get a word in edgewise

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

gets a word in edgewise
getting a word in edgewise
got a word in edgewise
got a word in edgewise
gotten a word in edgewise

/ˌɡɛt ə ˈwɜːd ɪn ˈɛdʒwaɪz/

/ˌɡɛt ə ˈwɝd ɪn ˈɛdʒwaɪz/

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

大家都同时说了起来，我插不上话。

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


pummel

pummels
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)”, 出自 (請指定書籍名或刊物名):


smelter

He works as a smelter.

Throw the scrap in the smelter so we can melt it down and reuse it.

将废料扔进冶炼炉，这样我们就可以将其熔化并重新利用。

We'll take the scrap to the smelter and get some money for it.

我们会把废料送到冶炼厂，赚点钱。


southwestern

同類詞：eastern、northeastern、northern、northwestern、southeastern、southern、western

Locals think southwestern sunsets are the most beautiful.

当地人认为西南的日落是最美的。


southeastern

同類詞：eastern、northern、northeastern、northwestern、southern、southwestern、western

The southeastern part of the country is the most affluent.

該國的東南部地區最為富裕。


suspiciously

more suspiciously (comparative)
most suspiciously (superlative)

The police officer looked at her suspiciously.

She was behaving very suspiciously.

Suspiciously, he had taken out an insurance policy on his wife just months earlier.

令人怀疑的是，就在几个月前，他还为妻子购买了一份保险。

It looked suspiciously like a molding-compound repair of a dent.

它看起来很可疑，像是用模塑料修复的凹痕。


parkgoer

There tend to be more parkgoers in the summer months.

夏天时公园游客会多一些。


the nerve of

...真是的，...真讨厌 （后接代词或人名，表达对这个人言行的不满或愤怒）

This store charged me twice the price for this item! The nerve of them!

那家商店让我付了两次这东西的钱！真是的！


make a point

makes a point
making a point
made a point

I suppose the people who wrote that stuff on the wall were trying to make a point, but they mainly made a mess.

我认为在墙上写东西的人想说点什么，但是他们弄得乱七八糟。

Make a point to carry [or of carrying] your calendar with you at all times.

记得到哪都要带着你的记事本。


come to terms with

comes to terms with
coming to terms with
came to terms with
come to terms with

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She finally came to terms with her addictions at her third rehab clinic and rarely drank again.

她终于在第三家复健诊所治好了她的瘾，之后几乎没再喝过酒。

接受，妥协，面对 （让人心理上痛苦的事物）

Until he comes to terms with the likelihood of failure, he will not succeed.

在他接受失败的可能性之前，他不会成功。


sunbathe

Do you think it's warm enough outside for a sunbathe?

你覺得現在外面是否暖和到可以曬日光浴？


antagonize

harass

對抗；反對 (尤指激起對方的反應)

oppose

對抗；反對 (尤指激起對方的反應)

pester

對抗；反對 (尤指激起對方的反應)

appease

對抗；反對 (尤指激起對方的反應)

quell

對抗；反對 (尤指激起對方的反應)

對抗；反對 (尤指激起對方的反應)

The other children constantly antagonized Joe to the point of tears.

其他的孩子一直不停惹 Joe 生氣，直到他哭出來。


keep tabs on

见tab (“用来记录的小板子”)。

keeps tabs on
keeping tabs on
kept tabs on

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, 出自 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, 出自 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”, 出自 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”, 出自 The New York Times:


stakeout

The police had a stakeout in place where they expected the crime to occur.


rein in

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”, 出自 The New York Times, →ISSN:


get a kick out of

gets a kick out of
getting a kick out of
got a kick out of
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”:


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。

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）

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:


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:


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”)。

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”, 出自 The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, 卷 4, 期 7，頁號 195:


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”, 出自 Reliquiæ Wottonianæ, or, A collection of Lives, Letters, Poems; […] , Fourth版, London: […] B[enjamin] Tooke, […] and T[homas] Sawbridge […] , →OCLC，頁號s 390–391:


out of the woods

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The patient is feeling a little better, but she's not out of the woods yet.

患者稍微舒服了一些，但是还没有完全脱离危险。


take five

takes five
taking five
took five
taken five

休息几分钟 （常指五分钟）

Hey, stop fighting! Take five, people!

喂，别打了，各位！休息几分钟！


ice cube

The new freezer in our kitchen makes round ice cubes!

我們廚房的新冰櫃可以凍出圓形的冰塊！


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”, 出自 RAIL, 期 941，頁號 54:


keep at arm's length

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She's been keeping me at arm's length all the time. She doesn't want to get involved.

她一直都与我保持距离，不想掺和进来。


pull one's weight

pulls one's weight
pulling one's weight
pulled one's weight

He isn't really pulling his weight at work.

If one shares a flat one should be prepared to pull one’s weight in cleaning it.

合租一间公寓就要出力打扫。


cut someone some slack

cuts someone some slack
cutting someone some slack
cut someone some slack

放某人一马，不严厉责备或惩罚某人

He's the new kid on the block and doesn't know the way we do things around here yet. Cut him some slack and let him learn from this.

他是这块儿新来的，还不知道这儿的规矩。这次放他一马，让他长个教训。


get back at

gets back at
getting back at
got back at
got back at
gotten back at

She put toothpaste in his shoes to get back at him for the frog he left in her refrigerator.

她把牙膏挤到他鞋子里，报复他往自己冰箱里放了一只青蛙。


evacuated

more evacuated (comparative)
most evacuated (superlative)

The evacuated flask imploded with a pop when it could no longer stand the outside air pressure.

当抽空的烧瓶无法承受外界气压时，会发出“砰”的一声而内爆。


mince pie

Christmas pie

百果馅饼 （一种英国的节日甜点）

mincemeat pie

百果馅饼 （一种英国的节日甜点）

shred pie

百果馅饼 （一种英国的节日甜点）

twelfth pie

百果馅饼 （一种英国的节日甜点）

Twelfth Night pie

百果馅饼 （一种英国的节日甜点）

Gorblimey, guvnor, I couldn't believe me mince pies!


come off it

原为英国对“come off the grass!”缩略，其又是一个起源于美国的短语。Come off the grass!最初是一个对公园等处常见的“keep off the grass”等告示牌的调侃。

Come off it, mate! You can't be serious.

你少来，兄弟！你肯定是在逗我。


grind to a halt

grinds to a halt
grinding to a halt
ground to a halt

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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...”, 出自 RAIL, 期 999，頁號 29:


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, 出自 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，頁號 25:

爱聊的话题 （尤指与当前谈话不太相关的）

He's been on his soapbox all day about the new football coach.

他这整天都在说新足球教练的事。


chalk up to

chalks up to
chalking up to
chalked up to

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”, 出自 Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 卷 85, 期 154, section 1，頁號 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”, 出自 The Atlantic:


pitch in

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”, 出自 Men's Health, 卷 23, 期 8, →ISSN，頁號 112:


break in

breaks in
breaking in
broke in
broken in

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”, 出自 New York Times, retrieved 2013-06-21:

用久...使其更加好用，使...磨合

These shoes will be more comfortable after I have broken them in.

这些鞋子穿多了以后就会变得更舒服。

开始 （新事物或新阶段）

He broke in with the New York Yankees.

他开始了在纽约洋基队的新生涯。


come off

One of the wagon wheels came off.

He tried his Chaplin impression, but it didn't really come off.

他试了试模仿卓别林，但反响平平。

有...的感觉，看着像，表现得

I'm sorry if I came off as condescending; that wasn't my intention.

如果我表现傲慢的话不好意思，我没有这个意思。

You should be careful about how you come off during interviews.

你应该要注意自己在面试时的举止。

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，頁號 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:


have it in for

has it in for
having it in for
had it in for

对...很生气；和...有仇，对...怀恨在心

My boss must really have it in for me; that was the third lecture this week!

我老板和我有仇还是怎么回事，这星期都训了我三次了！


fall on deaf ears

falls on deaf ears
falling on deaf ears
fell on deaf ears
fallen on deaf ears

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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...”, 出自 Rail，頁號 44:


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。

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”, 出自 The Stage-coach: Containing the Character of Mr. Manly, and the History of His Fellow Travellers, Dublin: Printed by Henry Saunders […], →OCLC，頁號 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?]]”, 出自 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，頁號 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, 出自 Twenty Years before the Mast: […], Boston, Mass.: Published by the author, →OCLC，頁號 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”, 出自 Henry R[obinson] Luce 編, Life, 卷 10, 期 10, Chicago, Ill., New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, photograph caption，頁號 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”, 出自 Katharine Viner 編, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC，於2019-08-05歸檔自原頁面:


read between the lines

reads between the lines
reading between the lines
read between the lines

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”, 出自 The Guardian:


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，頁號 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，頁號 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，頁號 105:


drowning

It's dangerous to swim in that river — there were three drownings there last year.

在那条河里游泳很危险——去年那里发生了三起溺水事件。


adapted

more adapted (comparative)
most adapted (superlative)

為適應不同環境或媒介而進行了修改的

That movie was an adapted novel.

那部电影是根据小说改编的。


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。


shortwave

Shortwaves are longer than microwaves.

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，頁號 90:

Many stations broadcast on shortwaves.

許多電臺以短波進行廣播。


scrub up

He scrubs up well.


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。

In the speedrun of Super Mario Bros. 3, Anonymous Jones finishes the whole game in just 11 minutes.

匿名為 Jones 的玩家速通《超級瑪利歐兄弟3》全程只用了11分鐘。


speedrun

speedruns
speedrunning
speedran
speedrunned
speedrun

In my most recent attempt to speedrun this game, I almost managed to beat the world record.

我最近一次嘗試速通這款遊戲時，幾乎打破了世界紀錄。

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”, 出自 VICE，於2023-06-05歸檔自原頁面:

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”, 出自 The Gamer，於2023-06-03歸檔自原頁面:

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”, 出自 The Texas Observer, Austin, T.X.: The Texas Democracy Foundation, →ISSN, →OCLC，於2023-04-12歸檔自原頁面:

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”, 出自 Polygon，於2023-07-21歸檔自原頁面:


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.

1963, H. E. Bates, Oh! To be in England:


one up

Every year the neighbors try to one-up each other with their holiday lights.

每年街坊邻里都争着比谁的节日装饰灯亮。

"Time flies when you're having fun!" said one of the skiers in our party. "Yeah, but time's more fun when you're flying," Jay one-upped.

“开心的时候真是时光飞逝啊”，我们聚会上一个滑雪的人说道。“是啊，但是你飞的时候不是更开心嘛”，Jay接着他的话说道。


one up

WePay wants to get one-up in the mobile payments race with its new iOS app for small businesses.

WePay想用为中小企业新开发的iOS APP赢得移动支付竞赛中的优势。

1-up (“一条命”)的另一種拼寫法

If you hit that block, you can get a one up.

打一下那个方块就会得一条命。


duoplural

雙複數；標記兩個或多個事物的名詞的語法數

Languages that employ the duoplural include Navajo and Taos, where the verb shows singular, dual, and plural numbers, but the nouns are marked only as singular or nonsingular (duoplural).

使用雙複數的語言包括納瓦霍語和陶斯語，它們的動詞有單數、雙數和複數的區別，但名詞僅標記為單數或非單數（雙複數）。


ponies

My husband is forever throwing away money on the ponies.

我老公永遠都在把錢砸進賽馬裡面。


cut someone loose

cuts someone loose
cutting someone loose
cut someone loose

The pizza chain was forced to close several locations and cut employees loose.

披萨连锁店关闭了几间店铺，解雇了多名员工。


keep someone on their toes

keeps someone on their toes
keeping someone on their toes
kept someone on their toes

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-keep one on one's toes.ogg

Four-year-old twins will certainly keep you on your toes!

这对四岁双胞胎可不会让你闲下来！


cut corners

cuts corners
cutting corners
cut corners

The guy who built the fence cut corners when sinking the posts, and the fence fell over in the last storm.

建围栏的人在立杆子的时候偷工减料，上次刮暴风之后围栏倒了。

Do you know why Wendy's has square burgers? Because they don't cut corners.

你知道为什么温蒂汉堡有方形汉堡吗？因为他们都是实打实的。


flunk out

（因成绩不佳，不及格而）退学或退课

He flunked out of high school as a youth, but finished school later in life.

他年轻时从高中退学了，但是后面又回去把高中读完了。


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”, 出自 The Economist, 卷 407, 期 8838，頁號 5 (Technology Quarterly):


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”, 出自 Chronic Town:


brick up

I am going to brick up the window instead of replacing the glass.

我准备用砖头把窗口堵起来，不换玻璃了。

The tunnel's mouth was bricked up because it was unsafe.

隧道口因为不安全被封起来了。

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”, 出自 The Register，2022-01-20歸檔自原頁面:


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”, 出自 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


up someone's street

符合某人的，适合某人的，某人感兴趣的

This new album should be just up your street.


barf bag

barf bag of a face


feel up to

Since I have the flu, I don't feel up to going out clubbing tonight.

我得了流感，我觉得今晚应该没法去泡夜总会了。


saggy

saggier (comparative)
saggiest (superlative)

saggy boobs

saggy skin


up someone's alley

符合某人的，适合某人的，某人感兴趣的

This article would be right up his alley. Why don't you show it to him?

他应该对这篇文章挺感兴趣的，不如给他看看吧？


hold the phone

Hold the phone! We've had this problem before, with the other machine.

待会！我们之前在另一台机器上遇到过这个问题。


hold the phone

holds the phone
holding the phone
held the phone

They asked me to hold the phone while they went to look up the answer.

他们说他们去查查答案，叫我不要挂电话。


when the chips are down

指在打扑克时，将筹码（即chips）放下的时候。

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-when the chips are down.ogg

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”, 出自 Hope Star, 卷 51, 期 214, Hope, Ark.，頁號 1，列號 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”, 出自 Time:


have the hots for

has the hots for
having the hots for
had the hots for

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, 角色 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”, 出自 Nellyville, 演出者 Nelly ft. Kelly Rowland:


out like a light

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-out like a light.ogg

Once she received anesthesia, she was out like a light.

她被麻醉以后立刻不省人事。


attempted

嘗試過的（一般暗示已失敗，即未遂）

She is facing jail time for attempted robbery.

她因抢劫未遂而面临牢狱之灾。

An attempted coup.


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，頁號 120:


rat out

Don't you dare rat me out or I'll kill you!

你可別膽敢出賣我，不然我就把你幹掉！


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

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

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:


straight and narrow

可能原作“strait and narrow”，源自《圣经》Matthew 7:14（马太福音 7:14）。

The project would seriously go down the pan if Mrs. Foster weren't here to keep it on the straight and narrow.

如果不是Foster夫人在这里管事，项目可能就黄了。


at someone's throat

They were at each other's throats all evening.


decimosexto

/ˌdɛsɪməʊˈsɛkstəʊ/

a decimosexto form, book, leaf, size


stick in someone's craw

sticks in someone's craw
sticking in someone's craw
stuck in someone's craw

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-stick in someone's craw.ogg

使某人郁郁寡欢，使某人不爽

It really sticks in my craw that he never even asked me.

I will just cite you two of the matters referred to by Mr. Glavis in his letter to the President, and, from what I learn, seems to stick in the craw of Mr. Bowman.

1910, United States. Congress. Joint committee to investigate Interior dept. and Forestry service., Compilation of Letters, Telegrams, Reports and Other Documents Offered in Evidence:

There was a pennant chase that year that would stick in his craw and the craw of every Phillies fan forever.

2005, Robert Gordon, Tom Burgoyne, Movin on Up:


single-handedly

She single-handedly organized the whole event, and even set up all the chairs herself.

整場活動都是她一手包辦的，連所有的椅子她都自己擺好了。

This is singlehandedly the most superior piece of content ever to grace the entire internet.

這是有史以來為整個網際網路增光添彩的最精彩的內容。

Charlie Chaplin, the poignant little tramp with the cane and comic walk who almost single — handedly elevated the novelty entertainment medium of motion pictures into art, died peacefully yesterday at his home in Switzerland[…]

1977年December26日, “Charlie Chaplin Dead at 88; Made the Film an Art Form”, 出自 The New York Times:

“Despite the surge in prices weighing on their purchasing power, the U.S. consumer now appears to be single-handedly keeping the global economy afloat,” Paul Ashworth, an economist at Capital Economics, wrote in a note.

2022年May17日, Coral Murphy Marcos, “Retail sales rise for the fourth straight month as prices keep climbing.”, 出自 The New York Times:


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
（能够不预约就直接进入的） 设施或活动

Most teen clinics are walk-ins.

多数青少年诊所无需预约。

An increasing demand for skills in niche technologies coupled with higher attrition have prompted these software services firms to organise walk-ins for technology talent too.


walk-in

walk in 的動詞派生詞。

能够徒步进入的 （不需要经过横档等）能直接进入的

a walk-in bathtub

“The shower is walk in, multiple showerheads and a tiled bench. Take your time, I installed one of those perpetual hot water heaters, so you can have an endless experience. If you're not out in an hour, I'll call 911.”

2016, Douglas E Roff, Jacob A Roff, Cryptid: Discovery, BookBaby, →ISBN:

Eighteen-inch ceramic tiles, laid diagonally, made the home seem bigger. Opposite the kitchen was the bedroom wing with a master suite plus two other bedrooms, each having its own bath. All the showers were walk-in.

2018, Forrest Steele, Never Again, Seriously, Archway Publishing, →ISBN:


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/

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, 出自 Cast Up by the Sea, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC，頁號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”, 出自 Hugh MacDiarmid: The Poetry of Self, Kingston, Ont., Montreal, Que.: McGill-Queen's University Press, →ISBN，頁號 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”, 出自 The Economist，於2017-01-20歸檔自原頁面，頁號 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:


challenged

more challenged (comparative)
most challenged (superlative)

在心理或身體上缺乏某些屬性或技能的；用在副詞後，構成帶政治正確意味的形容詞。

mentally challenged

用於副詞後，組成形容詞，模仿或嘲諷義項1的這類形容詞。

vertically challenged


DEFCON

（美国武装部队的）戒备状态，战备等级

DEFCON 4


specific epithet

此詞通常指植物、真菌或細菌學名中的第二部分。動物學名中的第二部分則通常稱作 specific name。

In Cannabis sativa, the word sativa is the specific epithet.


set straight

sets straight
setting straight
set straight

I'd like to set straight some misconceptions about recent events.

我想纠正一下最近的误解。

He misspoke, but I quietly set him straight.

他说错话了，然后我纠正了他。

Your bedroom is a mess. Set things straight before you go out tonight.

你的卧室乱成一团。你今晚出门之前整理一下。


ad nauseam

非同化借詞，源自拉丁語 ad nauseam，源自ad (“到”) + nauseam (“晕船，恶心”)，nausea的宾格。

A drunk person was repeating the same old story ad nauseam.

一个醉鬼一直在讲同一个故事，大家都听烦了。

The Feelings album flew off the shelves, and Albert became a pop sensation - until, thanks to airplay ad nauseam, radio listeners grew weary of his sentiments.

1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN，頁號 325:


let sleeping dogs lie

lets sleeping dogs lie
letting sleeping dogs lie
let sleeping dogs lie

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Eventually, they decided it would be best to let sleeping dogs lie and not discuss the matter any further.

最后，他们决定多一事不如少一事，不再谈论这个话题。

But, leaving novelists alone, on the whole we find in real life that if speech is silvern, silence is essentially golden, and that more harm is done by saying too much than by saying too little; above all, that infinite mischief arises by not letting sleeping dogs lie.

1868年August29日, “Sleeping Dogs”, 出自 The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, 卷 26, 號 670，頁號 287:

Sometimes you just had to let stuff go. Endlessly rehashing old hurts just made things worse. It was far better, I'd learned, to let sleeping dogs lie.

2016, Helene Becker, Let Sleeping Dogs Lie, Orca Book Publishers, →ISBN，頁號 217:

Crystal might have said that those perfect lips were zipped, but the kidnappers had no way of knowing that. Should he let sleeping dogs lie?

2019, Kate Atkinson, Big Sky, →ISBN，頁號 261:


titillate

源自拉丁語 tītillātus，源自tītillō, tītillāre (“使...发痒”)。

The dancer titillated her audience with gyrations and suggestive movements.


death throe

死前发出的声音或作出的动作

Uncle Roger, in his death throes, made a sound and reached outward.

Roger叔叔临死前喊了一声，手向外伸了一下。

机器损坏前最后的动作或制作的最后物品

As part of its death throes, the printer made a grinding sound and then never worked again.

这台打印机坏之前发出了一阵摩擦声，然后就再也用不了了。


mangy

mangier (comparative)
mangiest (superlative)

We stayed in a really mangy hotel in New York.

我们住在了纽约的一个破烂酒店。

Specter Knight: 'YOUR QUEST TO BECOME KING OF CARDS HAS NOT... GONE UNNOTICED.' / King Knight: 'AH, WORD HAS REACHED THE SLUMS, HAS IT? AM I TO TRAVEL WITH AN ENTOURAGE OF MANGY BEGGARS, NOW?'

2019 December 10, Yacht Club Games, Shovel Knight: King of Cards，Nintendo 3DS，關卡/區域：Spectral Ravine:


quickwitted

more quickwitted (comparative)
most quickwitted (superlative)

She was far too quick-witted to miss the implications of what he was saying.

机敏的她没有错过他话里的意思。


fend off

They tried citronella to fend off the mosquitos, to no avail.

他们想用香茅来驱蚊，但是没有效果。


tainted

more tainted (comparative)
most tainted (superlative)

Hey, get that away from me! It was bought with tainted money.

嘿，把這玩意兒從我身邊拿走！這是用黑錢買的。

Do not use tainted values in SQL queries.

在SQL查詢中，不要使用來源不受信任的值。


come apart

comes apart
coming apart
came apart
come apart

The jigsaw puzzle will come apart if you try to pick it up.

这个七巧板拿起来的会就会全散开。

My old clothes are all coming apart.


rock the boat

rocks the boat
rocking the boat
rocked the boat

Just when I'm asking myself if it's worth it to rock the boat and wondering if I should compromise, something will happen to keep me going. Like one year I got an award from a women's group for, "exposing the jockocratic values of society.

1984, Jim Bouton, Ball Four Plus Ball，頁號 410:

I'd just jump in and fix it, but that's not my job, and I don't want to rock the boat.

我可以插手把它修好，但是这不是我的活，我可不想乱了规矩。


have it in one

has it in one
having it in one
had it in one

Do you have it in you to show any respect, politeness, patience, or, God forbid, an ounce of forbearance?

MAC: Who’s the father, Juno? JUNO: Um… it’s Paulie Bleeker. MAC: Paulie Bleeker? I didn’t think he had it in him.


draw a blank

draws a blank
drawing a blank
drew a blank
drawn a blank

I should know that person's name, but I'm drawing a blank.

我应该知道那个人的名字，但是我想不起来了。


far cry

指的是在苏格兰宗族之间互送的使者和传话人。

Life in the big city was a far cry from his upbringing on a quiet, small farm.

大城市里的生活与他在安静的小农场有天壤之别。

The perineometer of Kagele was unheard of and the hormonology of today is a far cry from the rather crude and relatively weak hormones available in the early and mid-thirties.

1951 July, Richard D. Reekie, “Critical Analysis of Recent Advances in Gynecology”, 出自 Northwest Medicine, 卷 50, 期 7, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association，頁號 508:

Brienne intervenes in the story of Jaime Lannister, adding to his legend with the exploits she believes paint the picture of him that deserves to live on. Her words are a far cry from those Jaime used to describe himself at their last encounter, instead recounting his deeds and ending with the simple, “He died protecting his queen,” a sentence that belies the complicated mix of nobility and tragedy entwined in his actions.

2019年May19日, Alex McLevy, “The final Game Of Thrones brings a pensive but simple meditation about stories (newbies)”, 出自 The A.V. Club:

It's a far cry from a previous trip on a Class 150, where the set wheezed and vibrated so much as it staggered up Dainton Bank that I thought it was going to shake itself to bits!

2020年December2日, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, 出自 Rail，頁號 65:


far cry

指的是在苏格兰宗族之间互送的使者和传话人。

a far cry taller


trotter

crubeen

豬、羊等四足動物的腳/蹄（尤指作肉食用的）

豬、羊等四足動物的腳/蹄（尤指作肉食用的）

grange cookbook recipes for trotters

Finally Napoleon raised his trotter for silence and announced that he had already made all the arrangements.

最後，拿破崙默默舉起他的蹄子，宣佈他已經做好了所有的安排。

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


heaped

heaping

一大……（表示所能容納之量）的

the heaped dishes waiting to be washed up

一大……（表示所能容納之量）的

(尤其用於美國、加拿大)

a heaped teaspoon of sugar


heaping

一大……（表示所能容納之量）的 (對照 heaped)

a heaping teaspoon of sugar

a heaping big bowl of ice cream; a heaping bowl of rice

一大碗冰淇淋；一大碗米飯


Adam and Eve

Cain and Abel were the sons of Adam and Eve.

該隱與亞伯是亞當與夏娃的兒子。

Well, I spied me a girl and before she could leave / I said “Let’s go and play Adam and Eve”

1963, Bob Dylan （作曲作詞）, “Talkin' World War III Blues”, 出自 The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan:

In his own unique way, he was a radical—him and that sister of his, Lucida. Radicals with inbuilt longevity—a regular Adam and Eve who would add healthy genes to Earth's decaying gene pool.

2004, Paul Collins, The Earthborn，頁號 71:


Adam and Eve

Adam and Eves
Adam and Eving
Adam and Eved

Would you Adam and Eve it: I’ve only gone an’ lost me wallet, ain’t I?


pull punches

源自拳击用语，20世纪20年代。

pulls punches
pulling punches
pulled punches

hold back

行事谨慎克制；（尤指）小心说话避免惹麻烦

行事谨慎克制；（尤指）小心说话避免惹麻烦

I did not pull any punches when I told them my thoughts.

我告诉他们我的想法时没有留情。

The key here is not to pull punches. Tell it to 'em straight. Don't point fingers. But don't avoid painful truths.

2005, Nick Morgan, Give Your Speech, Change the World: How To Move Your Audience to Action, Harvard Business Review Press, →ISBN，頁號 78:

Father Charles Owen Rice was not one to pull punches, particularly when it came to confronting what he viewed as hypocritical behavior among Catholics.

2010, Kenneth J. Heineman, Catholic New Deal: Religion and Reform in Depression Pittsburgh, Penn State Press, →ISBN，頁號 75:

This arresting autobiographical novel pulls no punches; rather, it lands them on the reader as frequently as fists descend on its subject.

2017年February1日, Neil Bartlett, “The End of Eddy by Édouard Louis review – a childhood in hell”, 出自 The Guardian, →ISSN:

A few weeks ago, Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, released an open letter that pulled no punches.

2021年February10日, Thomas L. Friedman, “Cyberspace Plus Trump Almost Killed Our Democracy. Can Europe Save Us?”, 出自 The New York Times, →ISSN:


when push comes to shove

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危急情况下，万不得已的时候

He is not a particularly talented builder, but when push comes to shove, he can usually get the job done.

他不是特别有天赋的建筑工，但是紧急情况下他还是能完成工作。

"We've demonstrated that when push comes to shove, we can be really fast, we can be agile, we can do things more slickly.

2020年May20日, Andrew Haines talks to Stefanie Foster, “Repurpose rail for the 2020s”, 出自 Rail，頁號 35:


fair and square

more fair and square (comparative)
most fair and square (superlative)

We won the game fair and square.

我们光明正大地赢了那场比赛。


stick one's nose in

sticks one's nose in
sticking one's nose in
stuck one's nose in

愛管閒事；過分插手、干涉

I was doing just fine before he came and stuck his nose in.

他過來插手之前，我都一直幹得不錯。


fall flat on one's face

falls flat on one's face
falling flat on one's face
fell flat on one's face
fallen flat on one's face

I tripped over my shoelace and fell flat on my face.

我被鞋帶絆倒了，摔了個狗啃泥。

He tried to start his own business but fell flat on his face.

他試圖開創自己的事業，但最終一敗塗地。


off the books

His company was fined for paying staff off the books.

他的公司因给员工发工资不报税而被罚款。


down bad

Walter was down bad after his wife had left him.

Walter的妻子离开他以后，他难过不已。

He was down bad over that disrespectful girl.

他喜欢上了那个没礼貌的女孩。


slush fund

原指水手贩卖slush (“一种油脂混合物”)得到的钱。

He is said to have used his party’s slush fund to buy votes in the election.

据称，他用自己政党的非法资金来在选举中买票。

7: CERN bestows slush fund on the LHC. Take all pennies from the CERN space.

2008年September28日, Illiad [pen name; J. D. Frazer], “The Large Hadron Collider Game”, 出自 Userfriendly.org，於2019-05-07歸檔自原頁面:

To do this, [the Lord Mayor] has at his disposal a multibillion-pound slush fund for use in lobbying the UK government and governments around the world to bring in laws that are friendly to banks and multinational companies.

2017, Jason Hickel, “The Tax Evaders”, 出自 The Divide […] , London: William Heinemann, →ISBN:


landwhale

That jerk did such a bad job parking his landwhale that it's taking up four parking spaces!

"It's getting close to Timmy's bedtime, so we won't stay long. I suppose you heard us arrive. We'll be staying outside tonight in that land whale we drove up in."

2012, Linda Townsley, The Dream Singer, WestBow Press, 出版於 2012, →ISBN:

有關使用本詞的更多用例，請參閱Citations:landwhale。


doozy

不详。可能源自daisy (“雏菊”)或意大利女演员Eleonora Duse（埃莱奥诺拉·杜斯）之名。常有说法错误地称其源自汽车公司Duesenberg，但该词出现比这一公司成立早十多年。另可能源自波蘭語 duży，于20世纪00年代左右由波兰移民潮引入美国。(這個詞源⁽⁺⁾能找到來源嗎？)

lulu

麻烦的，棘手的； 厉害的

麻烦的，棘手的； 厉害的

Most of the test was easy, but the last question was a doozy.

那场考试大部分题都简单，但是最后一题挺难的。

Like the em unit, the rem unit is based on declared font size. The difference — and it’s a doozy — is that whereas em is calculated using the font size of the element to which it’s applied, rem is always calculated using the root element.

2017, Eric A Meyer, Estelle Weyl, CSS: The Definitive Guide: Visual Presentation for the Web, Kindle版, O'Reilly Media，頁號 126:


gobble up

The city grew over the years by gobbling up land around its limits.

那座城市近年来通过吸收其周围地土地不断扩建。


suffocation

繼承自中古英語 suffocation、suffocacioun，源自中古法語 suffocation，源自拉丁語 suffocatio。

The moon, directly opposite, flung into the room a long and tremulous line of light, which fell on Guido's face, as he reclined on the pillows which supported his head; he needed the support, for a feeling of suffocation was his constant complaint.

1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], 章號 XXIX, 出自 Francesca Carrara. […], 卷 II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC，頁號 302:

A child left unattended may die of suffocation.

无人看管的儿童可能会因窒息而死亡。

The coroner reported three suffocations last week.

验尸官上周报告了三起窒息死亡事件。


Tabor

聖經希伯來語 תָבוֹר (Tāḇôr)，源頭不確定。

the light of Tabor


starved

more starved (comparative)
most starved (superlative)

I'm starved! I haven't eaten since breakfast.

我要餓死了！從早餐到現在我什麼都沒吃。

She said: "I'm starved. I could eat a horse." I told her she was lying, because I had once eaten horse.

她说：“我饿得不行了。我可以吃掉一匹马。” 我告诉她她在撒谎，因为我真的曾经吃过马。

1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist，頁號 46:


kick back

I'm going to stay at home on Saturday and just kick back.

星期六我打算呆在家里休息一下。

It was the insurer’s practice to kick back to the broker approximately 0.12% of the premium paid by the policyholder.

保险公司的做法是向经纪人回扣投保人所支付保费的约 0.12%。


fish tank

I sprinkled little flakes into the fish tank for the guppies to eat.

我把一小把饲料撒在鱼缸里让孔雀鱼吃。


lima

We had limas with dinner last night.


exhume

借自中世紀拉丁語 exhumō，源自拉丁語 ex- + humō (“埋”)。

Not so long ago a Scotsman is reported to have exhumed the body of his daughter and burnt her heart, as he thought she was devitalising her remaining brother and sister and making them ill.

据报道，不久前，一名苏格兰人挖出了他女儿的尸体并烧毁了她的心脏，因为他认为她正在破坏她仍在世的兄弟姐妹的生命，并害得他们生病。

1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long，頁號 126:

The archeologist exhumed artifacts from the ground with a shovel.

考古学家用铲子从地下挖出了文物。


transmitted

a telegraphically transmitted message


amphitheatre

源自拉丁語 amphitheatrum，源自古希臘語 ἀμφιθέατρον (amphithéatron)。

/ˈæmfɪˌθiːətə/

/ˈæmfɪˌθɪətə/

/ˈæmfiˌθiːətə/

Ancient Roman amphitheatres were mostly oval or circular in plan, with seating tiers that surrounded the central performance area, like a modern open-air stadium.

古罗马圆形剧场的平面大多呈椭圆形或圆形，座位层围绕着中央表演区，就像现代的露天体育场一样。

We had previously visited the building prepared for the assemblage, which was a vast pentagonal semicircular amphitheatre of painted wood and canvas work, ...

1816, John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton, The Substance of Some Letters，頁號 192:

The dry quarry in Shrewsbury [was] in use from at least 1445-6 [...until] 1568-9 (and perhaps beyond)[. ...] Location of this as the site of a semicircular amphitheatre [used in the 1400s and 1500s] is confirmed by the evidence, published in total for the first time in the present volume.

1994, J. A. B. Somerset, Shropshire, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN，頁號 388:


submaxillary

submaxillary saliva

submaxillary mucin


salivate

源自拉丁語 salivatus，salivare (“吐出；流口水”) 的過去分詞，源自 saliva (“口水”)。

He's been salivating over the latest model sports car for a while now.

他对最新型号的跑车垂涎已久。


RNG

QRNG

renewable natural gas (“可再生天然气”)之首字母縮略詞。

随机要素；随机系统中的运气

The combat in this game is way too RNG-based.

这游戏战斗的随机性太强了。

Jeez, I'm having terrible RNG today.


join the club

welcome to the club

大家都一样 （表达同感）

大家都一样 （表达同感）

You're getting poor response times? Join the club!

你也是迟迟没有得到回音？谁不是啊！


break wind

breaks wind
breaking wind
broke wind
broken wind

One of the kids on the school bus broke wind.


skill issue

在约2020年普及开来。

—Dude, they nerfed my main and now I can't win any games! —Sounds like a skill issue lol

-兄弟，他们把我经常玩的角色削了，现在我把把都输！-听起来像是因为你菜啊，哈哈。

Perhaps regarded as one of her funniest lines, she can taunt the enemy after eliminating them by saying, "Wow, cringe," in a fittingly condescending tone. Some other voice lines include, "It's a skill issue," "Enjoy that killcam," "Now they're just feeding," and "Outplayed."

2022年October21日, Joanna Koziol, “D.Va Is Overwatch 2's Most Toxic Character”, 出自 Screen Rant，2022-11-04歸檔自原頁面:

Those players who have ever taken to TikTok to complain about bugs and gameplay issues in a game will often be met with the reply "Skill Issue."

[2022年November11日, Rebecca Smith, “What Does 'Skill Issue' Mean on TikTok and in Gaming?”, 出自 GameRevolution，2022-11-28歸檔自原頁面:

Well, after playing it myself, I have to say that it is a lot of fun to play as long as you can manage to stay alive long enough to enjoy it! Let me be the first to say, this is a 'skill issue' of course, but ultimately, I just thought my zombies would be stronger.

2022年December27日, Dean Clark, “THE UNLIVING First Impression: Feeling Weak Behind My Forces”, 出自 GameTyrant，2022-12-27歸檔自原頁面:

The game's Reddit forum is swamped with posts about how difficult it is to win a match. Some users may state that this is a 'skill issue.' However, seeing so many players complain about their skill mismatch and inability to win a single match is somewhat concerning.

2023年January2日, Matthew Wilkins, “Is Fortnite Chapter 4 Season 1 the sweatiest season ever?”, 出自 Sportskeeda，2023-01-04歸檔自原頁面:


pop music

流行音樂；流行（一種音樂類型）

Pop music, despite its commercial focus, includes many artistic gems.

流行音乐尽管以商业为重点，但也包含许多艺术瑰宝。


ordained

There was much pomp at the ceremony that made him an ordained minister.

仪式非常隆重，他被授予牧师之位。


antitrust

The regulators used antitrust laws to block the merger, believing it would eliminate competition.

监管机构用反垄断法阻止了收购案，认为这样会阻碍市场竞争。

If the takeover is approved, Comcast would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets, […]. Antitrust officials will need to consider Comcast’s status as a monopsony (a buyer with disproportionate power), when it comes to negotiations with programmers, whose channels it pays to carry.

2014年March15日, “Turn it off”, 出自 The Economist, 卷 410, 期 8878:


dishtowel

A child of the Great Depression, Grandma would never throw away a dishtowel until it had more holes than thread.

作为大萧条时期的孩子，奶奶永远不会扔掉抹布，除非它的洞比线还多。


have a bun in the oven

has a bun in the oven
having a bun in the oven
had a bun in the oven

懷孕，有了（字面意思是「烤箱裡有個圓包」）

Her parents were surprised to learn that she had a bun in the oven.

得知她懷孕了，她的父母很驚訝。


alphabetically

more alphabetically (comparative)
most alphabetically (superlative)

April, August, December... Who the fuck sorts months alphabetically??

四月、八月、十二月……誰他媽的按字母順序排序月份？

In alphabetically written languages the conventions governing the graphemic system G are intimately connected with those governing the phonemic system P

1978, Hans H. Wellisch, The conversion of scripts, its nature, history, and utilization，頁號 65:


adoptable

more adoptable (comparative)
most adoptable (superlative)

Only after reaching three weeks of age are the infants considered adoptable.

出生三個星期以後的嬰兒才可以被收養。

Personability and youthful vigor make this puppy highly adoptable.

獨特個性和青春活力使得這隻狗狗很適合領養。


acculture

/əˈkʌl.t͡ʃɚ/

I accultured myself very easily when I moved from Chile to Brazil; Portuguese, being similar to Spanish, was easy to learn. It might have been harder to acculture to life in Hong Kong.

当我从智利搬到巴西时，我很容易适应环境。葡萄牙语与西班牙语类似，很容易学习。适应香港的生活可能会更困难。


adorn

繼承自中古英語 adornen、adournen，源自拉丁語 adōrnāre，adōrnō 的現在主動不定式；源自 ad + ōrnō (“裝飾，修飾”)。參見 adore、ornate。代替了借自古法語 aorner 的中古英語 aournen (“裝飾”)，其亦來自同一拉丁語詞彙。

a character adorned with every Christian grace

一个充满着基督教恩典的人物

a gallery of paintings was adorned with the works of some of the great masters

画廊里陈列着一些伟大大师的作品

as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 61:10:

Durable, water-resistant and easy to clean, tiles have adorned Persian mosques, Moorish palaces and the parlors of Dutch burgers.

瓷砖耐用、防水且易于清洁，曾装饰波斯清真寺、摩尔宫殿和荷兰汉堡店。

1980, Robert M. Jones 編, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, →ISBN，頁號 38:


alphabetical

源自 拉丁語 alphabēticus + -al。 字面分析等同於 alphabet + -ical。

alphabetic

和字母表相關的；用字母表表示的

根據字母表中字母的順序的

All names were placed into an alphabetical list.

所有名字都按字母順序排列在列表中。


not bad

同類詞：good

What did you think of the guitarist?
Not bad, but that solo could have been better.

你覺得那個人吉他彈得怎麼樣？
還行吧，不過獨奏段本可以更好些的。


turn a deaf ear

turns a deaf ear
turning a deaf ear
turned a deaf ear

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-turn a deaf ear.ogg

(比喻義，及物带 to) 充耳不聞

They turned a deaf ear to her entreaties.

他們對她的懇求充耳不聞。


anally

more anally (comparative)
most anally (superlative)

Martin penetrated his partner anally.

马丁插入了他伴侣的肛门。

The doctor will examine the patient anally.

医生将对病人进行肛门检查。


unleashed

unleashed potential


how so

缩约自“how is that so?”，且亦继承中古英語 how-so、hou-so、hu se (“无论如何”)，等价于how + so。对比西弗里斯蘭語 hoesa (“为什么”)、荷蘭語 hoezo (“为什么”)、德國低地德語 woso (“为什么”)、德語 wieso (“为什么”)、瑞典語 hurså (“为什么”)。

怎么说？何出此言？为什么这样说？

The city of Melbourne has much more culture than Sydney. ― How so?

墨尔本的文化比悉尼的要丰富得多。―怎么说？

I'm feeling really depressed. ― How so?

我感觉好难过。―怎么了？


popularise

Homer Simpson popularised the term "d'oh".

荷馬·辛普森讓“d'oh”這個詞流行了起來。

Towards the end of August, the Southern Railway decided to adopt a novel form of publicity to popularise the services. Sandwich board men were employed at Charing Cross and Cannon Street to display placards, and distribute leaflet timetables, calling attention to the vacant seats on the services via Nunhead.

1946 November and December, “Additional London-Dartford Services”, 出自 Railway Magazine，頁號 386:

Special cheap day return facilities have been introduced to popularise the railbuses.

1959 March, “Talking of Trains: Railbuses on the W.R.”, 出自 Trains Illustrated，頁號 121:


coming out of someone's ears

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If you plant sixteen tomato plants, you will have tomatoes coming out of your ears by July!

种十六株西红柿，七月份长出来的西红柿多到可以把你埋了。

There will be tomatoes coming out of your ears.

西红柿会多到可以把你埋了。

You'll get tomatoes coming out of your ears.

西红柿会多到可以把你埋了。


notifier

The e-mail notifier displays a small icon in the notification area when mail is received.

收到邮件时，电子邮件通知程序会在通知区域中显示一个小图标。


shakedown

shake down 的動詞派生詞。以前曾有将稻草摇下来做简易临时床铺的方法。

What is this, a shakedown?

Four Thai police officers charged with murder in connection with the deadly shakedown of a suspected drug dealer in custody were arrested Wednesday after a video clip of the incident shared on social media caused a public furor.

2021年August25日, Tassanee Vejpongsa, “Four Thai Police Charged in Drug Suspect’s Death After Video Surfaces”, 出自 Bloomberg, Bloomberg, retrieved 2021-08-25:


hit the nail on the head

hits the nail on the head
hitting the nail on the head
hit the nail on the head

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指出问题的关键；得出正确的答案；一语中的

He hit the nail on the head when he said the problem was the thermostat.

他指出问题在恒温器，简直一语中的。


loonie

源自 loon (“潛鳥”) + -ie，因一加元硬幣背面的潛鳥圖案而得名。

The loonie continued to rise against the greenback today.

今天，加元兌美元匯率繼續上漲。


grammatical case

The grammatical cases nominative and accusative are used for subjects and direct objects respectively in many languages, including Latin.

在許多語言中，主格和賓格分別用於主詞和直接受詞，包括拉丁語。


discerner

a discerner of truth, of right and wrong

辨别真理、正确与错误的人


vigour

繼承自中古英語 vigour，源自古法語 vigour，源自 vigor，源自拉丁語 vigor，源自 vigeō (“繁榮；茁壯”)，源自原始印歐語 *weǵ- (“活潑”)。
與 vigil、vegetable、vajra、waker 有關。

vigour 及其衍生詞一般表示“主動的力量”，或“行動的力量”。

A plant grows with vigour.


old hand

My tax advisor is an old hand at dealing with auditors.

我的税务顾问很擅长对付审计。

The media, needless to say, are very pro-Bloomberg. He’s an old hand at stroking reporters and television executives, and few of them have raised the fact that it was Rudy who inherited a lawless city with crime out of control and over eight years, via his ‘broken windows’ theory, turned Gotham into the safest big city on the planet.

2020年March2日, Taki Theodoracopulos, “What makes Bloomie run?”, 出自 The Spectator (US edition):


square away

I have almost squared away the last of the paperwork from that job.

我快完成那个工作的文书任务了。


distensive

more distensive (comparative)
most distensive (superlative)

distensive paralysis

distensive opposition

distensive headache


live off

When I was a student, I lived off baked potatoes.

我上学的时候靠烤土豆度日。

I live off nothing in this world / Except the thick grey air that chains itself / Swirls all around and engrains itself

1985, “World Without Warning”, 出自 Pressure Points, 演出者 Anne Clark:


Roman numerals

Roman numerals is the system used on some clocks.

羅馬數字是用在一些鐘錶上的（計數）體系。


reinvent

He had the ability to reinvent himself as needed.

他有能力根据需要重塑自己的形象。


fly off the handle

flies off the handle
flying off the handle
flew off the handle
flown off the handle

My dad flew off the handle when he saw the F grade on my report card.

我爸看到我成绩单上的F以后大发雷霆。


surmise

源自古法語 surmis，surmetre、surmettre (“指责”)的过去分词，源自sur- (“上”) + metre (“放置”)。

surmises of jealousy or of envy

This opinion, however, is merely a surmise, which may or may not be the case.

但是这个观点只是猜测，可能对也可能不对。

But ſurely no Man whatſoever ought in Justice or good Manners to be charged with Principles he actually diſowns, unleſs his Practices do openly and without the leaſt Room for Doubt, contradict his Profeſſion: Not upon ſmall Surmiſes, or becauſe he has the Miſfortune to have Ill Men ſometimes agree with him in a few general Sentiments.

1721, anonymous [Jonathan Swift], “The Sentiments of a Church of England-man with Respect to Religion and Government. Written in the Year, 1708”, 出自 Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, 4th版, Dublin: Printed by S. Fairbrother, book-seller, and are to be sold at his shop in Skinner-Row, over against the Tholsel, →OCLC，頁號 61:

The meeting had been devoid of incident. No word had been said to give me anything to think about, and any surmises I might make were unwarranted. I was intrigued.

1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, 章號 32, 出自 The Moon and Sixpence: A Novel (Heinemann's Colonial Library of Popular Fiction), London: William Heinemann, →OCLC:

In short, the chances of the Princes Street terminal's survival seem unsure, though at the moment these views are no more than surmise.

1962 April, “Talking of Trains: The future of Princes Street”, 出自 Modern Railways，頁號 227:


surmise

If, as I surmise, you see the ladies this evening, you might mention my intended visit.

如果你今晚碰到那些女士——我认为你也会碰到——麻烦跟她们说我想要拜访。


uninterruptible

uninterruptible power supply


follow suit

follows suit
following suit
followed suit

If you are not sure of the proper etiquette, watch what others do and follow suit.

如果你不知道礼仪的条条框框，你就看别人怎么做，然后照做就行。

After World War II it took time to clear up the arrears of track maintenance on both lines and it was not until 1953 that the L.M.R. restored any two-hour schedules, the W.R. following suit a year later.

1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, 出自 Trains Illustrated，頁號 98:

The wise man built his words upon the rocks / But I'm not bound to follow suit

1984, “So. Central Rain”, 出自 Reckoning, 演出者 R.E.M.:

I had a natural African American impulse to let this worldlywise middle-aged black woman's maternalism wash over me. And as a post-civil rights African American, I assumed that it was a white audience's job to follow suit.

2014年May28日, John McWhorter, “Saint Maya”, 出自 The New Republic, →ISSN:

But unless there is a Damascene conversion in the Treasury, the chances of the UK Government following suit currently look slim.

2022年May4日, Anthony Lambert, “A revolution in ticketing”, 出自 RAIL, 期 956，頁號 33:


level to the ground

levels to the ground
levelling to the ground
leveling to the ground
levelled to the ground
leveled to the ground

They leveled the building to the ground.


sworn

繼承自中古英語 sworen、isworen，繼承自古英語 sworen、ġesworen，繼承自原始西日耳曼語 *swaran、*giswaran，繼承自原始日耳曼語 *swaranaz，原始日耳曼語 *swarjaną (“發誓”) 的過去分詞，等價於 swear + -en。

His sworn statement convinced the judge.

他的宣誓声明使法官信服。

a sworn foe

a sworn socialist


automatize

源自法語 automatiser，源自 automate (“自動機”)。等價於 automate + -ize。

Student responses are gradually automatized through repetition.

学生的反应通过重复逐渐自动化。

We need to automatize our production facility.

我们需要使我们的生产设施自动化。


run by

run past

给...（by后的宾语）大致讲解；让...（by后的宾语）大致知道

给...（by后的宾语）大致讲解；让...（by后的宾语）大致知道

Let me run that idea by the board before we spend too much time on it.

我先给董事会简单讲讲这个想法（听听董事会意见），我们再花时间弄。

I would like to hear your opinion on this. Have you got a few minutes, so I can run some ideas by you?

我想问问你在这件事上的想法。能占用你几分钟时间，我把这些主意的大概讲给你吗？

Can you just run those numbers by me again, please? To make sure I've got them clear.

你能再过一遍这些数字吗？看看我有没有什么错误。

Run that by me again.

Can you run by the store for milk?

你能去商店帮我买牛奶吗？


aliene

alien (“（通過出售的方式）轉讓所有權”) 的異體。

（通過出售等方式）轉讓（頭銜或財產）

to aliene an estate


parked

a row of parked cars


suspected

Bring in the suspected vandal.

把涉嫌破坏行为的人带进来。


button up

Button up your shirt cuff. It has come undone

扣好自己衣物的扣子；保暖

Button up well. It's freezing outside today.

穿暖和点，今天外面很冷。

It's time to button up the meeting.

He needs to button up.


spenno

more spenno (comparative)
most spenno (superlative)

All the restaurants here are pretty spenno.


comforting

more comforting (comparative)
most comforting (superlative)

Your comforting words help ease my mind.

您安慰的话语让我心情轻松了一些。

It's comforting to know that I've always got my Mum when things go wrong.

当我遇到麻烦时，知道妈妈总是在身边，这让我感到很安慰。


screensaver

屏幕保护程序，屏保，荧幕保护程式

I configured my screensaver to appear after only two minutes, because I enjoyed watching it so much.

我调了设置让屏保2分钟后就出来，因为我特别喜欢看。


intimidatingly

more intimidatingly (comparative)
most intimidatingly (superlative)

He stared intimidatingly at John. John, feeling threatened, ran off.

他用威胁的眼神看着约翰。约翰感到受到了威胁，于是逃跑了。


economic growth

As a result of inward investment, Eire enjoyed substantial economic growth.

由于外来投资，爱尔兰经济实现了大幅增长。


pronged

more pronged (comparative)
most pronged (superlative)

a three-pronged fork


at most

There weren't so many people at the concert — 40 at most.

來看音樂會的人不多——頂多就坐滿了40%。


snappy

snappier (comparative)
snappiest (superlative)

a snappy response

Make it snappy!

You're snappy this morning; did you not sleep well?

你今早心情好差，是不是没睡好？

Here he is, looking snappy in his brand-new suit.

他来了，穿着新西装打扮得很时髦。

The niftiest, snappiest slacks you ever saw!

1933, Stella Blum, Everyday Fashion of the Thirties as pictured in Sears Catalogs, 出版於 1986，頁號 56:

snappy weather; snappy pace; snappy rejoinder

The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:[…]。

1897年 12月（標示為1898年）, Winston Churchill, 章號 8, 出自 The Celebrity: An Episode, 紐約: The Macmillan Company；倫敦：Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

a snappy dog

These spring-loaded seats are a bit harder and very snappy when you get off them.

2023年April19日, Pip Dunn, “Jack of all trades... and master of most”, 出自 RAIL, 期 981，頁號 56:

a snappy motto


Judeo-Satanic

more Judeo-Satanic (comparative)
most Judeo-Satanic (superlative)

Changes abound, Judeo-Satanic plot or not.


satanic

more satanic (comparative)
most satanic (superlative)

Can Abrahamic religious leaders call other religions "satanic" without being in jail?

亚伯拉罕宗教的领袖们能够称其他宗教“邪恶如撒旦”而不入狱吗？


no holds barred

a no holds barred match

a no holds barred debating style that quickly transformed into cheap shots and bickering

There isn’t much reason to be optimistic about thoughtful dialogue in this general election. Both sides are girded for a negative, no-holds-barred slugfest.

2016年May8日, Albert R. Hunt, “Trump and Clinton Campaigns Gear Up for a Slugfest”, 出自 The New York Times, →ISSN:

Among them was Ryan Ferchaud, 37, a tourist from Memphis who mostly faulted groups of college students for what she said was their no-holds-barred attitude regarding the mayhem.

2021年March22日, Neil Vigdor, Michael Majchrowicz, Azi Paybarah, “Miami Beach, Overwhelmed by Spring Break, Extends Emergency Curfew”, 出自 The New York Times, →ISSN:

“But the Russian doctrine of mass firing and no holds barred was visible in Chechnya, and there is the potential that Russia will get its act together tactically, and that will result in mass fire against population centers.”

2022年February28日, Steven Erlanger, 引 Douglas Lute, “After a Fumbled Start, Russian Forces Hit Harder in Ukraine”, 出自 The New York Times, →ISSN:


beat to

略自beat to the punch。(這個詞源⁽⁺⁾能找到來源嗎？)

抢在...前面，被...抢先

I wanted to gather up all the pinecones, but you beat me to it!

我本来想捡所有的松果的，但是被你抢先了！


go by

I like to sit and watch the world go by. The rest of the day went by quickly.

我喜欢坐着看周围的人行色匆匆。 那天剩下的时间很快就过去了。

His full name is Ernest Tinkleton, but he goes by Ernie.

I'm only going by what my teacher said.

a good rule to go by

If his reputation is anything to go by, he's the best in this field.

如果他的名声是真的的话，他是这个领域里最好的。

The uncared-for external appearance of the tanks is nothing to go by, for the glass-lined tanks are kept in perfect condition.

1959 March, R. C. Riley, “Home with the Milk”, 出自 Trains Illustrated，頁號 155:

Or perhaps we will sink back into our culture of complacent exceptionalism and await the next plague that will surely arrive. To go by recent history, that moment will come sooner than we think.

2020年April9日, Richard Horton, “Coronavirus is the greatest global science policy failure in a generation”, 出自 The Guardian:


get one's claws into

gets one's claws into
getting one's claws into
got one's claws into
got one's claws into
gotten one's claws into

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Once that bank gets its claws into you, it doesn't let go easily.

一旦你上了那家银行的勾，你就没那么容易跑掉了。


put through the wringer

puts through the wringer
putting through the wringer
put through the wringer

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

让...吃苦头；让...不好受

They really put each candidate through the wringer before choosing one to hire.

Psychiatrists say that for many people who have been put through the wringer over the past decade, the climate extremes are one crisis too many.

2023年September16日, Jason Horowitz, “How Do We Feel About Global Warming? It’s Called Eco-Anxiety.”, 出自 The New York Times, →ISSN:


brown bag

源自常用于装自制便当的棕色纸袋。

Did you attend the brown bag Tuesday on healthy exercise habits?

So what student would choose to work in Washington for zero compensation, with benefits listed as "brown-bags," "farewell reception" and "athletic and service opportunities"?

1994年November6日, William Goss, “Interning For Pleasure And Profit”, 出自 The New York Times, →ISSN:


summerteeth

...some of her teeth等表达的缩约形式，受到了summer的影响。对比butterface。

She's a lovely girl but she's got summerteeth—some are still there, but some ain't.

她是個挺可愛的小女孩，但是牙齒沒長齊——有的還在，有的掉了。

Always be careful handling your oars or you'll end up with a case of summerteeth.

划桨的时候小心点，不然你牙齿就不保了。

I glance over and see Mia smiling. "At least it's not some creepy old dude with a bald head and missing teeth."
Shaking my head, I chuckle. "I can't say if he's a toothless wonder or if he has summer teeth. I'm just saying it's a male."


grunt work

She has not only participated in the left as a star, even though she came into the role quite young. When Holly was between entertainment jobs, she volunteered for grunt work in anti-war organizations.

1990年December9日, Maida Tilchen, “Closer To Near”, 出自 Gay Community News, 卷 18, 號 21，頁號 14:

He plans to hire somebody to do the grunt work of digging the trenches for the pipes.

他打算雇人来干挖管道沟这种体力活。


drop-dead

My date was drop-dead gorgeous!

我对象非常漂亮/帅气！（一般用于像这样搭配gorgeous）


butterface

everything looks good but her face、great body but her face等短语的缩约形式，受到了butter (“黄油”)（可能还暗示了“平平无奇”或者“多油”等意思）和buttface的影响。参见这些词条。对比summerteeth。

I can’t even look at her, she’s such a butterface.

她真是不忍直视，活脱脱一个背影杀手。

Her face wasn't quite as pretty as he had hoped — Earl, the other mechanic back at his father's place called this kind of girl a Butterface...

2010, Laura Lippman, I'd Know You Anywhere, New York: HarperCollins, →ISBN，頁號 76:

I can’t even look at her, she’s got such a butterface.

她真是不忍直视，她（明明身材很好却）脸太难看了。

Her friend had a hot figure and a butterface — great body, but her face — and they were talking about Greyhound's most recent dating fiasco.

2004, Amy Sohn, “The need to know and the fear of knowing”, 出自 My Old Man, New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN，頁號 106:


walk the walk

walks the walk
walking the walk
walked the walk

When it comes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, he talks the talk, but it remains to be seen if he can walk the walk.

关于减排温室气体，他说的是头头是道，但是他会不会付诸实际行动还是个未知数。

"The SNP like to talk the talk about net zero targets, but they can't walk the walk. We need a fares freeze for everyone if we want to get serious about greening the economy and a public railway run in the public interest."

2023年June28日, Conrad Landin, “Network News: Scottish 4.8% rail fares rise labelled 'bad news'”, 出自 RAIL, 期 986，頁號 18:


talk the talk

talks the talk
talking the talk
talked the talk

说好听话，说大话，说漂亮话；说该说的话，说表达决心的话

When it comes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, he talks the talk, but it remains to be seen if he walks the walk.

关于减排温室气体，他说的是头头是道，但是他会不会付诸实际行动还是个未知数。

Some leaders only talk the talk but aren't prepared to take any risks.

一些领导人只会说漂亮话，但是从来不愿意冒风险。

Byford talks the talk, and he does it well.

2020年December2日, Andy Byford talks to Paul Clifton, “I enjoy really big challenges...”, 出自 Rail，頁號 55:


six feet under

六英尺是傳統上開挖墳墓的深度。

My grandparents are six feet under.

我的祖父母都已與世長辭。


live down

to live down slander

He has never been able to live down his electoral defeat.

他从一直没能选举失败的阴影中走出来。

I'll never live down this mistake.

我这辈子都走不出这个错误的阴影了。


scruffy

scruffier (comparative)
scruffiest (superlative)

A scruffy little dog came scampering down the road.

一条脏脏的小狗在路上跳来跳去。

scruffy clothes

scruffy man

scruffy outfit

"So you wanna be a rock 'n roll star?!" screams the centerspread of a scruffy rag produced by the Boston activist group Rock Against Sexism (R.A.S.) Amid a jumbled collage picturing shaggy-headed, bare-chested, "fuckin' awesome" white guy rockers, photo captions tell us how to succeed at rock 'n roll.

1987年December13日, Elizabeth Pincus, “Rock Against Sexism”, 出自 Gay Community News, 卷 15, 號 22，頁號 16:


blackeyed

blackeyed pea

blackeyed Susan


geminous

geminous teeth

And this the practice of Christians hath acknowledged, who have baptized these geminous births.

1672, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica (6th edition, book 3, chapter 15)

The reader will also observe that in the example just cited 'justice' is rendered by 'equality and justice;' on the same page he will find carelessness and inadvertency' where the original has only neglect; and so he will find throughout the book such geminous and even tergeminous renderings to the number of at least two hundred.

1861 March, “Critical Notices of Works on India and the East”, 出自 Calcutta Review, 卷 36，頁號 v:


suffuse

源自拉丁語 suffundō。

The entire room was suffused with a golden light.

整个房间，弥漫着金色的光芒。

像液體一樣擴散、遍佈、洋溢、充斥

The warmth suffused his cold fingers.

温暖传到了他冰冷的手指上。

Marie's face was suffused with a sleepy, appreciative look.

1983, Robert Ferro, The Family of Max Desir，頁號 87:

His newest work, The Beach Bum, shares a gauzy neon aesthetic and Florida setting with Spring Breakers, and it’s marked by the usual plethora of drug use, free love, and pirate’s-life-for-me lawlessness that suffuses every Korine movie.

2019年March28日, David Sims, “A Portrait of the Artist as a Perpetually Stoned Beach Bum”, 出自 The Atlantic:


big brother

If you don't give me back my toys I'll tell my big brother!

如果你不把我的玩具还给我，我就要告诉我哥哥了！


assail

源自中古英語 assailen，源自古法語 assaillir, assalir，源自晚期拉丁語 assalīre，源自拉丁語 ad (“向”) + salīre (“跳”)。见assault。

攻击，袭击 （亦比喻义）；困扰

Muggers assailed them as they entered an alley.

他们进小巷以后被强盗袭击了。

Our ears were assailed by her joyous efforts on her new saxophone.

她津津乐道地讲她的萨克斯怎么样怎么样，说得我们都烦了。

With greedy force he gan the fort assayle,
Whereof he weend possesse soone to bee,
And win rich spoile of ransackt chastitee.

1590, 埃德蒙·斯宾塞, “Book I, Canto VI”, 出自 仙后（The Faerie Qveene . […]）, London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC，頁號s 76-77:

“[…] for the next six months or so those children will assail her in public with demands for an improper story!”

1897, Saki, “The Story-teller”, 出自 Beasts and Super-beasts, London: John Lane, 出版於 1914，頁號 238:

We got married immediately after I finished my work […] which should have been the happiest day of my life. […] ¶ But, it was not my happiest day. I was assailed by doubts.

1942, Zora Neale Hurston, 章號 14, 出自 Dust Tracks on a Road, New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 出版於 1969，頁號 258:

He did not like being in crowds, foul smells galore assailing his nostrils.

2007, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Wizard of the Crow, Nairobo: East African Educational Publishers, Book 2, Chapter 3, p. 64,


go belly-up

源自鱼死亡时肚子朝上飘浮的现象。

goes belly-up
going belly-up
went belly-up
gone belly-up

沦落，落魄，失败；破产，关门大吉

I was sorry to hear that my favorite little restaurant went belly-up.

我听说我最爱去的饭店关门了以后感觉很难过。


stick up one's ass

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-stick up one's ass.ogg

have a stick up one's ass

My parents […] had been decently off at some time in the past, but all that remained by the time I came along was a certain New Englandy Puritan sense of respectability. […] I've inherited it. As much as I've tried to fight it, when you're born with a stick up your ass, you die with a stick up your ass.

2009, Don Nigro, Gorgons and Other Plays, →ISBN，頁號 47:

President Adrian Kantor, whom […] Sandy often referred to as a "prissy do-gooder with a stick up his ass," credited Sanderson & Dunn with his swift ascent from the House to the Senate to the White House.

2014, Jay Giles, 章號 1, 出自 Moneymoon's End, →ISBN:

He was too straight-laced to appreciate piercings and tattoos. If he could manage to keep future comments to himself, she wouldn't have any reason to mention the stick up his ass.

2015, Tara Mills, 章號 2, 出自 Going Solo, →ISBN:


botted

more botted (comparative)
most botted (superlative)

人机似的 （都是新手的）

a botted lobby


disclude

Please disclude me from further discussions on this topic.

请将我从参与有关该主题的进一步讨论中排除。


relational adjective

關係形容詞；定義關係而非限定條件的形容詞

In some languages, a noun cannot modify another noun by being placed right next to it (like an adjective); for such languages a noun might have a corresponding relational adjective (obtained from the noun by some morphological adjustment) which can modify another noun. For example, in the English expression architectural heritage, "architectural" does not refer to a property or quality; it expresses a relationship to the corresponding noun "architecture". For languages which do allow direct adjective-like modification of a noun by another noun, they might have relational adjectives anyway, for example, due to borrowing them from the former type of languages.

在某些語言中，名詞不能（像形容詞一樣），藉由放在另一個名詞旁邊來修飾另一個名詞；對於此類語言，名詞可能有一個相應的關係形容詞（透過某種構詞調整從名詞獲得），而它可以修飾另一個名詞。例如，在英語 architectural heritage（建築遺產）中，「建築」並不是指屬性或特質；而是表達了與相應名詞「架構」的關係。對於允許一個名詞直接用另一個名詞做形容詞式修飾的語言，它們可能還是有關聯形容詞，例如，從前一類語言借用而來。


war crime

/ˈwɔɹ ˌkɹaɪm/

同類詞：crime against humanity、genocide、atrocity

Collective punishment is a war crime under the Geneva Convention.

根據日內瓦公約，連坐是一種戰爭罪。


all night

同類詞：all day

We stayed up all night.

I wanna rock and roll all night and party every day.

我想要整夜摇滚，每天都是盛宴。


supersaturate

In science class the teacher prepared a supersaturated solution by cooling a saturated solution. He then added a small seed crystal and a large precipitate formed in just a second.

科学课上，老师通过冷却饱和溶液来制备过饱和溶液。然后他往里放进一颗小晶种，一秒钟内就形成了一块大沉淀。


yapper

人的嘴，尤其是閒話說得太多的人

Shut your yapper or I'll shut it for you!

閉上你的嘴，否則我替你閉上！


leave someone in the lurch

leaves someone in the lurch
leaving someone in the lurch
left someone in the lurch

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-leave someone in the lurch.ogg

拋棄，拋下（讓其獨自面對困難的境地）

He left me in the lurch and I had to finish the whole project by myself.

他把我拋下，害我得一個人做完整個項目。

But though thou'rt of a different church, / I will not leave thee in the lurch.


iffy

iffier (comparative)
iffiest (superlative)

dodgy

真实性或合法性值得怀疑的

dubious

真实性或合法性值得怀疑的

fishy

真实性或合法性值得怀疑的

真实性或合法性值得怀疑的

He's selling new CD players for £20 each – that sounds a bit iffy to me.

他以每台20英镑的价格出售新CD机——我觉得这个价格有点可疑。

The weather is still iffy for Saturday's rocket launch.

周六的火箭发射天气仍然不太理想。

That potato salad smells a bit iffy. Don't chance it — it's not worth salmonellosis.

土豆沙拉的味道有点怪。别冒险——不值得冒沙门氏菌病的风险。

“He’s underground, anyway, so reception would be iffy.”

2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit，頁號 416:

"Definitely something iffy, that's for sure.”

2011, Terry Pratchett, Snuff, Doubleday，頁號 60:


stat

statistic (“統計量”) 的截斷形式。

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

stat out

為（遊戲中的怪物等）分配統計數據

為（遊戲中的怪物等）分配統計數據

If you stat it, they will kill it.


qualifiable

more qualifiable (comparative)
most qualifiable (superlative)

可修改、修飾、限制、約束的

Each consonant symbol in the shorthand is qualifiable with various vowel markers.

速记中的每个辅音符号都可以用各种元音标记来修饰。


tide over

（在金钱上）帮...撑过困难

Could you lend me ten pounds to tide me over till payday?

你能借我10英镑帮我撑到发工钱吗？

Would a small snack tide you over until dinner?

吃点零食能让你撑到晚饭吗？

Each evening, it was true, when the flare of Fleet Street would have begun really to smoke, she had, in resistance to old habit, a little to hold herself; but for three successive days she tided over that crisis.


cook up

Let me cook up some eggs and bacon before you go.

你走之前我再做点鸡蛋和培根吧。

To cook up a batch of biodiesel, scientists stir together methanol and vegetable fat.

科学家将甲醇和植物油搅拌在一起来制取生物柴油。

Owsley Stanley started cooking up those famous purple LSD tabs.

Owsley Stanley开始着手制作那些著名的紫色LSD（麦角酸二乙酰胺）片剂。

下位詞：whip up

The financiers cooked up an instrument called a collateralized debt obligation.

金融学家们创造了一种名为债务担保证券的工具。

He really cooked up a good one this time, something about an airline disaster.

他这回扯的故事真的有点东西的，说什么空难啥的。

For more than two years Thailand's ruling junta, which seized power in a coup in 2014, has been cooking up a constitution which it hopes will keep military men in control even after elections take place.

2017年January14日, “Thailand's new king rejects the army's proposed constitution”, 出自 The Economist:

"RMT will not sit back while this carve-up of the rail network is cooked up in company boardrooms. [...]".

2021年September8日, “RMT on "war footing" in response to workforce cutback threats”, 出自 RAIL, 期 939，頁號 15:


cooldown

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-cooldown.wav

冷卻時間, 遊戲中持續使用虛擬物品或技能釋放所必須的間隔時間
具有强大效果但冷却时间较长的特殊能力

I had to wait for the cooldown to finish before recasting the spell.

我必须等待冷却时间结束后才能重新施放该咒语。

Private Terminal: After using a power, you must wait for it to recharge before using it again.
Private Terminal: This is called the cooldown period. When a power is in cooldown, its icon is gray. A red icon indicates that the power cannot affect the current target.

2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC，PC，幕：Tactical Mastery: Advanced Power Use:


不支援的頁面名稱/`lt`

貓 < 狗

狗 < 貓


exacerbator

exacerbators of pulmonary disease