅典和古羅馬分別為7月25日和7月29日）被視為是一年中最熱、最不健康、最不幸運的時節。

canicular days

天狼星偕日升的時節，現代指八月初（具體時間隨緯度有變）

歷史上，“dog days”的期間是依據大犬座的天狼星或小犬座的南河三偕日升的時間來推斷的。這個時間隨緯度有變，且不適用於南半球。 天狼星兩次偕日升之間的間隔大概是365¼日，和儒略曆一致，但和現代通用的格里高利曆有差別。因此“dog days”的期間從7月3日到8月15日不等，大概會有30-61天。16世紀英格蘭認定的“dog daies”為7月7日至9月5日。有些現代曆書會將“dog daies”定為7月3日至8月11日，以天狼星偕日升之日作為其結尾，而非開始。

三伏天，一年中最熱的時節

Why ſhould thoſe Eteſian and Eaſterne winds blow cōtinually in ſome places, at ſet times, one way ſtill, in the dog dayes only: heere perpetuall drought, there dropping ſhowres; [...]

1624，Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton]，“Ayre Rectified. With a Digression of the Ayre.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […]，第2nd版, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 2, member 3，頁 214:

The dog days of August have often spelled trouble for the world economy.

2013 August 17, "A Rickety Rebound" in The Economist, Vol. 408, No. 8849:


Forteana

A monthly “Journal of Strange Phenomena”, founded in 1973 as a primary forum for news, discussion, links and archives to core and fringe forteana.

2000，Bob Rickard and John Michell，Unexplained Phenomena: A Rough Guide Special, →ISBN，頁 367:


public transport

The Airports National Policy Statement objectives require the proportion of journeys made to the airport by passengers to be at least 50% by public transport by 2030 and 55% by 2040.

2019 October，John Glover，“Heathrow rail expansion”, in Modern Railways，頁 71:


sussy

more sussy (comparative)
most sussy (superlative)

Brit Suspicious; suspected.

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


hold water

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

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

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

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

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

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


venge

源自中古英語 vengen，源自古法語 venger，源自拉丁語 vindicare (“報仇，復仇”)。

venges (third-person singular present)
venging (present participle)
venged (past participle)

For right as they han venged hem on me and doon me wrong, right so shal I venge me upon hem and doon hem wrong;

c. 1387，Geoffrey Chaucer，Canterbury Tales, Tale of Melibee § 30:

To safeguard thine own life / The best way is to venge my Gloucester's death.

c. 1595，William Shakespeare，Richard II, Act 1, scene 2:


veritas

源自拉丁語 vēritās。

Over at Harvard, students are pursuing a different kind of sexual veritas.

在哈佛大學，學生們正在追求一種不同的性真實。

2007年March4日，Alexandra Jacobs，“Campus Exposure”, in New York Times:


two heads are better than one

"Mr. Francis Osbaldistone is an innocent man, Rashleigh," said Miss Vernon, "and he demands an investigation of the charge against him, and I intend to support him in it."
"You do, my pretty cousin?—I should think, now, Mr. Francis Osbaldistone was likely to be as effectually, and rather more delicately, supported by my presence than by yours."
"Oh, certainly; but two heads are better than one, you know."

On the principle that two heads are better than one, he resolved to take his companion, Jones, into his confidence and ask him to make a suggestion.

1882，Horatio Alger，章號 23, in Ben's Nugget:

Two heads are better than one, sir. We will prosecute our investigations together.

1906，Arthur Quiller-Couch，章號 17, in The Mayor of Troy:

Collaboration is great for screenwriting. It's not as simple as two heads are better than one, but if you find the right person, you can feed off each other.

2003年November9日，Nancy Meyers as told to Amy Barrett，“Sex and the Single Older Woman”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-02-25:


incent

incents (third-person singular present)
incenting (present participle)
incented (past participle)

在《美國當代英語語料庫》（COCA）中，不及 incentivize 常用。
對於個人行動上，比 incentivize 稍用得多。

刺激，激勵，鼓勵（人或組織）。

We need to incent people to innovate more.

我們需要鼓勵人們更多地創新。

We try to incent people to do it earlier, which levels the load.

2007年February24日，Damon Darlin，“At Intuit, What Comes After Taxes?”, in New York Times:

incent investors to manage assets with a long-term perspective

2010年June24日，Al Gore and David Blood，“Toward Sustainable Capitalism”, in Wall Street Journal:

給……（事物）以刺激，激勵。

We need to incent more innovation.

我們需要激勵出更多的創新。

DUNCAN: The more we can reward excellence, the more we can incent excellence, the more we can get our best teachers to work in those hard to staff schools

2009年January13日，Arne Duncan，“Duncan Lays Out Positions in Confirmation Hearing”, in WBEZ Chicago Public Radio:


win over

wins over (third-person singular present)
winning over (present participle)
won over (past participle)

If the truth doesn't win him over, perhaps charm will.

如果真相無法說服他，或許魅力可以。

Despite his ill-fated spell at Anfield, he received a warm reception from the same Liverpool fans he struggled to win over before being sacked midway through last season.

2012年April22日，Sam Sheringham，“Liverpool 0-1 West Brom”, in BBC Sport:

For trains to play a major role in reducing carbon and other pollutants through modal shift, the railway will have to do more to win over the growing proportion of non-captive passengers who will have the choice of whether or not to use rail over other modes.

2021年July14日，Anthony Lambert，“Grand designs on superior interiors”, in RAIL，期 935，頁 49:


ten-shun

用於引起遊行樂隊或兵團的注意。

Company, 'ten-shun—(More violently.) 'ten-shun, please... (He draws himself up exaggeratedly.) Stand straight, like soldiers!

1946，Harry Lester Baum，Prelude to Victory: A Masonic Play:


moxibustion

moxa (“艾蒿”) + combustion (“燃燒”) 組成的混成詞，字面意思為「燃燒的艾蒿」，使用拉丁詞彙常用的-i-連接。

Traditional Chinese medicine includes herbal remedy, diet therapy, use of animal secretion and organs, acupuncture, massage, moxibustion (the application of a burning moxa plant to skin), and other folk methods.

1998，Lin Zhan，Asian Voices: Asian and Asian-American Health Educators Speak Out，Jones and Bartlett Publishers, →ISBN, Xi Young Hong: Health Practice in Chinese Older Women，頁 36:


above-board

aboveboard (alternative)
above board (alternative)

/əˈbʌvˌbɔɹd/

光明正大的，合法公正的 （首次記錄於16世紀晚期。）

Fair and aboveboard.

Nothing illegal about any of this to my knowledge. Indeed, this is the very above-board racket of running an independent political committee. Everyone does it. Left, right, center and none of the above. And anyway, why shouldn't a true pay-triot get paid?

2013年May15日，Stephen Lemons，“Joe Arpaio's Fave Pay-triot John Philip Sousa IV Fires Back, Makes Bank Off Peddling Joe”, in Phoenix New Times，存檔自the original on 2019-03-11:

Over the weekend, Android owners were displeased to discover that Facebook had been scraping their text-message and phone-call metadata, in some cases for years, an operation hidden in the fine print of a user agreement clause until Ars Technica reported. Facebook was quick to defend the practice as entirely aboveboard—small comfort to those who are beginning to realize that, because Facebook is a free service, they and their data are by necessity the products.

2018年March26日，Maya Kosoff，“Zuckerberg hits users with the hard truth: You agreed to this”, in Vanity Fair:


hemidemisemiquaver

But the young gentleman […] walked down the dark side of the street in peals of laughter, making, ever and anon, little breathless remarks to himself, which his colleague could not hear, but which seemed to have the effect of setting him off again into new hemi-demi-semiquavers and roars of laughter […]

1863，Sheridan Le Fanu，The House by the Churchyard:


two hundred fifty-sixth note

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

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


take hold

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

Then the highly virulent mental germs skillfully inoculated took a hold in the subconscious mind of European humanity; the disease developed rapidly, spread like wild fire, and raged unabated throughout the width and length of the central empires.

1919，Boris Sidis，The Source and Aim of Human Progress:


cognacy

同源詞間的關係；另一種語言共享相同祖源用詞的情況。

First, in depending on vocabulary, as opposed to morphology or grammar, one runs the risk of assuming cognacy between similar words when the real explanation is borrowing.

2000，Bernd Heine & Derek Nurse，African Languages: An Introduction, →ISBN，頁 262:

兩種語言共享同源詞的程度，通常以百分比表示。

In Table 13.1 are given the percentages for the degrees of cognacy between pairs of languages in the Upper Cross group.

1988，Monday B. Abasiattai，Expanding frontiers of African history: the inter-disciplinary methodology, →ISBN，頁 255:


sugar cane

sugar-cane (alternative)
sugarcane (alternative)
sugar canes (plural)

Daniel was watching Sarah, Bose and Femi munch contentedly on the firm sweetness of sugar cane, plucking back the green with their fingers to reveal the creamy yellow-white that left gluey juices on their hands and clothes.

2005，Helen Oyeyemi，The Icarus Girl，Bloomsbury，頁 306:


blue shark

The blue shark is long in almost all respects; long snout, long tail, long body, and especially long, curved pectoral fins.

1983，Richard Ellis，The Book of Sharks，Knopf, →ISBN，頁 126:


mitsumata

三椏，結香屬（Edgeworthia）植物。

Moreover, the fibres of Ganpi and Mitsumata are not strong enough singly, yet they are extensively used with other coarse raw materials in order to give the tenderness, smoothness, and lustre to paper of low quality.

1893，Bureau of Commerce and Industry, Department of Agriculture and Commerce, Japan，Details of the Industrial Specimens Exposed at the World’s Colombian Exposition，頁 80:

Mitsumata has been used for paper since about 1600 CE. It is one of three main fiber types used for making Japanese paper.

2016年May1日，“Mitsumata”, in CAMEO: Conservation and Art Materials Encyclopedia Online, retrieved 2020-03-04:


thingy

He pulled out his thingy. It was huge.

他把那東西掏出來。真大。

2004，Richard Tinsley，Walking on the Son:


whatchamacallit

為“what you may call it”或“what you might call it”（“你會怎樣叫它”）的縮短形式。出現於20世紀的美國（1921年的紀錄）。

/ˈwɒtʃəməkɔːlɪt/

/ˈʍʌtʃəməkɔlɪt/

The Thingamajig and the Wachamacallit.

1921，Johnny Gruelle，Orphant Annie Story Book, Volume 7，頁 69:

You’re—you must be the whatchamacallit, huh? The peer.

1969，J[ames] P[inckney] Miller，stage adaptation by F. Andrew Leslie，The People Next Door，New York, N.Y.: Dramatists Play Service, →OCLC, Act II，頁 42:

JESSICA: How many times do I have to say it? We were not stealing, Officer. We were just— / MONAHAN: I know. Performing some kind of whatchamacallit deed. Anyhow, they go to the clink, that's what happens to people who filch city property.

1972，Carolyn Lane，Child of Air: A One Act Play，Denver, Colo.: Pioneer Drama Service, →OCLC，頁 13:

I'm a boy, so when I'm sick, they can call in poohaghooma, Indian doctor. But not Tom Mitchell! No, sir! [We] won't have Tom Mitchell to doctor me! 'Cause whatchamacallit, he always used to doctor me …

1996，Corbett Mack，as told by Michael Hittman，“Boyhood (1892–1905)”, in Corbett Mack: The Life of a Northern Paiute (Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians)，Lincoln, Neb., London: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN，頁 60:

"Think we ought to check this whatchamacallit?" / "No, that doodad over there seems to be the problem."

1998，David Alan Black，“There’s No Place Like Rome: The Parts of Speech and Their Function”, in It’s still Greek to Me: An Easy-to-understand Guide to Intermediate Greek，Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, →ISBN，頁 19:

As you've said, the safety of the American people is our first priority. We have orders that if these EMP whatchamacallits can't be secured then they must be destroyed.

2014 October，Don Pendleton，章號 15, in Domination Bid (Don Pendleton’s Stony Man: America’s Ultra-covert Intelligence Agency; Gold Eagle Book)，Don Mills, Ont.: Worldwide Library, →ISBN，頁 180:


Australian English

Prior to the 1980s, Australian English had been widely deprecated by Australians themselves, principally as a result of a sense of inferiority known as "cultural cringe".

在1980年代之前，澳大利亞人自己廣泛反對使用澳大利亞英語，這主要是由於一種被稱為「文化畏縮」的自卑感。

2012，James Lambert，“Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes，頁 295:


epiphany

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

theophany

（神仙，超人等）降临，下凡，登场，显现

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

她一下子想明白了她这一生要做什么。

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

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

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

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


run for it

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

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

快！有人来了，我们得赶紧溜！

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

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


homie

Polari（20世紀中早期英國男同性戀中的流行語）omi (“男人，小子，傢伙”)的變體。

omi (“男人”)的另一種拼寫法

As feely homies, when we launched ourselves onto the gay scene, polari was all the rage. We would zhoosh our riahs, powder our eeks, climb into our bona new drag, don our batts and troll off to some bona bijou bar.

1977，Rictor Norton，引 Burton, Peter, The Gentle Art of Confounding Naffs，引於 Myth of the Modern Homosexual, Bloomsbury Publishing, 出版於 2016, →ISBN，頁 115:


Éire

British subjects in Éire could not vote, hold public office, or work in the government service of Éire, whereas Éire citizens in Britain could do all of these.

居住在愛爾蘭的英國公民不能在選舉中投票，擔任公職，或參與愛爾蘭的行政事務，然而這些事情換到英國，居住在英國的愛爾蘭公民都能做。

1989，Thomas E. Hachey，Joseph M. Hernon, Jr.，Lawrence J. McCaffrey，“The de Valera Era, 1932–1959: Continuity and Change in Irish Life [德·瓦萊拉時代，1932-1959：愛爾蘭生活的不變與變]”, in The Irish Experience，Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, →ISBN, section “The Irish Republic, 1948–1959”，頁 217:

In the light of modern scholarship it now seems highly likely that the total recruitment figure for both Northern Irish and Éire citizens in the British Armed Forces stood at around 100–120,000 men and women.

2011，Gavin Hughes，“Commitment, Casualties and Loss: Comparative Aspects of Irish Regiments at Dunkirk 1940 and in Western Europe, 1944–1945”, in Southern Ireland and the Liberation of France: New Perspectives (Reimagining Ireland; volume 33)，Peter Lang, →ISBN, →ISSN，頁 85:

Since Éire remained in the Commonwealth during the war—leaving in 1949—it could be argued that volunteers and war workers from Éire belong in this list. Éire was the only Commonwealth country to remain neutral throughout the war.

因為二戰期間，愛爾蘭仍然留在英聯邦內（1949年退出），因此我們可以認為，來自愛爾蘭的志願參軍者和戰爭勞工也應屬於這一行列。愛爾蘭是二戰期間唯一一個保持中立的英聯邦國家。

2018，Wendy Webster，“Introduction: ‘The Big Proposition’”, in Mixing It: Diversity in World War Two Britain，Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN，頁 9:


hangry

more hangry (comparative)
most hangry (superlative)

飢餓和生氣，特別指由飢餓造成的憤怒。

I also get really "hangry".

2005，L. R. Parenti，Durata Del Dramma: Life Of Drama，頁 98:

Seriously, somebody needs to give this toddler a bottle and put him down for a nap. That baby pitches a fit when he gets hangry.

2011，Chris Haire，“I'm tired of writing about Nikki Haley”, in Charleston City Paper:

Mission Control: "Get them pizza before they get hangry. Hungry and angry!"

2016 "People Pleaser", The Powerpuff Girls

You know this if you've ever been hangry. You go through your day without stopping to eat, and for a while it doesn't matter. Then your stomach starts sending signals to your brain that it's waiting.

2018, Jean Chatzky, Women with Money: The Judgment-Free Guide to Creating the Joyful, Less Stressed, Purposeful (and, Yes, Rich) Life You Deserve, p. 11:


rigor mortis

*来自拉丁語 rigor mortis，字面意思“死亡的僵硬”

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

1913，Sir Arthur Conan Doyle，The Poison Belt:


stoat

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


whatchoo

"I don't care whatchoo tell 'er, fo'real," he said, scooting to the end of the piano bench.

Well, whatchoo gonna do about it, Momma?

"Whatchoo want 'em for?" "It's a surprise," he says.

2008, Carolyn Chute, The Beans of Egypt, Maine


strafe

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

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

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


quar

A chrysolite, a gem, the very agate / Of state and policy, cut from the quar / Of Machiavel.


toon

卡通，特別指動畫電視節目。

Did you know Nash had a complete break with reality, that he was loonier than a toon for almost four months?

2005，Sara Bell，The Magic in Your Touch, →ISBN，頁 123:

玩家化身或大型多人線上角色扮演遊戲顯示的角色。

Proxemics are very important, however, as the positioning of an agent's toon in anon-combat grouping or in the environment can show place within a social group.

2010，Ben Kei Daniel，Handbook of Research on Methods and Techniques for Studying Virtual Communities, →ISBN:

僅用於loony toon 或 looney toon，替代寫法 loony tune。

We are both kind of strange and one day we were driving in the car and Steve said to me, You know Karin, you are a real loony toon'.

I look at him as if he's a loony toon.

2012，Kelly Watts，From the Mouth of Charlie Watts, →ISBN，頁 32:

Wilson, quite early on, points out: “Many messiahs have undoubtedly been mental cases, suffering from psychotic delusions” These looney-toon 'messiahs' seem to this reviewer to be running very fast away from any profound development in human consciousness!

2012，Vaughan Rapatahana，Philosophical (a)Musings, →ISBN，頁 25:


toon

來自印地語 तून (tūn)，來自梵語 तुणि (tuṇi，“紅椿”)。

紅椿，分佈在東南亞和澳大利亞的楝科樹種（Toona ciliata 或 Toona australis），木材色暗紅、香氣濃厚，花朵可作染料。

Each plot held 10 cull trees so that 60 Australian toon and 40 tropical ash trees were treated.

1973，Gerald A. Walters & Herbert L. Wick，Coppicing to convert cull Australian toon, tropical ash to acceptable trees:

After 7 years, all paint combinations except the self-primed latex are showing some failure on all species of wood except Australian toon.

1972，Roger G. Skolmen，Paintability of four woods in Hawaii，頁 1:


toon

Whan I was a callan, I took the play to mysel' for a week, or maybe twa, and gaed wi' a frien' i' the same trade's mysel', to see what was to be seen alang a screed o' the seacoast, frae toon to toon.

1865，George MacDonald，Alec Forbes of Howglen - Volume 2，頁 244:

Sic changes owre oor toon hae passed Since Mungo placed thee there — A wee bit slender fragile stem, That needed watchfu' care.

1881，B.C.，“The Chestnut Tree”, in The Border Counties' Magazine - Volumes 1-2，號 201:

It tane Bill three month fae the time he pairtit wi Beatrice tae get tae the toon o Shanzi. He stuid on a crest as the sin rase, an saw the fortress toon on the neist ridge, a silhouette lichtenin gradually intae ugly breezeblock buildins.

2011，Wulf Kurtoglu & Caroline Macafee，Braken Fences, →ISBN，頁 43:


Mary Sue

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


streetlike

more streetlike (comparative)
most streetlike (superlative)

A meandering central circulation path evokes a streetlike ambience, reinforced by gritty materials, including the old warehouse's original concrete floor.

1998，Justin Henderson，Workplaces and workspaces: office designs that work:


Ping Tung

源自官話 屏東 (Píng Dōng)的威妥瑪拼音羅馬化：Pʻing² Tung¹。

The Puyumas, a small, rather civilized tribe, live together with native Chinese in many villages around the city of Ping Tung.

1967，Chen Kang Chai，Taiwan Aborigines: A Genetic Study of Tribal Variations，Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL，頁 36:

At Ping Tung, a professional geomancer checks the alignment of a grave, to ensure that ancestors will rest happily

1991，Derek Walters，The Feng Shui Handbook，Thorsons, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL，頁 183:

After securing Ping Tung, Taiwan and Batan island regular air patrols have resumed. It has been noted that increasing ground activity was occurring around daybreak.

1993 September，Paul A. Forbes，Using a Wargame to Explore the Effects of the Information Content of Messages on CVBG Anti-Air Warfare Defense，Naval Postgraduate School, →OCLC, →OL，頁 53:

My duty assignment was[...]Tasked the Wing’s Squadrons to provide aircrew members for ferry missions to the United States and Ping Tung, Taiwan.[...]Regarding the ferry missions to Ping Tung, Taiwan. The 3rd wing had one squadron of T-38 (F-5s) called the Aggressor Squadron.[...]The reason for the flights to Ping Tung was the contractor's location that painted the aircraft to soviet specifications.

2009，Billy Ray Wilson，Enough is Enough，AuthorHouse, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL，頁s 122-123:


century egg

Almonds, parched watermelon seeds—esteemed as a great delicacy—spareribs covered with a mixture of molasses sugar, fried fish, chicken livers and century eggs were put on the table at once.

1912年November15日，“Chop suey hoax exposed”, in The Mixer & Server，卷 21, 期 11，頁 35:

More or less is heard about the Chinese "century eggs." These are duck eggs which have been preserved by a coating of mud, rice hulls, lime and wood ashes.

（大家）或多或少都聽說過中國的“皮蛋”。這是將鴨蛋塗上泥、稻殼、石灰和草木灰後醃製而成的。

1922年December20日，E. C. Heinsohn，“Eggs and Poultry in China”, in The Egg Reporter，頁 28:

In the middle of the platter were century eggs, eggs which have been left in lime for a long, long time until the yolk has become dark and the white gelatinous.

盤子中間放的是皮蛋，這種蛋經過長時間的醃製，直到蛋黃變成黑白膠狀。

1953，Dorothy Snapp McCammon，We tried to stay，頁 95:

There are many varieties of congee but the most common is this salted pork with century egg.

粥有許多種做法，但最常見的是這種配醃豬肉和皮蛋的粥（皮蛋瘦肉粥）。

2015，Deborah Lowe Kwok Yun，The Little Cantonese Cookbook:


Cthulhu

1926年由H·P·洛夫克拉夫特於短篇小說《克蘇魯的呼喚》中虛構的名字。也許基於chthonic (“居於地底下”)。

Ktulu (alternative)
Kutulu (alternative)

Then, bolder than the storied Cyclops, great Cthulhu slid greasily into the water and began to pursue with vast wave-raising strokes of cosmic potency.

1928，H.P. Lovecraft，The Call of Cthulhu:


cross the Rubicon

指公元前49年1月10日，尤里烏斯·愷撒破除將領不得帶兵渡過盧比孔河的禁忌，帶兵進軍羅馬與格奈烏斯·龐培展開內戰。蘇埃托尼烏斯將愷撒的這種行為形容成是“木已成舟”（the die is cast；iacta ālea est）使得該短語的使用普及開來。

crosses the Rubicon (third-person singular present)
crossing the Rubicon (present participle)
crossed the Rubicon (past participle)

He knew that by coming out to his family he would be crossing the Rubicon but he could not live a lie anymore.

他知道向家人出櫃就像破釜沉舟，但他不願再隱瞞下去了。

Will China cross the Rubicon by sending its military to Hong Kong?

中國會破釜沉舟，向香港派兵嗎？

2019年August16日，Bonnie Girard，Battle-Ready: The PLA’s Hong Kong Garrison，The Diplomat:


metaverse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


other-worldly

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

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

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


as per

Gentlemen—As per the rules of your Honorable Body, I advertised for bids for crockery, etc., that might be required by the various Cook County institutions from April 1st to June 30th, 1894, as per specifications on file in my office.

1895，C. Mamer，Official Proceedings of the Board of Commissioners of Cook County, Illinois. 1893/1894，頁 403:


ſ

英語字母表的第19個字母，名稱為long s、medial s 或 descending s並以拉丁文字書寫。

But he does not ſtab him for his treachery toward hisſelf […]

1783, Joseph Ritson, Remarks, Critical and Illustrative, on the Text and Notes of the Last Edition of Shakspeare, page 223:

Many fanciful methods have been invented by thoſe who wiſhed to render puerile ſports conducive to improvement. I never found that they were ſucceſsful.

1785, Vicesimus Knox, Liberal Education: Or, a Practical Treatiſe on the Methods of Acquiring Uſeful and Polite Learning, vol. II, pp. 1 & 3, section XXXI: On the regulation of puerile diverſions:

75. On the 11th of May, 1759, the Lords amend a turnpike road Bill, by inſerting a clauſe, “That no gate ſhall be erected within a mile of Enſham Ferry”. The conſideration of this amendment is reſolved, nemine contradicente, to be put off for a month.

1796, John Hatsell, Precedents of Proceedings in the House of Commons: With Observations, page 102:

Engliſh Poems /[…]/ New York: The Caſsell Publiſhing Company, 104, Fourth Avenᵉ.

1892，Richard Le Gallienne，English Poems，London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane at The Bodley Head; New York: The Cassell Publishing Company, […]，頁 [iii]:


Lojbanic

Brett Douglas Williams, also known on the Internet as "mungojelly," and to the Lojbanic community as "stela selckiku," is still human.

Brett Douglas Williams，在互聯網上也被稱為「mungojelly」，在邏輯語社群中被稱為「stela selckiku,」，仍然是人類。

2011，Ron Hale-Evans, Marty Hale-Evans，Mindhacker: 60 Tips, Tricks, and Games to Take Your Mind to the Next Level:


sumach

sumac的另一種拼寫法

The Rhamnus of Maderaspatan, and the Trifoliate Sumachs from the Coaſt of Africa, are altogether new.

1693 January，Leonardi Plukenetii [i.e., Leonard Plukenet]，“PHYTOGRAPHIA seu Plantæ quamplurimæ novæ & Literis huc usque incognitæ variis & remotissimis Provinciis ipsisq; Indiis allatæ Nomine & Iconibus. […]”, in Philosophical Transactions. Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours, of the Ingenious, in Many Considerable Parts of the World，卷 VI, 期 196, London: Printed for T. Woodward, […] and C. Davis […] printers to the Royal Society, →OCLC，頁 621:

Plant cutings of Myrtles in a bed of light rich earth, obſerving to water and ſhade them until they have taken root; and now you may plant cutings of […] African Sumaches, and many other exotic plants, which are ſhrubby; […]

1757，Philip Miller，“June”, in The Gardeners Kalendar; Directing what Works are Necessary to be Done Every Month in the Kitchen, Fruit, and Pleasure-gardens, as also the Conservatory and Nursery. […]，第11th版, London: Printed by Charles Rivington, for John Rivington, […]; and James Rivington and James Fletcher, […], →OCLC，頁 185:

They plunged into the narrow path between the tall sumach bushes, and were at once hidden in the gloom.

1876，Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens]，章號 XXIX, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer，Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC，頁 222:


spermatozoön

The human spermatozoön possesses a head, a neck, a connecting piece or body, and a tail...

人類精子有一個頭、一個脖子、一個連接部分或身體，還有一條尾巴……

1913，Henry Gray，Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied，第new American/18th English版, Philadelphia, New York: Lea & Febiger，頁 42:


quicklier

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

如果不是恐懼本身讓他們行動緩慢，嚇壞了的水手們會更快開始離開。

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

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

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


neon sign

霓虹燈廣告牌，霓虹燈招牌

Just listen to the music and the traffic of the city / Linger on the sidewalk where the neon signs are pretty

只是聽著城市的音樂和車流/在霓虹燈很漂亮的人行道上徘徊


purlicue

不明。有些來源認為與法語 pour la queue 有關，來自英語pirl, purl (“旋轉，迴旋”)。

虎口 （食指跟拇指之間的部位）

Last night I licked a man's hand in

1992, After Tequila, in Weber Studies, volume 9, page 83:

"Margot, what happened to taking things slowly?" "I'm sorry, I lose all rational thought when I am alone with you." She touched the purlicue on the hand […]

2001，Michele Hauf，Enchant Me Not, →ISBN，頁 182:

Won Li's attentions moved to the weblike purlicue between my thumb and forefinger.

2003，Suzann Ledbetter，A Lady Never Trifles with Thieves, →ISBN，頁 136:

Can you imagine paying attention to the feeling of space between all of your fingers, just as you feel the purlicue between your thumb and index finger?

2010，Les Fehmi & Jim Robbins，Dissolving Pain, →ISBN，頁 34:

This technique uses the “purlicue,” the magic space between your thumb and extended forefinger on your left hand. Purlicue can also mean “a curl or flourish in writing.” This is an absolutely crucial body “part” in the context of hand jobs [...]. Master the artistry of the purlicue, my friend, and you've mastered the penis.

2016，Emily Nagoski，Orally Pleasuring a Man, →ISBN:


24-hour clock

Train and steamer services to and from the Continent, including the boat trains in England, have long had 24hr clock indications, mainly to conform with the practice of connecting Continental railways, for Irish services are exempt.

1961 December，“Talking of Trains: 24hr clock experiment at York”, in Trains Illustrated，頁 712:


thy

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

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

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

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

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

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


éclat

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

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

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

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

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

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


superflu

大流感（傳播速度極快，致命性高，或難以治愈）

In the wake of the superflus and cataclysmic events, male writers tend to jump to that unholy trinity of rape, murder and cannibalism.

2015年July23日，Sloane Crosley，“It’s the End of the World as She Knows It”, in New York Times:


armed forces

What dictators fear most is losing the support of the armed forces, and when this happens, it's as if a ferocious beast has lost its teeth.

獨裁者最害怕的就是失去軍隊的支持，這種事情一旦發生，就像兇猛的野獸失去了牙齒。

2020年September23日，Shi Chuan，“When Police Officers No Longer Work for Dictators”, in Minghui:


pull a fast one

pulls a fast one (third-person singular present)
pulling a fast one (present participle)
pulled a fast one (past participle)

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

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

这才不值你给他们的那么多钱，我觉得你被他们骗了。

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


show the ropes

shows the ropes (third-person singular present)
showing the ropes (present participle)
showed the ropes (past)
shown the ropes (past participle)

教给...基础，帮...熟悉基础

When I got there, Bill showed me the ropes

我刚来的时候，Bill帮我指点了基础。

Bill showed the ropes to the new guy.

Bill给新人指点了基础。

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


cherry blossom

sakura

櫻花，多指日本櫻花（Prunus serrulata）所開的花。

The cherry blossom was in use in Heian times...For obvious reasons it become the mon of the Sakurai family.

1976，W. M. Hawley & Kei Kaneda Chappelear，Mon: The Japanese Family Crest，頁 27:


filling station

Here and there, under the porches of ruined filling stations, in the gaping doorways of office buildings, lie heaps of human bones.


swastika

源自梵語 स्वस्तिक (svastika)，源自सु (su，“好的”) + अस्ति (asti)（表示“存在”的動詞，源自स्वस्ति (svasti)）+ 指小後綴 क (ka)。原義為“與幸福有關係的小物件”、“吉祥好運的標誌”。英語中最早見於1871年，用來代替希臘化的gammadion。1932年以後，也常用來指納粹黨的類似圖案（德語 Hakenkreuz）。

卍/卐字，原是宗教符號，後來成為法西斯、納粹的象征。

This was signed by Dana Da, who added pentacles and pentagrams, and a crux ansata, and half-a-dozen swastikas, and a Triple Tau to his name, just to show that he was all he laid claim to be.

1888，Rudyard Kipling，“The Sending of Dana Da”, in In Black and White，Folio Society, 出版於 2005，頁s 423–4:

It is clear from archaeological finds that they enjoyed wearing Christian crosses, though they might enliven these with such symbols as the Indian swastika which Buddhists had brought them.

2009，Diarmaid MacCulloch，A History of Christianity，Penguin, 出版於 2010，頁 270:

“I can’t imagine anyone believes in Communist culprits instead of a contract job commissioned on behalf of the swastika.”

2011，Rudolph Herzog，譯者 Jefferson Chase, Dead Funny: Humor in Hitler's Germany，Brooklyn: Melville House, →ISBN，頁 36:


dead last

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

那个高中足球队全年才进了18分！怪不得他们在联赛里是吊车尾。

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

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


at length

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

她领着我们在隧道里走了好久，然后我们终于到了一处石头里的小门前。

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

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

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

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


trier

Nay , mother ,
 Where is your ancient courage ? you were us'd
To say , extremity was the trier of spirits

c. 1608–1609，William Shakespeare，“The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, 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 IV, scene i]:


barbecued

barbequed (alternative)
BBQed (alternative)
BBQ'd (alternative)
bar-be-qued (alternative)
bar-be-cued (alternative)
bar-b-qued (alternative)
bar-b-cued (alternative)
bar-be-qed (alternative)
bar-be-q'd (alternative)
bar-b-qed (alternative)
bar-b-q'd (alternative)
bar-B-Qed (alternative)
bar-B-Q'd (alternative)
more barbecued (comparative)
most barbecued (superlative)

On recollecting myself, I diſcovered that I had almoſt reached the entrance of the lagoon, and determined to venture in, if poſſible, to take a few fiſh, […] I ſoon caught more trout than I had preſent occaſion for, and the air was too hot and ſultry to admit of their being kept for many hours, even though ſalted or barbecued.

1793 January，William Bartram，“Art. II. Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws. Containing an Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions; together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians. Embellished with Copper Plates. By William Bartram. Re-printed from the Philadelphia Edition. 8vo. pp. 520. 7s. 6d. boards. Johnson. 1792.”, in The Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal, Enlarged，卷 X, London: Printed for R[alph] Griffiths; and sold by T[homas] Becket, in Pall Mall, 出版於 1794, →OCLC，頁 17:


Amitābha

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

阿弥陀佛 净土宗中的主佛

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

阿弥陀佛 密宗中的五方佛之一

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

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

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

2000，“Description of Illustrations”, in The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation: Or the Method of Realizing Nirvāṇa through Knowing the Mind，New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN，頁 xxi:

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

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


hell no

heck no

表示坚决的否定：才不。绝不，才怪

hecks no

表示坚决的否定：才不。绝不，才怪

表示坚决的否定：才不。绝不，才怪

- Will you mow the lawn? - Hell no!

——你能去修草坪吗？——才不！

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

2012年March3日，Jon Evans，“Pair Programming Considered Harmful?”, in TechCrunch，存檔自the original on 2017-07-15:


rubber band

rubber bands (third-person singular present)
rubber banding (present participle)
rubber banded (past participle)

My mother gave me maybe 150 to 200 letters, […] all rubber banded together month by month and in dates.

1994 September 26, Wayne McGinnis, interview printed in 2000, by Jean Shellenbarger in The 9th Engineer Battalion, First Marine Division, in Vietnam, page 201:

Prompt them to pick up ten sticks, rubber band them together, and quickly move them to the tens office.

2005，Sarah Morgan Major，Place Value, →ISBN，頁 22:

There were yellowed pages of base layouts and plans, a duty roster, and a rubber banded package of papers.

2012, Cheryl Kerr, See Ya ISBN 0615279694, page 130:


crack wise

cracks wise (third-person singular present)
cracking wise (present participle)
cracked wise (past participle)

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

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

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

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


ex post facto

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

事后的，回顾的 有追溯效力的（比如在某事之后颁布但其效力追溯回某事）

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

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

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

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


squirt

源自中古英語 squirten、squyrten，源頭不明；可能是擬聲詞。類似swirl。對比低地德語 swirtjen。

As the connection was broken, the receiver let out a shrill squirt of static.

信號中斷，聽筒發出一陣噪聲。

2011，Andy Mulligan，Return to Ribblestrop:


cold case

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

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

（用于贩卖冰凉商品的）冰柜

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

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


have a ball

has a ball (third-person singular present)
having a ball (present participle)
had a ball (past participle)

The kids had a ball playing in the fountain.

孩子们在喷泉中开心地嬉戏。

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

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

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

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

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

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

I hope you had a ball in effacing lives!

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

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

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


thermonuclear

The first thermonuclear reaction was in a star; it was brought about by heat, as the description implies.

最早的熱核反應發生在恆星內；如同此前的描述所說，是熱量引致的。

1956年May25日，“Chances Of Power Station Use For Hydrogen Bomb”, in The Times，London:


machine gun

Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.

2013年July20日，“Old soldiers?”, in The Economist，卷 408, 期 8845:


zzzs

源自zzz，鼾聲的卡通化表示；對比zs。

The harder you try to sleep, the greater the chances you'll end up gnashing your teeth all night rather than stacking some Zzzs.

When you want to catch some zzzs, carry foldable eye shades, foam or silicone ear plugs, an inflatable neck pillow […]

2006，Joanne V Lichten，How to Stay Healthy and Fit on the Road:

Despite legendary high-achieving short sleepers, including Bill Clinton and Margaret Thatcher, going without zzzs is far more likely to make you fat, grumpy and ineffective than to get you a promotion or a Nobel Prize (or help you keep your current job).

2009, Here's a brainy idea - how about a little music? (in the Toronto Star, 20 January 2009)


zyzzyva

一種美洲熱帶Zyzzyva屬的象鼻蟲

A zyzzyva is a weevil of the genus Zyzzyva.

1976，Edward Stevens，The Religion Game, American Style，New York: Paulist Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL，頁 87:

Against the Yak, the zyzzyva zips
He yammers, has yaws, he yawns and he yips

2003年May30日，Kalpana Swaminathan，Ambrosia for Afters，New Delhi, New York: Penguin Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL，頁 43:

Everything on earth has an end, for your mortally thin dictionary, the tropical, American weevil, the Zyzzyva.

2007年August30日，Otto Mann，King Size，Lulu.com, →ISBN，頁 118:

No wonder you wanted to look it up. A zyzzyva is a weevil.

2010年September7日，Mary Daheim，Loco Motive: A Bed-and-Breakfast Mystery，第First版, HarperCollins, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL，頁 240:


basking shark

Like the whale shark, the basking shark is a huge, slow-moving plankton feeder. Also like the whale shark, the basking shark is the sole member of a family created especially to accommodate it.

1983，Richard Ellis，The Book of Sharks，Knopf, →ISBN，頁 89:


assent

源自中古英語 assent (名詞)。assenten (動詞)，源自古法語 assent (名詞)、assentir (動詞)。

assents (third-person singular present)
assenting (present participle)
assented (past participle)

批准，同意，讚成；承認，證實，明確

The princess assented to all that was suggested.

1849–1861，Thomas Babington Macaulay，章號 7, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second，卷 (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:


assent

I will give this act my assent.

A number of other mergers of U.S. railroads are mooted, but the I.C.C. [Interstate Commerce Commission] has made it clear that its assent to the N.& W.-Virginian proposal, which was unopposed by competitors or stockholders, should not be taken as an indication that others will swiftly pass its scrutiny.

1960 January，“Talking of Trains: N.& W.-Virginian merger”, in Trains Illustrated，頁 9:

He lowered his head in assent.

2014，Ian McEwan，The Children Act，Penguin Random House (2018)，頁 128:


scuffle

可能源自北日耳曼語支或斯堪的納維亞語言；對比瑞典語 skuff (“推”，名詞)、skuffa (“推”，動詞)，源自原始日耳曼語 *skuf- (skuƀ)，源自原始印歐語 *skewbʰ-，參見立陶宛語 skùbti (“急忙”)、波蘭語 skubać (“拔”)、阿爾巴尼亞語 humb (“丟失”)。

The Dog leaps upon the Serpent, and Tears it to Pieces; but in the Scuffle the Cradle happen'd to be Overturn'd: […]

1692，Roger L'Estrange，“Fab[le] CCCCLXX. A Farmer and His Servant.”, in Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflexions，London: Printed for R[ichard] Sare, T. Sawbridge, B. Took, M[atthew] Gillyflower, A. & J. Churchil, and J[oseph] Hindmarsh, →OCLC; 第2nd corrected and amended版, London: Printed for R[ichard] Sare, B. Took, M[atthew] Gillyflower, A. & J. Churchil, J[oseph] Hindmarsh, and G[eorge] Sawbridge, 1694, →OCLC，頁 435:

It appears the Company had received news that one of their captains had been killed in a scuffle with the natives.

1899 Feb，Joseph Conrad，“The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine，頁 198:

Fights ensued as many England supporters attempted to retreat before some stewards moved in. Intermittent scuffles continued to break out until the section of the crowd where the trouble started was vacated.

2016年June11日，Phil McNulty，“England 1–1 Russia”, in BBC Sport，存檔自the original on 2016-06-13:


scuffle

scuffles (third-person singular present)
scuffling (present participle)
scuffled (past participle)

Certainly a gallant man had rather fight to great diſadvantages for number and place in the field in an orderly way, then ſcuffle with an undiſciplined rabble.

1648，attributed to Charles I of England，Εἰκὼν Βασιλική [Eikōn Basilikē = Royal Portrait]. The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Maiestie, in His Solitvdes and Svfferings，[London?]: [s.n.], →OCLC，頁 15:


exculpate

源自中世紀拉丁語 exculpātus，exculpō的完成被動分詞，源自ex- (“出，離”) + culpa (“缺陷；過錯；犯罪”)。

exculpates (third-person singular present)
exculpating (present participle)
exculpated (past participle)

The inquest on keeper Davidson was duly held, and at the commencement seemed likely to cause Tony Palliser less anxiety than he had expected. Northrop knew all about Tony's flirtation with Lucy Davidson, but it also knew a good deal more about that lady than Tony did, and exculpated him.

1907，Harold Bindloss，章號 4, in The Dust of Conflict:


press conference

Pitarch went just days after the coach, Cesare Prandelli. A little before Christmas, Prandelli had held a press conference in which he had declined to answer questions and instead delivered a speech one minute 57 seconds long in which he accused his players of being unprofessional.

2017年January18日，Sid Lowe，“Chaos at Mestalla: Valencia's journey from Champions League to utter disarray”, in the Guardian:


Red Cross

‘De Red Cross is doinʼ all dat kin be done otherwise fuh de sick and de ʼfflicted.’

1937，Zora Neale Hurston ，Their Eyes Were Watching God，Virago Press (2018)，頁 193:


Wade-Giles

此詞用於定語，如：Wade–Giles system, Wade–Giles transcription, Wade–Giles transliteration, Wade–Giles spelling, Wade–Giles version 等。

An ongoing frustration for visitors are the different transliterations of Chinese place-names into English—various city and county administrations can't agree on a standard method, tussling over the Wade–Giles, tongyong, and hanyu systems.

2004，Phil Macdonald，National Geographic Traveler: Taiwan，National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →OCLC，頁 6:

The two most prominent systems of transliterations of Mandarin are Wade-Giles and Pinyin. Wade-Giles, established in the 19th century (Kaske,2008) is named after Herbert Allen Giles[...]

2018年March12日，Sophie Zhou，“The T/Daos shall meet: The failure and success of English transliterations of Mandarin Chinese”, in English Today，卷 35, 期 1, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:


Hanyu Pinyin

來自官話 漢語拼音／汉语拼音 (hànyǔ pīnyīn)。

Mr. Jenner has also provided the Note on Pronunciation at p. 196, for Chinese names which are romanized in this volume according to the Hanyu Pinyin system.

1973，Lu Xun，譯者 Gladys Yang, Silent China Selected Writings of Lu Xun，Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL，頁 xii:

I follow McKhann in using Naxi pinyin to transliterate sainii and paq but retain regular Hanyu pinyin for dongba instead of using Naxi pinyin dobbaq since this is the most familiar form.

1996, Bell Yung, Evelyn Sakakida Rawski, Harmony and Counterpoint: Ritual Music in Chinese Contexthttps://books.google.com/books?id=gXGcQQFxpMEC, Stanford University Press (ISBN 9780804726580, →OCLC), page 253


Tongyong Pinyin

來自官話 通用拼音 (Tongyòng Pinyin)發音的羅馬化。

漢語拼音

2006，A Brief Introduction to Taiwan，Government Information Office, →ISBN，頁 16:

By now, you may be as puzzled as most American visitors to Taiwan are. And there is more confusion to come. For the purpose of this book, keep in mind that we are using Tongyong Pinyin throughout, with Hanyu Pinyin in parentheses when the spelling is different.

2006，David C. King，Taiwan (Enchantment of the World)，Children's Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC，頁 89:

通用拼音

2020，Ching-Tse Cheng，“Station names of central Taiwan Metro pass preliminary review”, in Taiwan News:


skyrocket

skyrockets (third-person singular present)
skyrocketing (present participle)
skyrocketed (past participle)

Athletes' use of herbal supplements has skyrocketed in the past two decades. At the top of the list of popular herbs are echinacea and ginseng, whereas garlic, St. John's wort, soybean, ephedra and others are also surging in popularity or have been historically prevalent.

2013年March18日，David S. Senchina，“Athletics and Herbal Supplements”, in American Scientist，卷 101, 期 2，頁 134:

The shortage caused prices to skyrocket.


come out of the closet

comes out of the closet (third-person singular present)
coming out of the closet (present participle)
came out of the closet (past)
come out of the closet (past participle)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/en-au-come out of the closet.ogg

come out of the broom closet

公開自己的威卡教徒或其他新異教主義信徒身份

出櫃；公開自己過去保密的性取向、少數信仰或偏好

She finally came out of the closet to her religious family regarding her atheism.

她終於向她信教的家人們坦白自己無神論者的身份。

Now, we're coming out / Out of our closets / Out on the streets / Yeah, we're coming out

1972，Lou Reed （作曲作詞）, “Make Up”, in Transformer:


digon

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

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

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


jodi

借自印地語 जोड़ी (joṛī)或馬拉地語 जोडी (joḍī)；可能通過寶萊塢傳入。

兩人，一對（例如指合作夥伴）

Just over five years after coming together at the top of the Indian lineup, they already boast among the greatest-ever numbers for an opening partnership in the format. Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma, to many, in particular in India, are the ‘Jodi No. 1’ of the 2010s...

2019年January30日，“‘Jodi No. 1’: Dhawan’s Special Post for ‘Partner in Crime’ Rohit”, in The Quint:

For the last seven years, they have been projected as India’s political jodi number one.

在最近七年裡，他們一直被視為印度政治的最佳拍檔。

2021年May6日，Rajdeep Sardesai，“A political and policy blow to the Centre”, in Hindustan Times :


licorne

源自法語 licorne，仿譯自俄語 единоро́г (jedinoróg，“獨角獸”)。

18-19世紀俄羅斯帝國軍隊使用的一種前裝式加榴炮

But I think our new 24-pounder howitzer will be found superior to any of them, not even excepting the Russian Licorne.

1824，“Answers of Sir A. D., K. C. B. of the Royal Artillery, to some questions from Lieutenant C. D. Bengal Artillery”, in The British Indian Military Repository，卷 3:

The Russians have a howitzer denominated licorne, the bore of which is, in its whole extent, the truncated frustrum of a cone: the only field guns in the possession of the artillery at Corfu, in 1822, were Russian guns of this description.

1837，T. F. Simmons，Ideas as to the Effect of Heavy Ordnance Directed Against and Applied by Ships of War, etc.:

Essentially a hybrid between a howitzer and a gun, thus a gun-howitzer, the licorne was capable of a flatter trajectory and a longer range than the conventional howitzer.

2007，Jeff Kinard，“Eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century artillery”, in Artillery: An Illustrated History of Its Impact:


literary language

「標準語」的釋義主要著重在斯拉夫語族。它可能是仿譯自東歐語言學的詞彙。

在社區用作制度規範的語言變體，與方言相對；標準語。

Literary languages have been enriched by dialects and have at the same time assisted the levelling out of dialectical differences which in its turn has contributed to ….

1977, Magomet Izmaylovich Isayev, National languages in the USSR: problems and solutions, Прогресс, p. 316:

I would note that almost 12% of the population of the SRCroatia are Serbs and that they are obliged to use the "Croatian literary language" for official purposes even though this is not their native language.

1990，United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Operations，Views on the Serbo-Croatian Language Service at the Voice of America:

Gaj argued that the establishment of a common literary language was essential for the development of an Illyrian national consciousness and he attempted to bring together the three main dialects used by the Southern Slavs...

2003，Alex J. Bellamy，The Formation of Croatian National Identity，頁 44:

The Erzya and Moksha population, especially in urban areas, has become increasingly exposed to Russian; within this context, both the literary languages and the dialects have been affected to a considerable extent. In the course of being update the literary languages have experienced radical changes. An abundance of Russian terminology has been introduced in dictionaries; grammars have been prescribing the use of concurrent forms of the native and Russian languages as a norm.

2013, Suomalais-ugrilainen Seura, Mémoires de la Société finno-ougrienne, Volume 268 of Suomalais-ugrilaisen Seuran toimituksia, Nimilehti painettu Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seuran kirjapainossa, ISBN 9789525667479, p. 14:

As they explain, 'the literary language is first of all a collection of expressive habits and customs, and to preserve the purity of the literary language can mean nothing other than to preserve these habits and customs' (Guberina and Krsic/ 1940: 77).

2014，K. Langston, A. Peti-Stantic，Language Planning and National Identity in Croatia:


skycap

JAMES CARTER: You put your own shit in the back; I'm not a skycap.

詹姆斯·卡特：你把你自己那坨東西放在了後面；我又不是機場搬運工。

1998，Jim Kouf and Ross LaManna，Rush Hour，California: New Line Cinema:


shoehorn

/ˈʃuːˌhɔː(ɹ)n/

促成事務達成的工具、手段

I was about sixty feet ahead of this film in many spots, which speaks rather poorly for it. And I resented the heartthrobs which were planted in my bosom with a shoehorn via the "little child" process.

1935，Don Herold，Going to the Movies，Life Magazine January 1935.:

Now you cannot but observe, that most of our fine young Ladies readily fall in with the Direction of the Graver sort, to retain in their Service, by some small Encouragement, as great a Number as they can of supernumerary and insignificant Fellows, which they use like Whiflers, and commonly call Shoeing-Horns. These are never designed to know the length of the Foot, but only when a good Offer comes to whet and spur him up to the Point. Nay 'tis the Opinion of that grave Lady, Madam Matchwell, that it's absolutely convenient for every prudent Family to have several of these Implements about the House, to clap on as occasion serves, and that every Spark ought to produce a Certificate of his being a Shoeing-Horn, before he be admitted as a Shoe. A certain Lady, whom I could name, if it was necessary, has at present more Shoeing-Horns of all Sizes, Countries, and Colours, in her Service, than ever she had new Shoes in her Life.

1652，Richard Burton，The Anatomy of Melancholy:


shoehorn

shoehorns (third-person singular present)
shoehorning (present participle)
shoehorned (past participle)

/ˈʃuːˌhɔː(ɹ)n/

強行將某事與另一（不相干的）事物相關聯（尤其在其為謬誤時）

People claiming to be psychic may shoehorn an event into fulfillment of some vague past prediction.

聲稱自己是靈媒的人，可能會強行把某事與其過去作出的模糊預測相關聯。

After the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, fundamentalist Christian evangelists Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson shoehorned the events to their agenda. They claimed that "liberal civil liberties groups, feminists, homosexuals and abortion rights supporters bear partial responsibility...because their actions have turned [my] god's anger against America."

在2001年9月11日世貿中心和五角大樓遭受恐怖襲擊後，基督教原教旨主義福音派人士 Jerry Falwell 和 Pat Robertson 把這件事也提上了自己的議程。他們宣稱“自由派公民團體、女性主義者、同性戀和墮胎權利支持者應當承擔部分責任……因為他們的行動引起[我的]上帝對美國產生了憤怒。”

2015年April5日，Robert Todd Carroll，“Shoehorning”, in The Skeptic's Dictionary:


kora

源自班巴拉語 kɔ́ra。

科拉琴，西非琴（類似豎琴的樂器）

He is performing here with his Symmetric Orchestra, an ensemble of West African musicians who play both traditional instruments (kora, balafon, bolombatto, djembe) and slightly more contemporary ones (guitars, keyboards).

2009年April17日，The New York Times，“Pop Listings”, in New York Times:


secularism

/ˈsɛkjʊləˌɹɪzəm/

And I have further to say, that I believe as much as Mr. Bradlaugh, or any other man in the room, in freethought; and I invite every Secularist to break off from him for ever the shackles that bind him in the superstition of his Secularism.

1870，Secularism. Report of a public discussion between the Rev. Alexander J. Harrison and Mr. Charles Bradlaugh held in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on Sept. 13 & 14, 1870，頁 72:


how do you do

how-do-you-do (alternative)
how-d'ye-do (alternative)
how do you dos (plural)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-how do you do.ogg

Well, this is a fine how do you do isn't it, Gromit?

1993，Nick Park，Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers:

On the winding road to Petropolis, they did not speak, not about modernism or the construction of houses or antique bird jails or fine how-do-you-dos.

2010, Michael Sledge, The More I Owe You: A Novel, Counterpoint Press ISBN 9781582435763, page 78

"Vienna!" Mr. B. went on. "This is a bit of a how-do-you-do, is it not?"

2013, Chris Raschka, Seriously, Norman!, Scholastic Inc. ISBN 9780545388467, page 115


age group

It’s one of Foden’s curiosities that, 74 games into his City career, we still don’t really know what his best position will be. He is played as a wing-back and a deep-lying playmaker for England age-group sides.

2020年August7日，Jonathan Liew，“Phil Foden stars to offer Manchester City glimpse of multiple futures”, in The Guardian:


exes

The betting also began to shift. "Sixpence Ned wins!" cried three or four; "Sixpence he loses!" answered another; "Done!" and up went the halfpence. "Half-a-crown Joe loses!"—"Here you are," answered Joe, but he lost again. "I'll try you a 'gen'" (shilling) said a coster; "And a rouf yenap'" (fourpence), added the other. "Say a 'exes'" (sixpence).—"Done!" and the betting continued, till the ground was spotted with silver and halfpence.

1851，Henry Mayhew，“Gambling of Costermongers”, in London Labour and the London Poor，卷 1，頁 17:


Wulipu

鎮名，位於中國湖北荊門沙洋。

The village of Chenchi is located in the town of Wulipu, Hubei province in central China, with the163 coordinates 111° E and 30° N (Figure 3).

2020，Fan Yang, Guangqing Chi, Ge Wang, Shirui Tang, Yunting Li, Cong Ju，“Untangle the complex stakeholder relationships in rural settlement consolidation in China: a social network approach”, in Land，卷 9, 期 7, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC，頁 5:


derby

源自葉森德比大賽（Epsom Derby），以第十二代德比伯爵爱德华·史密斯-斯坦利命名。

Defeat sees Forest remain a point outside the top six with a derby against Leicester up next.

2011年April15日，Saj Chowdhury，“Norwich 2 - 1 Nott'm Forest”, in BBC Sport:

The left-back had been a selection concern because of an injury niggle but his first goal since last March swung this derby decisively in United’s favour, extending their club record unbeaten run away from home in the Premier League to 22 games and torpedoing City’s sequence of 21 straight wins in all competitions.

2021年March7日，David Hytner，“Manchester United catch City cold as Fernandes and Shaw end winning run”, in The Guardian:


sillon

借自法語 sillon (“犂溝”)。

建在寬溝中的一種防禦工事。

Sillon, is a work raised it up in ropes very hard for an in the middle of a foss


augury

augur + -y，或源自中古英語 augurie，源自古法語 augurie，源自拉丁語 augurium。

/ˈɔː.ɡjʊ.ɹi/

作為重要事物預兆的事件。

Evidently he did not mean to be a mere figurehead, but to carry on the old tradition of Wilsthorpe's; and that was considered to be a good thing in itself and an augury for future prosperity.

1928，Lawrence R. Bourne，章號 2, in Well Tackled!:


gravitas

借自拉丁語 gravitās (“重量”)。gravity 的同源對似詞。

/ˈɡɹæv.ɪ.tɑːs/

“Because he refuses to level with the American people about the dangers which he has placed American troops and our diplomatic corps, personnel and civilians, as well as our partners and allies, or demonstrated even a modicum of presidential gravitas, I will attempt to do that,” said Mr. Biden, who is one of 14 candidates seeking the Democratic presidential nomination.

2020年January7日，Katie Glueck，Shane Goldmacher，“Joe Biden, Seeking Commander-in-Chief Moment, Denounces Trump’s Iran Escalation”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

The other campaign against Ms. Yellen has been subtler, involving repeated suggestions — almost always off the record — that she lacks the “gravitas” to lead the Fed. What does that mean? […] Sorry, but it’s hard to escape the conclusion that gravitas, in this context, mainly means possessing a Y chromosome.

2013年August2日，Paul Krugman，“Sex, Money and Gravitas”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Unlike most moons of the solar system, ours has the heft, the gravitational gravitas, to pull itself into a sphere.

2014年September7日，Natalie Angier，“The Moon comes around again”, in The New York Times:


fuckoff

Journalism […] is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits – a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector […]

1971, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Nevertheless, alas no, some wanted cash up front, others no game, no skill, quick assessment of them – losers and fuckoffs.

2014，Chris Chaos，The Bloody Rise of Axis Video:

“Coop, you fuckoff. What the hell do you think you're doing?”


qwerty

QWERTY的大小寫替代形式

It was the Monotype model D keyboard introduced in 1907 which became the standard for printers, with a "qwerty" typewriter lay and removable keybars which made the keyboard independent of the matrix case arrangement.

1978，Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science，卷s 24 (Printers and Printing to Public Policy, Copyright), New York, N.Y., Basel: Marcel Dekker, →ISBN，頁 109:

The typewriter using separate characters on type bars striking on a cylinder soon dominated the market. Because adjacent striking bars tended to jam when struck rapidly, manufacturers abandoned the alphabetical placement of letters on the keyboard in favor of the left-to-right "qwerty" disposition that takes into account the frequency and sequence of letters in English.

1994，Henri-Jean Martin，Lydia G. Cochrane, transl.，“Beyond Writing”, in The History and Power of Writing，Chicago, Ill., London: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN，頁 465:


Cæsar

Caesar的另一種拼寫法

[Casca stabs Cæsar in the Neck. Cæsar catches hold of his Arm. He is then stabbed by several other Conspirators, and at last by Marcus Brutus.] Cæsar: Et tu, Brute?—Then fall, Cæsar. [Dies. The senators and people retire in confusion.]

1599, Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar, read in William Shakespeare, George Long Duyckinck, The Works of Shakespeare: the text regulated by the recently discovered folio of 1632, Redfield (1853) p. 707,

Cæsar's dust - or is it Alexander's? - may stop a bunghole, but the functions of these dead Cæsars of the past was to light up a savage fetish dance.

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


Cæsar

Caesar的另一種拼寫法