convenience store

Ah, that's nice. They have many convenience stores there for you to stand in front of.

1996，Eric Bogosian，SubUrbia (motion picture), spoken by Nazeer Choudhury (Ajay Naidu):


what the actual fuck

这他妈的什么啊 （表达惊讶、震惊、不相信的情感）

'What the... fuck?' Aaron's shoulders drop, he shakes his head. 'What the actual fuck? You couldn't make it up!'

2017，Cara Delevingne，Mirror, Mirror: A Twisty Coming-of-Age Novel about Friendship and Betrayal from Cara Delevingne，Hachette UK, →ISBN，頁 273:

What the actual fuck, Erin? What the actual, stupid, fuck are you doing? Lying low is not a thing.

2018，Catherine Steadman，Something in the Water: The Gripping Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick!，Simon and Schuster, →ISBN，頁 150:

What the fuck? What the actual fuck, man.

2020，Clint Dyer，Death of England: Delroy，Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN，頁 15:


on the money

exactly

位置准确地，不偏不倚地，正中地，准确地，正确地

on the dot

位置准确地，不偏不倚地，正中地，准确地，正确地

on the mark

位置准确地，不偏不倚地，正中地，准确地，正确地

位置准确地，不偏不倚地，正中地，准确地，正确地

Did you have the wrong kind? I've never had the wrong kind. Ever. My worst one was right on the money.

1979，Woody Allen，Manhattan，spoken by Isaac Davis (Woody Allen):

Two of the A-4s landed on the money. The third was not so lucky.

1987年July18日，Maj. Michael B. Perini，“In Good Hands with Gold 11”, in Air Force Magazine，卷 70, 號 7, retrieved 2014-05-10:

For years, Gore had been dismissed, even ridiculed, for his traveling Power Point extravaganza warning about climate change. […] Today, few would disagree that Al was pretty much on the money.

2008年October10日，Richard Friebe，“How Nobel Winners Spend Their Prize Money: Al Gore”, in Time，存檔自the original on 2014-03-06:

I always felt that Bob Dylan was on the money when he sang: "When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose."

2011年August19日，The Secret Footballer，“For new boys there's nothing like the big time”, in The Guardian (UK), retrieved retrieved 10 May 2014:

Its mileage claims were right on the money: I averaged a little over 33 m.p.g. over a weekend of combined city-highway driving in the 2012 SL.

2013年February1日，Robert Peele，“The Mouse That Roars”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-05-10:


plumber's crack

當褲子穿得太低或彎腰時露出的臀部頂端

Very classy: visible thong and plumber's crack.

2008，Insults and Comebacks，Venice, California: Knock Knock，頁 27:

Marty comes on for the next number, but he spazzes out and drops his violin. The barely interested crowd gets just interested enough to yell some insults when he crouches to replug it with his plumber's crack displaying.

Marty 上場演奏下一個曲子，但他嚇壞了，掉了他的小提琴。當他蹲下身子、露出臀部頂端，重新插入小提琴時，幾乎沒有興趣的觀眾才有興致大喊大叫地辱罵。

2010，Jennifer Egan，“Ask Me if I Care”, in A Visit from the Goon Squad:


purportedly

In addition, none of the purportedly more common terms of these pairs appear to be especially frequent in modern Indian English.

2014，James Lambert，“Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes，頁 120:


uchronia

源自法語 uchronie，仿utopia，由古希臘語 οὐ (ou，“不”) + χρόνος (khrónos，“时间”) + -ia构成。

架空历史 （指文学作品等）

Mercier's resort to uchronia, on the other hand, initiates a new paradigm for utopian literature not only by setting action in a specific future chronologically connected to our past and present but even more crucially by characterizing that future as one belonging to progress and thus linked causally if not immediately to the reader's time.

1987，Paul K. Alkon，Origins of Futuristic Fiction，頁 127:

For Portelli, uchronia comprises 'that amazing scene in which the author imagines what would have happened if a certain historical event had not taken place'.

2007，Andy Wood，The 1549 Rebellions and the Making of Early Modern England，頁 211:

This uchronia actually exerted some influence in its time, converting many readers to socialism because they wanted to live in the world of Bellamy's vision.

2011，Lealand B Yeager，Is the Market a Test of Truth and Beauty?，頁 389:


uchronic

more uchronic (comparative)
most uchronic (superlative)

架空历史的 （文学作品等）

Uchronic visions were part of Icelandic collective representations of the world, and as such they deeply influenced the response of the society to its own history.

1992，Kirsten Hastrup，Other Histories，頁 113:

Then there was the context: the British countryside may have largely been reduced to a monocultural desert of agribusiness, but our uchronic vision of it persists: we expect to find Rosie with some sharp cider under the haystack, not a roseate energy drink.

2014, Will Self, The Guardian, 15 Jun 2014:


trecento

十四世紀（1300s）；尤指該時期的意大利藝術風格

This seems simplistic, as […] his oeuvre is as obsessed with death as a museum full of trecento paintings.

2007年February6日，Martha Schwendener，“Believers and Doubters, Inspired by the Word”, in New York Times:


dod

源自中古英語 dodden。

dods (third-person singular present)
dodding (present participle)
dodded (past participle)

切斷，剪斷（如從綿羊尾巴剪去羊毛，或割斷牛的角）

Angus-shire dodded cattle

1845，The New Statistical Account of Scotland: Perth:

Messrs. Toogood and Son’s Bronze Championship Medal for best dodded sheep of any pure breed.

1906，The Flock Book of Wensleydale Blue-faced Sheep，頁 57:


sext

sex + text 組成的混成詞。動詞則是逆構自早期的 sexting，源自名詞。

sexts (third-person singular present)
sexting (present participle)
sexted (past participle)

Rebecca Loos claimed she was 'sexted' by Beckham

2007 October 19, Cameron Millar, "Text Mad Brits Top League for Saucy Messages" in the Daily Star, p. 21 (caption):

[…] trying to get into the swing of things by texting my husband (I was a little tipsy, I will admit): "How do you sext someone?" hoping to engage in the latest trend. All I got was, "What!" in reply.

2009 March 1, Wendyl Nissen, "Sexts Suk... Go 4 a Real D8" in the New Zealand Herald, p. 35:

The next day, Greg sexted me a few pictures of his package.

2010 October 16, Victoria Gehman, "Sex Suspended, Celibacy Supreme" in the Albany Student Press:

We would talk on the phone for hours and then text and sext the rest of the day.

2013, Olukemi Lawani, First Steps to Flight, p. 3:

Sexting sonnets / Under the tables


middle school

These authors argue that lists based on university-level reading material cannot be directly imported into contexts such as middle school since the lexical profiles of subjects and their vocabulary demands are different.

2018，Clarence Green，James Lambert，“Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes，卷 35, →DOI，頁 107:


secondary school

tertiary education, tertiary-level education

中學：為年齡在11-16或18歲之間學生提供教育的公立學校

One of the key roles played by the Whitby line is the transport of children from rural spots along the branch to secondary school in the coastal town.

2019 October，James Abbott，“Esk Valley revival”, in Modern Railways，頁 77:


-ass

可能是-assed的简化或变体。

加拿大、美國，俚語，粗俗

That's a big-ass wrench you've got there.

Wilson: He's right. They endorse Royce, fine, 'the hell else they gonna do? But what they say and don't say from the pulpit the Sunday before the primary we still got a dog in that fight.
Carcetti: I do this right, they respect it.
Wilson: An' if they don't, at least they get to see a beggin’-ass white man on his knees. Always a feel-good moment for the folks.

2006 Oct. 1, Dennis Lehane, "Refugees", The Wire, 00:32:06:

I recognize that the council has made a decision, but given that it's a stupid-ass decision, I've elected to ignore it.

2012，Joss Whedon，The Avengers，Marvel Studios:

You've got to work with me
Now, I don't wanna see any fake-ass workers
I need real builders

2018，“Work It”, in Working Class Woman，演出者 Marie Davidson:


raison d'être

raisons d'être (plural)
raison d'être (plural)
raison d'êtres (plural)

/ˌɹeɪzɒ̃ ˈdɛtɹə/

/ˌɹɛzɒ̃ ˈdɛtɹə/

作为外来短语，其常用斜体印刷。但是如Chicago Manual of Style和《经济学人》等风格指南认为，英语读者已经熟悉的单词短语不应该使用斜体。

Surfing became his raison d’être.

These raison d'etre and this evolution are not merely the achievement of men's conscious activity but are the unintentional results of their social activity.

1966, Maurice Godelier, Rationality and irrationality in economics, London, published by Francois Maspero, pg. 317 (quoted in Michael W. Coy, "Tugen Monopoly: Capitalism and Conflict in the Mountains of Kenya," Anthropology & Humanism Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 2, 1988, pg. 41, Full article - .pdf):

It [Sacramento] is a town in which defense industry and its absentee owners are suddenly the most important facts; a town which has never had more people or more money, but has lost its raison d'être.

1968，Joan Didion，“Notes from a Native Daughter”, in Slouching Towards Bethlehem:

One after another, styles supplant one another. The most enduring twentieth-century school, Abstract Expressionism, held sway for at most twenty years，源自1940 to 1960, then to be followed by a wild succession- "Pop" lasting perhaps five years, "Op" managing to grip the public's attention for two or three years, then the emergence, approximately enough, of 'Kinetic Art' whose very raison d’être is transience.

1970, Alvin Toffler, Future Shock, Bantam Books, pg. 174:

National development plans and programs are in particular under harsh discussions and criticism including these raison d'etre in some countries, for these plans and programs have supported construction of rather inefficient infrastructure in less-development area.

2003, Seta Fumihiko, Kim Chang-Gi, Lai Shen-Chiang and Onishi Takashi, Abstract for "A Study on the Transition of National Development Strategies in Korea, Taiwan and Japan, Characterized by Developmentalism" (「開発主義に特徴付けられた 日本・台湾・韓国の国土開発戦略の変遷についての一考察」), full paper is pp. 52-61 of "Proceedings", International Symposium on City Planning 2003, The City Planning Institute of Japan, Sapporo, Japan, Abstract:

With hindsight knowledge, it is interesting to note that these three raison d’etre and their ramifications were situated in a broader context of contestations over the whole enterprise of knowledge production and consumption.

2007, Chambi Chachage, "Bringing African Studies Back to Africa: Beyond the ‘African-Africanist’ Divides," paper prepared for the 2nd AEGIS Conference on African Studies (ECAS) at the African Studies Centre, Leiden, the Netherlands, 11-14th July, 2007 (Abstract, Full paper - .doc):

Of course, closure of the West station took away the hotel's raison d'être. In May 2012, the local newspaper reported that this historic hotel, by then rated the town's worst (exemplified by its final review: "Please avoid at all costs"), was to be converted into 31 first-time-buyer one-bedroom flats.

2021年December29日，Stephen Roberts，“Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Bournemouth (circa 1880)”, in RAIL，期 947，頁 60:


microskirt

The girls were slender, delectable in stacked heels and shiny clothes that glowed in the dark. One of them wore a microskirt, and he could see the tops of black or navy thigh-highs as he stopped to pick them up.

女孩们身材苗条，穿着叠层高跟鞋，衣服在黑暗中闪闪发光，令人赏心悦目。其中一个穿着超短裙，当他停车接她们时，可以看到黑色或海军蓝的长筒袜的顶部。

1999，James Patterson，Pop Goes the Weasel，Headline, →ISBN:


afoot

"The dogs were no sooner let loose, than the hare was afoot.

1886，Peter Christen Asbjørnsen，譯者 H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales，頁 77:

There's funny bussiness afoot.

In San Francisco and in New Jersey, to quote two other examples, plans are afoot to subsidise new commuter line construction or existing operations out of toll revenue from state highways or bridges.

1959 October，“Talking of Trains: Paying for the commuters”, in Trains Illustrated，頁 458:


afoot

(表语) 站着的，发生着的

Sunny moves through these final days quickly, easily, buoyed by routine even though change is afoot in all directions.

2011, Maile Chapman, Your Presence Is Requested at Suvanto: A Novel

Now there are plans afoot to introduce a couple of extra trains to the timetable in December, with the long-term goal of a doubling of the service to eight trains a day.

2019 October，James Abbott，“Esk Valley revival”, in Modern Railways，頁 76:


salvia

借自拉丁語 salvia (“鼠尾草”)。

鼠尾草屬（Salvia）植物

But strong-stemmed bushy plants like salvias, coneflowers, cosmos, marigolds, nicotianas and zinnias should be cut back only to the next strong branch or pair of branches.

但是像鼠尾草、紫錐花、大波斯菊、万寿菊、烟草和百日菊等茎干茂密的植物，应该只剪到下一个或一对强壮的枝条。

2007年July12日，Leslie Land，“Garden Q.&A. [花園問與答]”, in New York Times:


biggy

比较大的东西，比较占地方的东西

The wardrobe is the biggy – we'd better move that first.

衣柜比较大，我们最好先搬衣柜。

There were four sizes of marbles and we called them boulders, biggies, regulars, and teenies.

2006，Carol Benson，The Old Lonesome，頁 84:


no biggie

It's no biggie. It should only take five minutes to make a new one.

不要紧，做一个新的应该只要五分钟。

My teeth are, like, too small / But no biggie / It's so awesome

1982，Frank Zappa, Moon Zappa （作曲作詞）, “Valley Girl”, in Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch:


referer

/ɹəˈfɜːɹə(ɹ)/

Referer 是 HTTP 協議（RFC1945 和 RFC2616）中使用的字段名。它最初是一個拼寫錯誤，但由於其在協議及相關文檔和軟體中的使用而流行起來。

referrer (“參照位址”)的另一種寫法

The Referer field must not be sent if the Request-URI was obtained from a source that does not have its own URI, such as input from the user keyboard.

1996, T. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, H. Frystyk, Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0

If a referring URL was specified, for each valid referer, make sure that a valid referring URL was passed to FormMail

如果指定了參照 URL，對於每個有效的參照位址，請確保將有效的參照 URL 傳遞給 FormMail

2001，Jennifer Niederst Robbins，Web Design in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference，頁 278:

The referer portion of a logfile line contains the full URL of the page or object visited before the current one.

日誌文件行的參照位址部分包含在當前頁面之前訪問的頁面或對象的完整 URL。

The referer information can also be accessed as document.referrer within JavaScript.

參照位址訊息也可以在 JavaScript 中作為 document.referrer 訪問。

2007，Tiara Yule，The Illustrated Dictionary of Internet，頁 74:


stagnate

stagnates (third-person singular present)
stagnating (present participle)
stagnated (past participle)

停止运动，停止进步 停止发展，阻滞

Ready-witted tenderness […] never stagnates in vain lamentations while there is any room for hope.

Listening to what others say, especially to what they teach, prevents our minds stagnating, thus promoting mental growth into old age.

2003，Ernest Verity，Get Wisdom, →ISBN，頁 434:


epic fail

The second sentence is saying ‘Gina greedily anticipates even more than the monthly doubling of her bank balance’ — more than is modifying expects. Not the same meaning at all. Sorry computer, epic fail!

2013，Wendy M. Anderson，Geraldine Woods，Lesley J. Ward，English Grammar Essentials For Dummies，John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN，頁 30:

“What, you thought you could flee to Canada and hide from your epic fail? […]

2014，Lauren Morrill，Being Sloane Jacobs，Delacorte Press, →ISBN，頁 95:

So yeah, epic fail on my part when I didn't recognize one of Kubrick's most iconic works, 2001: A Space Odyssey.

2014，Leah Raeder，Unteachable，Simon and Schuster, →ISBN，頁 29:

I was happy with my new, more sophisticated haircut but the rest of my efforts were pretty much epic fail.

2014，Sheila Agnew，Central Park Showdown，The O'Brien Press, →ISBN:

I'm tied to a chair. Epic fail.

2016，Kristen Reidel，“Bodies Of Water”, in 12 Monkeys，季数 2, 集数 5 (television production), spoken by Jennifer Goines (Emily Hampshire):


toodle-oo

In one of the country gardens two gaily-dressed young coster girls are sitting and chatting with the cottager and his wife. They sit among the flowers and look for all the world like young London lasses who have come to the village to astonish the country folks with their town finery. When they rise and bid the old folks good-bye, and coming through the little wicket stand for a moment at the wooden palings to say “Toodle-oo” in the cheeriest of Cockney accents, we are at first astonished. For a moment my colleague and I had imagined we were in a rural hamlet and in the heart of green England.

1904 September，George R. Sims，“Off The Track in London V.--Round Hackney Wick”, in The Strand Magazine，London: George Newnes, Ltd.，存檔自the original on 2016-08-22，頁 329:

"In that case," said Archie, relieved, "cheerio, good luck, pip-pip, toodle-oo, and good-bye-ee! I'll be shifting!"

1921，P. G. Wodehouse，Indiscretions of Archie, ch. XIII. Rallying Round Percy:


tongue-in-cheek

该短语暗指了将自己的舌头伸出搭到自己脸上的面部表情。首个书面引文见于1828年，但是已经不清楚它指的是字面意思还是现在的意思。较晚出现的Richard Barham的引文中的这个词的意思则很清楚。

more tongue-in-cheek (comparative)
most tongue-in-cheek (superlative)

不是认真的，开玩笑的，随便说说的

He gave a tongue-in-cheek explanation of why the sky was blue, offering a theory about some primordial discount on light blue paint.

他开玩笑解释为什么天空是蓝的，说什么开天辟地时天蓝色染料在打折。

It was in this era, too, that author and Scotland the Brave songwriter Cliff Hanley penned The Glasgow Underground, a tongue-in-cheek love letter to the Subway in song.

2021年December29日，Conrad Landin，“Glasgow Subway: a city institution”, in RAIL，期 947，頁 45:


hoover up

hoovers up (third-person singular present)
hoovering up (present participle)
hoovered up (past participle)

[…] a deputy governor of China’s central bank pointed out that China no longer hoovers up dollar reserves with its past abandon.

2012, The Economist, 20th Oct 2012 The rise of the yuan: Turning from green to red

Essentially, the problem dates back to pre-privatisation, cost-driven British Rail practices which featured an unholy pact between management and unions, whereby management was able to employ fewer drivers and limited pension cost liabilities, while drivers were able to hoover up lots of lucrative Sunday overtime.

2022年November16日，Nigel Harris，“Endless news... little context”, in RAIL，期 970，頁 3:


smidgen

可能基于smiddum、smeddum (“细粉末”)的变体，受到了低地蘇格蘭語 smitch (“污渍；小点，污点；一点，一丝”)的影响。另，源自*smitching，smitch的指小形式。对比诺森布里亚方言英语smiddum (“铅矿的细小颗粒”)。 低地蘇格蘭語 smitch（亦作smutch），可能派生自英语方言词smit、smite (“一点，一丝”)、古英語 smytta、smitta (“污渍、斑点、污点”)，与古英語 smītan (“涂抹，弄脏”)有关；或者可能源自*smuddian, *smyddan, *smydecian, *smydegian (“弄脏，玷污”)，可能与中古低地德語 smudde (“肮脏的”)、smudden (“弄脏，玷污”)、中古高地德語 smotzen (“肮脏”)有关。若如此，则与smudge同源。
其他词源理论认为smidgeon与蘇格蘭蓋爾語 smidin (“小音节”)有关，但考虑到这样所必需的语义变迁，可能性极低。

一些烹饪书、厨房量具生产商曾试图针对菜谱具体定义smidgen的量。此类定义一般落在一茶匙的¹⁄₂₅和¹⁄₄₈之间。可能最常用的是¹⁄₃₂。其他对微量的量词包括tad、dash、pinch和drop。一般普遍认为这类词中最大的是tad，而smidge大于drop而小于pinch。

Would you like some more cake? —I'll have a smidgen.

你还要再吃蛋糕么？——再来一点点就行。

Move it a smidgen to the right.

I could listen to forty million men like this candidate expound his views and it wouldn't alter me one smidgen in the belief that Carson Dwight has acted only as a true Christian would.

1907，Will N. Harben，章號 XXXVII, in Mam' Linda:

"You did! Aw right, you go right in and tell 'em the truth, all of it, every last smidgen."

1921，William Patterson White，章號 XVIII, in The Heart of the Range:


hit it off

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

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-hit it off.wav

喜欢上 （尤指初次见面时）

I really hit it off with Jack, and hired him without needing an interview.

我很中意Jack，没有面试就直接把他录用了。

Those two are really hitting it off. I wouldn't be surprised if they started dating soon.

那两位很喜欢对方，我觉得他们要开始确立关系了。

“My profile said ‘Australian tennis player’ so I think Savannah had visions of me at Wimbledon,” he laughs. “In reality, I was paying for the opportunity to play at an academy.” Even so, they soon hit it off.

2023年February6日，Lizzie Cernik，“How we met: ‘He sent 40 Valentine’s cards with all the different things he loved about me’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:


butt heads

源自带角动物用角互相顶撞来争斗的习惯。

butts heads (third-person singular present)
butting heads (present participle)
butted heads (past participle)

They always seem to butt heads when they end up talking about politics.

他们聊到政治的时候似乎老是吵起来。

"Eventually, I just pieced it together, figuring your butting heads could probably be explained by a break up. Years of anime shipping trained me for this."

2018年November21日，Jocelyn Samara D.，Rain (webcomic), Comic 1101 - Rose:

For long spells, City butted their heads against Chelsea’s well-organised lines and the upshot was the end of their push to complete a treble.

2021年May29日，David Hytner，“Chelsea win Champions League after Kai Havertz stuns Manchester City”, in The Guardian:


trudge

16世纪中叶。原可能是指“用雪鞋走路”的习语。可能源自斯堪的纳维亚语言。对比冰島語 þrúga (“雪鞋”)、挪威語 truga (“雪鞋”)和瑞典语方言词trudja (“雪鞋”)。

The morning after the landslip, with rain still pouring down, it was an unpleasant trudge through deep mud to get there.

2020年September9日，Paul Clifton，“Heavy rainfall causes landslip in Hampshire: At the scene...”, in Rail，頁 10:


all the more

all the more亦可用来强调与理所当然或设想的事物相反，如：

You might think that my boss' rudeness to me would make me respect her/him more; actually, it just makes me hate her/him all the more.
你可能会觉得我老板对我粗鲁无礼会让我更尊敬他/她，事实上，我越发地讨厌他/她了。

Lytle’s progress as a boxer is all the more remarkable when taking into account his unique circumstances.

考虑到他的特殊情况，Lytle在拳击手上的进步更加值得肯定。

I had to work all the harder with two people off sick.

两个人请了病假，我得干更多的活。

If your crush likes football, that's all the more reason for coming with us to the game tomorrow night!

你喜欢的人喜欢足球的话，你就更应该明晚跟我们去看比赛！

Stripped of all bravado, Cersei breaks, and shows the very scared, vulnerable woman who has kept her emotions at bay. “I don’t want to die,” she whimpers, “Not like this.” It’s all the more moving for coming from a character who built her identity on steely resolve and contempt for such hoary conceits as fear.

2019年May12日，Alex McLevy，“Westeros faces a disastrous final battle on the penultimate Game of Thrones (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club:


fall foul

falls foul (third-person singular present)
falling foul (present participle)
fell foul (past)
fallen foul (past participle)

冲撞，攻击 （+ on、of或upon）

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

He was, literally speaking, drunk; which circumstance, together with his natural impetuosity, could produce no other effect than his running immediately up to his daughter, upon whom he fell foul with his tongue in the most inveterate manner [...]

1749，Henry Fielding，The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling [棄兒湯姆·瓊斯的歷史]，卷 (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book v:

Sky News fell foul of its own woolly reporting on Tuesday, when it reported "human remains" had been found on Saddleworth Moor. Ever keen to spin a good yarn, they immediately linked the story to moors murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley - only for the police to emerge seven hours later and announce that, after very careful inspection, they could confirm the carcass was not human …

2008, The Guardian, Media Monkey, 4 Aug 2008:

If Chelsea were to fall foul of profit and sustainability, they would be expected to cite unforeseen circumstances, much as some clubs have claimed Covid writedowns: their books would have been sound but for the pandemic.

March 11 2022，David Hytner，“Chelsea are in crisis but there is no will to leave club on their knees”, in The Guardian:


bat an eyelid

源自bat (“震颤”)，约1900年。

bats an eyelid (third-person singular present)
batting an eyelid (present participle)
batted an eyelid (past participle)

flinch

关心，注意，有反应，理睬

关心，注意，有反应，理睬

When laptop computers first came out they were something of a novelty. These days, nobody bats an eyelid.

笔记本电脑刚问世的时候很新奇，现在大家都见怪不怪了。

[…]he got the drop on Cox, the only time I had seen or heard of its being done — had his pistol out and stuck in Cox's face before Cox could bat an eyelid.

1914，Edgar Beecher Bronson，The Vanguard，頁 155:

If you were to walk into a salon in America after a few 10–12 hour days of sweaty, dusty travel with no shower, you'd probably be politely asked to leave and not return until you've cleaned up. But here in a land whose resources and infrastructure cannot sustain such frivolity, the barber doesn't even bat an eyelid.

2006，Pete Takeda，An Eye at the Top of the World，頁 116:

Dublin's not a bad place to be gay. Most people wouldn't bat an eyelid at public displays of affection between same-sex couples[…]

2007，Fionn Davenport，Dublin Encounter，頁 153:


take stock

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

At the outset of any inquiry it is proper to take stock of the results obtained by previous explorers of the same field.

1882, Leslie Stephen, The Science of Ethics

In 2009, he underwent heart surgery for an aortic valve replacement at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, an event that Mr. Williams said caused him to take stock of his life.

2014 August 11, Dave Itzkoff, "Robin Williams, Oscar-Winning Comedian, Dies at 63 in Suspected Suicide," New York Times

[…]and the pillar of smoke which had recently begun to dissipate, as many of the fires amidships had been smothered by the onrushing water, was replaced by a vast mushroom cloud of steam, smoke, flame, and debris as the magazines detonated. In the pall of this apocalyptic destruction, the U.S. fleet takes stock.

2021年May5日，Drachinifel，片头起42:53, in Battle of Samar - What if TF34 was there?，存檔自the original on 2022-08-19:


ascribe

源自中古英語 ascriben，源自古法語 ascrivre (“题写；归功；归咎”)，源自拉丁語 āscrībere (“以书面声明”)，等价于a- + scribe。

ascribes (third-person singular present)
ascribing (present participle)
ascribed (past participle)

将...归为...所著，将...归为...所创作

It is arguable as to whether we can truly ascribe this play to Shakespeare.

能否真的说这出戏剧是莎士比亚写的还有待商榷。

[…]and two enormous Scottish poems, the Buik of Alexander, which has been improbably ascribed to Barbour, and Sir Gilbert Hay's Buik of Alexander the Conquerour; one nearly complete Prose Life of Alexander and fragments of four others; a stanzaic translation of the Fuerres de Gadres which survives only in a fragment, the Romance of Cassamus, and three separate translations of the Secreta Secretorum.

2012，William Matthews，The Tragedy of Arthur，University of California Press，頁 68:

A survey of the literature reveals that many who have commented on the signaling of animals ascribe to the view that all of their communicative signals are manifestations of emotion or affect.

1997，James A. Russell & José Miguel Fernández-Dols，The Psychology of Facial Expression, →ISBN，頁 133:

If we take a holistic view of human beings, we ascribe to the idea that humans are multidimensional and that they are greater than the sum of their parts – for example, their physical, psychological and spiritual aspects.

2010，Beverley Joan Taylor，Reflective Practice for Healthcare Professionals: A Practical Guide, →ISBN:

There are plenty of people who ascribe to the idea that, if they only have a short time on this earth, they want to be “used up” when it's their time to go.

2012，Joan Friedlander，Business from Bed, →ISBN:

And the truth is, I don't ascribe to the belief that God is more successful at drawing women to him than men.

2012，Mike Nappa，The Jesus Survey: What Christian Teens Really Believe and Why, →ISBN:


the long and short

The speech went on for hours, but the long and short of it is that not much has changed since last year.

演讲持续了几个小时，但是它的主题较去年没有多大变化。

Shepard: What's your relationship with Cerberus?
Zaeed: Easy. Cerberus is paying me a lot of money to help you on your mission. That's the long and short.

2010，BioWare，Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, 經由 PC, →OCLC，幕：Omega:


in droves

Viewers are switching off news and current affairs programmes in droves with shows such as Panorama, Tonight with Trevor McDonald and even Watchdog failing to connect with audiences, a new report claims.

2002年October31日，Owen Gibson，“TV audiences desert news in droves”, in The Guardian:

The difference to 2020 has been marked. People have returned to the railway in their droves, far faster than the pessimists predicted - especially this year, now that international travel restrictions have been lifted, bringing back foreign tourism.

2022年November30日，Paul Bigland，“Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL，期 971，頁 79:


dilly-dally

dilly-dallies (third-person singular present)
dilly-dallying (present participle)
dilly-dallied (past participle)

No one can accuse the filmmakers of dillydallying; no sooner have the opening credits ended than we’re watching, via a mirrored ceiling, a couple writhing naked in coital ecstasy.

2022年March20日，Jason Bailey，“‘Basic Instinct’ at 30: A Time Capsule That Can Still Offend”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


do in

does in (third-person singular present)
doing in (present participle)
did in (past)
done in (past participle)

By the eighth mile, I was sure that finishing the 10-mile hike would do me in.

走了8英里以后，我觉得走完10英里的远足我就累死了。

We very nearly did in an entire keg of beer that weekend.

那个周末我们差点就干掉那一整桶啤酒了

Slasher fans rejoiced—for a couple years anyway, until the boom swiftly faded, done in by the same causes that fell so many other eruptions of a style or genre, of any medium: The host of imitators are never as good as what inspired the affection in the first place.

2017年October27日，Alex McLevy，“Making a Killing: The Brief Life and Bloody Death of the Post-Scream Slasher Revival”, in The A.V. Club，存檔自the original on 2018-03-05:


rubbernecker

源自rubberneck (动词) + -er (表示做此动作的人或物，构成施动者名词)。

/ˈrʌbəˌnɛkə/

/ˈrʌbɚˌnɛkɚ/

The minor accident caused a traffic jam as rubberneckers slowed down to get a good view of the battered cars.

那起小事故因为一群围观的人放慢脚步来看撞坏的车，引起了堵车。

Gentlemen will leave their pocket flasks with the captain, and will limit themselves to two bunches of cigarettes each. Rubber neckers will be executed without trial. Glasses will be needed to protect the eyes from the dust, and you MUST "Keep off the grass."

1898，The Michigan School Moderator，卷 18, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Michigan School Moderator, →OCLC，頁 30，列 3:

I suppose that fellow was a rubber-necker, and got killed peeping over the trenches.

1899，Stephen Bonsal，“Under the Mango-tree”, in The Fight for Santiago: The Story of the Soldier in the Cuban Campaign, from Tampa to the Surrender，New York, N.Y.: Doubleday & McClure Co., →OCLC，頁 283:

He is a great "rubber-necker." What he don't see aint worth looking at.

1899年March25日，“A Bobbin Boy’s Essay on His Boss”, in Fibre and Fabric: A Record of American Textile Industries in the Cotton and Woolen Trade，卷 XXIX, 期 734, Boston, Mass.: Jos. M. Wade, →OCLC，頁 63，列 2:

We are taught the importance of hygiene of the mouth, of the body, and of the hair, but little concerning the nose, which is the "rubber-necker" which is expected to discover any laxity of cleanliness of other parts of the body or the air around us.

1899年November3日，W. Cheatham，“Hygiene of the Nose”, in The American Practitioner and News，卷 XXVIII, 期 12, Louisville, Ky.: John P. Morton & Company, 出版於 15 December 1899, →OCLC，頁 441:

"The train's whistle was blowin' the whole time and, Lord, it sounded like a bomb had went off when they hit," said Patty Fay McNair, a waitress at the Torch, to a rubbernecker who'd asked if she'd seen what happened.

1991，Barry Gifford，“Consuelo’s Kiss”, in Sailor’s Holiday: The Wild Life of Sailor and Lula，New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN; quoted in The Rooster Trapped in the Reptile Room: A Barry Gifford Reader，New York, N.Y., Toronto, Ont.: Seven Stories Press, 2003, →ISBN，頁 256:

A huge crowd of Muscovites had gathered around the distant approaches to the building, beyond the cordon of military and police. [...] Stray bullets flew in their direction, too, and several people were wounded. Some were even killed. Nevertheless the crowd of rubberneckers kept growing.

2000，Roy Medvedev，“Privatization, Government Crisis, and Elections (1993)”, in George Shriver（譯者）, Post-Soviet Russia: A Journey through the Yeltsin Era，New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, part 1 (Myths and Realities of Capitalism in Russia)，頁 125:

[...] Snake River breaching [...] will attract tourists, fly-rodders, kayakers, birders, botanists, Lewis and Clark buffs, and rubberneckers from all over the globe to ogle the mothballed dam remnants, study the returning plants, birds, and wildlife, [...]

2001，David James Duncan，“A Prayer for the Salmon’s Second Coming”, in My Story as Told by Water […]，第1st paperback版, San Francisco, Calif.: Sierra Club Books, →ISBN，頁 212:

[...] Shane kept looking into the open box with the morbid curiosity of a freeway rubbernecker passing a fatal accident. All of his mid-nineties career pileups were collected there.

2001 January，Stephen J[oseph] Cannell，“The Tin Collectors”, in Vertical Coffin; The Tin Collectors，New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Griffin, 出版於 January 2004, →ISBN，頁 156:

'A rubbernecker checking out where you lived.' / 'Why would anybody do that?' / 'I guess it kind of makes you a celebrity.'

2014，Christopher Fowler，Bryant & May: The Bleeding Heart，London: Bantam Books, 出版於 2015, →ISBN，頁 133:

The new season is unrelentingly bleak – gone is [Margaret] Atwood's astute social commentary, turning the audience into rubberneckers peering at the carnage.

2018年June16日，Fiona Sturges，“Cattleprods! Severed tongues! Torture porn! Why I’ve stopped watching the Handmaid’s Tale”, in The Guardian，London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC，存檔自the original on 2020-02-05:


unfazed

more unfazed (comparative)
most unfazed (superlative)

不害怕的，不犹豫的，不动摇的，不惧的，无畏的

Say, but isn't Annie Watson a dandy witness? She testified as straight as a book. And she stood a hot cross-examination unphased.

1885年November9日，“They Talk About It”, in St. Paul Daily Globe，St. Paul, MN，頁 5:

The Johnnie O'Briens and the Barney O'Rourkes were there, too, apparently unfazed by the magnificence of the surroundings.

1889年March11日，“Social and Personal”, in Washington Critic，Washington, DC，頁 2:

Stu couldn't believe I was so unfazed by the whole incident, though inwardly I resolved that I wouldn't let this bastard have the last laugh.

2005，Sean Dooley，The Big Twitch，Sydney: Allen and Unwin，頁 131:

After stumbling and landing on her face, the toddler picked herself up and continued unfazed.

跌倒摔到脸上以后，幼童爬起来，没有迟疑继续走。

The tall man throughout was "unphased" -- the dewy and least compact one surrendered!

1855年December18日，T. B. Thorpe，“Remembrances of the Mississippi”, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine，卷 xii, 期 lxvii, New York, NY，頁 35:

Being a lad of a little upwards of a century, and maintaining, as all widowers do, that I was unfazed by time ...

1874，Moses Adams，What I Did With My Fifty Millions，Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co.，頁 106:

He next, while the flame continued to heat the chimney to the utmost, dashed upon it a dipper of water, and still the chimney was unfazed

1876年January18日，“Local News”, in State Journal，Jefferson City, MO，頁 3:


bite the dust

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

Ulysses killed Demoptolemus, Telemachus Euryades, Eumæus Elatus, while the stockman killed Pisander. These all bit the dust, and as the others drew back into a corner Ulysses and his men rushed forward and regained their spears by drawing them from the bodies of the dead

1900, Samuel Butler, transl. The Odyssey, Book XXII., page 293

Three more warriors bit the dust...

1877, Frances Fuller Victor, Eleven years in the Rocky Mountains and a life on the frontier, Chapter IX, p. 156

Tons of engine sheds would bite the dust with the end of steam, and many would be demolished with their time in the spotlight over. We're lucky that the one at Didcot survived into preservation.

2021年December29日，Stephen Roberts，“Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Didcot (1932)”, in RAIL，期 947，頁 61:

London calling, now don't look to us / Phony Beatlemania has bitten the dust

My old backpack finally bit the dust the other day.

前几天我的旧背包终于坏了。


all the while

the while

与此同时 （常指较长的时间）

通常用来暗示这一时间段背后隐瞒的事。

与此同时 （常指较长的时间）

The good fortune which attended him throughout life may have been partly owing to this cause as well as to his undoubted valour, for though he never lost a battle, nothing is more astounding than his imprudence and the easy confidence with which he trusted Somerset, Warwick, Montague, and others, all the while they were betraying him.

1889，Leslie Stephen，Dictionary of National Biography，頁 82:

Sulla, encamped near Scipio, and amusing him with caresses under pretence of an approaching peace, was all the while corrupting his troops.

And all with that vital piece of evidence burning a hole in his pocket the while!

1986，Michael Dibdin，A Rich Full Death，頁 60:

All the while, my intention was to amuse her, and divert her out of her hellish thoughts, and show to her the wide world of which she could now be a part.


I'll be damned

I'll be hanged

表示自己不会允许某事发生的情绪激动的发言。

表示自己不会允许某事发生的情绪激动的发言。

I'll be damned if I'm having a thief like him stay in my house.

我绝对不会允许他那样的贼住在我家里。

My mechanisms / Of defense are down / And my resistance / Is out on the town / I was alarmed by your attack / This isn't a boxing match / But I'll be damned if I ever let you win

2011，Lenka and Ben H. Allen （作曲作詞）, “Roll with the Punches”, in Two，演出者 Lenka:


quake in one's shoes

quakes in one's shoes (third-person singular present)
quaking in one's shoes (present participle)
quaked in one's shoes (past participle)

“I was quaking in my shoes working with that guy, because I’m such a fan. He’s incredible at this sound we were making — the best in the business,” he said in a statement.

2020年September1日，Josh Martin，“Soul Coughing’s Mike Doughty returns with new project Ghost Vroom, shares new single ‘Rona Pallona’”, in NME:


shake in one's shoes

shakes in one's shoes (third-person singular present)
shaking in one's shoes (present participle)
shook in one's shoes (past)
shaken in one's shoes (past participle)

“I’d be shaking in my shoes to ride in the Preakness,” said Desormeaux, who finished dead last in his first Preakness in 1988. “Now, not only have I won it twice [in 1998 on Real Quiet and in 2008 on Big Brown], I’ve lived life. I’ll be as cool as a cucumber in the saddle” with Exaggerator on Saturday.

2016年May17日，Don Markus，“For Kent Desormeaux, Preakness is a welcome Maryland homecoming”, in The Washington Post:


call it quits

calls it quits (third-person singular present)
calling it quits (present participle)
called it quits (past participle)

call it even

表示扯平，表示欠的已经还清

One afternoon, after twenty minutes of desperate efforts to annihilate each other according to set rules that did not permit kicking, striking below the belt, nor hitting when one was down, Cheese-Face, panting for breath and reeling, offered to call it quits.

The West's longest-serving foreign minister called it quits last week.

1992 May 11, "A One-Two Punch Rattles Germany," Time:


mince words

minces words (third-person singular present)
mincing words (present participle)
minced words (past participle)

通常用否定，即“直截了当”，“不拐弯抹角”，“心直口快”。

"I ask you, William, could I suppose that the Emperor of Austria was a damned traitor—a traitor, and nothing more? I don’t mince words—a double-faced infernal traitor and schemer."

1847 January – 1848 July，William Makepeace Thackeray，章號 20, in Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero，London: Bradbury and Evans, […], 出版於 1848, →OCLC:

The detective did not mince words. "It's plain that you're a boob," he said.

1920, Upton Sinclair, 100%: The Story of a Patriot, ch. 2:

We remember, too, those admirable reports issued to every passenger during the final stages of the Kent Coast electrification, which did not mince words about the disruption of normal working, but which often turned the situations into an instructive illustration of the complexity of modern railway working.

1962 August，“Let's have plain speaking”, in Modern Railways，頁 73:

They all sought the President's views on the world situation in general and the Asian situation in particular. Without mincing words he would comment on his favorite theme, namely, the insidious scheme of the international Communists to conquer the free world.

1983，James C. H. Shen，“Rejoining the Government”, in The U.S. & Free China: How the U.S. Sold Out Its Ally，Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books Ltd., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC，頁 28:

The coroner did not mince words, in charging the jury with their duty: "The bridge had been utterly neglected from the time that it was built and there had been no proper inspection of it... [...]."

2022年July27日，Dr Joseph Brennan，“Bridge disasters that spanned an Empire”, in RAIL，期 962，頁 58:

有關使用本詞的更多用例，請參閱Citations:mince words。


then and there

When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.

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

'Well, I soon saw to that, I told him to bolt it then and there[.]'

1934，Agatha Christie，章號 4, in Murder on the Orient Express，London: HarperCollins, 出版於 2017，頁 99:


thusly

thus + -ly，可追溯回19世纪，可能是教育水平高的写作家为了嘲讽假装斯文但没文化的人而造的词，主要是嘲讽认为thus并非副词的错误观念。

虽然thusly已经渗透到了大众使用中，但一些人可能会认为这是错误用词。其可以使用thus、this way等词代替。其起源于美国东部，且相比英式英语，在美式英语中更加常见，其“常用来取乐或表达讽刺反语”（“often used for amusement or to make an ironic point”）

Ar, tell me it is not so thusly as this thusness wouldst seem!

1865，Hingston (ed.)，Artemus Ward (His Travels) Among the Mormons:

His course can only be akkounted for thusly:

1866, Petroleum V. Nasby, Life of Androo Johnson

He had an attack of catarrh not long ago, and it happened, as J. Billings would say, "thusly:"

Stories never lose anything in the recital, and consequently this one grew thusly.

1893，Isabel Burton，The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton KCMG, FRGS，卷 II:

The history of the Universe has been summed up thusly: "Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas, which, given enough time, turns into people."

1995 December, John P. Wiley Jr, quoting Edward R. Harrison, Smithsonian Magazine:

Going thusly, unwillingly at the bell,

1996，Charles Harding，High Rise Dwelling:


rain or shine

无论如何；不管下不下雨，不管天气怎么样

同類詞：come what may、hell or high water、no matter what

The game will be held on Saturday rain or shine.

不管天气怎么样，比赛都会在周六举行。

He always showed up right on time, rain or shine.

无论如何他都总是按时到。

This very morning we begin rebuilding the windmill, and we will build all through the winter, rain or shine.

1945年August17日，George Orwell [筆名；本名 Eric Arthur Blair]，章號 6, in Animal Farm […]，London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:


traipse

多半借自法語 trépasser (“穿过”)。

traipses (third-person singular present)
traipsing (present participle)
traipsed (past participle)

四处走 （尤指很努力地或者徒劳地走）

After traipsing about in the fog they found the grave sure enough.

疲惫地走，费力地走 （一段路程）

She only got handy the Union-house on Sunday morning 'a b'lieve, and 'tis supposed here and there that she had traipsed every step of the way from Melchester.

1874，Thomas Hardy，Far From the Madding Crowd:


traipse

多半借自法語 trépasser (“穿过”)。

it was an easy traipse down the rocky slope


piano-forte

pianos-forte (plural)
piano-fortes (plural)

Besides ourselves, Madame Dulcken, a distinguished artiste played also, with her daughter and pupil, a Rondeau by Steibelt for two piano-forti.

1865，Louis Spohr (unknown translator)，Louis Spohr’s Autobiography，卷 II, London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green，頁 216:


touched in the head

more touched in the head (comparative)
most touched in the head (superlative)

I believe he's more touched in the head than I am.

1990，Reinaldo Arenas，The Palace of the White Skunks，頁 136:

Who could say, perhaps Nastasya was even more touched in the head now, and if she used to make up stories about the old man crying and bleeding when she was here, maybe she had moved on to death over there?

1991 [1979], Valentin Rasputin, Antonina W. Bouis (translator), Farewell to Matyora, page 199:

It is broad daylight and if she can not simply guide the car along the highway then this bitch was more touched in the head that^([sic]) I thought.

2003，Tracee A. Hanna，A Little Bit of Sinning，頁 163:


me three

将me too诙谐性地解读为me two的双关语。还可以后接me four、me five等。

我也是 （用来在某人说“me too”以后表示同意，还可以后接me four、me five等。）

“...Come if you can—he’d like that a lot.” / “Me, too.” / “Me, three.” She gave a girlish giggle and unlocked her door.

1982, Richard Kluger, Un-American Activities, Doubleday Publishing, page 524

“I hate saying good-bye,” Lulu said sadly. / “Me too,” Pam said. / “Me three,” Anna said.

1995，Jeanne Betancourt，Give Me Back My Pony，Scholastic Paperbacks,, →ISBN，頁 16:

Perhaps a first worker complained about an aspect of their work environment, and others chimed in—Me too, me three!

2006, Michelle Murphy, Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty: Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers, Duke University Press, ISBN 0822336715, page 1


squidgy

squidgier (comparative)
squidgiest (superlative)

He was one of those dangerous people who are soft, squidgy and cowlike provided they have what they want. And because he had always had what he wanted, and had seemed easily pleased with it, it had never occurred to anybody that he was anything other than soft, squidgy and cowlike.

1987，Douglas Adams，Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency，Simon & Schuster，頁 102:

It consists of two layers of ground cashew nuts, mixed with breadcrumbs, onions, nutmeg and vegetable stock, and separated by a vibrant green herb stuffing, the main ingredient of which is also bread. Although surprisingly moist, thanks to the stock (indeed, the contrast between the crisp exterior and the squidgy middle is horribly moreish), the combination of parsley, garlic and breadcrumbs reminds me of a very fancy loaf of garlic bread – and all but overpowers the sweet flavour of the cashews.

2011年December15日，Felicity Cloake，“How to cook the perfect nut roast”, in Guardian:


circumambulator

Still he was determined to obtain the palm of being the first circumambulator of the earth.

1786，Thomas Jefferson，Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, 源自The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson:

TUAPHOLL. A term used by the Druids to designate an unhallowed circumambulation around the sacred cairn, or altar, the movement being against the sun, that is，源自west to east by the north, the cairn being on the left hand of the circumambulator.

1882，Albert G. Mackey，The Symbolism of Freemasonry:


antennate

antennates (third-person singular present)
antennating (present participle)
antennated (past participle)

昆蟲的觸角觸碰另一隻昆蟲

Workers attempt to avoid the queen, but if antennated try to escape or exhibit a submissive crouching posture, while the queen starts to bite and pull their legs and antennae.

工蟻試圖避開蟻后，但如果被觸碰的（工蟻）則試圖逃跑或表現出順從的蹲伏姿勢，而蟻后則開始咬並拉動它們的腿和触角。

2005，Peter J.B. Slater, Jay S. Rosenblatt, Charles T. Snowdon，Advances in the Study of Behavior, →ISBN，頁 10:


drive home

drives home (third-person singular present)
driving home (present participle)
drove home (past)
driven home (past participle)

强行、用力将...放入某处

He grunted as he drove each nail home.

1969，James Plunkett，Strumpet City，頁 396:

Karli shook himself, drove home the last nail with a flat stone, straightened up.

1996，Harry Harrison，One King's Way，頁 186:

Just as Ione began to slow, she struck Ione's sword aside and drove her own blade home.

2004，Judith Tarr，Queen of the Amazons，頁 293:

用有力的示范强调，让...深入人心，让...入木三分

The urgent need for vaccines was driven home by the expected postponement on Monday of Britain’s plan to reopen, caused by the spread of a variant known as Delta among the unvaccinated population.

2021年June14日，Mark Landler，“Boris Johnson’s ‘Global Britain’ Makes Shaky Start at G7 Summit”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


nigga

源自nigger，源自无r音的英语方言。

一些非洲裔曾尝试为这个词辩白（特别是本变体形式nigga及其变体niggah），但是惹起了争议，一些人认为由于其历史阴暗，加之现在仍有贬义使用，这个词不能够被辩白。 详见nigger。

本词的部分变体已经使用良久，包括niggah和nigguh，它们的复数仅用-s后缀（如niggahs等），但现在还常（非正式地）使用视觉方言词尾-z（niggahz）。近来，nikka和nikkah 等拼写也开始出现于非正式对话和嘻哈中。有时候，尤其是20世纪中叶的书面记录中，nigguh常作nigger的南部白人发音的视觉方言形式，而nigga(h)则是代表非洲裔美国人发音的视觉拼写形式。

在无r音英语变体（如多数英国英语口音）中，本词无法与nigger区分开来。

但在非洲裔美國人白話中无冒犯意

As soon as I walked into the class and saw that sea of white faces, I felt alone, so I sat next to the only other nigga there.

我走进教室，看到茫茫一片白人脸，感到很孤独，所以我坐到了除了我唯一另一个黑人旁。

"I mean, if you're not interested, it ain't nothing but a thang, baby girl. Just let a nigga know."

2010，Chunichi，The Return of a Gangster's Girl，頁 26:

男人 （与女性做对比时使用）

但在非洲裔美國人白話中无冒犯意

Niggas on my dick more than my bitches.

2003，“If I Can't”, in Curtis Jackson 作詞, Dr. Dre and Mike Elizondo 作曲, Get Rich or Die Tryin'，演出者 50 Cent, New York City: Shady Records:

I read somewhere I'm homophobic. Shit, go through the hood. There's mad niggas on my dick.

2005，“Ryder Music”, in Curtis Jackson 作詞, Tony Cottrell 作曲, The Massacre，演出者 50 Cent, New York City: Shady Records:


trucidate

借自拉丁語 trucīdāre。

trucidates (third-person singular present)
trucidating (present participle)
trucidated (past participle)

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

甚至馬拉和羅伯斯庇爾也認為他們自己只是在譴責和殺害共和國的敵人。

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

Butt.


retorque

retorques (third-person singular present)
retorquing (present participle)
retorqued (past participle)

重新對（物體）施加扭矩或扭力

In T.S.B. 09-028 issued on May 2, Honda says the noise, which comes at slow speeds, may be from incorrectly torqued mounting bolts, which need to be retorqued.

2009年July26日，Scott Sturgis，“The Ghost in the Infiniti”, in New York Times:


sirvente

借自法語 sirvente，源自古普羅旺斯語 sirventes、sirventesc，源自 sirvent，源自 servir (“服務”)，源自拉丁語 servīre。

一種普羅旺斯吟遊詩人演唱的的諷刺歌曲

The knight in the meantime, had brought the strings into some order, and after a short prelude, asked his host whether he would choose a sirvente in the language of oc, or a lai in the language of oui, or a virelai, or a ballad in the vulgar English.

1820，沃尔特·司各特，章號 XVII, in 艾凡赫，卷 II, 爱丁堡: […] Archibald Constable and Co.；伦敦：Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC，頁 42:


for what it's worth

本词可用来暗示听话人、读者可以说出他们相反的意见，以此凸显自己的谦逊，表示自己说的可能有用，也可能没用，或者可能与对方观点相悖。

依我之见，我是觉得，但是吧 （用来谦虚地表示自己说的话不一定有用，有关，但是还是（为了它“可能具有的有限的价值”）说出来，汉语中没有很准确的等价词）

Take my advice for what it’s worth—don’t marry Garth: marry some old fool.

“Well,” said he, “I have a suggestion to make, for what it’s worth.”

1908, Armand Both, The Half-smart Set, Frederick A. Stokes Company, page 276:

There were seven of us from America, and, for what it’s worth, I thought it was a fairly impressive group.

1999，Bruce Northam，Brad Olsen，In Search of Adventure: A Wild Travel Anthology, →ISBN，頁 21:

For what it’s worth, the same holds true for fish bowls: overfill and you’ll suffocate the guppies.

2005，Jennifer Rosen，Waiter, There’s A Horse In My Wine, →ISBN，頁 253:


full of oneself

more full of oneself (comparative)
most full of oneself (superlative)

自满的，自以为是的，得意洋洋的

I thought it not amiss to write him a line to let him know the regard you had for him, for as I know him to be vastly vain and full of himself I thought this might be a spur to his zeale.

1897，Andrew Lang，章號 8, in Pickle the Spy:


Chan

借自漢語 禪／禅 (Chán)的官話拼音轉寫，源自中古漢語 禪那 (/d͡ʑiᴇn.nɑ/)，源自梵語 ध्यान (dhyana，字面意思是“冥想”)。dhyana和Zen 的同源對似詞。

雖然禪宗起源於中國，但在英語中很多情況下會使用來自日語的名稱 Zen。如果語句中使用了 Chan，那麼一般是優先指中國禪宗，或者試圖將中國和日本禪宗中的元素區分開來。

It is possible that highly calligraphic painting styles, including the extreme forms of “flung-ink,” began at this time, but probably not under Ch’an Buddhist influence, which figured in the religious life of the dynasty.

書法式的繪畫風格，包括所謂極端的“潑墨”藝術，可能就是從那時開始的。儘管禪宗這一佛教流派在當時的宗教生活中佔有相當重要的地位，它可能並沒有對前者產生太大的影響。

[1964，Sherman E. Lee，“The Rise of the Arts of Painting and Ceramics in China [中國繪畫及瓷器藝術的興起]”, in A History of Far Eastern Art [遠東藝術史]，New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC，頁 261，列 2:


testy

中古英語 testif (“任性的”)，源自古法語 testu，源自teste (“头”) + -u。对比现代法語 tête (“头”)、têtu (“固执的”)。

testier (comparative)
testiest (superlative)

He made testy remarks.

Otherwise, we could end up with a repeat of what happened with social media companies after the 2016 election — a collision of Silicon Valley power and Washington ignorance, which resulted in nothing but gridlock and testy hearings.

2022年August24日，Kevin Roose，“We Need to Talk About How Good A.I. Is Getting”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


go downtown

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

Rappin about going downtown on the kitty Let me do you and I won't cum too soon.

Go downtown on her for an oral dessert.

2016，David James，Love and Sex at the Post Office:

You see my mistress needs new sexy lingerie and a VACATION TO A REMOTE ISLAND FAR FROM THE CITY where my wife resides. I must provide this for her, because, she goes downtown on me.

2017，Melisa Karpinske，Twelve Rounds With Cancer & Life，頁 54:

Are these normal reactions to your still-hot looking ex? I suppose so. I mean, it was merely a month ago since that mouth went downtown on my body.


regift

regifts (third-person singular present)
regifting (present participle)
regifted (past participle)

Be upfront when giving the re-gifted item.

2007，Sue Fox，Etiquette for Dummies，頁 252:

Don't tell the person who is receiving the gift that he/she is being regifted.

2008，Jeanne Bice，The Ultimate Christmas: The Best Experts' Advice for a Memorable Season with Stories and Photos of Holiday Magic，頁 231:

It's not usually acceptable to regift an item that's used rather than new. On the other hand, regifting something that's important to you and thus sharing its value with the recipient is actually quite generous and thoughtful.

2008，Yvonne Jeffery，Liz Barclay，Michael Grosvenor，Green Living For Dummies，頁 125:

But before you do any real regifting, you need to learn the rules.

2009，Delilah Scott，Emma Troy，The Upside-Down Christmas Tree: And Other Bizarre Yuletide Tales，頁 112:


regift

Fortunately, I'd brought a selection of consolation prizes, Christmas regifts all, and so Ritchie the stranded F-250 driver became the recipient of a very nice scented candle.

Some regifts, particularly distinctive ones, may make the rounds (see “How to Repurpose a Fruitcake,” facing page) and end up being regifted to the original giver, a situation you may find hard to explain.

2007，Joshua Piven，David Borgenicht，The Complete Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook，頁 374:

Food and drink are the most likely type of unwanted items to be passed along, accounting for 35 percent of all regifts, versus 23 percent for beauty and bath products and 18 percent for trinkets and collectibles.

2008，Jeanne Bice，The Ultimate Christmas: The Best Experts' Advice for a Memorable Season with Stories and Photos of Holiday Magic，頁 233:


judgement day

If God's a-coming, he ought to make it by then / Maybe he'll look around himself and say / “Guess it's time for the judgement day!”

1968，Zager and Evans （作曲作詞）, “In the Year 2525”:

But when I woke up this morning / I could have sworn it was judgement day

1982，Prince （作曲作詞）, “1999 [title]”, in 1999:


scrounge

1915年，方言词scrunge (“偷偷找，翻找”，1909年)的变换形式，其词源不详。可能源自方言词scringe (“打探，刺探”)，或可能与scrouge、scrooge (“推搡，推挤”，同时在伦敦方言中指“人群”)有关，可能引人联想到screw、squeeze。在第一次世界大战时在军队的影响下普及开来。

scrounges (third-person singular present)
scrounging (present participle)
scrounged (past participle)

四处找，寻觅 （尤指一般价值的事物）

Now you don't seem so proud about having to be scrounging your next meal.

1965，Bob Dylan （作曲作詞）, “Like a Rolling Stone”:

scrounge for food


high-maintenance

根据Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang，比喻义经由1989年恋爱喜剧《当哈利碰上莎莉》（When Harry Met Sally...）普及开来。

more high-maintenance (comparative)
most high-maintenance (superlative)

让人操心的，让人放不下心的，让人费心的

There are two kinds of women: high maintenance and low maintenance.

1989，Nora Ephron，When Harry Met Sally... (motion picture), spoken by Harry Burns (Billy Crystal):

He has this incredibly high-maintenance girlfriend; if he doesn't tell her that he loves her every five minutes, she tends to break down into hysterical depressive weepy fits.

他的女朋友很麻烦，如果他没有每五分钟告诉她他爱她，她就会歇斯底里痛不欲生地哭起来。


go potty

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

I simply came outside to go potty, and found myself abandoned, having to rely totally on my primal urges! ... Like the sudden urge to go potty again.

I have to go potty!


humongous

more humongous (comparative)
most humongous (superlative)

/ˌhjuːˈmʌŋɡəs/

/ˌhjuːˈmɒŋɡəs/

[çu̟ːˈmʊŋɡəs]

[ˌçu̟ːˈmɐŋɡəs]

Solomon had pulled this humongous fish that was bigger than anything weʼd ever seen.

2015，Chigozie Obioma，The Fishermen，ONE，頁 19:


damsel in distress

仿譯自法語 demoiselle en détresse，源自大量戏剧表现形式中的经典主题。

需要帮助的少女，在困境中的少女

I am not a pretty girl / That is not what I do / I ain't no damsel in distress / And I don't need to be rescued

1995，Ani DiFranco （作曲作詞）, “Not a Pretty Girl”, in Not a Pretty Girl:

The damsel-in-distress archetype probably conjures up images of delicate maidens and chivalrous gentlemen. That is precisely what it is designed to do — for white people.

2020年May27日，Ruby Hamad，“A White Damsel Leveraged Racial Power and Failed”, in New York Times:


splurge

splurges (third-person singular present)
splurging (present participle)
splurged (past participle)

（使...）涌出，（使...）喷出

The tomato sauce was splurged all over the chips.

But the steamboats come in their time ; and I am sure that I address a large crowd of sympathizing auditors, now that I come to speak of the magnificent old "Fanny," spluttering and paddling, and splurging up to the little wharf under the lea of Peppers Hill, where the pine wood lay piled in fabulous quantities.

1884，Donald Grant Mitchell，Bound Together, A Sheaf of Papers/Norwich, 1659-1859，Norwich:

She waited a moment, quivering with the expectation of her husband's answer; then, as none came except the silent darkening of his face, she walked to the door and turned round to fling back: "Of course you can do what you like with your own house, and make any arrangements that suit your family, without consulting me; but you needn't think I'm ever going back to live in that stuffy little hole, with Hubert and his wife splurging round on top of our heads!"

1913，Edith Wharton，“Chapter XXXVIII”, in The Custom of the Country:

"And boy," he splurged, "we are filming a peach, a pip and a wow! Is it a knockout? Oh, baby! A prize-fight picture entitled 'The Honor of the Champion,' starring Reginald Van Veer, with Honey Precious for the herowine. Boy, will it pack the theayters!"

挥霍，大方地花 （自1911年）

They decided to splurge on the biggest banana split for dessert.

I could see Schultz think, and revive, and splurge with his bets again.


subrogate

借自拉丁語 subrogātus，subrogō 的完成時被動分詞，源自 sub (“在…之下”) + rogō (“請求，詢問”)。有變體 surrogate。

subrogates (third-person singular present)
subrogating (present participle)
subrogated (past participle)

In the course of that work air‑conditioning units were installed. Those units are equipped with compressors which were manufactured by Refcomp, whose registered office is in Italy, purchased from that company and fitted by Climaventa whose registered office is also in Italy, then sold to Doumer by the company Liebert to whose rights Emerson is now subrogated. […] Subrogated to the rights of Doumer, to which it paid compensation, Axa Corporate sued the manufacturer Recomp, the fitter Climaveneta and the seller Emerson before the Tribunal de grande instance de Paris (Regional Court, Paris) seeking an order that they pay in solidum compensation for the damage suffered.

2013年February7日，European Court of Justice，Refcomp SpA vs. Axa Corporate Solutions Assurance SA / Axa France IARD / Emerson Network / Climaveneta SpA,, Case C‑543/10, marginals 8 and 10:

A co-debtor that pays off a principal creditor has a choice. It can subrogate to the principal creditor's claim or it can file its own claim in the bankruptcy. It cannot do both; its own claim will be disallowed if it seeks subrogation.

2019, Ginsberg, Martin, Kelley, Ginsberg and Martin on Bankruptcy, Aspen Publishers Online (ISBN 9780735575523), page 86:


submergent

Recent uplift of the Maine and Oregon coasts has not been enough to \"undrown\" the larger valleys; the shorelines are still submergent.

1971，George Finiel Adams, Jerome Wyckoff，Landforms，頁 143:


odd fish

We are constantly told how normal and honorable Thoreau was, yet it seems that we would get much further in understanding him if we began, by conceding that he was an odd fish, full of peculiar conceits.

2001, Paul Theroux, Fresh Air Fiend: Travel Writings (page 355)

The second work is more promising, but something of an odd fish: the anonymous German treatise Schwester Katrei.

2010，Stephen Mossman，Marquard von Lindau and the Challenges of Religious Life:


strange bird

怪人 （性格乖僻或行为怪异的人）

Jena Janovy is a strange bird—a college basketball player who is a) female and b) short (5 feet 3 inches) and, perhaps oddest of all, lets neither of those things dampen her rabid enthusiasm for the game.

1987, Karen Stabiner, "Putting her Heart through the Hoop," New York Times, 14 June (retrieved 29 July 2010):

I never saw him, but Jackie Langley told me Kerouac was a strange bird, stayed drunk, talked crazy, brooded.

1992, Kaye Gibbons, "My Mother, Literature, and a Life Split Neatly into Two Halves," in Janet Sternburg (ed.), The Writer on Her Work, vol. 2, ISBN 9780393308679, p. 56:

"You're a strange bird, Meehan," Leroy told him. "When you find out whose house you're in, call me back."

2003，Donald E. Westlake，Put a Lid on It, →ISBN，頁 57:

In this land, too, there dwelled a young man who was a fowler, but a bit of a strange bird he was, for he only captured his birds, preferring not to slaughter them.

2004，Tony K. Stewart，Fabulous Females and Peerless Pīrs: Tales of mad adventure in old Bengal，Oxford, →ISBN，頁 67:


saving grace

For all his treachery and deception, he had one saving grace: good manners.

With Gambier Bay and Hoel sinking and Roberts not much longer for this world, the Johnston is now set upon by four cruisers and a number of destroyers. The ship's crew patch holes as fast as they can, but the ship is literally gradually being taken apart by repeated salvos. The fact that this particular set of Japanese ships is STILL using armor-piercing instead of high explosive is the only saving grace.

2019年February27日，Drachinifel，片头起31:46, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?，存檔自the original on 2022-11-03:


questioning

源自 question + -ing（名词经由中古英語 questionyng）。

more questioning (comparative)
most questioning (superlative)

/ˈkwɛʃ.t͡ʃə.nɪŋ/

不確定自己的性取向和／或性別認同的

We entertain the boy and it becomes more evident that his dad is trans and he is questioning; my coworker keeps frowning about it.

2020年February4日，“Transitioning To Some New Protocols”, in Not Always Right，存檔自the original on 2021-01-29:


Mondays

Downtown Library will be open Mondays from 10 am to 6 pm starting Jan. 25.

从1月25日开始，市区图书馆每周一的开放时间将为上午10点至下午6点。

2010年January15日，“Recession boosts library attendance [经济衰退使得前往图书馆的人数增加]”, in The Spokesman Review，Spokane, WA:

Delicious is open from 9am to 6pm Mondays to Saturdays and from 10am to 4pm on Sundays.

Delicious 的营业时间为周一至周六上午9点至下午6点，周日上午10点至下午4点。

2010年January14日，Eleanor Patmore，“Afternoon tea is back in Stortford! [斯托特福德的下午茶回来了！]”, in Herts and Essex Observer:


hugging

There began to be some movement preparatory to the resumption of our journey, and, after many huggings and kissings, the family parted, and the wagon drove off[…]

1844，Catharine Maria Sedgwick，Tales and Sketches:


doe-eyed

more doe-eyed (comparative)
most doe-eyed (superlative)

眼神无辜的，眼神温柔的，眼神澄澈的，眼神迷离的

The graphic energy of their martial arts combat was toned down, their slit-eyed ethnic specificity was made into doe-eyed racial ambiguity and their cynical sneers softened into eager grins.

2000, Dudley Jones, Tony Watkins, A necessary fantasy?: the heroic figure in children's popular culture (page 273)

[H]owever hard she pushed the tough-talkin' shtick, she remained doe-eyed, glowing and somehow unassailably demure.

2014年January21日，Hermione Hoby，“Julia Roberts interview for August: Osage County – 'I might actually go to hell for this ...': Julia Roberts reveals why her violent, Oscar-nominated performance in August: Osage County made her feel 'like a terrible person' [print version: 'I might actually go to hell for this ...' (18 January 2014, p. R4)]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review):


washed up

more washed up (comparative)
most washed up (superlative)

完蛋的，失败的，到头了的，没有前途的

Pavarotti's washed up as a singer, in my view.

我觉得Pavarotti的歌手生涯已经完蛋了。

It would be difficult, for example, to imagine a bigger, more obvious subject for comedy than the laughable self-delusion of washed-up celebrities, especially if the washed-up celebrity in question is Adam West, a camp icon who can go toe to toe with William Shatner as the king of winking self-parody.

2012年June3日，Nathan Rabin，“TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (請指定書籍名或刊物名):

Reize: 'WOAH! ARE YOU FOR REAL, MISTER? [...] AND YOU EVEN GOT A BELT WITH YOUR NAME ON IT?! THE BAZ... I KNEW IT! YOU MUST BE A NOBLE WARRIOR!' / Baz: 'PSHHH. SCRAM, KID. I'M JUST A NOBODY. I'M ALL WASHED UP. IT JUST AIN'T MY DAY.'
（請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

2019 December 10, Yacht Club Games, "Story" (Reize), in Shovel Knight Showdown (version 4.1), Nintendo Switch:


sassy

saucy的变换形式，原用在美式英语。

sassier (comparative)
sassiest (superlative)

不要脸的，粗鲁的，无礼的 （自1833年）

Yes, gemmen, we mus stan on our zarve rights. Wat! shall de sassy wite man Nullifly the Guberment? and shall not we, de color men, Nullifly de wite one?

1833，Elnathan Elmwood [pseudonym; Asa Greene]，“A Meeting of Black Politicians—Cæsar Johnson’s Speech on Nullification”, in A Yankee among the Nullifiers: An Auto-biography，第2nd版, New York, N.Y.: Printed and published by William Pearson; Cortlandt-Street, →OCLC，頁 111:

When the red skins seed that the British and Americans war going to clapper clawing, they thought it war time for them to raze up thar brissls, and look out for plunder. They begun to be a leetle too sassy for cumfirt.

1840，[Davy] Crockett，“Colonel Crockett’s History of the Life of Gen. [William Henry] Harrison, alias Old Tippecanoe”, in The American Miscellany of Popular Tales, Essays, Sketches of Character, Poetry, and Jeux d’Esprit. By Transatlantic Authors，卷 II, 期 49, London: G. Berger, Holywell Street, Strand; Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.; and all booksellers, →OCLC，頁 315，列 1:

Oh, did n't I handle my gun, boys, – / My gun, boys, with shout upon shout? / And did n't the balls rain among us? / And did n't the blood run about? / A shipmate was dashed dead beside me; / The splinters flew – death-yells uprolled; / Oh, sassy that fight of old Erie! / More sassy, though, Perry the Bold!

1867，Alfred B[illings] Street，“Perry the Bold”, in The Poems of Alfred B. Street. In Two Volumes，卷 II, New York, N.Y.: Published by Hurd and Houghton, 459 Broome Street，頁 129:

Brought her down with a crack of the bull-dogs, jest as she was makin' off: she's the sassiest of the whole lot, as white wenches always be.

1873，M. A. Avery，“The Guerillas.—Death of Major Hunter.”, in The Rebel General’s Loyal Bride: A True Picture of Scenes in the Late Civil War，Springfield, Mass.: W. J. Holland and Company, →OCLC，頁 116:

Jokes about blacks were more closely drawn from English jokes mocking servants and Irish people […] Many other jokes featured sassy servants besting their masters by playing dumb and taking instructions overly literally—another trope common in English servant jokes.

2006，John Wood Sweet，Bodies Politic: Negotiating Race in the American North, 1730–1830，Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN，頁 303:

But for those of you that don't know, what men really like, is for you to talk to them with a feisty little attitude. You spark their fire when you do that. The feistier and sassier you act, the better.

2014，Rachel Renee，“Dirty Talk”, in She Rules: A Must Have Rulebook for Dating，Bloomington, Ind.: Balboa Press, Hay House, →ISBN，頁 125:

The top isn't really slutty. Just a little sassier, more revealing than I'd usually go for.

2014，Jane Costello，章號 20, in The Time of Our Lives，London: Simon & Schuster UK, →ISBN，頁 179:

There was only so much packing one could do that was appropriate for army training and I was pretty sure my sassiest outfit and latest face enhancers were not required.

2014，Kate O'Leary，章號 1, in Twell and the Rebellion (The Como Chronicles; book 2)，White Bear Lake, Minn.: Fire and Ice, Melange Books, →ISBN，頁 5:

活泼的，精力充沛的，活跃的

Olives and preserved lemons add sassy tartness to salads, chicken tagines, and fish dishes […]

2012，Jeff Koehler，Morocco: A Culinary Journey with Recipes from the Spice-scented Markets of Marrakech to the Date-filled Oasis of Zagora，San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle Books, →ISBN，頁 10:


toasty

toastier (comparative)
toastiest (superlative)

The toasty smell of baked baguettes pulled out of the oven, of vanilla, butter and sugar from the pastries, resonated in the air.

2013，Michelle Zarrin，From My Heart to Yours，頁 1:

[…] would you want to go to the expense of setting up a furnace in the cellar? It would make the whole house toasty warm; […]

1918，Gene Stratton-Porter，A Daughter of the Land:


toasty

Ciara and I were in the backroom having a cup of tea and a ham and cheese toasty, along with a bowl of potato leek soup we'd ordered from the café next door. Ciara set her toasty down and took a sip of her soup.

(Can we date this quote?)，Cindy Kline，Shamrocks, Shenanigans and Murder: A Molly McGuire Cozy Mystery Book 3，Cindy Kline:

Before we begin, let's get one thing straight: a grilled cheese sandwich is not just a cheese toasty. A toasty is made in one of those pillow-shaped machines (preferably with a baked bean and Cheddar filling). A grilled cheese sandwich,[…]

2019年August8日，John Whaite，A Flash in the Pan: Simple, speedy stovetop recipes，Octopus Books, →ISBN:


imaginant

拉丁語 imaginans，imaginari 的現在分詞；對比法語 imaginant。

more imaginant (comparative)
most imaginant (superlative)

/ɪˈmæd͡ʒɪnənt/

the force of Imagination is , either upon the Body Imaginant , or upon another Body

1631，Francis [Bacon]，“(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […]，第3rd版, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:


aesthetically

more aesthetically (comparative)
most aesthetically (superlative)

Amid all the fevered anticipation of this fixture, few would have expected to witness an aesthetically pleasing example of the beautiful game.

2014年November14日，Stephen Halliday，“Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero”, in The Scotsman:


everyone and their dog

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/en-au-everyone and their dog.ogg

"Mind you, this was years before everyone and their dog had a cell phone."

2009，Susan Case，That's a Dead One Alright，Tate Publishing, →ISBN，頁 114:


raw dog

來自raw (“沒有保險套”) + dog out (“以性慾來接近某人”)。

I advise against going raw dog unless you are in a committed relationship and somewhat certain she is not screwing other guys, but if you do it raw then make sure you never ejaculate inside her, even if she is on the pill.
我建议不要无套做爱，除非你的恋爱关系已经稳定，并且确定她没有和其他男人鬼混，但如果确实无套了，那么请确保你永远不会在她体内射精，即使她服用了避孕药。

And she lets me fuck her raw dog now, and cum all up in her until her ears pop.

2009，Omar Tyree，Dirty Old Men (And Other Stories)，Strebor Books, 出版於 2009, →ISBN，頁 254:

[…] When you were eating my pussy and going raw dog in me, you wanted to hear every little thing I had to say. . . "

[…] 当你舔我的屄、无套插我的时候，你想听我说的每句话…”

2010，Cydney Rax，Brothers and Wives，Three Rivers Press, 出版於 2010, →ISBN，頁 23:


raw dog

來自raw (“沒有保險套”) + dog out (“以性慾來接近某人”)。

raw dogs (third-person singular present)
raw dogging (present participle)
raw dogged (past participle)

Never go raw dogging with the other woman; it's just not safe.

永远不要和其他女人无套做爱；这并不安全。

2005，Erica L. Perry，A Lesson or a Blessing，AuthorHouse, 出版於 2005, →ISBN，頁 27:

[…] You don't now^([sic]) shit about that girl yet you round here raw dogging her. That ho could be dying from HIV or AIDS, she could have a million kids and trying to set you up to be her next baby daddy, you fucking dummy. For all I know she could be a fucking psycho.”

2006，Cheryl Sutherland，Chocolate Ty，Platinum Peach Press, 出版於 2006, →ISBN，頁 42:

“Well, you know...taking you into consideration and everything, I ended up letting him raw dog my coochie. […]

“嗯，你知道……考虑到你和其他一切，我最终还是让他无套肏了我的屄。 […]

2008，Allison Hobbs，Big Juicy Lips: Double Dippin' 2，Strebor Books, 出版於 2008, →ISBN，頁 44:

The friend who did this raw dogged her drunk.

做这件事的那个朋友在她喝醉后还无套肏了她。

2011，John Tamar，1,001 Drunk Acts，Strategic Book Group, 出版於 2011, →ISBN，頁 163:


alopecia

借自拉丁語 alopecia，源自古希臘語 ἀλωπεκία (alōpekía，“狐狸疥癬”)，源自 ἀλώπηξ (alṓpēx，“狐狸”) + -ία (-ía，古希臘語後綴，尤其用於疾病命名)。

/ˌæl.əʊˈpiː.ʃə/

“Jada, can’t wait for GI Jane 2,” Rock said in an apparent reference to her shaved hair, which is a result of the hair loss condition alopecia.

2022年March28日，Nadia Khomami，“‘Violence instead of words’: Will Smith condemned for hitting Chris Rock at the Oscars”, in The Guardian:


exasperating

more exasperating (comparative)
most exasperating (superlative)

As a result, while the train was being shunted at Bombay, the buffers became locked, producing a situation most intriguing for the onlookers, but exasperating for the exalted passengers and the unhappy railway authorities.

1945 September and October，C. Hamilton Ellis，“Royal Trains—V”, in Railway Magazine，頁 249:


disconcerting

more disconcerting (comparative)
most disconcerting (superlative)

/ˌdɪskənˈsɜːtɪŋ/

unsettling

使人感到不安/困惑/尷尬的

troubling

使人感到不安/困惑/尷尬的

upsetting

使人感到不安/困惑/尷尬的

使人感到不安/困惑/尷尬的

Even with a safety harness, losing one's grip that high up is disconcerting.

即使有安全带，在那么高的地方失去抓地力也是令人不安的。

"You must admit," he remarked, "that up to now our conversation has hardly proceeded along conventional lines. I am a complete stranger to you; another man who is a complete stranger to me speaks to you while we're at tea. You inform me that I shall probably have to kill him in the near future. The statement is, I think you will agree, a trifle disconcerting."

1920，Herman Cyril McNeile，章號 1, in Bulldog Drummond:


innovent

innovents (third-person singular present)
innoventing (present participle)
innovented (past participle)

So in effect, the millennials are generating 3 key trends: Innoventing, Neo-Bartering, and Q-Rewarding. Innoventing. They say you can’t reinvent the wheel, but millennials definitely believe they can make it better. They are innovative inventors that are re-creating and bettering existing products and technologies.

2011年October21日，Cheryl Swanson，“Millennials and the Recession Trends: Innoventing, Neo-Bartering, and Q-Rewarding”, in Popsop，存檔自the original on 2017-09-11:

There are the classic inventions (a magical new mech), the innovations (a new animated IP or a board game that’s built a fan base already from a crowdfunding site) and then there’s both (Paw Patrol, the magical toy mech plus the story). When you combine both, you get innoventing. If you can create an idea that has the combination of inventing (conceiving a unique idea) and innovation (executing that unique idea so it has the ability to disrupt) then you’re ‘innoventing’ – you’ve gone beyond the raw invention and shown the vision by applying it to a commercial market.

2019年March20日，Fi Murray，“Innoventing: a new era of inventing?”, in Mojo Nation，存檔自the original on 2021-01-17:

And I wish readers success in innoventing with this book. Good luck!

2020年January18日，Michael A. Orloff，Modern TRIZ Modeling in Master Programs: Introduction to TRIZ Basics at University and Industry，Springer Nature, →ISBN:

During about last four decades, besides nature’s ferocities and degradation of environmental ecosystem, new risks and challenges are from cyber criminals. Digital assets are their targets for extracting ransoms in millions. They infiltrate through the pores of system peripherals and spread malwares using digital tools. The irony is that, they use mostly the same tools, e. g., AI, ML, RPA, etc. to spawn new malwares, which digital scientists use for ‘innoventing’ solutions and creating deterrents for malwares. This battle is gradually taking dreadful dimensions.

2020 February，Paritosh Basu，“DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION – RISK ENABLED PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNANCE”, in The Management Accountant，經由 Magzter，存檔自the original on 2023-01-12:


stellar

借自拉丁語 stēllāris。

more stellar (comparative)
most stellar (superlative)

The actress gave a stellar performance.

Some years ago there were hundreds of musicians of ability, but of less stellar renown, who toured the country, giving performances at less than stellar fees.

几年前，有数百名有才华但名气不大的音乐家在全国巡回演出，演出费用并不高。

1931，Music and Dance，卷 21, Melbourne, Vic.: Australian Musical News Pub. Co., →OCLC，頁 27，列 2:

Yet the economic seers are at it again, seemingly unabashed by their somewhat less than stellar performances in 1969.

1970，Hardware Age，卷 205, New York, N.Y.: David Williams Co., →OCLC，頁 8，列 1:

Where a bank may automatically reject any borrower based on a bad credit score, this is not true for all social lending networks. You can still have a less than stellar score and obtain funding as long as you can convince a peer tha your project is worthy or your business model is strong.

2012，Linda A. Jenkins，“What is Social Lending?”, in Creative Financing: How to Get a Small Business Loan without a Banker，Gold Alliance Group, →ISBN，頁 1:


count one's blessings

counts one's blessings (third-person singular present)
counting one's blessings (present participle)
counted one's blessings (past participle)

知足，感激自己现在的状况

Rupert Murdoch isn't somebody to sit back and count his blessings.

1995, Richard Lacayo et al., "Bart Simpson Calling," Time, 22 May:

The other out-of-town Dons patiently listened, perhaps counting their blessings that each had a city all to himself.

2006，Mark Winegardner，The Godfather's Revenge, →ISBN，頁 175:


utilisation

The merchandise trains of the future will be able to pace the average day and night express without significant loss of track utilisation, but where quadruple track does not exist it may be necessary to seek alternative routes for the slower-moving coal and heavy mineral traffic.

1960 February，“Talking of Trains”, in Trains Illustrated，頁 67:


shotgun wedding

暗指新郎被新娘的亲戚用霰弹枪逼上婚礼堂。

If Red Skelton's joke can still elicit laughs, it is only because there is a minority who can still remember a shotgun wedding and even recall the understandings that lay behind that insistence, now seeming quaint, that a couple sleeping together should really be married.

2012，Charles W. Dunn，American Culture in Peril，University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN，頁 48:

以类似方式强行促成的关系

But all this fails when we try to have a shotgun wedding between the two great theories of nature, relativity and quantum theory.


string along

strings along (third-person singular present)
stringing along (present participle)
strung along (past participle)

哄骗，画饼 （让对方长时间误解自己有某种打算）

She's been telling me for ages that she wants to meet up, but won't give me a date. I'm convinced she's stringing me along.

她一直说想和我见面，但是就是不约日期，我觉得她在耍我。

What irks is the DfT's response of stringing the industry along. Far better would be for the DfT to say: "No, we are not upgrading this or that part of the railway - we must make the best of what we have."

2021年May5日，Philip Haigh，“I think we need better than this from the rail industry”, in RAIL，期 930，頁 51:


trice

源自中古英語 trīcen、trice、trise (“拉或推；掳走；偷窃”)，源自中古荷蘭語 trīsen (“升起”)（现代荷蘭語 trijsen）或中古低地德語 trissen (“拉斜杠帆”)。之后词源不详。同源词包括丹麥語 trisse、tridse (“用滑轮拖”)、低地德語 trissen、tryssen、drisen、drysen、德語 trissen、triezen (“烦扰，折磨”)。

trices (third-person singular present)
tricing (present participle)
triced (past participle)

The tent is made of light, close, unbleached duck, […] A window, six inches square, is fitted at the upper end with a flap to trice up or haul down.

1875 August，Clements R[obert] Markham，“Arctic Ice-travels”, in The Popular Science Monthly，卷 VII, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton and Company, […], →OCLC，頁 479:

（尤指用绳子）拖； 用绳子拉起或绑起来

... the fold of his double chin hung like a bag triced up close under the hinge of his jaw.

One of the two men landed had shot and wounded the mate, and the other, known as "Doublin Jack," had knocked the second mate down with a handspike. Captain Low put both these men in irons, triced them up in the mizzen rigging, and gave them each four dozen lashes of ratline stuff, which they had well earned.

1911，Arthur H[amilton] Clark，“California Clippers of 1852—The ‘Sovereign of the Seas’”, in The Clipper Ship Era: An Epitome of Famous American and British Clipper Ships, Their Owners, Builders, Commanders, and Crews 1843–1869，New York, N.Y., London: G. P. Putnam's Sons […], →OCLC，頁 215:


trice

源自中古英語 trīce、trise，用于短语at a trīce (“很快地，一下子”，字面意思是“用一拉”)，后亦用于短语in a trice、on a trice以及with a trice。最终源自中古英語 trīcen，见[[#词源 1]]。

Till I came to the marge of Lake Lebarge, and a derelict there lay;
 It was jammed in the ice, but I saw in a trice it was called the "Alice May."
 And I looked at it, and I thought a bit, and I looked at my frozen chum;
 Then "Here," said I, with a sudden cry, "is my cre-ma-tor-eum."

1907，Robert W[illiam] Service，“The Cremation of Sam McGee”, in The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses，New York, N.Y.: Barse & Hopkins, publishers, →OCLC，頁 53:

And in a trice he has clambered onto the kitchen dresser and is reaching for the top shelf.

2013，J[ohn] M[axwell] Coetzee，章號 22, in The Childhood of Jesus，Melbourne, Vic.: The Text Publishing Company, →ISBN，頁 220:


chase one's tail

chases one's tail (third-person singular present)
chasing one's tail (present participle)
chased one's tail (past participle)

People wanting to get married . . . would have to trail around separately to arrange flowers, cars, a photographer, the cake and a reception venue. . . . "At the moment, they have to chase their tail making sure all these things are done."

1994 Aug. 4, Lynn Eaton, "Planning a wedding in one easy stop," The Independent (UK) (retrieved 26 June 2014):

"You're forever chasing your tail when you're dealing with such large areas. . . . It was difficult to see how we would ever get on top of the problem."

2001 July 2, Lisa Clausen, "Warren Peace Australia missed its first chance to wipe out the rabbit scourge," Time (retrieved 26 June 2014):

The phone rings pretty much immediately and I have a conversation, usually apologising for something or explaining why I haven't managed to do something. I'm always chasing my tail.

2006 Aug. 14, Natalie Hanman, "Hidden passions," The Guardian (UK) (retrieved 26 June 2014):

“If you end up changing your strategy based on hot or cold tendencies, more often than not, you’re chasing your tail and you’re actually destroying value rather than sticking to what you know is right based off the data over a longer period of time,” Luhnow said.

2012 Aug. 12, Tyler Kepner, "Astros Begin Again, Starting With Youth and Hope," New York Times (retrieved 26 June 2014):

What is unbearable, in fact, is the feeling, 13 years after 9/11, that America has been chasing its tail; that, in some whack-a-mole horror show, the quashing of a jihadi enclave here only spurs the sprouting of another there; that the ideology of Al Qaeda is still reverberating through a blocked Arab world whose Sunni-Shia balance (insofar as that went) was upended by the American invasion of Iraq.

2014年November17日，Roger Cohen，“The horror! The horror! The trauma of ISIS [print version: International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 9]”, in The New York Times:


of old

In days of old.

I know him of old.

The station has been refurbished both at ground level and below ground, where the wide, fluorescently lit platforms are an almost unrecognisable metamorphosis of the dingy, reeking Low Level of old.

1960 December，“The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated，頁 713:

These deals have made them more like the radio and TV stations of old — picking popular acts, paying handsomely for their work, assuming greater responsibility for their output — and less like the neutral platforms they once claimed to be.

2022年January31日，Kevin Roose，“Spotify’s Joe Rogan Problem Isn’t Going Away”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


spermiogenesis

Expanding the introductory section to include definitions of indirect and direct development and generalized descriptions of spermiogenesis, oocyte maturation and cytological organization, and fertilization would also help de-mystify these subjects for many readers.

1998年June19日，Richard Emlet，“Developmental Diversity”, in Science，卷 280, 期 5371, →DOI:

In wild-type spermatids, Hrb is associated with the cytosolic surface of proacrosomic transport vesicles that fuse to create a single large acrosomic vesicle at step 3 of spermiogenesis.

2001年November16日，Ningling Kang-Decker et al.，“Lack of Acrosome Formation in Hrb-Deficient Mice”, in Science，卷 294, 期 5546, →DOI，頁s 1531-1533:


Glock

此系列手槍以奧地利工程師格斯通·格洛克（1929–）命名。

格洛克／克拉克公司生產的手槍。

Grab ya Glocks when you see Tupac, call the cops when you see Tupac

當你看到 Tupac 就拿起你的格洛克手槍，當你看到 Tupac 就叫條子

Feel these hot rocks, fellas, put you in a dry spot, fellas / In a pine box with nine shots from my Glock, fellas

Alex blinked her eyes open and looked up at the face of a bald man wearing pajamas. In his right hand was a pump shotgun, in his left her Glock 23.

2007，Greg Iles，True Evil，Simon and Schuster，頁 279:


walk out on

walks out on (third-person singular present)
walking out on (present participle)
walked out on (past participle)

离开，丢下 （尤指自己的伴侣）

What would you think if I sang out of tune? Would you stand up and walk out on me?

1967，“With a Little Help from My Friends”, in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band，演出者 Beatles:


espadon

一種長而重、要雙手揮持的雙刃劍，過去由西班牙步兵和劊子手使用

royal guardsmen with their espadons

身帶巨劍的皇家禁衛軍士兵

1902，Carlos Augusto Montalto Jesus，Historic Macao:


squadron

Those half-rounding guards / Just met, and, closing, stood in squadron joined.

1667，John Milton，“Book 4”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books，London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; 再版為 Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […]，London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:


dead wood

Everybody knows that when you have a layoff, you use it as chance to get rid of the people you wanted to get rid of anyway, but couldn't document or hadn't bothered documenting as bad employees […]。If you don't have much dead wood, you hope they make you use a seniority list, because then you can say it's out of your control.

2001，Michael B. Arthur，Denise M. Rousseau，The Boundaryless Career: A New Employment Principle for a New Organizational Era，Oxford University Press, →ISBN，頁 140:


scaredy-cat

I don't care — I wouldn't be such a scaredy-cat for anything.

1918，Florence Kiper Frank，“The Child and the Little Sister”, in The Midland，卷 4，頁 61:

Oh, yes, do let's dance together—it's so nice to meet a man who isn't a scaredy-cat about catching my beri-beri.


excave

excaves (third-person singular present)
excaving (present participle)
excaved (past participle)

the last 100 to 150 feet in depth of those valleys have, however, been excaved by the rivers

1868，Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum，Some account of the Blackmore museum:


Tasmanian

The engineer of the line, a young Tasmanian named Sharland, decided the best course would be to take the new railway along a chain of four deep valleys. [...].

1939 July，John D. Hewitt，“Some Notable British Main Lines: 1. Settle and Carlisle, L.M.S.R.”, in Railway Magazine，頁 37:


thylacine

源自跨語言 Thylacinus；源自古希臘語 θύλακος (thúlakos，“口袋，袋子”) + 拉丁語 -inus（英語 -ine）。

[…]high up on an overhanging rock, perhaps twenty feet above the ground, a ghostly white thylacine was clearly visible. Thylacines, or Tasmanian tigers, have been extinct on the mainland of Australia for at least two thousand years.

2020，David Farrier，“The Moment Under the Moment”, in Footprints，4th Estate, →ISBN:


light bulb

a light bulb moment

Figuratively speaking, a light-bulb flashed over Galvin's head early this year, and in March–along […]

1949, in Forbes (magazine), volume 64, page 18:


lightbulb

介入情侶間約會的人；電燈泡

You two go ahead lah, I don't want to be lightbulb.

你們兩個自己去啦，我才不想當電燈泡。

2011年October23日，Heidy The Traveler，Learn Singlish a Bit!:

When she finally came out her friend joined us. Damn lightbulb leh!

她終於出來了，卻帶著她的朋友一起來。該死的電燈泡！

2014年August3日，Chris Soh，20 Words That Mean Something Completely Different to Singaporeans:

Being an extra big light bulb and eating with two cousins and their husband and fiance.

2014, carolcraves, "https://twitter.com/carolcraves/status/429233427863183360", Twitter, 31 January 2014:


punctus

源自中世紀拉丁語 punctus (“标点符号”)。

中世纪时使用的一种结束句子的标点符号（‧），为句号的前身

In the sacerdotal prayers in col. a the punctuation is by punctus flexus, punctus elevatus and punctus.

1993，Malcolm Beckwith Parkes，Pause and Effect, Plates and Commentaries，頁 197:

The most common item of punctuation was the punctus or point.

2011年July22日，Tadao Kudouchi，English Historical Linguistics and Philology in Japan，De Gruyter, →ISBN，頁 172:

Curiously, the punctus versus was largely replaced with a punctus by ca.1100.

2015年August31日，“Medieval Manuscripts”, in Handbook of Medieval Culture，卷 2, De Gruyter, →ISBN，頁 1015:


punctum

Thus, from what has been stated, we see that neither the white puncta nor the minute white branchwork of lines were ever tubular.

1861，The Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Zoology, Botany, and Geology:


river horse

仿譯自古希臘語 ἱπποπόταμος (hippopótamos)，等價於 river + horse。對照中古英語 water hors (“河馬”)。

The river-horse feeds upon the herbage of the Nile, and the behemoth is said to eat grass like an ox.

河馬以尼羅河的草本植物為食，據說這頭龐然大物像牛一樣吃草。

1808，Thomas Shaw，Travels Or Observations:

Liverpool started and snorted like a river-horse roused amongst his reeds by thunder.

利物浦嚇了一跳，噴著鼻息，就像一頭河馬在蘆葦叢中被雷聲驚醒。

1849，Currer Bell [筆名; Charlotte Brontë]，“The Winding-Up”, in Shirley. A Tale. […]，卷 III, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC，頁 303:

Here, before a feast that would prick the dead with appetite, were shapes of beasts with heads of men, asses, elephants, bulls, horses, swine, foxes, riverhorses, dromedaries; […]

在這裡，在一場會讓死者胃口大開的盛宴之前，有一些動物的形狀，有人頭、驢頭、大象、公牛、馬、豬、狐狸、河馬、單峰駱駝； […]

1909，George Meredith，The Palace of Aklis:


light microscope

A big world beyond the limits of the ordinary light microscope now lies open to exploration.

一个超越普通光学显微镜极限的大世界现在正等待探索。

1942年December14日，“Science: Seeing by Electron Waves”, in Time, retrieved 2015-08-25:

[M]acromolecular assemblies. . ., which include viruses, are too large to study by conventional X-ray diffraction methods, but too small to be seen under a light microscope.

高分子组装……其中包括病毒，太大而无法通过传统的X射线衍射方法进行研究，但又太小而无法在光学显微镜下看到。

1982年October19日，Harold M. Schmeck Jr.，“Chemistry prize goes for research into intimate details of virus structure”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-08-25:

Unlike the most powerful electron microscopes—which can see down to the scale of individual molecules—or fluorescent-based microscopes—which rely on the use of coloured dyes—the new light microscope does not need to interfere in any way with the living material it is used to study.

与最强大的电子显微镜（可以看到单个分子的尺度）或基于荧光的显微镜（依赖于使用有色染料）不同，新的光学显微镜不需要以任何方式干扰研究用的活体材料。

2011年March2日，Steve Connor，“‘Limitless’ microscope to aid virus research”, in Independent，UK, retrieved 2015-08-25:


the jig is up

jig曾指“活泼的舞蹈”，在伊丽莎白时代，还曾经是指“恶作剧”的俚语。该词即派生自这个弃用俚语词。

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-the jig is up.ogg

（当自己说时）我们被打了个措手不及，我们完蛋了，我们穿帮了；（当对他人说时）你们已经被拆穿了，你们完蛋了

We knew then the jig was up, and it was no grin matter for us.

When I first told 'em how the jig was up with us, that the British were going to have the land, without any fighting about it, I never see fellows so mad before in my life, unless it was Major Eaton at Washington when he sot out to flog Mr. Ingham.

1833，Seba Smith (as Jack Downing)，The life and writings of Major Jack Downing, of Downingville, away down East in the State of Maine，Lilly; Wait; Colman & Holden，頁 176:

After I had returned home in the spring of 1893 from Washington, where I saw so many gray-haired men who had held high elective office begging for the crumbs from Cleveland's table, I gave my wife an account of what I observed, and told her that when the jig was up for me I would hasten back to Missouri to begin the practice of law once more and be a man among men.

1920，Champ Clark，My Quarter Century of American Politics，Harper & brothers，頁 96:

The universe works in strange ways: just when you think the jig is up, you get a second chance.

2007，Mary Newport, in Jerry Newport and Mary Newport，Mozart and the Whale: An Asperger's Love Story，Simon and Schuster, →ISBN，頁 248:


beat the daylights out of

beats the daylights out of (third-person singular present)
beating the daylights out of (present participle)
beat the daylights out of (past)
beaten the daylights out of (past participle)
beat the daylights out of (past participle)

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

Punching fast and furiously, I would beat the daylights out of them until they were bloody all over.

1993，Lester Sumrall，The Life Story of Lester Sumrall, →ISBN:

让...惨败 （尤指在肢体冲突中）

The guy beat the daylights out of me, and I made a dollar. My wrestling license cost five dollars.

2007，Greg Oliver，The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: The Heels, →ISBN，頁 42:


aggro

源自aggravation 的截斷形式 + -o (指小后缀)，受到了aggressive的影响。

But the thing to remember was that some women were prepared to provide an outlet, in spite of all the aggro, if the money was right. And lots of guys were prepared to pay, in spite of the aggro. And what the aggro boiled down to, if you thought about it, was the shame of being known to be the person who had been involved.

暴力行为，暴行；咄咄逼人的行为 （不一定发展为暴力）

Move along, lads; we don't want any aggro.

走开吧，兄弟，我们可不想动手。

That is the case because, according to Marsh, soccer hooliganism is one of Britain's principal forms of aggro. If it is true that there is an absence of aggro traditions in the USA — and there is a wealth of evidence which suggests that Marsh is wrong on this score — then it is reasoble to deduce from Marsh′s arguments that it is unlikely that phenomena such as soccer hooliganism could or ever will develop there.

1999，Eric Dunning，Sport Matters : Sociological Studies of Sport, Violence and Civilisation，頁 162:

‘We ain′t got a name yet. We′re into aggro.’
‘Aggro?’
‘Yeah, you know, aggression, aggravation. Aggro’.

2011，Jake Arnott，The Long Firm，unnumbered 頁:

仇恨值 （游戏中评估玩家的行为有多好战的数值，越高越容易遭到敌人攻击或者越容易吓走敌人）

To reduce one player's aggro level, the other must build up his own.

2007，Bendik Stang，Morten A. Osterholt，Erik Hoftun，The Book of Games Volume 2: The Ultimate Reference on PC & Video Games，頁 98:

What isn't so gimmicky is the Aggro System, where you draw fire onto yourself by acting aggressive, while your partner sneaks off blindsiding distracted enemies. Aggro depends on how big your current weapon is and how often you act aggressive.

We asked for an ability to trasnfer^([sic]) our aggro to another player—were told that could cause some abuse.

2010，World of Warcraft and Philosophy: Wrath of the Philosopher King，頁 187:


aggro

more aggro (comparative)
most aggro (superlative)

“The Chuckster say you two be finding aggro idiot who kilt Long,” said Dude.
I thought I understood but looked at Charles for help.
“Aggro means pissed off.” translated Charles. He still hadn't cracked a smile. Tardiness made Charles aggro.

2011，Bill Noel.，The Marsh: A Folly Beach Mystery，頁 70:

At the beginning of the twenty-first century the physically adept aggro femme had become a recurring motif in new circus and physical theatre.

2005，Peta Tait，Circus Bodies: cultural identity in aerial performance，頁 131:


morceau

借自法語 morceau，源自古法語 morsel，源自中世紀拉丁語 morsellum (“一点，一小块”)，拉丁語 morsum (“一点，少許”) 的指小詞，morsus 的中性形式，mordeō, mordēre (“咬，啃”) 的過去分詞，源自原始印歐語 *merə- (“摩擦；打包；搶”)。

/ˈmɔː(ɹ)səʊ/

/mɔː(ɹ)ˈsəʊ/

M. De Luc has a specimen of the uranite (Peckblend) mixed with titan and crystals of quartz, a morceau of singular beauty

1816，Henry Coxe，The Traveller's Guide in Switzerlan:

Among:Template:long st a variety of urns, sepulchral fragments, and different morceaus of antiquity, are the known and celebrated bu:Template:long sts of Alexander the Great, and Brutus

1796，John Owen，Travels Into Different Parts of Europe […] :


moralise

moralises (third-person singular present)
moralising (present participle)
moralised (past participle)

It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; perhaps to moralise on the oneness or fragility of the planet, or to see humanity for the small and circumscribed thing that it is; […].

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


transplant

繼承自中古英語 transplaunten，源自古法語 transplanter，源自晚期拉丁語 transplantare，等價於 trans- + plant。

transplants (third-person singular present)
transplanting (present participle)
transplanted (past participle)

A book entitled Emerging Indonesia has on its cover photographs of a sunrise over palm trees, bent women in coolie hats transplanting rice, a wooden bull burning at a Balinese cremation, and a liquid nitrogen plant belching black smoke into a clear, undefiled tropical sky.

1996，Clifford Geertz，After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist，Harvard University Press, →ISBN，頁 141:


transplant

外地人，從外地搬遷過來的人

The Seigneur summoned the island's doctor, a young transplant from London named Peter Counsell, who determined that Mrs. Beaumont had suffered a stroke.

爵爺叫來島上的醫生，那個從倫敦搬來的年輕人，Peter Counsell。他確認 Beaumont 夫人中風了。

2012年October29日，Lauren Collins，The New Yorker:


transplanting

There appears, however, to be some difference of opinion as to the value of so many transplantings.

1905，George Edward Stone，Tomatoes Under Glass; Methods of Pruning Tomatoes，頁 6:


maximise

maximises (third-person singular present)
maximising (present participle)
maximised (past participle)

The project was attractive because of the ability to maximise the use of existing and decommissioned railways, minimise land take, and decrease the amount of disruption during the project. With London land prices rocketing, there was also a significant financial incentive.

2020年May20日，Paul Bigland，“East London Line's renaissance”, in Rail，頁s 48-49:


in the buff

源自buff (字面意思是“褐黄色的”)，表示了皮肤的颜色。

She was in the buff on the beach.

The streaker ran across the playing field in the buff.

裸跑者光着身子跑过了操场。

Not to mention, nudity can be just plain convenient. “Laundry is minimal,” Schulte notes. It also doesn’t hurt that being in the buff spices up his workday.

2021年October18日，Ian Lecklitzner，“The Inevitable Rise of the Work-From-Home Nudist”, in MEL Magazine: