skulk

skulks (third-person singular present)
skulking (present participle)
skulked (past participle)

Stephen's craze for physical culture increased, and now it began to invade the schoolroom. Dumb-bells appeared in the schoolroom bookcases, while half worn-out gym shoes skulked in the corners.

1928，Radclyffe Hall，章號 6, in The Well of Loneliness，London: Jonathan Cape, →OCLC; 再版 New York, N.Y.: Covici Friede Publishers, October 1932, →OCLC, book 1, section 5，頁 60:

He has been seen with her, by one whom he would not know, at Cuper’s Gardens; dressed like a Sea-officer, and skulking, like a thief, into the privatest walks of the place.

1753，Samuel Richardson，The History of Sir Charles Grandison，London, Volume 4, Letter 38, p. 266:

Noble brother, I am
Not one of those men who in words are valiant,
And when it comes to action skulk away.

1800，Friedrich Schiller，譯者 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Piccolomini, or The First Part of Wallenstein，London: Longman and Rees, act V, scene 4，頁 196:

Fully a dozen of the citizens had seen him hastening toward the woods and noted his skulking air [...]

1904，Paul Laurence Dunbar，“The Lynching of Jube Benson”, in The Heart of Happy Hollow，New York: Dodd, Mead，頁 233:

They are paid about three shillings a day for ten hours’ work—it is hard work, especially in windy weather, and there is no skulking, for an inspector comes round frequently to see that the men are on their beats.

1933年January9日，George Orwell [筆名；本名 Eric Arthur Blair]，章號 33, in Down and Out in Paris and London，London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:


look the part

looks the part (third-person singular present)
looking the part (present participle)
looked the part (past participle)

If you want to be a successful business person, you have to look the part.

你想做成功的商务人士的话，你就要仪表得体。

We were going to cast him in our new movie but unfortunately he didn't look the part.

我们本来想找他出演我们的新电影，但是他外貌不太合适。

Turner looked assured, picking out his men at the lineouts, while Redpath was seeing plenty of the ball and also looked the part as the Scots probed for opening.

2021年February6日，Graham Bean，“Scotland beat England at Twickenham for the first time in 38 years”, in The Scotsman:


heatmapping

The digit in Fig 23 changes towards that class label which the classifier and the heatmapping implicitly perceive as the nearest neighbor.

2015年July11日，“On Pixel-Wise Explanations for Non-Linear Classifier Decisions by Layer-Wise Relevance Propagation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


catloaf

源自 cat (“貓”) + loaf (“一條或一塊（麵包）”)。

家貓的一種坐姿，將爪子和尾巴藏在身體下方；因形似麵包而得名

And Gary never got to see him do the full catloaf, where he curled up face-down so that all that stuck out were the tips of his ears. I never got a picture of that, either.

而Gary永遠沒有看到他完全變成一塊貓麵包，他會蜷縮著面朝下，只露出耳朵的尖端。我也沒有拍到那樣的照片。

1999，Ailsa N Murphy，“RIP, Silver-The-Cat”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet):

One must often attend to the tail and ensure it remains tucked and not become flippant, so as to maintain a catloaf of presentable form.

人們必須經常注意尾巴，確保它保持捲起狀態，不要變得輕浮，這樣才能保持貓麵包的美觀。

2004，Franz Bestuchev，“catloaf”, in alt.support.depression (Usenet):

"Catloaf" position with paws and tail tucked under the body: "Please do not disturb!"

「貓麵包」姿勢，爪子和尾巴藏在身體底下：「請勿打擾！」

2009，Brigitte Eilert-Overbeck，Cats, →ISBN，頁 47:


add insult to injury

派生自公元前一世纪的菲得洛斯寓言。寓言中，有一个秃子打落在自己头上的苍蝇，但却给了自己的头一击。苍蝇说：“你因为我碰了你你就想杀我，那你现在在伤口上撒盐（added insult to injury），你要对自己做什么呢？”首个英语内的措辞记载出现于18世纪中叶。

adds insult to injury (third-person singular present)
adding insult to injury (present participle)
added insult to injury (past participle)

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To add insult to injury,...

As if the hostile takeover weren't enough, to add insult to injury they scrapped ninety percent of our products and replaced them with their own.

恶意收购还不够，他们还雪上加霜，把我们百分之九十的产品都换成了他们的。

[...] the line crossed over an iron bridge spanning Ludgate Hill itself [...] neatly obliterating any view of St Paul's from Ludgate Circus and Fleet Street. A thousand people had put their names to a petition against the bridge. To add insult to injury it carried a small thicket of railway signals as well as regular steam trains.

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


wig out

wigs out (third-person singular present)
wigging out (present participle)
wigged out (past participle)

Oh no, you didn't! You called me a what? / Don't make me wig out / How you gonna let some shit like that slip out your mouth?

2003，“Let Me Watch”, in Vaudeville Villain，演出者 Viktor Vaughn ft. Apani B. Fly:

An organist wigged out like Rick Wakeman, the diamante lapels of Humza Yousaf’s kilt jacket sparkled, and out in the Mall, the procession began.

2023年May6日，Rachel Cooke，“It was ludicrous but also magnificent: the coronation stirred every emotion”, in The Guardian:


wig out

“Let’s get high!” say Quill, Saturday’s opening act and maybe the most obscure name on the bill. They are also awful. They Live The Life lasts a leaden, eight minutes, ending in a percussive wig out with the band sarcastically chanting: “You’re so free!” This was played during one of the brief sunny spells, but you wouldn’t know it.

2019年August15日，Bob Stanley，“'Groovy, groovy, groovy': listening to Woodstock 50 years on – all 38 discs”, in The Guardian:


send someone packing

sends someone packing (third-person singular present)
sending someone packing (present participle)
sent someone packing (past participle)

拒绝某人，回绝某人；赶走某人

[T]he parliament, to their immortal honour, presently sent him packing.

c. 1695，Dr. Robert South，“To Archbishop of Dublin”, in Sermons, Vol. III:

Two ladies called one day, pale and anxious, and begged earnestly, humbly, to be allowed to see Mr. Moore one instant: Mrs. Yorke hardened her heart, and sent them packing.

1849，Currer Bell [筆名; Charlotte Brontë]，章號 32, in Shirley. A Tale. […]，卷 (請指定|volume=I、II或III), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC:

"Monsieur, you and yours are not for me. Seek elsewhere." . . .
"You send me packing!" he blurted out, getting red in the face.

1904，Gilbert Parker，章號 2, in Michel and Angele:

[L]eague authorities sent him packing after ruling he was registered with a fake Dominican passport under circumstances that remain murky.

2014年June14日，Anne Marie Garcia，“Cuba ballplayers chase dreams, big bucks, overseas”, in Businessweek, retrieved 2014-07-08:


hand someone his hat

hands someone his hat (third-person singular present)
handing someone his hat (present participle)
handed someone his hat (past participle)

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有时用被动语气，如：have one's hat handed to one或get one's hat handed to one

McNeil replied, "It may have been Hitler who helped Chamberlain with his overcoat but don't forget it was the British people who handed him his hat."

1948年November27日，Drew Pearson，“The Washington Merry-go-round”, in Ludington Daily News，US, retrieved 2015-11-10，頁 4:

You grew up under dictators who would have put people to the sword if they dared hand them their hats and invite them to buzz off.

1972年July25日，Bob Considine，“Letter to Kremlin”, in Reading Eagle，US, retrieved 2015-11-10，頁 4:

The President's men, nonetheless, view him the way the Vatican saw Galileo—as a dangerous heretic. . . . They would hand him his hat if they dared.

1984年February6日，Mary McGrory，“Feldstein doggedly speaks his mind”, in Eugene Register-Guard，US, retrieved 2015-11-10，頁 15A:


sophism

源自中古英語 sophim，源自古法語 soffime、sofime、sofisme、sophisme，源自拉丁語 sophisma (“谬误，诡辩”)，源自古希臘語 σόφῐσμᾰ (sóphĭsmă)，源自σοφίζω (sophízō) + -μα (-ma)。

Within the framework of democracy a new ideology, born of sophism, took root and proclaimed the rights of the individual in all spheres, political as well as moral.

1958，Sophie Trenkner，The Greek Novella in the Classical Period，頁 15:

Empiricism has its roots in Greek and Roman sophism and skepticism, and continues through Kant and American pragmatism.

2003，Murray Leaf，“Ethnography and Pragmatism”, in Renascent Pragmatism: Studies in Law and Social Science, →ISBN，頁 92:

Sophistic teachers did not, in general, consciously aim at corrupting the young or turning them against their parents, but the radical skepticism and moral relativism of later sophism indirectly achieved something like this.

2009，Richard M. Berthold，Dare to Struggle: The History and Society of Greece, →ISBN，頁 75:

The hope of improvement is a quality at once so strong and so excellent in the human mind, that I, for one, disapprove of any sophism—or, if you will, argument—that tends to repress it.

1831，L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon]，章號 XIX, in Romance and Reality. […]，卷 I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC，頁 232:


grow on

grows on (third-person singular present)
growing on (present participle)
grew on (past)
grown on (past participle)

I didn't like this song at first, but now it's starting to grow on me.

我一开始不喜欢这首歌，但是现在越来越喜欢。

Blinking and swallowing, she checked her list of questions. “What are some of your favorite outdoor and indoor activities?” “Well, whale watching is growing on me.”

2015，Jenny Elliott，Save Me，Macmillan, →ISBN，頁 82:

"I can tell you now, Sam. […] When you left me last night, the whole deadly seriousness of the matter grew on me, till I was as miserable as a man can be." His face lightened as I spoke.

1902，Bram Stoker，章號 XVIII, in The Mystery of the Sea:

Realisation grew on me / As quickly as it takes your hand

2014，“Hunger of the Pine”, in This Is All Yours，演出者 alt-J:


get a rise out of

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

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He's just doing it to get a rise out of you. Just ignore him.

1985，John Hughes，The Breakfast Club，spoken by Claire Standish (Molly Ringwald):

Ahmadinejad is no simpleton. . . . His Holocaust denial is a flagrant ploy—the easiest way to get a rise out of the Jewish community.

2007年September26日，Joe Klein，“Inflating a Little Man”, in Time:


make nice

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

And now he had to go make nice with the good doctor's grandma.

1999，Gina Wilkins，Doctor in Disguise，頁 18:

[H]e either had to make nice with the guards or make nice with the prisoners. And frankly, the way the prisoners made nice scared the bejeesus out of him.

“A jackass? I'm trying to make nice.” “I don't need your nice. Go make nice with Angela.”


platteland

'It's a local fish - tastes just like barracuda,' said Leo from behind the bar as we dug into platteland-size plates of fish. A bunch of boitjies stood resting their boeps against the counter and talking about fish size and breast size.

2002，Justin Fox，With both hands waving: a journey through Mozambique，頁 44:


pummel

pummels (third-person singular present)
pummelling
pummeling
pummelled
pummeled

Rain pummeled the roof.

雨滴接連不斷地打在屋頂上。

The boxer pummeled his opponent.

The best of friends become the worst of enemies when Barney makes a hilarious attack ad where he viciously pummels a cardboard cut-out of Homer before special guest star Linda Ronstadt joins the fun to both continue the attack on the helpless Homer stand-in and croon a slanderously accurate, insanely catchy jingle about how “Mr. Plow is a loser/And I think he is a boozer.”

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):


smelting

Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.

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


divinator

Of this number are all superstitious idolaters, ethnicks, Mahometans, Jewes, heretiques, enthusiasts, divinators, prophets, sectaries, and schismatiques

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:


modder

源自 mod (“改變（物體）的原始狀態”) + -er (構成施事名詞的後綴)。

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（批量生產之物品或軟體／軟件的）改裝者

Content creators (or ‘modders’) are individuals who create additional content for computer games. […] The creation of 3D models requires a lot of skill, with modders needing to have knowledge of 3D design software and coding so that the models can function within the game itself.

內容創作者（或稱「模組製作者」）是為電腦遊戲創建附加內容的個人。 … 創建 3D 模型需要很多技能，模組製作者需要具備 3D 設計軟體和編碼知識，以便模型能夠在遊戲中發揮作用。

2021年August11日，Chris Howe，“Inspire the March of the ‘Mods’”, in Rail，期 937, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC，頁 62:


cuny

I early found my way to ships to become a sea-cuny.

我早早地就加入了船隊，當上了一名二等水兵。


transpire

借自中古法語 transpirer，源自中世紀拉丁語 transpirare (“通过...呼吸”)，源自拉丁語 trans (“穿过”) spirare (“呼吸”)。“为人所知”一意也出现于法语内，但是“发生”没有。可能后者是在英语内基于前者衍生出来的。

transpires (third-person singular present)
transpiring (present participle)
transpired (past participle)

sweat

出汗，排汗 （17-19世纪）

perspire

出汗，排汗 （17-19世纪）

come to light

为人所知，公开，透露出来 （自18世纪）

词义“发生”可能产生于对“为人所知”一意的误解，后者又是原意“散发出”的一个比喻义。一些评论家认为这样的用法是错误做作的，不应使用。但是，这个用法可追溯回18世纪，且自19世纪以来即已普及。

为人所知，公开，透露出来 （自18世纪）

It eventually transpired that the murder victim had been a notorious blackmailer.

最后发现，谋杀案死者是一个恶名昭彰的勒索者。

Hubert then recommends M. Leproux to be punctual to meet him at the rendezvous agreed on between them, where a third individual, whose name did not transpire, was to join them.

1839，Edmund Burke，The Annual Register of World Events:

Although I was prevented from attending the 1952 annual conference, I was immediately informed as to what had transpired.

1994，Nelson Mandela，“Part Four: The Struggle is My Life”, in Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela，Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN，頁 166:

But there is a school of thought that holds that the more you talk about recession, the more likely it is to transpire.

2018年September21日，Mark Rice-Oxley，“Don't mention the R-word”, in The Guardian:


park-goer

Cobble Hill Park Lush dogwood trees, bright yellow and cream-colored daffodils, and a wrought-iron fence provide an atmosphere of privacy and seclusion to the Brooklyn park-goer.

2008，Joseph Meyers，Inside New York 2009, →ISBN，頁 278:


keep tabs on

见tab (“用来记录的小板子”)。

keeps tabs on (third-person singular present)
keeping tabs on (present participle)
kept tabs on (past participle)

If you are careful to keep tabs on your finances, you should be able to stay within a budget.

The police kept close tabs on him during the holidays.

He might have spent the hours camped under the trees of the more remote meadow, whence in the brilliant moonlight he could keep tabs on the trails.

1910，Stewart Edward White，章號 85, in The Rules of the Game:

I'll catch him—I'll trip him up—I'll keep tabs on his arguments.

1919，Lucy Maud Montgomery，章號 16, in Rainbow Valley:

Syria's much feared state-security apparatus keeps close tabs on everyone entering and leaving the embassy.

2010，Andrew Lee Butters，“Why the U.S. Is Back on the Road to Damascus”, in Time:

Nadal, absent from the draw for the first time nearly two decades, said he won’t watch it all from afar, but he will be keeping tabs.

2023年May18日，Christopher Clarey，“Even as He’s Out, Rafael Nadal Will Always Be a Part of the French Open”, in The New York Times:


auk

來自冰島語 álka，來自古諾爾斯語 alka (“海雀”)，來自原始日耳曼語 *alkǭ，源自原始印歐語 *h₁el- (“一種鳥”)。與瑞典語 alka (“海雀”)、挪威語及丹麥語 alke (“海雀”)、瑞典語方言alla (“長尾鴨”) (Clangula hyemalis, syn. Fuligula glacialis)、拉丁語 olor (“天鵝”)、古希臘語 ἐλέα (eléa，“沼澤鳥”)、威爾士語 alarch (“天鵝”)同源。

awk (alternative)
alk (alternative)
auks (plural)

Further afield, these auks are also in dire straits: Norway has seen vertiginous crashes, with hundreds of thousands of adult puffins in the once-teeming colony of Røst struggling to fledge any chicks in recent years.

在更遠的地方，這些海雀也陷入了可怕的困境：挪威發生了令人眩暈的崩潰狀況，近年來，在曾經人口稠密的勒斯特棲息地，數十萬隻成年海雀正掙扎着養大雛鳥。


put the cart before the horse

puts the cart before the horse (third-person singular present)
putting the cart before the horse (present participle)
put the cart before the horse (past participle)

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The hour had struck; and with it, as always, appeared the man. So it has ever been in the history of the world; though we, with characteristic vanity, uniformly put the cart before the horse, and declare that it is the man that brings the hour.

1898，Julian Hawthorne，章號 1, in The History of the United States:

To attempt to remove the armaments before removing these substantive conflicts of interest is to put the cart before the horse.

1957年December2日，“Corruption of the Mind”, in Time:

Mr. Schumer said that the idea of agreeing to a date for a vote before the committee had held hearings was "to put the cart before horse."

2005年July27日，David D. Kirkpatrick，“Timing of Hearings and Vote Stalls Confirmation Talks”, in New York Times, retrieved 2008-11-06:


sardonic

源自法語 sardonique，源自拉丁語 sardonius，源自古希臘語 σαρδόνιος (sardónios)，σαρδάνιος (sardánios，“尖酸刻薄的笑”)的变体，被认为源自撒丁岛的一种植物（撒丁岛毛茛（Ranunculus sardous）或者藏红花色水芹（Oenanthe crocata）），作σαρδάνη (sardánē)或σαρδόνιον (sardónion)。据称食用这种植物会导致人的面部扭曲成像蔑视的表情（之后通常会死亡）。可能还与σαίρω (saírō，“露齿笑”)有关。

more sardonic (comparative)
most sardonic (superlative)

He distances himself from people with his nasty, sardonic laughter.

他的笑讨厌而轻蔑，让大家都疏远他了。

[Q]Uivering fears, Heart-tearing cares, / Anxious ſighs, Untimely tears, / Fly, fly to the Courts; / Fly to fond worldings ſports, / Where ſtrain’d Sardonick ſmiles are cloſing ſtill, / And grief is forc’d to laugh againſt her will; / Where mirth’s but mummery, / And ſorrows only real be.

1685，Henry Wotton，“[A Deſcription of the Countrys Recreations.] Poems Found among the Papers of Sir Henry Wotton”, in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ, or, A collection of Lives, Letters, Poems; […] ，第Fourth版, London: […] B[enjamin] Tooke, […] and T[homas] Sawbridge […] , →OCLC，頁s 390–391:

Another manifestation, significantly reaching its apogee in the midst of Antonine virtues, was the growing popularity of adoxographical exercises. Mock panegyrics were dashed off, not just by sardonic intellectuals such as Lucian, but also by trained courtiers and polished encomiasts of the stamp of [Marcus Cornelius] Fronto.

1979，Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History [Collection Latomus; 164]，卷 1, Brussels: Latomus, →OCLC，頁 111:


contrariant

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

more contrariant (comparative)
most contrariant (superlative)

the struggles of contrariant factions

1795，Samuel Taylor Coleridge，address delivered in Bristol:

The learned Chancellor concludes:—“We have long ago satisfied ourselves that natural science, as represented by Darwin, is not contrariant to revealed religon, and it is a wholesome thing to be remnided that every good and perfect gift cometh from the Father of Light.”

1903年January14日，“Current Notes”, in Bye-Gones: Relating to Wales and the Border Counties，卷 8，頁 8:


supposer

It is evident, however, that such suppositions can do no more than illustrate the peculiar opinions of the supposer, and cannot prove that which, in the nature of things, they pre-suppose.

1834，Sir James Mackintosh，History of the revolution in England in 1688:


fiefdom

The duke's fiefdom had been greatly expanded as a reward for his dutiful military service on behalf of the king.

"If you wish to offer any of my vassals fiefdoms or positions in your new kingdom, they have my leave to accept. I promised them that when they came with me."

1989，Robert Shea，The Saracen，The Holy War:

“[Bill Clinton] was just walking around, looking in all the offices, like he was surveying his fiefdom. He had a big grin on his face.”

2008，David Maraniss，First In His Class: A Biography Of Bill Clinton，Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

Hollande told cheering supporters in his rural fiefdom of Corrèze in south-west France that he was best-placed to lead France towards change, saying the vote marked a "rejection" of Sarkozy and a "sanction" against his five years in office.

2012年April23日，Angelique Chrisafis，“François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election”, in The Guardian:

Bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX was run as the “personal fiefdom” of founder Sam Bankman-Fried, with one of the company’s units spending $300m on real estate in the Bahamas for the use of its executives, a court heard on Tuesday.

2022年November22日，Dominic Rushe，“FTX was run as ‘personal fiefdom’ of Sam Bankman-Fried, court hears”, in The Guardian:


loose lips sink ships

略自一个美国战时的宣传标语。

Loose Lips Sink Ships, said the wartime poster. Of course the ships will all sink anyway, sooner or later.

2000，Margaret Atwood，The Blind Assassin，Anchor, 出版於 2007, →ISBN，頁 448:

‘Loose lips sink ships,’ she spat at Dad once, when they were arguing about Grandpa, but ‘loose lips killed our son.’

2014，Crystal Chan，Bird，Random House, →ISBN，頁 59:


get a kick out of

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

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高兴于，喜欢，从...得到乐趣

I really got a kick out of that clown's juggling act.

我觉得那个小丑的杂技特别好玩。

Some get a kick from cocaine / I'm sure that if I took even one sniff / That would bore me terrifically too / Yet I get a kick out of you

1934，Cole Porter （作曲作詞）, “I Get a Kick Out of You”:


go nuclear

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

In this context, the humiliating defeat of 1971 and the Indian nuclear test were major factors in the Pakistani decision to go nuclear.

2000，Hooman Peimani，Nuclear Proliferation in the Indian Subcontinent, →ISBN，頁 28:

A decision to go nuclear has important adverse diplomatic repercussions as well. Trying to build a nuclear arsenal is not the way to win friends in the international community.

2008，Ted Galen Carpenter，Smart Power: Toward a Prudent Foreign Policy for America, →ISBN，頁 111:

This agreement codified nuclear apartheid, leaving in place three types of nuclear states: the five recognized nuclear powers (the United States, Britain, China, France, and the Soviet Union), NATO and Warsaw Pact allies with access to nuclear weapons but not ownership, and a large class of non-nuclear states who renounced their right to go nuclear.

2010，Shane J. Maddock，Nuclear Apartheid, →ISBN:

Now the cost-benefiters calculated nuclear power to be a more efficient investment than building more coal-fired plants, which put them in agreement with the technological optimists on the question of whether to go nuclear.

1997，Robert Pool，Beyond Engineering: How Society Shapes Technology, →ISBN:

However, once we bite the bullet and decide to go nuclear again, it will take at least a decade before new plants start coming on line.

2005，A.W. Galston, Christiana Z. Peppard，Expanding Horizons in Bioethics, →ISBN，頁 240:

When US energy policy went nuclear, about the same time as some large mines flooded in Canada and Australia, hedge fund speculators dived into the market and uranium shot up to US$138 a pound, settling back eventually to about half that price, but still almost ten times the US$7 low.

I suppose what he is worried about is epitomized by a conversation that I had ten years ago with the Executive Vice President of a utility that was going nuclear.

2013，George G. Berg，Measurement of Risks, →ISBN，頁 338:

Some have suggested that nuclear disarmament will increase the chance that conventional wars will occur since nation states will no longer be deterred by the thought that wars can go nuclear.

1984，Douglas P. Lackey，Moral Principles and Nuclear Weapons, →ISBN，頁 236:

This paper does not deal with nuclear terrorism as Thomas Schelling once defined it — namely being he 'balance of nuclear terror' between the major nuclear weapon state - but rather refers to terrorist groups going nuclear.

2012，Paul Wilkinson，Technology and Terorrism, →ISBN，頁 48:

The best place to be if things went nuclear was in a bomb shelter.

2015，Dean Marquis，Roxanne of Dark Energy: A Construct of Science Fiction, →ISBN:

“We cut the show short, and the brothers went nuclear on me afterward,” said Sammy. “They crucified me for that."

2011，Kevin Dodds，Edward Van Halen: A Definitive Biography, →ISBN，頁 150:

He snickered. Janelle was going nuclear. “Why didn't you tell me?” she shouted.

There's barely a week that goes by without me going nuclear about something or other to do with middle age as portrayed in the media.

2015，Helen Walmsley-Johnson，The Invisible Woman: Taking on the Vintage Years, →ISBN:

Years ago, the sport spread from New Zealand to Australia—and went nuclear. Overnight, it seemed, Australia boasted 40 tracks, which were promptly divided into several warring factions.

1999 November，Ted West，“Kicking and Screaming”, in Boating，頁 114:

As if the release of her emotions had freed something in him, his ardor increased and the kiss went nuclear.

2011，Lucy Monroe，The Sheikh's Bartered Bride, →ISBN:

But the fever pitch went nuclear when the Ramones took the stage.

2015，Marky Ramone, Richard Herschlag，Punk Rock Blitzkrieg: My Life as a Ramone, →ISBN，頁 358:

“They don’t want to deal with this,” Ms. Lalich said. “It’s going to have to go nuclear, using the Insurrection Act and bringing out the military.”

2020年December12日，Hailey Fuchs, Pranshu Verma, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs，“4 Stabbed and One Shot as Trump Supporters and Opponents Clash”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


rein in

reins in (third-person singular present)
reining in (present participle)
reined in (past participle)

The government has no other option than to rein in public spending.

政府不得不减少公共开支。

“As you are well aware, over the last few months we’ve made a considerable effort to rein in costs, but it simply hasn’t been enough,” Daniel Ek, Spotify’s chief executive, said in a note to employees on Monday.

2023年January23日，Isabella Simonetti，引 Daniel Ek, “Spotify to Lay Off 6% of Its Work Force”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


knock for a loop

knocks for a loop (third-person singular present)
knocking for a loop (present participle)
knocked for a loop (past participle)

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throw for a loop

使...惊讶，使...困惑，使...动摇，使...犹豫

throw off

使...惊讶，使...困惑，使...动摇，使...犹豫

使...惊讶，使...困惑，使...动摇，使...犹豫

[Denham answered] "Gas bombs, Old Man! My own prescription. […] Gas bombs powerful enough to knock a row of elephants for a loop."

1932，Delos W. Lovelace，King Kong，出版於 1965，頁 7:

[A] triple threat to the U.S. economy[…]has knocked stock prices for a loop.

1967 November 17，“Wall Street: Big Casino”, in Time, retrieved 2014-08-02:

Poor Janice, she'll be knocked for a loop. She'll feel she's let her father down.

1990，John Updike，Rabbit at Rest, →ISBN，頁 394:

Karyn McNay as Ulla, the sexy Swedish actress/receptionist/cleaning woman, knocks the audience for a loop too.

2008 September 7，Anita Gates，“Stage: Dinner and a Show, in One Spot, at One Price”, in The New York Times, retrieved 2014-08-02:


afforest

16世纪起可考。源自中世紀拉丁語 afforēstō，源自拉丁語 ad (“向”) + forēsta (“森林”)。

afforests (third-person singular present)
afforesting (present participle)
afforested (past participle)

“afforest”曾意指将林地纳入森林法下，使其变成狩猎场。但现在一般指为了经济开发目的。

After we leave the quarry, we intend to afforest the land and turn it into a nature reserve.

我们离开采石场后，打算把那片地绿化成森林，变成自然保护区。

It is probably impossible to afforest quickly any real desert.

1901年June7日，G. H. Davies，“Rain-making”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record，卷 4, 期 7，頁 195:


dimwitted

My memories of high school and college French are mostly negative because I usually felt dimwitted anytime I tried to speak.

2010年December19日，Terry Gardner，“The Gift of Foreign-language Learning”, in The Chicago Tribune, retrieved 2013-04-17:


hindsight is 20/20

20/20指的是使用斯内伦视力表测视力时的正常视力水平。

Another common error dealing with memory is that of "hindsight bias." This is the tendency to exaggerate what could have been anticipated in the past. This is also known as "Monday morning quarter backing" or "hindsight is 20/20" where the "right" decision as to what should have been done appears to be more obvious now than it was in the past.

2009，Joseph Grcic，Facing Reality: An Introduction to Philosophy，第Revised版, Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse，頁 57:

Honestly? If you would have told me that becoming a professional tennis player might net me a decent supply of free pasta, I would have never begged my mom to quit my lessons. 😭 Hindsight = 20/20.

2023年July30日，Gretty Garcia，“Coco Gauff Is Still a Teenager, but Her Net Worth Reveals That She’s Already a Millionaire”, in Cosmopolitan:


undulating

more undulating (comparative)
most undulating (superlative)

上下晃动的，起伏的，波浪一样的

The Borinage coalfield around Mons is another attractive area for the railway enthusiast; it is rather like South Lancashire, with its gently undulating landscape studded with slag heaps and pithead gear and criss-crossed by railway lines and tramways.

1960 February，J. N. Faulkner，“The Belgian Railways today”, in Trains Illustrated，頁 86:


undulating

In good poetry every word and phrase, as Professor McKail says, reverberates like the sound of a lyre, and leaves after it numberless undulatings. The verse exhales sweet sound, and light-like thought, as perfumes do; but we cannot explain just why.

1930，John Thomas Ingram Bryan，The Philosophy of English Literature，頁 27:


icecube

ice cube的另一種拼寫法

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

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


transmogrify

17世纪，词源不详，但可能源自transmigure、transmigrate。但还可能派生自maugre，因此一开始可能指“凶眼”，但受到了上一个词源的影响，其词义变换为“变形”。还有一种可能性是transfigure和modify的合并。

transmogrifies (third-person singular present)
transmogrifying (present participle)
transmogrified (past participle)

/tɹænzˈmɒɡɹɪfaɪ/

/tɹænzˈmɑɡɹɪfaɪ/

Our present Governors (who have transmografide Monarchy into a Free State) ...

1652，n.a. [Isabel Yeamans]，The Year of Wonders，London: George Horton，頁 10:

Just set the dial to "Calvin", and I'll transmogrify back to a boy.

1987年April2日，Bill Watterson，Calvin & Hobbes (comic):

But 'Hamilton,' directed by Thomas Kail and starring Mr. Miranda, might just be about worth it—at least to anyone who wants proof that the American musical is not only surviving but also evolving in ways that should allow it to thrive and transmogrify in years to come.

2015年August5日，“Review: `Hamilton,' Young Rebels Changing History and Theater”, in The New York Times:


get down to brass tacks

不详。字面意思是「黄铜钉子」。最早记录出现于1863年美国德克萨斯。一个理论认为，其源自五金店或布店的柜台上用来以准确单位量布的黄铜钉子（而不是用一边放在鼻子前，另一边放在伸长的手臂上来近似量出一码）。还有一种说法是，其源自19世纪通行于美国的用黄铜钉子在棺材上写出死者名字的做法。再有一种说法是，美国西部早期用黄铜钉子来装饰枪托的习惯。用黄铜是因为其不会生锈而且易于抛光。根据作家Stanley Vestal的说法，“钉在步枪上的黄铜钉子记录了死在枪口下的受害者的数量。黄铜钉子。”

gets down to brass tacks (third-person singular present)
getting down to brass tacks (present participle)
got down to brass tacks (past)
gotten down to brass tacks (past participle)
got down to brass tacks (past participle)

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When you come down to brass tacks – if we may be allowed the expression – everybody is governed by selfishness.

1863, January 21, 1863, The Tri-Weekly Telegraph, newspaper of Houston, Texas

That's no answer. Get down to brass tacks.

Let's get down to brass tacks here. How much for the ape?

1972, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

We're gonna stop playing games with these Arabs and get down to brass tacks!

You must be Jules, which would make you Vincent. Let's get down to brass tacks, gentlemen. If I was informed correctly, the clock is ticking. Is that right, Jimmie?

1994，Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary，Pulp Fiction，spoken by The Wolf (Harvey Keitel):

And if the government got a grip, got down to brass tacks and started doing their actual job, all these things could be avoided.

2023年April2日，Pippa Crerar, Robyn Vinter，引 Lisa Nandy, “Suella Braverman denies Brexit to blame for Dover queues of 14 hours”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:


jerkwad

And frankly, jerkwad, you're not worthy to lick the dirt off his briefcase.

2001，William Bernhardt，Murder One，Ballantine, →ISBN，頁 110:

Hidge said, "Someone with a license, jerkwad."

2001, Bill Roorbach, The Smallest Color, Counterpoint, 2003 pbk ed., ISBN 1-5824-3252-X, p. 222:

You're not crazy, just extremely annoying. Go soak your head, jerkwad.

2003年December16日，“Confidentials”, in Weekly World News，頁 23:


keep at arm's length

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Ramsey's goal secured the points, but the win came on the back of a measured performance that saw Arsenal keep Dortmund at arm's length for long periods and score with a classic counter-attack.

2013年November6日，Chris Bevan，“Borussia Dortmund 0-1 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport:


make tick

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

I honestly don't know the specifics that make him tick, and I wish I did.

2005，Cherie Priest，Four and Twenty Blackbirds, →ISBN，頁 91:

Most of us find ourselves caught in the middle, ducking for cover and wondering just who these people are and what could possibly make them tick.

2012，Kevin Seamus Hasson，The Right to Be Wrong: Ending the Culture War Over Religion in America, →ISBN:

I wanted to roam the world, exploring what made it tick, helping to make it tick better, and never get married.

2013，Betty Lussier，Intrepid Woman: Betty Lussier's Secret War, 1942-1945, →ISBN:


glutton for punishment

sucker for punishment

不怕吃苦的人，坚持不懈的人，百折不挠的人

不怕吃苦的人，坚持不懈的人，百折不挠的人

I should have quit this job long ago, but I guess I'm just a glutton for punishment.

我早就该辞掉这份工作，但是我觉得我这人可能比较不怕吃苦。

Other gluttons for punishment include Phil Whittingham，源自Avanti West Coast, who has returned for four events in a row.

2021年October6日，Paul Bigland，“The hills were alive... again”, in RAIL，期 941，頁 54:


go to great lengths

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

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The most surprising thing was to discover that each job had its little tricks, peculiarities that had been learned in the experience of years, and one of the really pleasing features was the unlimited patience and kindliness of the chargehands and fitters, who would go to great lengths to teach the budding engineer all they themselves knew.

1944 September and October，A Former Pupil，“Some Memories of Crewe Works—I”, in Railway Magazine，頁 283:

[…] They said good-bye on the eleventh, and the Portuguese noblemen saw him off, going to great lengths to show him respect."

2008, José Rodrigues does Santos, Codex 632: The Secret Identity of Christopher Columbus (trans. from the Portuguese by Alison Entrekin), William Morrow (2008), ISBN 9780061173189, page 262:

Most scholars writing on the mafia were going to great lengths to demonstrate that it did not exist—and the mobsters wanted to keep their brotherhood secret.

2009，Diego Gambetta，Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate，Princeton University Press, 出版於 2009, →ISBN，頁 272:

As a father, I would go to great lengths to protect my children.

2013，Chad R. Torgerson，Waking Up Catholic: A Guide to Catholic Beliefs for Converts, Reverts, and Anyone Becoming Catholic，Assisi Media, 出版於 2013, →ISBN，頁 62:


soapbox

soap + box。比喻用法是因为美国的肥皂产品常用大木箱运到商店内，以前，常有人看到可以站上去的东西（比如这些肥皂箱子）就站上去开始向附近居民发表即兴演讲。

观点发表平台；临时演讲台

The madman obtained a soapbox which he stood on at the corner of Broadway and Wall street, to shout out his prophesy of the end of the world.

那个疯子站在百老汇和华尔街角落，大喊大叫宣传他的世界末日预言。

The one image which the word “Socialist” brought to Jurgis was of poor little Tamoszius Kuszleika, who had called himself one, and would go out with a couple of other men and a soap-box, and shout himself hoarse on a street corner Saturday nights.

1905，Upton Sinclair，章號 XXV, in The Jungle，紐約，N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, 出版於 1906年2月26日, →OCLC:

Bernhard's last appearance on a late-night talk show was a handy soapbox to expound on his political message of patriotism, nationalism, and populism.

2013，Robert F. Ely，Candidate for President, →ISBN，頁 25:


soapbox

soapboxes (third-person singular present)
soapboxing (present participle)
soapboxed (past participle)

（站在某处）发表临时演讲

He soapboxed for whales and pressed us to write petitions and demonstrate with him—he as the leader, we as followers.

2011，Phil Wolfson，Noe: A Father-Son Song of Love, Life, Illness, and Death，North Atlantic Books, →ISBN:

[…] and various members soapboxed in Hyde Park on Sunday.

2015，Marc Matera，Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century，University of California Press, →ISBN，頁 80:


all hell breaks loose

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可作为固定句子使用，也可以有时态等的变化。

Came not all hell broke loose?

1667，John Milton，“(please specify the book number)”, 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:

I think it's kind of fun because, had Hillary Clinton spoken at the Democratic Convention, all hell would have broken loose.

1992年August19日，“Beckel, Barnes and Rollins Discuss the Republican Convention”, in CBS Morning:

It was a shocking attack, and within hours all hell had broken loose.

2023年November26日，Rory Carroll，Lisa O'Carroll，“‘Remember who we are’: riots, race, and the end of the ‘Irish welcome’”, in The Observer, →ISSN:


out of kilter

源自out of + kilter、kelter (“（良好的）条件，秩序，条理；状态”)。最后一个词词源不详，但在英国和美国是方言用词。

还能与throw连用，如“an impact can throw the adjustment out of kilter”（“撞击会让这些调整完全混乱”）。

不正常的，不协调的，混乱的，失去条理的，失灵的，故障的

I stayed up late to watch a movie, and my entire sleeping schedule has been out of kilter ever since.

我熬夜看了一部电影以后，我的作息规律就完全被打乱了。

Aye, ſquire, that thing [a statue of Hercules] has been fixt in this ſpot I warrant you theſe hundred years; it was ſadly out of kilter when I came to the eſtate, but I got my neighbour the conſtable, who is a carpenter, to make him that right arm, and put the ſtaff into it, for I could not bear to ſee ſuch a clumſy log as he had in it before; [...]

1762，[Susan Smythies]，“Presents the Reader with a Prospect of the Sullens”, in The Stage-coach: Containing the Character of Mr. Manly, and the History of His Fellow Travellers，Dublin: Printed by Henry Saunders […], →OCLC，頁 140:

Wall, chilern, whar dar is so much racket dar must be somethin' out o' kilter. I thik dat 'twixt de niggers of de Souf and de womin at de Norf, all talkin' 'bout rights, de white men will be in a fix pretty soon.

1851年May29日，Sojourner Truth, reported by Frances D[ana] Gage，“Ohio [Reminiscences by Frances D. Gage. Sojourner Truth. [Ain’t I a Woman?]]”, in History of Woman Suffrage. [...] In Three Volumes，卷s I (1848–1861), Rochester, N.Y., London: Susan B. Anthony; Charles Mann […], 出版於 1887, →OCLC，頁 116:

[T]hey are either round-shouldered, knock-kneed, bow-legged, or parrot-toed; some are also badly cross-eyed. It seems as if they can see two different ways at the same time. Jack says they are lop-sided and out of kilter altogether.

1890，Charles Erskine，章號 V, in Twenty Years before the Mast: […]，Boston, Mass.: Published by the author, →OCLC，頁 72:

Snowstorms often knock the Government's Salt Lake radio range out of kilter.

1941年March10日，“An Airliner Cracks Up in Pine Woods near Atlanta and Seven People Die”, in Life，卷 10, 期 10, Chicago, Ill., New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, photograph caption，頁 27:

This was a champion team out of kilter, stung by what was arguably an act of disrespect to their opponents, a failure to appreciate their threat and the fine planning of Carlos Osorio, and never really able to regain its balance.

2018年June17日，Barney Ronay，“Mexico’s Hirving Lozano stuns world champions Germany for brilliant win”, in The Guardian，London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC，存檔自the original on 2019-08-05:


songster

繼承自中古英語 songster、sangester、sangstere，繼承自古英語 sangestre (“女歌手”)，等價於 song + -ster。同源詞包括低地蘇格蘭語 sangstar (“歌手”)。亦對照西弗里斯蘭語 sjongster (“歌手”)。

The woodcock, the snipe, and other nocturnal birds were all gone to rest; but the merry songsters of the wood now filled the air with their jubilee; the nutcracker began his monotonous clattering, the chaffinches and the wrens sang high in the sky, the blackcock scolded and blustered loudly, the thrush sang his mocking songs and libellous ditties about everybody, but became occasionally a little sentimental and warbled gently and bashfully some tender stanzas.

1886，Peter Christen Asbjørnsen，譯者 H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales，頁 89:

Because the Jew was often compelled to sing and dance to a fixed Mah Yafit melody at the wild orgies of the paritzim (wealthy Polish landowners), many deliberately discontinued singing Mah Yafit, thus causing the text to be removed from numerous Siddurim and songsters in the early 1900s.

1996，Macy Nulman，The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer，頁 234:


grind to a halt

grinds to a halt (third-person singular present)
grinding to a halt (present participle)
ground to a halt (past participle)

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Work on the new high-rise ground to a halt as contractors tried to deal with all the red tape.

After the visionary's death, work on his ideas ground to a halt.

But to no avail - the suburban (Sunday) service ground to a halt, with only 20 of the 268 motormen turning up for work on Boxing Day [1949]. Kempton Park races lost 10,000 visitors, with the cancellation of 12 extra race day trains.

2023年December27日，David Turner，“Silent lines...”, in RAIL，期 999，頁 29:


Artsakh

借自亞美尼亞語 Արցախ (Arcʻax)。

The historian Movses Khorenatsi (an Armenian source from the fifth century AD according to some, and the eighth century AD, according to others) indicated that the province of Utik (along with Artsakh with which it was contiguous on the south) was part of the Armenian kingdom of the Ervandunis (or Orontids) between the fourth to second centuries BC.

1994，Levon Chorbajian, Patrick Donabédian, Claude Mutafian，The Caucasian Knot: The History & Geopolitics of Nagorno-Karabagh，Zed Books，頁 53:

For the most part, Caucasian Albania (in Armenian, A[ġ]vank—that is Aghvank or Aghouank) only stretched a short way south of the Kura River. If there was a disputed province of ancient Armenia, it was Utik (which contained the town of Partav, at one time Caucasian Albania's capital, and the southern valley of the Kura), and not Artsakh, the more mountainous region corresponding to Karabakh and Shahumianovsk today.

2003年December16日，John Wright, Richard Schofield, Suzanne Goldenberg，Transcaucasian Boundaries，Routledge，頁 91:

Khorenatsi indicated that the province of Utik, together with Artsakh adjoining it to the south, formed part of the Armenian kingdom of the Ervandunis (or Orontids) in the fourth to second centuries BC.

2016年May13日，Ohannes Geukjian，Ethnicity, Nationalism and Conflict in the South Caucasus: Nagorno-Karabakh and the Legacy of Soviet Nationalities Policy，Routledge，頁 30:


chalk up to

chalks up to (third-person singular present)
chalking up to (present participle)
chalked up to (past participle)

Chalk it up to fear that he didn't finish.

将他没有完成归因于恐惧。

“You can chalk it up maybe to, as one of my friends says, a nautical superstition,” he said. “Maybe I read too many Greek tragedies. I don't believe something’s going to happen like that until it’s happened.

1990年October5日，“Souter plans to get right down to work”, in Fort Worth Star-Telegram，卷 85, 期 154, section 1，頁 14:

Some of the best pre-mortems for Steve Ballmer, out-going CEO of Microsoft, have chalked up the company's problem to the "innovator's dilemma."

2013年August28日，Derek Thompson，“How Goliaths Beat Themselves: Microsoft's Mobile Failure and the Innovator's Dilemma”, in The Atlantic:


shack up

shacks up (third-person singular present)
shacking up (present participle)
shacked up (past participle)

The only thing I want to do after the war is marry some girl who's got more money than I have and shack up with lots more pretty girls.

1961年November10日，Joseph Heller，“The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […]，New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC，頁 173:

So I don't believe in alimony, okay, love? / Though I think we'd ought to / Shack up baby, shack up

The other rumor flying around thicker 'n flies on a three-day-old carcass is that new redheaded cook, Rory, is shacked up with you.


come off

comes off (third-person singular present)
coming off (present participle)
came off (past)
come off (past participle)

Well that is precisely what I did, and as I had never heard of using gloves and veil in connection with bees I suppose I came off lightly with one sting on the tip of the nose.

1952，British Bee Journal & Bee-keepers Adviser，卷 80，頁 466:

It came off as we expected.

And then the wedding came off, and the king gave a grand feast which lasted for many a day, and if they have not done feasting by this, why they are still at it.

1886，Peter Christen Asbjørnsen，譯者 H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales，頁 61:

‘I was never frightened of any job yet,’ he said, ‘and I'd do this job to-night if the house was full of rozzers,’ Hill pretended that he wasn't particular whether the thing came off or not that night, but all the while he kept egging Fred on to do it.

1916，Arthur J. Rees, John R. Watson，The Hampstead Mystery:


side hustle

But think of this side hustle as an opportunity to do something you love to do.

2015年December14日，Carl Richards，“Your Most Valuable Asset Is Yourself”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

“I love the side hustle. It allows you to do something that your job does not allow you to do.”

2017年March31日，Rob Walker，“Headphones Won’t Solve the Problem of a Chatty Colleague”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

The majority of Americans with a side hustle are young millennials,[…]

2017年August11日，“Survey: 44 million Americans have a “side hustle””, in WSPA 7NEWS:

He wrote on Twitter that the submissions were largely “driven by ‘side hustle’ experts making claims of easy money with ChatGPT.”

2023年February23日，Michael Levenson，引 Neil Clarke, “Science Fiction Magazines Battle a Flood of Chatbot-Generated Stories”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


smooth-talking

more smooth-talking (comparative)
most smooth-talking (superlative)

By the time the campaign was finished, you never saw a quicker, more smooth-talking political animal than Afram Milovan.

1988，Owen Sela，The KGB Candidate, →ISBN，頁 261:

Children are an increasingly attractive target for ID thieves, in part because they're easy prey for smooth-talking predators in chat rooms, and because the crime can go undetected for years.

2005，Dan Tynan，Computer Privacy Annoyances, →ISBN:

In another case, a young woman, a smooth-talking, parasitic psychopath, constantly complained to her friends that her parents were not contributing enough to her already lavish lifestyle.

2011，Robert D. Hare，Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us, →ISBN:

At twenty-one, it was easy for strippers to fall for smooth-talking, married customers.


smooth-talking

Anything is possible, but if you haven't begun talking smooth yet, then I would really like to have a demonstration of what you think smooth-talking is.

2008，Brian Peterson，Move Over, Girl: A Novel, →ISBN，頁 114:

For instance, suppose that smooth-talking is important for business.

2013，David Hulme, John Toye，Understanding Poverty and Well-Being: Bridging the Disciplines, →ISBN:

No more smooth-talking or wheedling or coercing.

2014，Bonnie Dee，The New Leaf Pledge, →ISBN:


elevenses

源自方言词elevens (“11点钟的一餐饭”)。

elevensies

（上午十一点左右的）上午茶

（上午十一点左右的）上午茶

The harvestmen who board in the farm-houses fare sumptuously during the month of harvest.— […] at eleven o'clock in the morning, and four in the afternoon, they have each a large light plum-bun, with a pint of ale a piece, carried into the field, to encourage them to work cheerfully. These extra refreshments they call, in their provincial language, their "elevenses" and "fourses." I could not at first imagine what the servants meant by talking of carrying the harvestmen their elevenses and fourses, till Mrs. Henley explained that it was a vulgar abbreviation of the four-o'clock and eleven o'clock meals.

1837 February，Anna Lee，“The Pinch of Salt”, in The Ladies’ Companion: A Monthly Magazine, Embracing Literature and the Arts, […]，卷 VI, New York, N.Y.: Published by William W. Snowdon, →OCLC，頁 162，列 2:

"In Europe," said Ghosh Babu who read a great deal, "they all stop work at eleven to have tea or coffee or cocoa, or some stronger beverage; they call it elevenses." / […] ["]Ghosh Babu, how long time they get for elevenses?" / "About half-an-hour," replied Ghosh with authority. […] / "We get no time off for elevenses," complained Sambamurthy. "We should bring it up before the Clerks' Association."

1989，Khushwant Singh，“Man, How the Government of India Run!”, in The Collected Short Stories of Khushwant Singh，New Delhi: Ravi Dayal Publisher, →ISBN，頁 96; 再版為 “Book Extract: They also Serve …”, in Sunday，卷 18, 期 4, Calcutta: Ananda Bazar Patrika, 2 January – 2 February 1991, →OCLC，頁s 75–76:

Even in these tough economic times when many employers seem hell-bent on sucking any and all vestiges of pleasure out of the daily existence of the average working stiff, some things remain sacrosanct. Chief among them is the partaking of elevenses. Even if we spend the majority of our lives glued to a desk, staring at a computer screen or in meetings pretending we care about the interpretation of a spreadsheet, the break for a hot drink and a little snackette between breakfast and lunch is a covenant between Britain and God.

2010，Simon Majumdar，“Elevenses”, in Eating for Britain: A Journey into the Heart (and Belly) of the Nation，London: John Murray, →ISBN:

Betjeman, who was a bit of a gricer, wrote: "I know of no greater pleasure for elevenses in London than to sit in this tea place and watch the trains arrive and depart."

2021年January13日，Christian Wolmar，“Read all about London's Cathedrals of Steam”, in RAIL, issue 922，頁 63:


break in

breaks in (third-person singular present)
breaking in (present participle)
broke in (past)
broken in (past participle)

Someone broke in and stole his radio.

有人闯进来偷了他的收音机。

Thousands gathered at São Paulo’s main cathedral and made their way to the mayor’s office, where a small group smashed windows and tried to break in, forcing guards to withdraw.

2013年June18日，Simon Romero，“Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-06-21:

While brothel patrons placed their bets / On who would be the first to break her in

2002，Allison Moorer （作曲作詞）, “Ruby Jewel Was Here”, in Miss Fortune:


pitch in

pitches in (third-person singular present)
pitching in (present participle)
pitched in (past participle)

If we all pitch in, we can raise enough money for the renovation of the church.

我们每个人都帮忙的话，我们就能为教堂的翻新筹到够多的钱。

He spent 20 minutes one afternoon describing the club he'd formed with other teenagers in his Brooklyn neighborhood. They'd each pitched in a buck a month to rent the basement of a mallet factory, which they used as a clubhouse.

2008 October，Davy Rothbart，“How I caught up with dad”, in Men's Health，卷 23, 期 8, →ISSN，頁 112:


absenter

缺席者，暫時離開者 （最早見於16世紀末）

[…] if many of them that vse the meanes of saluation, shall not bee saued, where shall wilfull Recusants, obstinate absenters, and carelesse contemners of the Word, appeare?

1621，Thomas Taylor，The Parable of the Sower and the Seed，London: John Bartlet，頁 259:

It was little to be wondered at, from this account that the country-folk refused to go to the parish church, and chose rather to listen to outed ministers in the fields. But this was not to be allowed, and their persecutors at last fell on the method of calling a roll of the parishioners’ names every Sabbath, and marking a fine of twenty shillings Scots to the name of each absenter.

1966, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Pentland Rising: A Page of History, Edinburgh: Andrew Elliot, Chapter 1, p. 4,


read between the lines

reads between the lines (third-person singular present)
reading between the lines (present participle)
read between the lines (past participle)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-read between the lines.ogg

If you read between the lines a little, you will realize that he has deeper motives.

如果你稍微多想想，你就会懂他有更深层的动机。

“I’m quite of your opinion,” Miss Van Vluyck came briskly to her support; “on condition, that is, that all grossness of language is avoided.”
“Oh, I’m sure we shall understand without that,” Mrs. Leveret tittered; and Laura Glyde added significantly: “I fancy we can read between the lines,” while Mrs. Ballinger rose to assure herself that the doors were really closed.

“Trust is as trust does. I tend to be extremely literal in what I say … One does not [need]^([sic]) to read between the lines. One can simply read the lines,” Musk said in the meeting, according to a tweet from Nola Weinstein, Twitter’s global head of brand experiences and engagement.

2022年June16日，Kari Paul，引 Elon Musk, “In rare move, Elon Musk meets Twitter employees to give ‘freedom of speech’ address”, in The Guardian:


fall on deaf ears

falls on deaf ears (third-person singular present)
falling on deaf ears (present participle)
fell on deaf ears (past)
fallen on deaf ears (past participle)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/en-au-fall on deaf ears.ogg

Every time I ask him to do something for me, it falls on deaf ears.

每次我叫他干什么，都被当成耳旁风。

My earlier warnings, both in RAIL and in an article I wrote for The Times, have not fallen on deaf ears. There are many people (I suspect most) in the [rail] industry who recognise that telling people not to use their trains will cause lasting damage, but they are silenced publicly because they are now taking the Government's shilling.

2020年June17日，Christian Wolmar，“The strategy of 'don't use the railways' must be reversed...”, in Rail，頁 44:


titubant

源自法語 titubant，tituber 的現在分詞，源自拉丁語 titubāre (“蹣跚”)，titubō 的現在主動不定式。

more titubant (comparative)
most titubant (superlative)

To these, by the door L. C., the CURATE and the NOTARY, arm in arm; the latter owl-like and titubant

1896，Robert Louis Stevenson，Macaire, act i, scene 2 (stage directions):

His walk had become titubant.

1928，Acta Psychiatrica et Neurologica，卷 3，頁 65:

her feet showed the typical Friedreich's deformity; her speech was drawling and monotonous; her gait was staggering and titubant

1948，Karl Pearson，Treasury of Human Inheritance: Nervous Diseases and Muscular Dystrophies，頁 253:


way out of a paper bag

可能源自类似he couldn't punch his way out of a paper bag (“他连一个纸袋子都打不穿”)之类的短语

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-way out of a paper bag.ogg

（不能...）一点，最基本的...都（不）会

My boss is so clueless, he couldn't schedule his own way out of a paper bag.

我老板是真的没用，连日程都安排不清楚。

Junior varsity couldn't play their way out of a paper bag in comparison.

The old chap did not look as though he could push his way out of a paper bag.

1923，Asia，卷 23, American Asiatic Association，頁 281:

Personally I don’t think this egg could punch his way out of a paper bag. He’s only been workin’ in this trap two days

1924，Harry Charles Witwer，Love and Learn，G. P. Putnam's sons，頁 260:

“You'd hate his cooking[,” he said.]
 “Most guys can't cook their way out of a paper bag[,” Charlotte said.]

2014，Allie Peter，Saved by the Fireman，頁 105:


way out of a wet paper bag

After four weeks, I gave up [Econ] in disgust, muttering that the clown teaching it couldn't teach his way out of a wet paper bag.

2003，James J. Cramer，Confessions of a Street Addict，頁 16:


uphill battle

词语搭配包括fight an uphill battle和be an uphill battle。

“It is an uphill battle,” said Dr. Uzma Syed, an infectious disease specialist in Jericho, N.Y., on Long Island, who for months has been giving vaccine education talks to national and international groups.

2021年October11日，Jan Hoffman，引 Uzma Syed, “Boosters Are Complicating Efforts to Persuade the Unvaccinated to Get Shots”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


titubate

借自拉丁語 titubatus，titubare (“蹣跚，踉蹌”) 的過去分詞。

titubates (third-person singular present)
titubating (present participle)
titubated (past participle)

They must let us alone here, we govern ourselves, we are by way of being totally autonomous. (The plethora of t’s there made his tongue titubate, but it was a brave show.)

1993，Anthony Burgess，A Dead Man in Deptford:


contendent

借自拉丁語 contendens, contendentis，contendō 的現在分詞。

In all notable changes and revolutions the contendents have been still made a prey to the third party.

在所有顯著的變化和革命中，競爭者仍然是第三方的犧牲品。

1679，Roger L'Estrange，The Case Put Concerning the Succession of the Duke of York:


serenader

Serenades pitch woo or pitch for whatever entitlement the serenader is looking for.

2007年February8日，Bernard Holland，“What Do You Play in the Evening? Serenades. Moonlight Becomes Them.”, in New York Times:


sesamum

借自拉丁語 sēsamum。

While at play for this extraordinary stake, they have a fire by them, on which a small pot of walnut oil, or oil of sesamum, is kept boiling; and when one has won a game, he chops off the end of the loser's finger, who immediately dips the stump into the boiling oil, to stem the blood; and some will persist so obstinately, as to have all their fingers thus mutilated.

1760，Robert Kerr，A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 1:

The latter is called the feast of 'six sesamum acts,' for sesamum is a holy plant, and in each act of this rite it plays a part.

1896，Edward Washburn Hopkins，The Religions of India:


shortwave

短波頻率（尤其用於廣播）

The fun of listening to shortwave while in a car or boat is diminished by spark-plug noise created while the engine is running.

在汽车或船上收听短波的乐趣会因发动机运转时产生的火花塞噪音而减弱。

1972，Len Buckwalter，99 Ways to Improve Your Shortwave Listening，頁 90:

Many stations broadcast on shortwaves.

許多電臺以短波進行廣播。

Some doubt is cast on the quality of the shortwave fadeout data during the early part of the period considered.

1973，Richard G. Hendl，Statistical Analysis of Shortwave Fadeout Occurrence for the Years 1955 to 1969:

A concise review is presented for the algorithm that has been tentatively selected to produce simulated net shortwave surface fluxes from measured TOA radiances.

1995，Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document.，頁 214:

Shortwave radiative fluxes that reach the earth's surface are key factors that influence atmospheric and oceanic circulations as well as surface climate.

到达地球表面的短波辐射通量是影响大气和海洋环流以及地表气候的关键因素。

1996，1986 Daily Daylight Cloud Fraction, Shortwave Surface Radiation, and Transmittance for 502 Sites，頁 1:


speedrun

來自speed + run。早在19世紀就有大多在工程背景下使用該術語的孤立證據，加上連字符作「speed-run」；這些案例不太可能影響現代形式。

speed run (alternative)
speedruns (third-person singular present)
speedrunning (present participle)
speedran (past)
speedrunned (past)
speedrun (past participle)

盡快做完某事或快速經歷某過程

John decided to speedrun his trip to the grocery store.

John 決定趕快走到雜貨店。

Dre said in an interview that he created SCAM to poke fun at other "shitcoins" or cryptocurrencies that are clearly pump-and-dump schemes, but at the same time make some money for people willing to put money behind it without any lofty talk to convince people anything more noble is going on. In doing so, SCAM is speedrunning the path of many cryptocurrencies: It hit a $70 million market cap (the snapshot current value of all tokens in circulation) almost immediately after launching, then slumped to $7 million, then $5 million, and now sits at $2.5 million.

2021年May3日，Edward Ongweso Jr，“This TikToker's 'SCAM' Cryptocurrency Took Off and He Can't Believe It”, in VICE，存檔自the original on 2023-06-05:

I maintain that the first burrito he ever speedran was the most delicious, was folded with the most care, and had the best ratio of fillings, but burrito speedrunning is not about the flavour, it's about the time.

2023年March19日，Ben Sledge，“Inside The Chaotic World Of Burrito Speedrunning”, in The Gamer，存檔自the original on 2023-06-03:

While DeSantis' allies have been speedrunning his political vendettas through the legislature, the Yale and Harvard alum embarked on a national tour ostensibly to promote his literary opus entitled The Courage to Be Free: Florida's Blueprint for America's Revival.

2023年April12日，Justin Miller，“DeSantis vs. Abbott: Tallahassee My Texas”, in The Texas Observer，Austin, T.X.: The Texas Democracy Foundation, →ISSN, →OCLC，存檔自the original on 2023-04-12:

The result is an ouroboros of faith and science, where an intentional blurring of lines has created a society where a civilization is speedrunning through its development unaware that there are hands pushing them along.

2023年July14日，Zosha Millman, Joshua Rivera，“Foundation season 2 storylines aren't all the same kind of sci-fi”, in Polygon，存檔自the original on 2023-07-21:


Suzanne

20世紀中期流行於英語國家。

'Suzanne' was the name given to the baby. It was Vivian's choice, but she had doubts about it later. Wasn't it a shade on the exotic side? Perhaps 'Susan' was preferable.

他們給這小孩取名叫做“Suzanne”。這是 Vivian 選定的，但後來她便對此產生了懷疑。這樣會不會有點異域風味了？也許“Susan”會更合適。

1987，Alexander Walker，The Life of Vivien Leigh，Grove Press, 出版於 1994, →ISBN，頁 43:


starred

a Michelin-starred restaurant

She became sad, and looked up to the many-starred sky; her soul uttered silently the bitter complaint of its own misery.

她悲伤起来，抬头望着繁星满天的天空；她的灵魂默默地诉说着自己的苦难。


suicider

Most often discussion would take place during the planning stages or while the suicider is making his preparations, that is, before suicidal steps have actually been taken. […] A suicide intervener in real life (if he had the nerve) could have a similarly calm discussion with a suicider who had taken an overdose […]

1995，Gavin Fairbairn，Contemplating suicide: the language and ethics of self-harm，頁 172:


Roberta

源自日耳曼語族的女性人名，Robert 的陰性形式

It was many years before the house on Maple Street was forgotten as "The Quimby Place" and called by its now correct name of "The Carter House", and it was many years before Mrs. Carter succeeded in making Peyton Place call her "Roberta" instead of the frivolous and, to her, harlotish-sounding name of "Bobbie".

1956，Grace Metalious，Peyton Place，UPNE, 出版於 1999, →ISBN, Book Two, Chapter 7:


Robby

女性人名 Roberta 的指小詞。

Robby is contemplating macramé.

Robby 打算編花邊。

2020年October19日，Thunderbox Entertainment，Tsuro - The Game of The Path:


Bobby

男性人名 Robert 的指小詞。

It was a real irritation to Robert's parents to hear Adeline call him Bobby. They tried to intimate their disapproval by pronouncing his name very distinctly when they addressed him.

听到艾德琳称罗伯特为鲍比，罗伯特的父母感到非常恼火。他们在称呼他时非常清楚地念出他的名字，试图表达他们的不满。

1944，Mazo de la Roche，The Building of Jalna，Dundurn Press Ltd, 出版於 2009, →ISBN，頁 163:


underwhelming

more underwhelming (comparative)
most underwhelming (superlative)

未給人留下深刻印象的，不像預期的那樣令人興奮的

If I grant you that the German language is spoken by the overwhelming majority of the German people you will agree with me that the best music of Germany has been composed by the underwhelming minority. Now, if the overwhelming majority of Germans are enemies, it follows that the underwhelming minority of Germans must be friendly.

Davis, plush as ever, is a little whiny and underwhelming as Murray's girlfriend, who spends much of her time nurturing Quaid, doing his familiar sweet-natured lummox.

1990年July13日，Rita Kempley，“‘Quick Change’ (R)”, in The Washington Post:

But in Washington and just about everywhere else, sales of "The Secret Man," Bob Woodward's story of the source known as Deep Throat, have been underwhelming.

2005年August17日，Edward Wyatt，“Sales Lag for Book on Deep Throat”, in New York Times:

When compared with the superb ÖBB Railjet or Italy's Frecciarossa (Red Arrow), to cite just two examples, the Government-procured Intercity Express Trains (IETs) are somewhat underwhelming.

僅舉兩個例子：與一流的ÖBB Railjet或義大利的Frecciarossa（紅箭）相比，政府採購的城際特快列車（IET）就顯得有些令人失望了。

2022年March9日，Ben Jones，“RAIL Supplement: Return Ticket”, in RAIL，期 952，頁 28 (supplement):


idée fixe

借自法語 idée fixe (字面意思是“固定觀念”)。

執念，成見；一個支配著思想、儘管有相反的證據卻仍被堅守的觀念

[“]A foreign policy of domination through spiritual means is [Jorane Sutt’s] idée fixe, but it’s my notion that his ultimate aims aren’t spiritual.[”]

1951, Isaac Asimov, Foundation (1974 Panther Books Ltd publication), part V: “The Merchant Princes”, chapter 13, page 171, ¶ 13:

The sage's solitary fantisizings about the heavens have turned monstrous, his yearnings for knowledge have swollen into idées fixes

2003，Roy Porter，Flesh in the Age of Reason，Penguin, 出版於 2004，頁 182:

His conclusion though is illuminating, and established a theme that was to concern him for the next forty years of his life, becoming the idée fixe of works such as The Ghost in the Machine, The Act of Creation and the Roots of Coincidence.

2009, Gary Clark, Quadrant, November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 9:

a definite musical figure, called the 'idée fixe,' unifying the work throughout by its constant reappearance in various aspects and surroundings

1922，Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians，卷 4，頁 793:


two and eight

I didn't get home until two in the morning, and me missus got herself into a right two and eight over it!

我到了凌晨两点才回家，我老婆肯定担心死了！

Suddenly, to his horror, Mr Candy found himself in what Ma would have called a terrible two-and-eight.


ponies

I wanted that car. Also, these things are crazy on the road. Front wheel suspension, tons of ponies, but best of all, it has a tape deck.

2016，Greg Universe，“Beach City Drift”, in Steven Universe:


Sanchez

借自西班牙語 Sánchez。

桑切斯，源自西班牙語 [in turn 來自父名]的姓氏

[…]—clearing out by military murders,—since they are executions without judicial trials—the descendants of the Sanchezs, the Garcias and the Remirezs,—the brave men who had achieved all that has been done for liberty and independence,—the result of Spain’s surrender of her colony by the Treaty of Bâle.

1862，Richard Hill，Haïti and Spain: A Memorial, by Richard Hill, Dedicated to the Honorable W. H. Seward, Secretary of State at Washington，Jamaica: M. De Cordova & Co., […]，頁 10:


Cheng

源自官話 程 (Chéng)。

The philosopher-official Ch’eng Hao (1033-1084), for example, won much esteem from officialdom and the intelligentsia when, as the magistrate of Fu-kou county, he stubbornly refused to implement the pao-chia system which was one of the prized projects of Emperior^([sic，意為Emperor]) Shen-tsung (r. 1068-1085) and his reformist Prime Minister Wang An-shih (1019-1086).

例如，哲学家、官员程颢（1033年-1084年）在担任扶沟县县令时，坚决拒绝实施保甲法，而保甲法是神宗（1068年-1085年在位）一朝的政治制度之一，也是时任改革派宰相王安石（1019年-1086年）的重大项目。

1965，Franklin W. Houn，“The Chinese Monarch and Limits on Royal Power [中國君主及對皇權的限制]”, in Chinese Political Traditions [中國政治傳統]，Washington, D.C.: Public Affairs Press, →LCCN, →OCLC，頁 47:


Cheng

源自官話或粵語 鄭／郑（官話：Zhèng；粵語：zeng⁶）。

A sergeant in the Third Precinct’s criminal investigation division, surnamed Cheng (鄭), had invited seven other officers to the gathering at a restaurant in Keelung’s Nuannuan District (暖暖) on the evening of Friday last week, the bureau said in a statement.

該局在一份聲明中稱，上週五晚，第3警分局偵查隊鄭姓小隊長，邀請其他7名警察到基隆市暖暖區一家餐廳聚餐。

2023年January20日，“Police reprimanded for attending mob boss birthday party [警察因參加黑老大生日聚會而受處分]”, in Taipei Times [台北時報], →ISSN, →OCLC，存檔自the original on 2023-01-20, Taiwan News，頁 2:


Cheng

借自官話 城 (Chéng)。

市轄區名，位於中國山西晉城。

The staff from the Cheng District Christian Council (CC) in Jincheng City, Shanxi Province, presented hand warmers, eight treasure congees, and instant noodles on January 28 to pandemic prevention workers in Guanxiang Community Neighborhood Committee, Cheng District CC&TSPM reported.

山西省晉城市城區基督教協會及三自愛國教會報道，區內基督教協會工作人員於1月28日，為觀巷社區的防疫人員送上暖手寶、八寶粥和方便麵。

2022年February5日，John Wang，“Shanxi, Jiangsu Churches Visit People [山西、江蘇教會慰問群眾]”, in China Christian Daily，存檔自the original on 2022-02-07:


Zheng

源自官話 鄭／郑 (Zhèng)的漢語拼音轉寫。

The Cing Dynasty inherited the aboriginal policies of the Dutch colonist and the Jheng government in that it appointed “native officials” to rule themselves.

清朝政府沿用了荷蘭殖民者和明鄭政府對原住民的政策，任命“土官”自行管理統治。

2007年October18日，“Development of the Aboriginal Area [原住民族地區的發展]”, in Chiayi County Government [嘉義縣政府全球資訊網]，存檔自the original on 2016-09-16:


Kannon

源自日語 観音 (Kannon)，源自中古漢語 觀音 (中古 kwan 'im)，源自梵語 अवलोकितेश्वर (avalokiteśvara)。

A long time ago, Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, made a deep vow to free all beings and help us wake up to our true and luminous nature.

很久以前，觀世音菩薩發下弘願，要解脫一切眾生，並幫助我們覺醒真正光明的本性。

2021，Ruth Ozeki，The Book of Form and Emptiness，Canongate Books (2022)，頁 413:


penny-pinching

more penny-pinching (comparative)
most penny-pinching (superlative)

If there is an overall lesson, it is that train quality should be seen as part of the battle against climate change, with penny-pinching specifications robustly opposed as a false economy.

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


see fit

sees fit (third-person singular present)
seeing fit (present participle)
saw fit (past)
seen fit (past participle)

认为...合理，认为...恰当

Shepard: Don't tell me how to do my job!
Tevos: You are free to act as you see fit, Commander. Our role is to offer guidance and advice.
Sparatus: It's up to you if you're smart enough to listen.

2008，BioWare，Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC，幕：Normandy SR-1:

[Harry] Kane was the victim in incidents plucked straight from the world of wrestling in each half, and on neither occasion did any of the officials – on the pitch or in the VAR booth – see fit to intervene in what were obvious penalties.

2018年June18日，Phil McNulty，“Tunisia 1 – 2 England”, in BBC Sport，存檔自the original on 2019-04-21:


cut loose

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

失控，没有约束 狂欢，纵情

Cut loose, let your hair down honey
Unwind, turn the lights down low
Relax, let's uncork the stopper
Come to papa, come on let's go

失控，没有约束 无拘无束

England cut loose at the end of the half, Ashton, Mark Cueto and Mike Tindall all crossing before the break.

2011年February12日，Mark Orlovac，“England 59-13 Italy”, in BBC:

Torpedoes were loosed, but the range was too short for them to actually arm, and they bounced harmlessly off the ship as it cut loose with its secondary and antiaircraft guns, smashing anything that it could see.

2021年March10日，Drachinifel，片头起14:43, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN)，存檔自the original on 2022-10-17:


sized

有著……尺寸/大小/規模的（一般與副詞結合使用）

A badly-sized pair of shoes.

An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.

如今，人工肾仍然意味着冰箱大小的透析机。这些设备模仿真正的肾脏，净化血液并将杂质和多余的水作为尿液排出。

2013年June1日，“A better waterworks”, in The Economist，卷 407, 期 8838，頁 5 (Technology Quarterly):


worshipping

[…] some will think they are religious enough, if their worshippings have in them the prevailing ingredient […]

1651，Jeremy Taylor，The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying:


Lina

Angelina、Carolina、Evelina 等帶 -lina 結尾名字的簡稱。亦可作 Linus 的罕用陰性形式。

"Lina - did not Moore call you Lina sometimes?"¶ "Yes: it is sometimes used as the abbreviation of Caroline in his native country."

1849，Currer Bell [筆名; Charlotte Brontë]，章號 12, in Shirley. A Tale. […]，卷 (請指定|volume=I、II或III), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC:


Paulina

源自拉丁語 Paulīna，Paulīnus 的陰性形式，派生自 Paulus，源自 paulus (“小的”)。為3世紀一聖人之名。

19世紀曾有過使用復興潮，但如今較罕用，更常用 Pauline。

O grave and good Paulina, the great comfort / That I have had of thee!

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She smells like expensive soap and her teeth are shiny-white. She does not in any way look like her name. It's not her fault that she was born in a time when people believed in names like Wanda, Dottie and Betty. She's more of a Vanessa or Paulina.

1991，Peter Hedges，What's Eating Gilbert Grape，Simon & Schuster, 出版於 1999, →ISBN，頁 60:


Paulina

倫敦聖保羅女校的學生或校友

In fact, gardening was a significant part of the tradition of the Paulinas (the name given to the girls who attended St. Paul's).

2015，Robert H. Gillette，Escape to Virginia: From Nazi Germany to Thalhimer’s Farm，頁 65:


Youngs

Youngs argues that proactive external projection in the name of certain values is now central to the EU's identity formation.

2006，Hanna Ojanen，“The EU's Responsibility for Global Security and Defence”, in A Responsible Europe?: Ethical Foundations of EU External Affairs，Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN，頁 51:


Yang

源自不同的漢語漢字羅馬化，包括楊／杨、洋。

洋縣（縣名，位於中國陝西漢中）。

Liang and Yang were the names of two commanderies to the southwest of Ch'ang-an; Yang is the modern Yang county, Shensi, and Liang, the administrative center of Shan-nan West circuit, also known as Hsing-yuan, on the borders of Shensi and Szechuan.

梁州和洋州是長安西南面的兩個州：洋州即現代的陝西洋縣，而山南西道的治所梁州，亦稱興元府，則在陝西和四川的交界處。

1988，Robin D. S. Yates，Washing Silk: The Life and Selected Poetry of Wei Chuang (834?-910) [浣溪沙：韋莊（834?-910）生平及詩選], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL，頁 123:

The well-known Hanzhong Basin, extending from Yangxian to Mianxian, about 80 kilometres from east to west and 10 to 15 kilometres from north to south, is a major farming area.

著名的漢中盆地，從洋縣延伸至勉縣，東西長80公里，南北寬10-15公里，是主要的農業區。

[1992，Shunwu Zhou，“Shaanxi Province [陕西省]”, in China Provincial Geography [中国分省地理]，Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC，頁 417:

A male vegetable seller killed a female hawker in a fight over space at a farmer's market in Yang county, near Hanzhong , Huashang Daily reports.

據《華商報》報道，漢中附近洋縣的一名男性菜販，在農貿市場與一名女性小販為爭奪空間打鬥，並將後者殺死。

2014年October11日，WU NAN，“Breastfed baby gets drunk; Grandpa kills child smuggler [乳兒醉酒；爺爺殺死販童者]”, in South China Morning Post，存檔自the original on 2014-10-12:

2 Yang county, Hanzhong city
Yang county has been famous for its cole flowers since ancient times. The place is known as “the heaven of cole flowers”. Besides, there is also a wheat field here, which creates a unique blend of half-green and half-yellow scenery.
Travel guide: Train-Xi'an North Station → Yangxian West Station (Around 1 hour)
Tips: Except for cole flowers, the pear flowers bloom at the same time in Yang county. Last but not least, you can see the exclusive crested ibises here!

二、漢中市洋縣
洋縣自古就以油菜花聞名，被譽為“油菜花的天堂”。此外當地還有麥田，形成了半綠半黃的獨特美景。
出行攻略：火車——西安北站 → 洋縣西站（約1小時）
小貼士：除了油菜花，洋縣同時也有梨花可觀賞。而且，您還可以見到這裡獨有的朱䴉！

2021年April15日，“Best destinations to view flowers in southern Shaanxi [陝南賞花好去處]”, in China Daily，存檔自the original on 2021-04-15:

有關使用本詞的更多用例，請參閱Citations:Yang。


Yu

借自官話 盂 (Yú)。

盂縣（縣名，位於中國山西陽泉）。

She went to Yangquan Village of Yuxian County in Shanxi Province. Having never been to such a remote and backward countryside area with its scenic views and fresh air, Kang joked with her colleagues that it was like being on a tourist trip.

她去了山西省盂县羊泉村。康女士从未去过如此偏远落后，又风景优美、空气清新的乡村，她和同事开玩笑说，就像来旅游一样。

[2005年February4日，Hester Xu, Yan Zhang，“Fighting a Lonely Cause [孤独的事业]”, in Beijing Today [今日北京]，期 192, →ISSN, →OCLC, 面孔（Face），頁 9，列 3:

Yuxian county located in Yangquan city, North China's Shanxi province, has made great progress in revamping itself.[…]
In 2018, Yuxian county put forward the goal for its economy to shift from being reliant on the coal-fired power industry to a diversified industrial structure, as its transformation target.

位于中国北部山西省阳泉市的盂县，县城面貌焕然一新。 […]
2018年，盂县提出了将经济从依赖火电为主，向产业结构多元化转变的转型目标。

[2021年July13日，“Yuxian county finds success following revamp of economy [盂县经济转型取得成功]”, in China Daily [中国日报]，存檔自the original on 2022-07-06:


brick up

bricks up (third-person singular present)
bricking up (present participle)
bricked up (past participle)

The chest was bricked up into the wall.

We've encountered servers bricked up into secret rooms many times, but never a UPS hidden behind a locked door.

2020年December11日，Richard Speed，“Oh, no one knows what goes on behind locked doors... so don't leave your UPS in there”, in The Register，存檔自the original on 2022-01-20:

She’s got a little meat along her lats and femur muscles that bricks me up more.

2023，Lula White，Drink You (Explore Men of the Hamptons; 3)，Lula White Books, →ISBN，頁 unknown:


bricked up

* (俚语义项)根据Know Your Meme，由美国的说唱歌手杰克·哈洛造出，出自其在2020年一次与Genius的采访中。见引文。

more bricked up (comparative)
most bricked up (superlative)

Man, this girl got me bricked up.

The female reindeer from the Rudolph claymation series? When I was in preschool, I used to be bricked up watching that shit.

2020年February11日，“Jack Harlow "WHATS POPPIN" Official Lyrics & Meaning | Verified”, in YouTube，上传者：Genius, 说话人：Jack Harlow:

Remember when we would see her on the screen and get bricked up instantly?!?? Hahaha we were some crazy kids!!!

bell pepper (bricked up)

if i was a guy I'd be bricked up 24/7

the guy at the tattoo place when i was getting my knuckle tats said i had tiny delicate fingers and i got bricked up


pocket change

The cost of a wedding is pocket change to a millionaire.

一场婚礼的钱对百万富翁来说就是一点小钱。

I see your money on the floor / I felt the pocket change through all

1982，R.E.M. （作曲作詞）, “Gardening at Night”, in Chronic Town:


nominalize

nominalizes (third-person singular present)
nominalizing (present participle)
nominalized (past participle)

名詞化，使……轉變為名詞

To nominalize an adjective that refers to a known noun, the articles el, la, los, and las are used (Unit 11 §59); to nominalize an adjective that does not refer to a known noun, the neuter article lo is used.
為了使一個指的是已知名詞的形容詞名詞化，使用 el、la、los 和 las 這些冠詞（第11單元 §59）；如果形容詞並不指的是已知的名詞，則使用中性冠詞 lo。

1960, Modern Language Association of America, Dwight le Merton Bollinger, Modern 西班牙語：A Project of The Modern Language Association, Harcourt, Brace, page 226

But, Dretske asks, what happens when we nominalize a propositional allomorph?

但是，德雷茨克問，當我們將命題的異構體名詞化時會發生什麼？

1983，Peter Achinstein，The Nature of Explanation，Oxford University Press US，頁 199:


doggoned

doggone的另一種寫法。

I could see the bridge was lined with bears
But I didn't have a doggoned dime.

1975，“Convoy”, in C.W. McCall, Chip Davis 作詞, Black Bear Road，演出者 C. W. McCall:


do someone's bidding

听命于某人，效命于某人，为某人效劳

Once Princess in Love was published, Diana threw both Hewitt and Pasternak under the bus. Besotted to the end, her cashiered toy soldier never revealed whether or not he had done her bidding.

April 5 2022，Tina Brown，“How Princess Diana’s Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, in Vanity Fair:


hell to pay

"When I'm hungry, there's hell to pay if I'm not fed quick."

1912，Mary Roberts Rinehart，“The Miracle”, in Love Stories:

"I told him I had sent for you an' when you got heah these slippery, mysterious thieves, whoever they were, would shore have hell to pay."

1921，Zane Grey，章號 3, in To The Last Man:

Congressman Bart Stupak of Michigan . . . vows that "there will be hell to pay" if his language gets stripped out of, or weakened in, the final legislation.

2009年November16日，Amy Sullivan，“Can Dems Resolve Their Abortion Split?”, in Time, retrieved 2013-08-28:


get a room

即指示情侣去开房私下亲密。

注意影响 （用来指示情侣不要在公共场合唧唧我我。）

One night he kissed me on a park bench. I knew we shouldn’t but he would be gone so soon. The next night a homeless guy on a bench nearby hollered at us to get a room, but we couldn’t as we both had fierce landladies.

2021年December26日，Alys Fowler，“My winter of love: I was homesick in New York. The quiet Danish poet was just what I was longing for”, in The Guardian:


when the chips are down

指在打扑克时，将筹码（即chips）放下的时候。

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He wasn't a very talented musician but, when the chips were down, he played well.

他不是特别有音乐家才能，但是在关键时刻，他演奏得很好。

When the chips are down, you need to make tough decisions.

紧要关头时，你需要作出艰难抉择。

The armed forces of North Korea, which borders on and is allied with Russian Manchuria, marched into the U. S.-sponsored South Korea Republic over the week-end — and the chips are down for American prestige throughout the Far East.

1950年June26日，Alex H. Washburn，“Korea — Sound of War”, in Hope Star，卷 51, 期 214, Hope, Ark.，頁 1，列 1:

“Lucian and Monte basically said to me, ‘Whatever you turn in, we will be proud to put out. We give you 100% creative freedom and trust.’” It was exactly what she needed to hear most when the chips were down.

2023年December6日，Sam Lansky，“Person of Year 2023 : Taylor Swift”, in Time:


cool one's jets

cools one's jets (third-person singular present)
cooling one's jets (present participle)
cooled one's jets (past participle)

Star Wars fans who positively can't cool their jets until the 19 May opening of Star Wars prequel The Phantom Menace need wait no longer than until early May.

1999年April7日，Joyce Slaton，“Phantom Menace Book Tells All”, in Wired:

Belle's boyfriend Jesse (Henry Simmons) is left to cool his jets while his woman bangs around the New York area.

2004年October6日，Kirk Honeycutt，“Taxi (film review)”, in The Hollywood Reporter:


lummock

lummox的另一種寫法

Jimbo—not there, you great lummock, push it over here.

2016，Tony Weston，Catching the Arrow，頁 174:


down for the count

指的是拳击比赛时，选手倒地后裁判数到10之前不能起身的判定为输的规则。

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/en-au-down for the count.ogg

“But what puts me down for the count is the action of the fellow. Never showed up; just made her miss two performances.”

1912，Harold MacGrath，章號 7, in The Place of Honeymoons:

But every time the music world thought it was down for the count, the orchestra has managed to rise again.

1991年November4日，Allan Kozinn，“Despite Odds, Many of Them, A Bedeviled Orchestra Persists”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

So, while Europe is still groggy and the U.S. is just starting to show signs of a pulse (and Japan of course is still down for the count), little Korea will grow anywhere from 3.2% to 6% this year.

2002年March11日，“Veni, Vidi, Gucci”, in Time，存檔自the original on 2013-05-11:


lop off

lops off (third-person singular present)
lopping off (present participle)
lopped off (past participle)

砍掉 （尤指某物的顶部或一端，且可以后接head指斩首）

TPE's Manchester Airport-Newcastle has both ends lopped off to become Manchester Victoria-York.

2021年June30日，Philip Haigh，“Regional trains squeezed as ECML congestion heads north”, in RAIL，期 934，頁 52:


have the hots for

has the hots for (third-person singular present)
having the hots for (present participle)
had the hots for (past participle)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/en-au-have the hots for.ogg

喜欢 （指爱情或性上的）

I think Donnie has the hots for Lisa.

Whoa. Wait a minute, Doc. Are you trying to tell me that my mother has got the hots for me?

1985，Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale，Back to the Future，spoken by Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox):

I met this chick and she just moved right up the block from me / And uh, she got the hots for me

2002，“Dilemma”, in Nellyville，演出者 Nelly ft. Kelly Rowland:


feel up

feels up (third-person singular present)
feeling up (present participle)
felt up (past participle)

抚摸，爱抚 （尤指胸部）

Mostly we heard her laughing and the squeaking of the porch swing while the boyfriend felt her up. All the boys went to second base with Diana Estabrook.

2013，Dan Pope，In the Cherry Tree, →ISBN:


on the flip side

They were behind twice, first to James Morrison's 11th-minute strike and then Kenny Miller's effort early in the second half. England responded with goals of their own from Theo Walcott and Daniel Welbeck and, on the balance of play, probably deserved the victory. On the flip-side, they could conceivably have lost because of their various shortcomings in defence. They also have a goalkeeper, Joe Hart, who is a danger to his own team on nights like these.

14 August 2013，Daniel Taylor，“Rickie Lambert's debut goal gives England victory over Scotland”, in The Guardian:


Micky

"What's yor name?" "Micky." "That's a name for a boy or a mouse. So it's probably Michelle. Most women your age are named Michelle or Heather or Courtney." "My age?" "No offense meant." "It's Michelina."

“你叫什麼名字？”“Micky。”“男孩子或者小老鼠才叫這名字。所以我估計你可能叫做Michelle。你這個年紀的女人基本上要麼叫Michelle，或者Heather、Courtney。”“我這個年紀？”“我沒有打算冒犯你。”“大名Michelina。”

2001，Dean Ray Koontz，One Door Away from Heaven，Bantam Books, →ISBN，頁 3:


Micky

Mick (“愛爾蘭人”)的另一種寫法

National identity and ethnic origin mapped gang territory: 'Little Italy'; 'Little Sicily'; 'Polish colony'; […] 'Mickies' (Irish). Each possessed demarcated districts within which gangs adopted neighbourhood names and tags […]

民族性和种族血统绘制了帮派领土：“小意大利”；“小西西里岛”；“波兰殖民地”； […] “ Mickies”（爱尔兰人）。每个人都拥有划定的区域，帮派在其中采用社区化的名称和标签 […]

2011，Barry Goldson，Youth in Crisis?: 'Gangs', Territoriality and Violence，頁 90:


Marin

可能出自海灣米沃克部落的 Chief Marin，或派生自西班牙語名字，因其東海岸曾被稱作 Bahía de Nuestra Señora del Rosario la Marinera。

‘But youʼre going down to Ventura and Marin to find out for sure?’

1998，Octavia E. Butler，Parable of the Talents，HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP (2019)，頁 278:


tendering

As regards manufactured goods a list of contractors is maintained, and a yearly advertisement is issued stating that tenderings for certain articles will be called for during the year, and firms generally are invited to apply […]


tanned

more tanned (comparative)
most tanned (superlative)

You're looking very tanned.

tanned bodies lying on the beach

Dressed always in jeans, a loose long sleeved top and large brimmed straw beach hat [...] she stood out from the tanned seasoned locals.

1994，Jim Ranie，Jargodin: The Moonlighter，Brisbane: Jim Ranie，頁 120:


flirting

Drinking and gambling were flirtings with the devil, or giving over to him entirely. So was card-playing.

酗酒和赌博就是与魔鬼调情，或者完全屈服于魔鬼。打牌也是如此。

2011，William A. Owens，Tell Me a Story, Sing Me a Song: A Texas Chronicle，頁 109:


cowpat

Unfortunately, every cowpat that is burned as cooking fuel means that no nitrogen is available for use as fertilizer.

不幸的是，每一块在做饭时被当做燃料烧掉的牛粪，都意味着没有氮可用作肥料。

1979，Jack M. Hollander, Melvin K. Simmons, David O. Wood，Annual Review of Energy, →ISBN:


Abdon

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

押頓 (以色列人的一個士師)

And after him Abdon the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, judged Israel. And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.

以倫之後，有比拉頓人希列的兒子押頓，作以色列的士師。他有四十個兒子，三十個孫子，騎著七十匹驢駒；押頓作以色列的士師八年。

1611，The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version)，London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Judges 12:13-14:


Solon

源自古希臘語 Σόλων (Sólōn)。

Now if your Majesty would have our bristles
To bind your mortar with, or fill our colons
With rich blood, or make brawn out of our gristles,
In policy—ask else your royal Solons—
You ought to give us hog-wash and clean straw,
And sties well thatched; besides it is the law!

1820，Percy Bysshe Shelley，Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:


Simeon

借自拉丁語 Simeon，源自古希臘語 Σῠμεών (Sŭmeṓn)，源自聖經希伯來語 שִׁמְעוֹן (šimʿôn，“聽見、聽從”)。Simon 的同源對似詞。

Now the ſonnes of Iacob were twelue. 23 The ſonnes of Leah: Reuben Iacobs firſt borne, and Simeon, and Leui, and Iudah, and Iſſachar, and Zebulun. 24 The ſonnes of Rachel: Ioſeph, and Beniamin. 25 And the ſonnes of Bilhah, Rachels handmaid: Dan and Naphtali. 26 And the ſonnes of Zilpah, Leahs handmaid: Gad, and Aſher. Theſe are the ſonnes of Iacob, which were borne to him in Padan Aram.

雅各共有十二個兒子。利亞所生的，是雅各的長子流便，還有西緬、利未、猶大、以薩迦、西布倫。拉結所生的是約瑟、便雅憫。拉結的使女辟拉所生的是但、拿弗他利。利亞的使女悉帕所生的是迦得、亞設，這是雅各在巴旦亞蘭所生的兒子。

1611，The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version)，London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 35:22–26，列 2:

And the ſecond lot came foorth to Simeon, euen for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families: and their inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of Iudah.

為西緬支派的人，按著宗族，拈出第二鬮，他們所得的地業，是在猶大人地業中間。

1611，The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version)，London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Joshua 19:1，列 2:


Bajan

more Bajan (comparative)
most Bajan (superlative)

A faction recalled Duke mentioning Bajan ancestry at some point, which lent credence to the tale.

2021，Colson Whitehead，Harlem Shuffle，Fleet，頁s 241–242:


Banach

To show that Y is Banach, let {yₙ} be a Cauchy sequence in Y.

2001，V. K. Krishnan，Textbook of Functional Analysis: A Problem-oriented Approach，PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd., →ISBN，頁 73:

... but if E is Banach, then ...

2012，A.Y. Helemskii，The Homology of Banach and Topological Algebras，Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN，頁 23:

... Try to prove that if L(E, F) is Banach, then F is Banach, ...

2012，Michael J. Field，Differential Calculus and Its Applications，Courier Corporation, →ISBN，頁 51:


Bem

非建制地區名，位於美國密蘇里state加斯科內德。

gasconade county / Bem vicinity / PEENIE ARCHEOLOGICAL PETROGLYPH SITE / 3 miles east of Bem / Pre-Columbian

1972，“Missouri”, in The National Register of Historic Places 1972，Washington, D.C.: United States Department of the Interior，頁 256:


Wac

I stepped out of my tent in Marrakech one night to get a bar of candy and caught your dose of clap when that Wac I never even saw before hissed me into the bushes.

1961年November10日，Joseph Heller，“The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […]，New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC，頁 172:


stick in the mud

sticks in the mud (plural)
stick in the muds (plural)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/en-us-stick in the mud.ogg

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不愿意参加集体活动的人，扫兴的人

Have a little fun sometimes and don't be such a stick-in-the-mud.

久不久放松一下嘛，别老是不参加活动。

"I don't hold back like you do. Even Tedd's dad can tell you're a stick-in-the-mud. That's why he made you the supervisor of this party."

2005年November9日，Dan Shive，El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Wednesday, Nov 9, 2005:

There’s a parallel here: the idea of Barbie dolls being in any way noxious seems, in the current climate, to be as hopelessly stick-in-the-mud a stance as the concept of selling out.

2023年July19日，Caspar Salmon，“Has Barbie killed the indie director? Why credible film-makers are selling out”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:


high and dry

与高教会有联系的 （福音派教会用low and slow，广派教会用broad and shallow）

"There are two recognized parties in the church of England, the old High-and-dry church party, and the so-called Evangelical. To one or other of these two the Anglo-Catholic must conform."

1844，A. H. Maltby，The New Englander，卷 2，頁 321:


swingeing

swinge + -ing。swinge派生自中古英語 swengen (“击打”)，源自古英語 swengan (“冲击；使...动摇”)。

more swingeing (comparative)
most swingeing (superlative)

/ˈswɪnd͡ʒɪŋ/

/ˈswɪnd͡ʒɪŋ/

And when Occaſion did require, / In midſt of Houſe a mighty Fire, / Of black dry'd Earth and ſwingeing Blocks / Was made, enough to roaſt an Ox; […]

1716，W[illiam] M[offat]，Hesperi-neso-graphia: Or, A Description of the Western Isle. In Eight Canto’s，第4th版, London: Printed and sold by J. Baker, at the Black-Boy in Pater-Noster-Row, →OCLC, canto II，頁 7:

"Let him pursue his own course," said Diggs, taking up a pen, and making some hasty memoranda on a sheet of paper. "We shall have swingeing damages—swingeing damages."

1855，William Harrison Ainsworth，“Abel’s Interview with the Miser—Unexpected Appearance of Randulph and Cordwell Firebras—Result of the Meeting”, in The Miser’s Daughter: A Tale，London, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] Routledge & Co., Farringdon Street; New York, 18, Beekman Street, →OCLC，頁 123:

A shock for passengers by the Dover-Dunkerque "Night Ferry" is the swingeing increases in berth rates for those who are not travelling in the sleeping cars.

1962 December，“Beyond the Channel: European timetables: The winter train services”, in Modern Railways，頁 413:

Every day produces more evidence that this hard Tory Brexit is a disaster in the making. Carmakers and other export manufacturers, fearing swingeing tariffs, are demanding special protections and exemptions or else they leave.

2017年March27日，“The Observer view on triggering article 50: As Britain hurtles towards the precipice, truth and democracy are in short supply”, in The Observer，London，存檔自the original on 2017-05-17:

After petrol rationing ended in 1952, the BTC was aware that more swingeing cuts had to be made, and a sinister message was conveyed by the loss of the meandering 38-mile route from Blisworth to Stratford-upon-Avon in April 1952, and the 25-mile Abergavenny-Merthyr Heads of the Valleys line in January 1958.

2023年March8日，Howard Johnston，“Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL，期 978，頁 51:

a swingeing verbal attack

Steven's cold blood was now heated, and springing from the ground, he rushed forward utterly regardless of science, and with his head down, protected by his bended arm, he closed with a swingeing right-handed hit that unfortunately caught Ned upon the ear, and sent him reeling, and for the instant half stunned, upon one side.

1869，Samuel W[hite] Baker，章號 IV, in Cast Up by the Sea，London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC，頁s 80–81:

With the publication of Drunk Man [A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle (1926)] [Hugh] MacDiarmid revealed that he had developed from an accomplished and sometimes brilliant miniaturist into a major poet. The poem represents the high-water mark of his work in Scots and probably of his writing as a whole. Maturity of utterance and sophistication of expression combine in a swingeing, energetic exploration of his situation which he never surpassed.

1987，John Baglow，“Uncouth Dilemmas”, in Hugh MacDiarmid: The Poetry of Self，Kingston, Ont., Montreal, Que.: McGill-Queen's University Press, →ISBN，頁 64:

Perhaps not since the felling of America's vast forests in the 19th century, […] has the world seen such a spectacular environmental change. The consequences for Arctic ecosystems will be swingeing.

2012年June16日，James Astill，“Special Report: The Melting North”, in The Economist，存檔自the original on 2017-01-20，頁 4:

Switzerland, a bastion of neutrality through two world wars, has decided to adopt wholesale swingeing EU sanctions against the Russian central bank, freezing as much as billions of dollars in assets and massively increasing the pressure on the Russian economy.

2022年February28日，Patrick Wintour，the Guardian，Guardian Media Group, retrieved 2022-02-28:


walk-in

walk in 的動詞派生詞。

能够徒步进入的设施或房间
较大的房间； （不经由走道或大堂能直接进入的）公寓

a walk-in bathroom, a walk-in apartment, lived in a walk-in on Lime Street

As Officer Byrne watched the front of the building he observed about ten people enter and leave a walk-in apartment unrelated to the buy and bust operation.

1993，Reports of Cases Decided in the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York:

能够徒步进入的设施或房间
（徒步进入的）设施 （常与drive-in相对）

This consideration applies to the location of all types of petroleum-solvent cleaning plants, whether operated as delivery plants, drive-ins, walk-ins, or wholesale establishments.

As most of the food is prepackaged and frozen, and anyone can cook a hamburger or make a malted, drive-in payrolls run a full third under those for "walk-ins"

1961，“Drive-ins Booming: Highway restaurants now a $6 billion annual business.”, in Financial World，卷 115，頁 1060:

Walk-ins are not like drive-ins, which freeze or isolate the individual in his eco-damaging armour-tool. Walk-ins are freewheeling playgrounds for the naked ape.

It is undisputed this method of distribution and exhibition would insulate drive-ins from competing with walk-ins for licenses to exhibit first-run pictures, thereby resulting in less film rental to the distributors from the drive-ins.

1978，Trade Regulation Series，卷 12, 期 5，頁 327:

徒步进入某设施的人
没有事先预约、介绍就直接进入的人 （如饭店的顾客，医院的看病病人，应聘者等）

An astute manager will have a table or two set aside for important regular customers or demanding walk-ins.

1996，Kazuo Nishiyama，Welcoming the Japanese visitor: insights, tips, tactics，頁 85:

Any patient with such a history and any woman who has not received prenatal care or who is a walk-in—an unexpected patient with no prenatal chart—will have toxicology labs done,

others may be getting their first medication through the new Doorway program at Lakes Region General Hospital, which works with walk-ins as well as people referred by the state's 2-1-1 health services crisis line.

2019年May3日，“As the roads to addiction differ, so do the paths to recovery”, in The Laconia Daily Sun:

徒步进入某设施的人 （突然进入使馆等处的）叛逃者等

Still, a rapidly formed working group of Mossad wise men debated the risk in dealing with a walk-in, a volunteer who shows up bearing gifts.

2007年April10日，“Who Killed Ashraf Marwan?”, in The New York Times, retrieved 2015-09-18:

This soul-exchange happens without the body dying. Star People and Walk-ins can be of either orientation—positive or negative—although most from fifth density and beyond are positive.