rambunctious

more rambunctious (comparative)
most rambunctious (superlative)

hyphy

活泼的，闹腾的，吵闹的；难以控制的

robustious

活泼的，闹腾的，吵闹的；难以控制的

rumbustious

活泼的，闹腾的，吵闹的；难以控制的

shandy

活泼的，闹腾的，吵闹的；难以控制的

unruly

活泼的，闹腾的，吵闹的；难以控制的

wild

活泼的，闹腾的，吵闹的；难以控制的

活泼的，闹腾的，吵闹的；难以控制的

The kids are being especially rambunctious today.

"Bad cess may attend you, where are you scampering to, you rambunctious"—but she could go no farther; the tears burst from her, and she gave way, without farther resistance, to an explosion of grief.

1852 November, O’Hara Family, “Clough Fionn; or, The Stone of Destiny”, 出自 The Dublin University Magazine, a Literary and Political Journal, 卷 XL, 號 CCXXXIX, Dublin: James McGlashan, […]; London: W[illia]m S[omerville] Orr and Company, →OCLC, chapter XI，頁號 557，列號 1:

"Not as you knows on, you rambunctious wool grower," said the indignant Yankee.

1856 October, “About These Books”, 出自 J. Clement 編, The Western Literary Messenger […], 卷 XXVII, 期 II, Buffalo, N.Y.: Thomas & Lathrops, […], →OCLC，頁號 64，列號 1:

There was close by me a window, and, noiselessly as possible, I slid back a small piece, thereby rousing the light-sleeping mistress of the canary, who sharply requested it be closed again; [...] the other lady smiled despairingly, and signed me to obey, which I reluctantly did by closing the glass; but the shutter proved rumbunctious, and for no effort of mine would again move out of his groove; [...]

1862 January, “A Canal-boat Sketch”, 出自 Duffy’s Hibernian Magazine. […], 卷 I (New Series), 期 1, Dublin, London: James Duffy, […], →OCLC，頁號 92:

"I guess the governor'd be rambunxious, as usual, if I was to ask his permission," the dutiful son remarked; "but he's going away for a few days next week, and mother won't hinder me, I know."

1873 March, W[illia]m S. Walsh, “How We Watched the Grapes”, 出自 Our Young Folks. An Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls, 卷 IX, 期 III, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, […], →OCLC，頁號 181:

It may sometimes appear that Canada is composed of nine complacent, cohesive English-speaking provinces and rambunctious Quebec. In fact, it is composed of ten provinces, each different and all occasionally rambunctious.

1979, “The Art of Government is the Art of Adjustment”, 出自 Canada Today = Canada d’aujourd’hui, 卷 10, 期 4, Washington, D.C.: Canadian Embassy, →ISSN, →OCLC，頁號 2:

Eventually the two rambunctious wolves decided to race back towards the carcass, no doubt forgetting I was still there.

1990 March, L[ucyan] David Mech, “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?”, 出自 Audubon, New York, N.Y.: National Audubon Society, →ISSN, →OCLC，頁號 82，列號 2; reprinted in “Appendix 15. Article—Wolf Attacks on Humans”, 出自 The Reintroduction of Gray Wolves to Yellowstone National Park and Central Idaho: Final Environmental Impact Statement, Helena, Mont.: Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, May 1994, →OCLC，頁號s 6-100:

Mrs. Tinkle, your son’s rambunctious behavior is quite common in children with unusually high intelligence levels.

2002年May1日, Jeffrey J. Rowland, Wigu Adventures，於2009-01-06歸檔自原頁面:

She was placid, stately and Juno-esque, soft-toned in her trance utterances, but she could become powerful in her office, an imposing presence. Sometimes a rumbunctious, chaffing persona emerged and was a little over the top for genteel spinsters to tolerate.

2015, Molly Whittington-Egan, “Preface: Into the Cabinet”, 出自 Mrs Guppy Takes a Flight: A Scandal of Victorian Spiritualism, [Castle Douglas, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland]: Neil Wilson Publishing, →ISBN，頁號 x:

She does the same thing as any parent worth their salt, and gets rambunctious youngsters engaged in daily drudgeries by refashioning the quotidian as adventure.

2018年December12日, Charles Bramesco, “A Spoonful of Nostalgia Helps the Calculated Mary Poppins Returns Go Down”, 出自 The A.V. Club，於2019-05-24歸檔自原頁面:


precipitous

源自法語 précipiteux (现已弃用)，源自通俗拉丁語 *praecipitosus。等价于precipice (“陡峭”) + -ous。

a precipitous cliff

a precipitous mountain

a precipitous decline

a precipitous drop

头朝下的，头朝前的，直直的

a precipitous fall

唐突的，鲁莽的，草率的，突然的，匆忙的

precipitous attempts

[…]humans have been responsible for a precipitous decline of elephants，源自perhaps 300,000 in the early 1970s to some 10,000 today.

2007 March, J. Michael Fay, “Ivory Wars: Last Stand in Zakouma”, 出自 National Geographic，頁號 46:


pitching

wild pitching in baseball


paragon

源自盎格魯-諾曼語 paragone、peragone、中古法語 paragon，源自意大利語 paragone (“对比”)或西班牙語 parangón，源自paragonare，源自古希臘語 παρακονάω (parakonáō, “削尖，研磨”)，源自παρά (pará) + ἀκόνη (akónē, “磨刀石”)（源自原始印歐語 *h₂eḱ- (“尖”)）。

榜样，模范 （自16世纪）

In the novel, Constanza is a paragon of virtue who would never compromise her reputation.

小说中，Constanza是一个永远不背弃自己声望的道德模范。

Yes, there were instances of grandstanding and obsessive behaviour, but many were concealed at the time to help protect an aggressively peddled narrative of [Oscar] Pistorius the paragon, the emblem, the trailblazer.

2014年October21日, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years – sport afforded no protection against his tragic fallibilities”, 出自 The Daily Telegraph (Sport):

Liz Cheney and her father are positioning themselves as protectors of the old order, as paragons of truth and as defenders of our American norms.

2021年May6日, Charles M. Blow, “Liz Cheney, We Have a Memory. You’re No Hero.”, 出自 The New York Times, →ISSN:


bullshit

乱讲的话，夸张的话，吹牛屄，放屁，胡话，胡说

Don't pay any attention to him. He talks a lot of bullshit.

别管他。他一天到晚净胡说。

The Illusive Man: Shepard. You're making a habit of costing me more than time and money.
Shepard: I'm sorry, I'm having trouble hearing you. I'm getting a lot of bullshit on this line.

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

That's total bullshit! I called your office and they said that you didn't come in!

放你的狗屁！我给你的办公室打过电话，他们说你根本去。

Fucking load of bullshit! You smashed his skull and dropped the F-bomb at him, and now you're claiming that he assaulted you?!

他妈的胡说八道！你打了他的头，还对他满嘴喷粪，现在你还说是他对你动手？

吹牛 （一种扑克游戏，见维基百科）

Anyone want to play a few hands of bullshit?


bullshit

more bullshit (comparative)
most bullshit (superlative)

荒唐的，乱讲的，胡说八道的

That's the most bullshit excuse I've ever heard.

这是我听到过的最荒唐的借口。

They're bullshit jobs

这些工作都什么乱七八糟的。


bullshit

bullshits
bullshitting
bullshitted
bullshit
bullshat

I think you're bullshitting. Let’s just call your office and see if you even came in.

我觉得你在放屁。要不我们给你办公室打个电话看看你有没有去过。

You’re bullshitting me. I called your office and you never even came in.

放你妈的屁，我给你办公室打了电话，你根本都没有去过。

I will probably just go and bullshit with Joe for a while.

我估计准备去和Joe吹会儿牛屄。

We just went on stage and bullshitted the whole concert because we didn't know any songs.

我们就上台，然后糊弄过了整个音乐会，因为我们一首歌都不会。


posthumous

源自拉丁語 posthumus，postumus的一拼写变体，posterus (“在之后的”)的最高级，因“埋葬”与humus (“地面”)的联想而添加了⟨h⟩。

The most favorable posthumous history the stay-at-home traitor can hope for is—oblivion.

1885, Ulysses S. Grant, “Chapter IV”, 出自 The Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, New York, United States: Charles L. Webster & Co.，頁號 68:

Artists obscure during their life often receive posthumous recognition, too late for them to enjoy.

一生默默无闻的艺术家常在死后才得到认同，但他们已经无法享受了。

His memoirs were his posthumous revenge on enemies he dared not take on alive.

他死后出版的回忆录是他对在世时不敢动手的敌人的还击。

Eight posthumous albums have been released to date – two more than the man managed in his lifetime – often with conspiracy-baiting titles such as Still I Rise and Tupac Resurrection.

2012年April17日, Alex Macpherson, “Tupac's hologram reflects another milestone in his mythology”, 出自 The Guardian:

遗腹的 （父亲死后出生的）

Posthumous orphans never even knew their fathers.

遗腹的孤儿甚至不认识自己的父亲。


blossom

源自中古英語 blosme，源自古英語 blostm、blostma，源自原始日耳曼語 *blōsmaz（对比西弗里斯蘭語 blossem、荷蘭語 bloesem），*blōstaz（对比德語 Blust）的加长形式，源自原始印歐語 *bʰleh₃-s- (“花”)，源自*bʰleh₃- (“绽，盛开”)。同源词有阿爾巴尼亞語 bleron (“绽放，繁盛”)、拉丁語 flōs (“花”)、Flōra (“植物之神”)。详见blow的词源4。

花 （尤指果树结果前盛开的花）； （这种花的）花簇

The blossom has come early this year.

Foppiſh and fantaſtick Ornaments are only Indications of Vice, not criminal in themſelves. Extinguiſh Vanity in the Mind, and you naturally retrench the little Superfluities of Garniture and Equipage. The Bloſſoms will fall of themſelves, when the Root that nouriſhes them is deſtroyed.

1711年March16日, The Spectator, 卷 I, 期 16, London: Printed for S[amuel] Buckley, at the Dolphin in Little-Britain; and J[acob] Tonson, at Shakespear's-Head over-against Catherine-street in the Strand, →OCLC，頁號 89:

The orchard is in blossom.


billion

There were billions of people at the concert.

那个音乐会得有好几亿个人去。


phobia

约1790年，来自一系列以-phobia结尾的词，来自古希臘語 φόβος (phóbos, “恐惧”)。对比ism，来自-ism，itis，来自-itis，以及ana，来自-ana。

phobias (plural)
phobiae (plural)
phobiæ (plural)

I know someone with a strange phobia of ladders.

我認識一個對梯子有奇怪恐懼症的人。


bogus

首个可考书面记载中是一个指假硬币制造机的黑话，后还指这些假硬币。之后其演变为指代劣质物品。最新的词义“没用的”可能派生自计算机黑客俚语。
其词源不详，但目前有两个理论：
* 源自豪薩語 boko (“伪造”)。bogus最初出现于美国，因此可能由奴隶运输船中传播来。
* 为tantrabogus的犯罪黑话缩略形式，该词在19世纪是一个指代危险物品的俚语用词；这一理论让一些人联想到bogy或bogey（见bogeyman）。在这个意义上，本词可能与bogle有关，其指的是苏格兰边境的一种在人家中做恶作剧（但不会给人财产损失）的骗子。

more bogus (comparative)
most bogus (superlative)

illegal

假的 （用于形容欺骗集邮爱好者的印着不存在国家的邮票）

bogus laws


placid

源自法語 placide，源自拉丁語 placidus (“平静的，安稳的”)，源自placeō (“满足，取悦于”)。

placider (comparative)
placidest (superlative)

a placid disposition

a placid lake

April advanced to May: a bright serene May it was; days of blue sky, placid sunshine, and soft western or southern gales filled up its duration.

1847, Charlotte Brontë, 章號 9, 出自 Jane Eyre, HTML版:

The ant has made himself illustrious / Through constant industry industrious. / So what? / Would you be calm and placid / If you were full of formic acid?

1941, Ogden Nash, “The Ant”, 出自 The Face is Familiar, Garden City Publishing Company，頁號 224:

[I]n the 575 days since [Oscar] Pistorius shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, there has been an unseemly scramble to construct revisionist histories, to identify evidence beneath that placid exterior of a pugnacious, hair-trigger personality.

2014年October21日, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years – sport afforded no protection against his tragic fallibilities: Bladerunner's punishment for killing Reeva Steenkamp is but a frippery when set against the burden that her bereft parents, June and Barry, must carry [print version: No room for sentimentality in this tragedy, 13 September 2014, p. S22]”, 出自 The Daily Telegraph (Sport):


blithe

源自中古英語 blithe (“高兴的，开心的；使人愉快的；温柔的；大方仁慈的；闪亮的；美丽的”) [以及其他形式]，源自古英語 blīþe (“高兴的”)，源自原始西日耳曼語 *blīþī，源自原始日耳曼語 *blīþiz (“友善的；温柔的；使人愉快的”)，源自原始印歐語 *bʰlī- (“好；轻；愉”)，源自原始印歐語 *bʰel- (“亮；白”)。

blither (comparative)
blithest (superlative)

She had a blithe disregard of cultures outside the United States.

她对美国以外的文化毫不在意。


penchant

借自法語 penchant，pencher (“偏，倾向”)的现在分词，源自中古法語，源自古法語 pengier (“偏倚”)，源自通俗拉丁語 *pendicāre，派生自拉丁語 pendere (“挂”)。

He has a penchant for fine wine.

Marie even then began the course which, in after-years, secured her so vast an influence in the court,—alternately taking up and laying down her claim to the youthful monarch's penchant; administering to his amusement, and ready to encourage his passing fancies.

1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], 章號 XXII, 出自 Francesca Carrara. […], 卷 I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC，頁號 264:

THE LONDON & NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY. By O. S. Nock. Ian Allan. 30s.
[...] One scarcely imagined, for example, that the great steel works at Crewe owed its existence to Sir Richard Moon's penchant for the principle of "Do it yourself", a principle born of a methodical, economical and far-seeing mind.

1960 October, “New reading on railways”, 出自 Trains Illustrated，頁號 640:

I said I've got a penchant for smokes and kicking douches in the mouth / Sadly for you my last cigarette's gone out
（請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

2019, Idles, "Never Fight a Man With a Perm", Joy as an Act of Resistance.

Just like Marple, there's a plaque at the London terminus [Paddington] commemorating a fictional character - a polite, friendly little bear from darkest Peru who has a penchant for marmalade sarnies.

2021年September22日, Stephen Roberts, “The writings on the wall...”, 出自 RAIL, 期 940，頁號 74:


belie

源自中古英語 belyen、beleoȝen，源自古英語 belēogan (“欺骗”)，源自原始西日耳曼語 *bileugan (“欺骗”)。等价于be- (“关于”) + lie (“欺骗”)。对比荷蘭語 beliegen (“说关于...的谎”)、德語 belügen (“欺骗，对...说谎”)。

slander

说关于...的谎 （自13世纪）

calumniate

说关于...的谎 （自13世纪）

misrepresent

歪曲，歪曲关于...的事实，错误代表

contradict

与...相反，与...矛盾；表明...是错误的 （自17世纪）

give lie to

与...相反，与...矛盾；表明...是错误的 （自17世纪）

give the lie to

与...相反，与...矛盾；表明...是错误的 （自17世纪）

与...相反，与...矛盾；表明...是错误的 （自17世纪）

Her obvious nervousness belied what she said.

她慌张的神态与她说的话相矛盾。

Early Chinese Buddhist travellers like O'Kong (AD 759-763) mention the use of kesar in Buddhist Viharas for various rituals, and also in making paint for Buddhist scrolls and thankas. This fact belies the earlier myth that would have us believe that kesar was not known prior to Lalitaditya's reign.

2001, Arun Kaul, “Kesar: The cultural geography of Kashmir”, 出自 The Human Landscape，頁號 227:

In smooth RP tones that belie his German parentage, he explains that none of his hachet jobs were written out of personal animosity.

2016年April9日, Philip Oltermann, “Michael Hofmann: ‘English is basically a trap. It’s almost a language for spies’”, 出自 The Guardian, →ISSN:

His calm demeanor belied his inner sense of guilt.

他虽然淡定自若，心里却十分愧疚。

The rosy outlook belies a struggle to achieve statewide eradication that has persisted since the insect first crossed the border from Mexico around 1892.

2013年August31日, Elizabeth Koh, “Fighting Pest, Farmers Find Strange Ally: A Drought”, 出自 New York Times:

At NIE the virtually monolingual linguistic landscape basically belies a quite different multilingual reality.

2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, 出自 Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI，頁號 8:


player

源自中古英語 pleyer、playere，源自古英語 pleġere (“遊戲者，玩家，運動員，摔角手”)，等於 play + -er。

參與者，參加者 參與某種性愛形式的人

He thought he could become a player, at least at the state level.

他認為自己可以參與其中，至少在州級層面。

Decision realities research recognizes the occupational tribalism identified in occupational realities research, but goes further by paying attention to all the players – patients and lay caregivers included – who participate in negotiating care.

2011, Suzanne Shale, Moral Leadership in Medicine，頁號 239:

Another Bush — George W.’s brother Jeb — is likely to be a big player in the Republican Party’s future.

2012年November7日, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, 出自 New York Times:

As the biggest rail player, Network Rail was usually held accountable for failings, but had no authority to change anything to solve the problems. The DfT had been given that authority in 2004 - but consistently ducked accountability.

2021年March10日, Nigel Harris, “It's time to get on with it!”, 出自 RAIL, 期 926，頁號 3:

In this space we explored lesbian sadomasochism, met other S/M women who were serious players, had access to safe equipment and, through watching other women, learned new techniques.

1991年April22日, Wickie Stamps, “A Lesbian Looks At The GMSMA's 10ᵗʰ Anniversary Celebration”, 出自 Gay Community News，頁號 11:


jacuzzi

The suite was jacuzzied.

They jacuzzied after a late dinner.

他们吃晚饭吃到很晚，之后去用按摩浴缸了。

He jacuzzied his sore muscles.

他用按摩浴缸来按摩他酸痛的肌肉。


brazen

源自中古英語 brasen，源自古英語 bræsen (“黄铜的”)，等价于brass + -en（对比golden）。
原意为“黄铜的”，动词的比喻义（brazen it out (“放肆”)）追溯至16世纪50年代（可能源自“脸像黄铜一样不见羞耻”），形容词义“厚颜无耻的”源自16世纪70年代。对比bold as brass。

more brazen (comparative)
most brazen (superlative)

恬不知耻的，厚颜无耻的 （自16世纪70年代）

She was brazen enough to deny stealing the handbag even though she was caught on closed-circuit television doing so.

她脸皮厚到被监控拍到偷手提包了还拒不承认。

He looked at her for a long moment. Slowly, a smile lit in his eyes. "Never a shrew. A fighter and a brazen hussy." / Placing a finger beneath her chin, he tilted her face up. "And, I'd say, you're the only brazen hussy who blushes." / A brazen hussy. She should be offended. But the smile in his eyes, the touch of his finger moving slowly and feather-light from chin to throat and along the sensitive skin of her neck made it impossible to concentrate on rebuke.

1993, Karla Hocker, A Deceitful Heart (Zebra Regency Romance), New York, N.Y.: Zebra Books, Kensington Books, →ISBN:

If one had to lie at all, the brazen lie was better because brazen lies were so outrageous many people failed to question them.

2012, Michelle West, Skirmish: A House War Novel (DAW Books Collectors; no. 1571), New York, N.Y.: DAW Books, →ISBN:


tycoon

借自日語 大君 (taikun, “领主；王子”)，幕府将军的一个名号。与taipan有关，其源自粵語 大班 (daai6 baan1)。

Chairman Yu is a tycoon who owns multiple hotel chains.

Yu主席是一个坐拥多个酒店连锁产业链的巨头。

Dagobert had only one customer, an American who wore square, rimless glasses and a beige suit and looked like a Wall Street tycoon.

1956, Delano Ames, 章號 24, 出自 Crime out of Mind:


power

源自中古英語 power、poer，源自古法語 poeir，源自通俗拉丁語 *potēre，源自拉丁語 possum、posse (“能够”)，见potent。对比法語 pouvoir。取代了古英語原生词汇anweald。

more power to someone, more power to your elbow

powersharing, power-sharing, power sharing

He needed a lot of power to hit the ball out of the stadium.

他需要很大力量才能将球打出体育馆。

After the pylons collapsed, this town was without power for a few days.

输电塔塌了以后，这个镇子已经停电好几天了。

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

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

[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.

2013年July20日, “Out of the gloom”, 出自 The Economist, 卷 408, 期 8845:

We need a microscope with higher power.

我们需要一个倍数更高的显微镜。


power

This CD player is powered by batteries.

这台CD播放器是由电池供电的。


rightmost

She tried the rightmost door first.

她首先嘗試了最右邊的門。

Start with the rightmost one and work towards the left.

從最右邊的那個開始，然後向左移動。


diprotic

形容在溶液中，（某個酸的）每個分子最多能提供兩個氫離子（H⁺，又稱質子）

diprotic acid


years

It took years for the bus to come.

等了幾萬年才等到巴士到站。


OMG

這是oh my God的縮寫，儘管有時為了避免冒犯而使用委婉語來解釋。在首次出現時，這也是對聖米迦勒及聖喬治勳章（Order of St Michael and St George）的雙關語參考。

/ˌəʊ.ɛmˈd͡ʒiː/

/ˌoʊ.ɛmˈd͡ʒiː/

由於提及了上帝，OMG可能會被一些人認為具有冒犯性，儘管可以聲稱用意是委婉語，例如oh my gosh或oh my goodness，以減少冒犯。

OMG, I just won tickets to a concert! Today is the best day ever!

天哪，我刚刚赢了一张音乐会的门票！今天是我人生中最美好的一天！

…and then he said I was ugly, so I punched him in the face. — OMG, really?

……然后他说我醜，所以我就给了他的脸一拳。——天哪，真的吗？

I hear that a new order of Knighthood is on the tapis—O.M.G. (Oh! My God!)—Shower it on the Admiralty!!

1917年September9日, John A.F. Fisher, letter to Winston Churchill:

10 Bands, 50 bands, 100 bands, fuck it, man / Let's just not even discuss it, man / OMG, niggas sleep, I ain't trippin', I'ma let 'em sleep

2015, “10 Bands”, 出自 If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, 演出者 Drake:


squirm

最早记录见于17世纪末叶，词源不详。可能是拟声词，或与worm (“蠕动”)或swarm有关。

fidget

（因尴尬或羞耻而）扭动身子

The prisoner managed to squirm out of the straitjacket.

囚犯扭来扭去，最后把拘束衣挣脱开了。

The Dutchman then missed a retaken second spot-kick, before the Trotters hit back when Daniel Sturridge's shot squirmed under Heurelho Gomes.

2011年February5日, Michael Kevin Darling, “Tottenham 2 - 1 Bolton”, 出自 BBC:

（因尴尬或羞耻而）扭动身子

I recounted the embarrassing story in detail just to watch him squirm.

我一五一十地讲了那件尴尬的事，结果他（尴尬得）坐立不安。

MARIGOLD: Should I tell them I know?

2010, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content 1686: Twist in the Wind


so what

I lost my old red shoes. – So what? Get a new pair.

我那雙舊的紅鞋子弄丟了。——那又如何？買雙新的就是了。


acquire

來自中古英語 acqueren，來自古法語 aquerre，來自拉丁語 acquirō；ad- + quaerō (“在……中搜索”)。參見quest。

all the riches he acquired were from hard work.

他獲得的所有財富都來自辛勤勞動。

One should acquire as much knowledge as possible from reading.

人應該通過閱讀盡可能多地獲取知識。

to acquire a skill

to acquire decent habits and manners

Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.

1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, 出自 “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:


and/or

和/或。“A and/or B”表示“A，或B，或A和B”。

List three personal and/or business references.

列出三個個人和/或業務參考。


tepid

uninterested

不冷不热的，漠然的，没有热情的

lukewarm

不冷不热的，漠然的，没有热情的

I'm drinking a cup of tepid water.

不冷不热的，漠然的，没有热情的

He gave me a tepid response to the proposal.

他给我的提案的回答不冷不热。

The erratic behaviour of Hariri now is largely explained by the fact that his best days may be behind him, given his long absences from the country for security reasons, his declining Saudi business interests, some local challenges to his tepid leadership in recent municipal elections, and his decline in stature in the eyes of his Saudi backers.

2016年October22日, Rami G Khouri, “Lebanese oligarchy preserves its interests once again”, 出自 Aljazeera:


eat one's words

eats one's words
eating one's words
ate one's words
eaten one's words

后悔说过的话，承认说过的话是错的

He didn't think I could do it, but I proved him wrong and made him eat his words.

他觉得我做不到，但我证明他错了，让他收回了自己的话。

This time, you have to eat your words, because, like it or not, you lost.

这次你说错了，因为不管你服不服气，你输了。

"Better retract that," she advised, "hadn't you?" "Why should I?" "Because if you're stupid enough to remain in Bombay, I'll make you eat your words one day."

1936, F.J. Thwaites, 章號 II, 出自 The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards，頁號 16:


noob

Noobs are annoying, they never know the forum rules.

新來的人真是煩得要死，永遠不懂得遵守論壇的規矩。


d'oh

拟声词。由电视节目辛普森一家（The Simpsons）中的卡通人物霍默·辛普森推广。配音演员丹·卡斯特拉内塔（Dan Castellaneta）表示，他的版本模仿了吉米·芬利森（Jimmy Finlayson）在劳雷尔和哈代（Laurel and Hardy）的电影中发出的拖长的“do-ooo”声音。

表示沮丧或愤怒，尤其是对自己的愚蠢。

—I just paid for our food. —You didn't have to. It's free. —D'oh!

——我剛剛給咱們吃的東西買單了。——不用啊，免費的。——我靠！


beef up

原为大学俚语，源自beef (“肌肉力量”)。

强化，加强，加固 （1941年）

We need to beef up security around the airport.

我们必须加强机场周围的安保。


skunk

來自一個未被證實的新英格蘭南部阿爾岡昆語單詞，與阿貝納基語 segôgw, segonku (“噴霧（麝香）/ 尿尿的人”)同源，來自原始阿爾岡昆語 *šeka·kwa，來自*šek- (“尿尿”)。

大勝而使對方無法得分；零封

I skunked him at cards.

We fished all day but the lake skunked us.

我們釣了一整天的魚，但一無所獲。


trial and error

Navigating by trial and error may get you there eventually, but using a map is faster.

通过反复试验可能最终会到达目的地，但使用地图会更快。

Trial and error was a big part of the process: "We need to fail down here so we don't fail up there," [Neil] Armstrong insists, though even some of the mistakes and malfunctions at ground level cause devastating casualties.

2018年October9日, A. A. Dowd, “The Star and Director of La La Land Reunite for First Man’s Spectacular Trip to the Moon”, 出自 The A.V. Club，於2020-06-16歸檔自原頁面:


etch

源自荷蘭語 etsen (“蚀刻”)，源自德語 ätzen (“蚀刻”)，源自古高地德語 azzon (“使...咬或吃”)，源自原始日耳曼語 *atjaną，*etaną (“吃”)（派生出eat）的使役形式。

刻，给...留下深刻印象

The memory of 9/11 is etched into my mind.

911的记忆刻到了我的心里。


stipend

由中古法語 stipende借入中古英語，源自拉丁語 stipendium (“薪资，薪水”)。

同類詞：pocket money

My stipend for doing public service is barely enough to cover living expenses.

我做公益事业得的津贴勉强够生活开支。


backward compatible

backward compatible (comparative)
backward compatible (superlative)

The new editor is backward compatible with all versions later than 1.17.

新版編輯器可向下兼容1.17以後的版本。


wild card

外卡：沒有達到正常標準，但仍被允許參加錦標賽的參賽者或團隊。

Kye Sun-Hui won an Olympic gold medal in Judo, despite being a wild card.

儘管以外卡參賽，桂順姬仍然獲得了奧運會柔道金牌。


fucking

the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get

the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you're going to get

the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you take

性交 （尤指没有感情的性交）

I got a good fucking out of her, but I doubt we'll have another date.

我幹她幹得很爽，但是估计以后约都不会再约了。

Like the French fool, that wanders up and down

c 1674, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, A Satyr on Charles II

I took a real fucking on the interest rate for that loan.

那个贷款的利率真是要把我搞死了。


fucking

fecking

他妈的 （语气加强词，一般加强的是整句话的语气，而非仅仅其语法上修饰的成分）

freaking

他妈的 （语气加强词，一般加强的是整句话的语气，而非仅仅其语法上修饰的成分）

frigging

他妈的 （语气加强词，一般加强的是整句话的语气，而非仅仅其语法上修饰的成分）

fuckening

他妈的 （语气加强词，一般加强的是整句话的语气，而非仅仅其语法上修饰的成分）

他妈的 （语气加强词，一般加强的是整句话的语气，而非仅仅其语法上修饰的成分）

No fucking way.

Yeah, she caught my eye, as I walked on by / She could see from my face that I was fucking high

2005, James Blunt （作曲作詞）, “You're Beautiful”, 出自 Back to Bedlam:

“Every time it’s shown, I get e-mail from young guys who want to get it on with me,” she said. “Which is wonderful. I’m seventy-seven fucking years old.”

2006年March6日, Lauren Collins, 引 Harriet Sohmers Zwerling, “Last Bohemians”, 出自 The New Yorker:

Get your fucking car out of the way.

把你的破车开到别的地方去。

Get me off your fucking mailing list.

把我移出你的傻逼邮寄清单

Even when Trump won, Murdoch was unconvinced, reportedly privately calling him a “fucking idiot” following one conversation about immigration.

2022年November10日, Adam Gabbatt, 引 Rupert Murdoch, “Has ‘Trumpty Dumpty’ taken a great fall from Rupert Murdoch’s grace?”, 出自 The Guardian:


independent variable

同類詞：dependent variable

In the equation z = x² + y, x and y are the independent variables.

設方程 z = x² + y，則 x 和 y 為獨立變數。


in control

The General said that his troops were now in control of the situation.

將軍說他的部隊已經控制住了局勢。

It was a bitter blow to England's players, who sank to their knees in disappointment, after fighting so hard but a draw does not cause too much damage and they still remain in control of their own destiny.

2021年September8日, Phil McNulty, “Poland 1-1 England”, 出自 BBC Sport:


bioavailability

生物利用度 食物與營養補充品中所含營養素的吸收程度

poor/low oral bioavailability


check digit

The last digit of the barcode is a check digit, calculated from the others.

条形码的最后一位数字是校验码，是根据其他数字计算出来的。


Web

Some of that content is now only available on the Web.

有些內容現在只能在網上查看。

Web page

Content on the Web is divided into individual computer files called pages.

網上的內容被劃分為單獨的計算機文檔，稱為頁面。

2008, Timothy D. Green, Abbie Brown, LeAnne Robinson, Making the Most of the Web in Your Classroom, Corwin Press, →ISBN，頁號 31:


color temperature

The typical color temperature of a standard incandescent lamp is about 2400 K.

标准白炽灯的典型色温约为2400K。


Fibonacci

斐波那契/費布納西： 源自意大利語的姓氏

The Italian mathematician Leonardo Bonacci, who was called Fibonacci, introduced the Hindu-Arabic numeral system to Europe.

意大利數學家列奧納多·波那契，又稱斐波那契，將印度-阿拉伯數字系統傳入了歐洲。


annealing

Without annealing, the quality of our metal products will diminish.

如果不进行退火，我们的金属产品质量就会下降。


local area network

/ˈləʊklˌɛːrɪəˌnɛtwəːk/

A Local Area Network connects all of the computers in our office.

局域網連接我們辦公室的所有電腦。


用于替换單詞中的star/stɑː(ɹ)/或類似的发音。

*t

*fish


human nature

How much innate human nature do you think the human races have left?

The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?

1922, Ben Travers, 章號 5, 出自 A Cuckoo in the Nest:


collect call

這種用法可以說是過時了，因為雖然技術上來說選項仍然存在，但它的使用現在已經不常見了，而它曾經是常見的（約1920年代到1990年代）。

Hello, operator — I'd like to make a collect call.

你好，接線員——我想打一個對方付費電話。


telephone conference

The four of us should hold a telephone conference next week.

我們四個人應該下星期開一次電話會議。


building block

Words are the building blocks of a language.

Cells are the building blocks of life.


alloyed

more alloyed (comparative)
most alloyed (superlative)

Their pleasure was alloyed with misfortune.

他們的快樂與不幸交織在一起。


assembly language

A skilled programmer can write very fast code in assembly language.


derived unit

The derived unit of electrical resistance (ohm) is derived from length, mass, time, and electric current.

电阻的导出单位（欧姆）源自长度、质量、时间和电流。


decimal number

13+¹⁄₄ is 13.25 as a decimal number.

13+¹⁄₄是13.25的十進制數。


number theory

Factorization has driven many great discoveries in number theory.

因式分解推動了數論中的許多重大發現。


scrotum

非同化借詞，源自拉丁語 scrōtum。

The female labia majora are homologous to the male scrotum.

女性大陰唇與男性陰囊同源。


slosh

The water in his bottle sloshed back and forth as he ran.

他跑步时瓶中的水晃来晃去。

The boy sloshed water over the edge of the bath.

男孩把水晃出了浴缸的边缘。

They were so completely soaked that they sloshed when he walked.

他们浑身湿透，走路都发出啪啦啪啦的声音。

（大声地）倾倒，哗啦哗啦地倒（指液体）

The coffee was nice and hot, so she sloshed some into a cup and went back to her desk.

咖啡做得很好，还很热，她哗啦地倒进一个杯子里，回到她的桌子那。

He really sloshed on the sauce- they were a bit strong for my taste.

The streets were flooded, but they still managed to slosh their way to school.

街上发大水，但他们还是想办法到达了学校。


blow down

blows down
blowing down
blew down
blown down

I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house down.

Part of the shed was recently blown down in a gale and has been removed, leaving rather inadequate accommodation.

1951 June, “Notes and News: Eskdale Railway Rolling Stock”, 出自 Railway Magazine，頁號 424:

A tree had been blown down on the track east of Chippenham. Bath Spa station became a scene of milling confusion. One minute we were told that trains were running. Then they weren't. Then they were again. Not a sound basis on which to try rejigging a business trip.

2020年June3日, Andrew Mourant, “A safer railway in a greener habitat”, 出自 RAIL，頁號 58:

同類詞：rinse down、wash down

Blow down this enclosure and do some chip handling before you run this machine any further.


antijamming

Most military radios have some antijamming capability so they can be used in spite of the enemy's efforts to render them inoperative.

絕大多數的軍用電台都有抗干擾能力，所以即使有敵軍嘗試干擾，也能保持運作。

The new copier had an antijamming design to keep the paper from getting stuck.

這台新的複印機有防卡住的設計，出紙時紙不會發生堵塞。


check out

"Relax," said the night man / "We are programmed to receive / You can check out any time you like / But you can never leave!"

1977, “Hotel California”, 出自 Don Henley, Glenn Frey 作詞, Don Felder 作曲, Hotel California, 演出者 The Eagles:

Be sure to check out of the hotel before noon.

I'm done shopping, so I'll go check out now.

我选好东西了，我要去结账了。

（通过手续留下记录并）借出，取出，领取

He checked his favorite mystery out for the twenty-third time.

这是他第23次[从图书馆]借出他最喜欢的悬疑小说。

The desk clerk checked out the family that had been staying in room 322.

接待员给留在322号房的一家人退房了。

The library assistant was checking people out.

At 9:30 am, 12 inmates were checked out to the dispensary.

2010, Peterson's, Master the Corrections Officer Exam, Peterson's (ISBN 9780768930306), page 9:

检查，打量；核实，观察，调查

He was hanging out at the beach, checking out the young women in bikinis.

他在海滩看穿着比基尼的年轻女性。

He checked out the rumor, and managed to verify that it was true

他调查了那些流言，最后证实了。

Check it out! Best prices in town.

走过路过不要错过！全城最低价。

Check this out! They just arrested the Mayor!

看这个！他们把市长抓了！

The first two leads check out; I'll assume the third one is also valid.

前两个线索没问题，我认为第三个应该也没问题。

Their stories checked out.

A comparison test was made with this weapon in laboratory. It definitely checks out as the murder gun.

1960, “The Case of the Ill-Fated Faker”, 出自 Perry Mason, 季数 4, 集数 3:

MySQL checks the validity of the account name and password, and checks whether the connection is coming from a host that's allowed to connect …. If everything checks out, MySQL accepts the connection.

2013, Steve Suehring, Janet Valade, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript & HTML5 All-in-One For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons (ISBN 9781118231340), page 459:


all told

來自all + told (“計算”)，來自tell的本義，現為古舊義項。

I think they had over 300 people there, all told.


escape hatch

What we need is progress with an escape hatch.


design speed

The road's design speed is only 60mph, as some of the corners are a little sharp.

The vessel's design speed is 20 knots, though we can push her up to 25 if necessary.


bench test

That’s funny, the throbulator was working fine when I bench tested it.


buddy system

一起干活或出行 （一般前接use）

Use the buddy system so that you can look after each other on the trip.

找人一起走，这样旅途中可以相互照应。


seaworthiness

The ship leaked like a sieve and rode like a barrel; in other words it was completely lacking in seaworthiness.

这艘船漏水如筛子，航行如桶，换句话说，它完全不具备适航性。


depth charge

depth charges
depth charging
depth charged

用深水炸彈攻擊目標（通常是潛水艇）

After the freighter was torpedoed, its escorting destroyers depth charged the submarine for two hours, but failed to sink it.

貨輪被魚雷擊中後，護航該船的驅逐艦對潛艇實施了兩個小時的深水炸彈攻擊，但沒能將其擊沉。


launching

Launch 指的是一個時間點上的事件。Launching 指的是一個持續性的過程。

The launching of the Titanic.

By 1940 they had conducted 25 successful launchings of A5 rockets, which reached 10 miles altitude and had a range of 12 miles.

2010, Raymond Friedman, A History of Jet Propulsion, Including Rockets，頁號 123:


bear down

bears down
bearing down
bore down
borne down

It's 9:41, 58 degrees, and I'm flunking out. Time to bear down.

现在是9:41，气温58度，我快要挂科了。该努力了。

When Furyk spots another Arizona alum on Tour, one of them will utter the official U of A exhortation, which dates to the 1920s, when on his deathbed the school's quarter-back urged the football team to "bear down." Few on Tour bear down like Furyk. He has his plan and sticks to it.

2003 October, Cameron Morfit, “A Furious Focus; Call his swing whatever you want--Jim Furyk's approach to life and golf is anything but loopy”, 出自 Golf Magazine, 卷 45, 期 10，頁號 106:

Will CAFTA pass? The White House is starting to bear down, making the argument that CAFTA is not only a good deal economically, but vital for the political development and security of the region.

2005年May12日, Sue Kirchhoff, “Central American Free Trade Agreement faces obstacles”, 出自 USA Today:

You can't really run faster or farther over the long haul simply by bearing down harder. You have to raise the level of your effort, then relax, and trust that preparation.

2009 January, James Applewhite, “Write a poem in THREE PHASES.”, 出自 Writer, 卷 122, 期 1，頁號s 22–23:


tug

繼承自中古英語 tuggen、toggen，繼承自古英語 togian (“拖，拉”)，繼承自原始西日耳曼語 *togōn，繼承自原始日耳曼語 *tugōną (“拖，拉扯，撕裂”)，源自原始印歐語 *dewk- (“拉”)。
同源詞包括中古低地德語 togen (“拉”)、中古高地德語 zogen (“拉，撕”)、冰島語 toga (“拉”)。與 tow 有關。

The police officers tugged the drunkard out of the pub.

He lost his patience trying to undo his shoe-lace, but tugging it made the knot even tighter.

他失去了耐心，试图解开鞋带，但拉扯却使鞋带结得更紧。


starboard

源自中古英語 sterbord、stere-bourd、stere-burd，源自古英語 stēorbord，源自原始西日耳曼語 *steurubord，等价于steer + board (“船的一侧”)，指古时船只舵桨放在右侧（来方便右撇子船员），此时船只需要以左侧靠岸，否则会被右侧的舵桨挡住，这也是现在左侧被称为port的原因。

right

（船舶、航空器等的）右侧，右舷

port

（船舶、航空器等的）右侧，右舷

backboard

（船舶、航空器等的）右侧，右舷

larboard

（船舶、航空器等的）右侧，右舷

leeboard

（船舶、航空器等的）右侧，右舷

left

（船舶、航空器等的）右侧，右舷

（船舶、航空器等的）右侧，右舷

I see another vessel off the starboard side.

我从右舷看到了另一艘船。

We're on starboard tack, so the other boat has to give way.

我们现在右舷受风，所以另外那艘船得让路。


starboard

to starboard the helm


weather forecast

It may be sunny today, but the weather forecast is predicting rain for tomorrow.

今天天晴，但是天氣預報說明天會下雨。


blow up

源自中古英語 blow up、blowe up，异化自早期形式中古英語 upblowen（→英語 upblow），等价于blow + up。对比西弗里斯蘭語 opblaze (“胀起，充气”)、荷蘭語 opblazen (“胀起，充气”)、德語 aufblähen以及aufblasen (“胀起，充气”)、瑞典語 blåsa upp (“胀起，充气”)、冰島語 blása upp (“胀起，充气”)、哥特語 𐌿𐍆𐌱𐌻𐌴𐍃𐌰𐌽 (ufblēsan, “胀起，充气”)。

See if you can blow the bubbles up the staircase.

看看你能不能把泡泡吹上楼梯。

Why do cars in movies always blow up when they fall off a cliff?

为什么电影里的汽车老是在飞下悬崖前就爆炸了。

In dense fog at about 10.25 p.m. on the night of October 25, two tank barges carrying petroleum [...] missed the entrance to the docks at Sharpness and were carried up the River Severn by the incoming tide. They collided with one of the piers of the Severn Bridge, carrying the Berkeley Road-Lydney branch of the Western Region, and as a result of the collision both tankers blew up.

1961 January, “Talking of Trains: The Severn Bridge disaster”, 出自 Trains Illustrated，頁號s 3, 5:

使...爆炸，爆破，炸毁，炸残，炸死

We had to blow up the bridge before the enemy army arrived.

我们不得不在敌军到来前把桥炸毁。

More civilians than soldiers have been blown up by anti-personnel mines.

被杀伤地雷炸死的平民比士兵还多。

Temporary bridges are now common in Moravia and Slovakia as so many permanent structures were blown up during the last phase of the war.

1947 January and February, Gerald Druce (Jun.), “A Journey on the "Slovak Arrow"”, 出自 Railway Magazine，頁號 16:

"But we wanted to be more ambitious. We had established contacts with the Ukrainian railways, and they had all sorts of needs. Bridges blown up by the Russians, but also bridges blown up by themselves in tactical battlefield operations."

2023年May17日, Paul Clifton, “Building bridges to Ukraine...”, 出自 RAIL, 期 983，頁號 31:

For the school science project, each student will blow up a balloon and then tie it closed.

学校的科学课题里，每名学生需要给一个气球充气然后把它绑紧。

Blow up the picture to get a better look at their faces.

把图片放大好看清他们的脸。

This album is about to blow up; they’re being promoted on MTV.

这专辑要爆火了，MTV台在介绍它。

You know you blew up when the women rush your stands
And try to touch your hands like some screaming Usher fans […]

Dad blew up at me when I told him I was pregnant.

我告诉爸我怀孕了以后，他突然对我大发雷霆。

使...骄傲，使...沾沾自喜，使...得意忘形

to blow someone up with flattery

blown up with high conceits engendering pride

1667, John Milton, “Book 4”, 出自 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:

to blow up a contention

（因排泄、放屁等）发出恶臭

Don't go in there...I really blew it up.

别进去，我刚拉完里面臭得不行。


log out

Please don't forget to log out after you finish your work.

完成工作後，請不要忘記登出。


reverse Polish notation

Back in my day, we had reverse Polish notation calculators: You had to write "2 4 3 * +" instead of "2 + 4 * 3".

我那时候用的都是逆波兰表示法计算器：你得写“2 4 3 * +”而不是“2 + 4 * 3”。


run-time

a run-time error


為ᾱ或ᾱᾱ的草寫變體，古希臘語 ἀνά (aná)的縮寫，用於食譜和處方當中，意思為"每個"，後延伸至會計。（其他解釋為 ā, 的草寫，來自拉丁語 ad (“到”)或法語 à (“到”)的縮寫。）

用作電子郵件地址的用戶名和域名之間分隔用的符號（“在”域名）。

My e-mail address is psychonaut@example.com.

用來標註前一位用戶名稱，直接傳送消息。

Bob: How can I stop other people from accessing my files when they use my computer?
Jack: @Bob: You need to protect the files with a password.

鮑伯：我該如何讓其他人使用我的電腦時，無法訪問那些文件？
傑克： @鮑伯：你需要用密碼保護這些文件。


breaking news

突發新聞，插播新聞，即時新聞

Breaking news may contain incomplete information, factual errors, or poor editing because of a rush to publication.

由於匆忙發布，突發新聞可能包含不完整的資訊、事實錯誤或編輯不當。

There is also breaking news that the delayed Crossrail project in London cannot be completed without a further £80 million injection of funds.

還有突發消息稱，如果不進一步注入8000萬英鎊資金，被推遲的倫敦橫貫鐵路計畫就無法完成。

2020年December2日, Industry Insider, “The costs of cutting carbon”, 出自 Rail，頁號 76:


cube root

3 is the cube root of 27.


by the way

[…] I had counted on a life-lease of the profits, whereas I only received those of a few short years. But this is by the way.

1853, Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener, in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories, New York: Penguin Books, 1968; reprint 1995 as Bartleby, ISBN 0 14 60.0012 9, p.2:

“A very welcome, kind, useful present, that means to the parish. By the way, Hopkins, let this go no further. We don't want the tale running round that a rich person has arrived. Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing.[…]”

1918, W. B. Maxwell, 章號 7, 出自 The Mirror and the Lamp:

His mother will be coming for dinner tomorrow, and, by the way, she volunteered to bring dessert.

他媽媽明天過來吃晚飯。順帶提一句，她還說要帶點甜品過來。


與一個假的電話號碼有關。在21世紀之前，北美的撥號計劃中，本地交換機和區號555被保留為虛構的號碼。

555-2368, that's a 555 number, it isn't real.

1-555-321-2368, that's a 555 number, it isn't real.

(555)234-2368, that's a 555 number, it isn't real.


put out

more put out (comparative)
most put out (superlative)

生气的，发火的，被冒犯的

Gordon told GCN that when the bill was first reviewed in the House, it received a 70-49 vote, one vote short of the majority it needed to pass. Gordon said that gay and lesbian activists were "extremely put-out" over this narrow loss.

1991年May4日, Elizabeth Yukins, “Maryland Passes Gay Hate Crimes Bill”, 出自 Gay Community News，頁號 2:

He was put out at the mere suggestion of misconduct.

别人一说他可能失职，他就生气了。


put out

You can't have a pair of scissors! You'll put your eye out!

不能给你剪刀！你会戳到自己的眼睛的。

Don’t forget to put out the dog.

放出去，拿走 解雇，开除

Don’t forget to put out the dog.

I don't mean to put you out. It's just vital that I get this done tonight.

我希望你别生气，只是今晚前我得把这个做好。

The factory puts out 4000 units each day.

工厂每天生产4000个产品。

This unit puts out 4000 BTUs.

这个产品产热4000 BTU。

Lift with your knees. Don’t put out your back.

用膝盖使力气，别把你的背闪了。

Yet she must dye, else shee'l betray more men:
Put out the Light, and then put out the Light:
If I quench thee, thou flaming Minister,
I can againe thy former light restore,
Should I repent me. But once put out thy Light,
Thou cunning'st Patterne of excelling Nature,
I know not where is that Promethaean heate
That can thy Light re-Lume.

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

They worked for days to put out the brushfire.

She put out her cigarette.

'You talk funny,' I said to him. 'I mean, the other wardens say, "Put that light out", but you shout, "Put out the light".'
'Shakespeare,' the warden said in a deep voice.

2010, Terry Deary, Put out the Light, p. 10:

Put out those lights before the Germans see them.

把灯熄了，不然德国人会看到的。


DMCA

以數位千禧年著作權法為依據發出通知，以便刪除侵權的材料

The record label DMCAed several Web sites that were hosting copyrighted song lyrics.

唱片公司向幾個刊載受版權保護歌詞的網站發送了侵權通知。


International Phonetic Alphabet

/ˌɪntəˈnæʃ(ə)nəl fəˈnɛtɪk ˈælfəˌbɛt/

[ˌɪntəˈnæʃ(ə)nəɫ fəˈnɛtɪk ˈæɫfəˌbɛt]

[ˌɪntɚˈnæʃ(ə)n(ə)ɫ fəˈnɛɾɪk ˈæɫfəˌbɛt]

The International Phonetic Alphabet is commonly used in books about Shanghainese because none of the existing romanizations are very popular.

國際音標在關於上海話的書籍中經常出現，因為上海話沒有十分通用的羅馬化。


frame of reference

Anyone with an unsubverted or cleansed frame of reference likely couldn't bear seeing such mistreatment and violence.


hyphenation

（尤指正確地）使用連字號，用連字號連接

Print the article without hyphenation if you're not sure where to put them.

若您不確定應在何處使用連字號，請在不使用之的情況下打印文章。


long time no see

不详。可考于美国1901年，作为美洲原住民的一个皮钦语英语用法出现。可能是仿譯自粵語 好耐冇見／好耐冇见，可对比no can do或chop-chop。若确实如此，则可能来自美国唐人街，或是香港等当时的英国远东殖民地。另可能来自美洲土著人，或者美洲原住民所使用的皮钦语英语，因其主要出现在美洲原住民的电影形象刻画上，对比汤头（20世纪30年代）这一角色的用词。

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-long time no see.ogg

Dave! Long time no see! How’s Boston been treating you?

Dave！好久不见！在波士顿过得怎么样啊？

Good morning. Long time no see you.

1901, W. F. Drannan, Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains:


lead time

It's an excellent device, but it has a 10-week lead time, so be sure to order it in advance.

With long lead times in timetable planning WMT [West Midlands Trains] has stated that the earliest it can recast the timetable will be May 2020.

2019 October, “Chase Line service to be split next May”, 出自 Modern Railways，頁號 17:


hand over

讓與控制權或東西事物的所有權；交出/移交

I handed over the controls to the copilot.

我將控制權移交給副駕駛員。

Liverpool still have a game in hand but City have made up most of that lost ground and this was a resounding message that they will not be handing over the title.

2019年February10日, Phil McNulty, “Manchester City 6-0 Chelsea”, 出自 BBC Sport:


Gothic

Goth + -ic，自17世紀始在英語有使用。源自晚期拉丁語 gothicus。
不同的形容詞用法幾乎是同時在17世紀前半部分開始使用的。“哥特人的”之義在1611版欽定本聖經的前言中有使用（the Gothicke tongue）。“日耳曼的；條頓的”一義在1640年代出現，而“哥特式的；中世紀的”一義也在1640年代出現，同樣“哥特字體的”也是如此。

goth

哥特亞文化、音樂、生活方式等的。（自1980年代始）

哥特式的（建築風格）。（自1640年代始）

Baroque

Gothic arches

(文學) 與哥特復興相關的小說寫法，內容多描寫神祕背景氣氛中的暴力/恐怖事件。（自19世紀早期始）

Gothic tales

(印刷、英國用語) 哥特體（過去印刷使用的字體）的。

Gothic letters

哥特亞文化、音樂、生活方式等的。（自1980年代始）

industrial

Gothic rock

Gothic dress


alas

来自中古英語 alas，来自古法語 a las（法语hélas），来自a (“啊”) + las，来自拉丁語 lassus (“厭倦”)。对比荷蘭語 helaas、北弗里斯蘭語 ielas、西弗里斯蘭語 eilaas。

I wanted to catch the last bus home, but alas, I was ten minutes late and had to take a taxi instead.

我想趕上末班車回家，可惜呀，我遲到了十分鐘，只好搭計程車了。


Mach

源自捷克語 Mach、斯洛伐克語 Mach、波蘭語 Mach 及其他相關語言，源自以 Ma- 開頭的人名的截尾形式 + 斯拉夫語後綴 -ch 組成的暱稱。亦有可能來自匈牙利語 Mács。還有些情況是源自越南語或高棉語。

沒有複數形式。 一般接在數字前面，如上面的例子。

The jet traveled at Mach 3.

噴氣機以3馬赫的速度飛行。


relatively prime

在數學中，這個形容詞可以用在諸如「A and B are relatively prime」、「A is relatively prime to B"」以及較不常見的「A is relatively prime with B」”之類的短語中。

互質，數和數之間沒有大於1的共同因數

24 and 35 are relatively prime.

互質，某數相對於其他數沒有大於1的共同因數

24 is relatively prime to 35.


rub out

The teacher wanted to rub out the chalk marks on the blackboard.

老师想把黑板上的粉笔笔迹擦掉。


snarf

He snarfed a whole bag of chips in a couple of minutes!

他几分钟时间就把一整袋薯片吃光了！

Freed from the usual inhibitions, we get home and I snarf down pasta salad right out of the Tupperware container […]

1999: Marya Hornbacker, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia, page 239

"I'm not going to sit there while you two watch me snarf a whole pie by myself."

2000: Nancy Woodruff, Someone Else's Child, page 40

The old 40-horse models used to snarf up more fuel than today's 90-horse models.

2003: Allen D. Berrien, Powerboat Care and Repair: How to Keep Your Outboard, Sterndrive, Or Gas-Inboard Boat Alive and Well, page 41

I snarfed the whole database into my program.

我把整个数据库全加载到我的程序里了。


ring in

John has just rung in sick. He won't be back til Monday, he says.

John刚打电话来，说他生病了，周一之前回不来。

We will ring in the New Year at a ski resort.

我们准备在一个滑雪场庆祝新年。


segue

借自意大利語 segue (“他/她/它跟随”) ，源自seguire (“跟随”)，源自拉丁語 sequor，原是乐谱中用来指示下一个动作或段落需要无缝衔接的词汇。与西班牙語 seguir同源。sue的同源對似詞。与suit有关

transition

（流畅无缝地）转移到，衔接到（下一个状态）

（流畅无缝地）转移到，衔接到（下一个状态）

I can tell she’s going to segue from our conversation about school to the topic of marriage.

我察觉到她想快速地从我们关于学校的对话转移到婚姻话题上。

（流畅地从一个风格）转移到，切换到（另一个风格）

Beethoven’s symphonies effortlessly segue from one theme to the next.

贝多芬的交响乐轻松地从一个风格转移到了下一个。


sign off

關閉廣播電台或電視台的攝影棚病停止廣播訊號

Sign off for the small-town radio station was at midnight.

小鎮廣播站停止廣播是在午夜。


sign off

登出；下線；完畢 （停止使用電腦、對講機等，尤其指停止說話）

He finished the conversation and signed off.

結束廣播，停止發送廣播、電視訊號（如放一小段音樂）

Before he signed off the radio station for the night, the disc jockey played the National Anthem.

在他結束當晚電台的廣播之前，唱片騎師播放了國歌。

Once the vice-president signs off on the project, we can start construction.

一旦副總統批准了這個項目，我們就可以開始施工了。

The town council, which closed the funicular last December for health and safety reasons, has yet to sign off the completion of £72,000 worth of remedial works to a retaining wall.

2023年August23日, “Network News: Hold-up for Cliff Railway reopening”, 出自 RAIL, 期 990，頁號 14:


on the other hand

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

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/en-us-on the other hand.ogg

Well yes, it was quite a good bargain; on the other hand, do we really need one?

是的，這是一筆不錯的交易。但反過來想，我們真的需要嗎？

Its external relations, on the one hand to dynamics, and on the other to heat, light, chemical action, and the constitution of bodies, seem to indicate the special importance of electrical science as an aid to the interpretation of nature.

1873, James Clerk Maxwell, A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism:

The host of business travellers between Bishops Stortford and London would scarcely take kindly to devious routing via the Southbury line; on the other hand, it is not desirable that they should overcrowd the business trains to and from Cambridge.

1961 January, “The North-East London electrification of the Great Eastern Line”, 出自 Trains Illustrated，頁號 19:


urban legend

The claim that alligators live in New York City's sewers is an old urban legend.

纽约下水道里生活着短吻鳄的说法是一个古老的都市传说。


sideways

more sideways (comparative)
most sideways (superlative)

Giving Mary a sideways glance, he said,[…]

他从侧面瞥了一眼Mary，说道： […]

He gave the ball a sideways kick.

There was a stack of papers in front of each seat at the table, but each stack was sideways.

桌旁每个座位前都有一摞纸，但每摞纸都是侧放着的。

Once we get out of this sideways economy, our figures will more accurately reflect what we're truly capable of.

He was constantly getting sideways with his boss till he got fired.

他在被开除前经常和老板起矛盾。


sideways

He builds houses sideways, with the front door on the side.

他把房子侧着建了。房子的前门在侧面。

A bishop moves only diagonally; a rook, only sideways, forward, and back.

象只能斜着走；车只能侧着，朝前或者朝后走。

He looked sideways at the new arrival, wondering who she was.

他侧脸看向新来的人，好奇她是谁。

The economy has been moving sideways for several months now.

经济好几个月了都不好不坏。

We realized the project could go sideways very quickly if we didn't get the sales and marketing people on our side.

我们意识到，如果不拉拢好市场营销那边的人，项目很快就会泡汤。

As we walked deeper into the darkness, we both knew this could go sideways in a heartbeat. We were sitting ducks. Birds on a wire. Canaries in a coalmine.

2011, D. P. Lyle, 章號 78, 出自 Hot Lights, Cold Steel, →ISBN，頁號 340:

It feels like the probability of something going sideways here is higher.

2023年May20日, Tabby Kinder, George Hammond, 引 Ivan Matkovic, “So long, San Francisco”, 出自 FT Weekend, Life & Arts，頁號 1:


run around

runs around
running around
ran around
run around

I don't want to run around all week getting everything ready for the holidays.

我不想整個星期都忙著為假期準備好一切。


tantamount

源自盎格魯-諾曼語 tant amount，源自amunter，源自tant (“如此”) amonter (“总计”)。

more tantamount (comparative)
most tantamount (superlative)

等同的，基本上是...的

It's tantamount to fraud.

In this view, disagreement and treason are tantamount.

这个观点下，不同意就相当于叛变。

[…] expecting the woman to take her attacker into physical custody is tantamount to preventing the arrest. If she could handle him, she probably would not need to call the police in the first place.

In Bosnia, as in Rwanda, however, passive neutrality was tantamount to complicity with the perpetrators of “ethnic cleansing” and mass murder.

2003年March3日, Philip Gourevitch, “The Optimist”, 出自 The New Yorker:

Russia has said that it considers the weapons and other increased military aid that Western governments are sending to Ukraine tantamount to war, and has implied that it might strike NATO convoys.

2022年March16日, Max Fisher, “As Russia Digs In, What’s the Risk of Nuclear War? ‘It’s Not Zero.’”, 出自 The New York Times, →ISSN:


Sino-

來自晚期拉丁語 Sīnae (“中國的”)，來自托勒密古希臘語 Σῖναι (Sînai, “中國的”)，詞源不確定但可能來自梵語 चीन (Cīna, “中國”)，也許經由阿拉伯語 صِين (ṣīn, “中國；中國的”)，通常被認為是衍生自上古漢語 秦 (*Dzin, “秦朝”)。參見中國的稱號的主頁面。

關於中國或中國人的構詞部分，即中-、漢-、華-。

In the 1970s, Sino-Soviet rivalry also spread to Africa and the Middle East.

1970年代，中蘇交惡蔓延至非洲和中東。

He's a Sino-Kadazan: half Chinese, half Kadazan.

他是漢族和卡達山族的混血：一半華籍，一半卡達山籍。


x的作用是通配符；緊隨最初的8086之後，使用相同架構（逐步擴大）的處理器名稱也用86結尾（80186、80286、80386、80486；英特爾在80486之後不再使用這種命名法，但其他x86處理器製造商繼續使用-586-和-686-作為處理器品牌名稱）。

泛指一系列基於Intel 8086且向下相容的中央處理器指令集架構
特別指32位元版本的x86指令集架構

The x86 version of Windows 7 only supports a maximum of 4 GiB of RAM; 64-bit Windows can support a lot more.


back-end

back-end database

back-end developer


yes-no question

To make it clear for the jury, I will ask you a simple yes-no question. Did you enter the house on the night of the 15th?

为了让陪审团清楚，我会问你一个简单的是非问题。你15号晚上有进屋吗？


troll

The actress was widely trolled online after accidentally revealing that she didn't know the names of the continents.

We like to troll, we like to go the night before one of their primaries, we just, we do a little trolling, it's called we do a little trolling.

2020年March2日, Donald Trump, President Trump Rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, 經由 C-SPAN:

Cristiano Ronaldo's dislike of dessert has been trolled by a former teammate. ¶ Ben Foster proudly showed off his apple crumble, having joked that he was skipping dessert.

2021年September22日, Sam Cooper, “An old teammate of Cristiano Ronaldo's trolled his dislike of dessert by scoffing a giant pudding on his YouTube channel”, 出自 Business Insider, New York, N.Y.: Insider Inc., →OCLC，2024-04-07歸檔自原頁面:

Taylor Swift, who could've been crowned the queen of pranks in the early years of her career, is finding out what it feels like to be on the other side of a little onstage trolling.

2024年March11日, Sammi Burke, “See One of Taylor Swift's Dancers Troll Her on Stage During '22'”, 出自 Parade, New York, N.Y.: The Arena Group, →OCLC，2024-04-07歸檔自原頁面:


meme

由英國的生物學家理查德·道金斯在1976造出，用於其著作《自私的基因》。mimeme的縮略（對比英語 phoneme），源自古希臘語 μῖμος (mîmos, “複製，模仿”)。。其網路含義由迈克·戈德温應用。

culturgen

模因，迷因（透過模仿在人與人之間傳播的思想、行為或風格）

（本為錯誤卻）廣泛流傳成真實的行為或理念

it’s a meme degree

jogging is a meme


meme

將……轉變成網路迷因；（在現實生活中）使用網路迷因

to meme into existence

Scott Greer, a deputy editor of the Daily Caller, tweeted, “Cernovich memed #SickHillary into reality. Never doubt the power of memes.”

2016年October31日, Andrew Marantz, “Trolls for Trump”, 出自 The New Yorker, retrieved 2017-12-02:

David Moyes succeeding Slaven Bilić as West Ham United manager is being memed into existence by the internet, Football Burp understands.

2017年November6日, “David Moyes to West Ham “memed into existence by the internet””, 出自 Football Burp, retrieved 2017-12-02:


waltz

源自德語 Walzer ← walzen (“跳舞”) ← 古高地德語 walzan (“轉”) ← 原始日耳曼語 *walt- (“轉”) ← 原始印歐語 *wel- (“轉”)。

They waltzed for twenty-one hours and seventeen minutes straight, setting a record.

他們連續跳華爾茲24小時17分，創造了紀錄。

While waltzing her around the room, he stepped on her toes only once.

他和她跳華爾茲的時候，只踩過她一次腳。

窜进，把...带进 （尤指没有批准或没有邀请等）

He waltzed into the room like he owned the place.

他馬上竄進房間，好像那是他自己的地方一樣。

You can't just waltz him in here without documentation!

你不能就这样不走手续把他带到这里来。

Oxlade-Chamberlain, 18, became the youngest English Champions League scorer when he waltzed across the area to plant a low shot into the corner.

2011年September28日, Tom Rostance, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Olympiakos”, 出自 BBC Sport:

The women in Ms. Telfer’s book waltz right by societal rules that would leave the rest of us at a standstill. We are left tsk-tsking, while also in awe.

2021年February25日, Mara Altman, “Glitzy, Tragic and Selfish: Female Con Artists Waltz by Society’s Rules”, 出自 The New York Times, →ISSN:

Don't worry about the interview — you'll waltz it.

別太擔心採訪——很容易你就搞定了。


trinket

古英語 trenket (“一种刀”)，因此可能指的是一种作装饰的刀，可能源自trenchier (“切”)的一个古法語方言形式。对比trench。

That little trinket around her neck must have cost a bundle.

她脖子上的那个链子肯定花了她好多钱。

（不值钱的）玩意，小玩具

It's only a little trinket, but it reminds her of him.

这就是一件小玩具，但是能让我想起她。

There is no art about the Eiffel Tower. In no way can it be said to have contributed to the real beauty of the Exhibition. Men flocked to see it and ascended it as it was a novelty and of unique dimensions. It was the toy of the Exhibition. So long as we are children we are attracted by toys, and the Tower was a good demonstration of the fact that we are all children attracted by trinkets. That may be claimed to be the purpose served by the Eiffel Tower.

1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xxiii:


stark

源自中古英語 stark、starc，源自古英語 stearc、starc (“僵硬的；不屈的，固执的；强大的；猛烈的，凶猛的”)，源自原始西日耳曼語 *stark，源自原始日耳曼語 *starkuz (“强大的”)，源自原始印歐語 *(s)terg- (“僵硬”)。
同源词包括薩特弗里斯蘭語 sterc (“强的”)、荷蘭語 sterk (“强的”)、低地德語 sterk (“强的”)、德語 stark (“强的”)、丹麥語 stærk (“强的”)、瑞典語 stark (“强的”)、挪威語 sterk (“强的”)、冰島語 sterkur (“强的”)。与starch有关。
短语stark naked实际上变换自中古英語 stert naked，源自stert (“尾巴”)，字面上等价于butt naked。

starker (comparative)
starkest (superlative)

平凡的，枯燥的，简陋的，荒芜的

I picked my way forlornly through the stark, sharp rocks.

我艰难地跋涉过荒凉陡峭的岩石。

I screamed in stark terror.

A flower was growing, in stark contrast, out of the sidewalk.

Rhetoric is very good or stark naught; there's no medium in rhetoric.

1689 (first published posthumously), John Selden, Table-Talk


stark

He's gone stark, staring mad.

She was just standing there, stark naked.

“… That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh. Her own father recognised it when he bereft her of all power in the great business he founded. …”

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


adulation

/ˌædʒʊˈleɪʃən/

/ˌædjʊˈleɪʃən/

/ˌæd͡ʒəˈleɪʃən/

He was uncomfortable with the adulation from his fans.

他受不了粉丝的过分追捧。

Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.

1897年 12月（標示為1898年）, Winston Churchill, 章號 3, 出自 The Celebrity: An Episode, 紐約: The Macmillan Company；倫敦：Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:


averse

源自拉丁語 aversus，avertere (“背过身；避免”)的过去分词。

more averse (comparative)
most averse (superlative)

be averse to something / to do something

This is why the most eminent intellects have always been strongly averse to any kind of disturbance, interruption and distraction, and above everything to that violent interruption which is caused by noise; other people do not take any particular notice of this sort of thing.

2004, Arthur Schopenhauer, 章號 2, 出自 Essays of Schopenhauer:

“I assure you, cousin,” replied the old gentleman, “that the Baron, notwithstanding his unpleasant manner, is really one of the most excellent and kind-hearted men in the world. As I have already told you, he did not assume these manners until the time he became lord of the entail; previous to then he was a modest, gentle youth. Besides, he is not, after all, so bad as you make him out to be; and further, I should like to know why you are so averse to him.” As my uncle said these words he smiled mockingly, and the blood rushed hotly and furiously into my face.


cartable

more cartable (comparative)
most cartable (superlative)

a device of cartable size


capitalisation

English and French have different rules for the capitalisation of the names of the days of the week.

英语和法语在一周中每天的名字的大写化上规则不同。

The capitalisation of all nouns is a distinctive feature of German.

所有名词（首字母）大写是德语的一个显著特点。


ail

繼承自中古英語 eilen，繼承自古英語 eġlan，eġlian (“困擾，折磨”)，和哥特語 𐌰𐌲𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽 (agljan, “使苦惱”)同源。

使苦惱，使痛苦，使不適（現在主要用於疑問句或不定句。）

Have some chicken soup. It's good for what ails you.

喝點雞湯。這對你的病痛有好處。

夏甲，你為何這樣呢？

Not content with having in 1996 put a Defence of Marriage Act (DOMA) on the statue book, Congress has now begun to hold hearings on a Respect for Marriage Act. Defended, respected: what could possibly ail marriage in America?

2011, "Connubial bliss in America", The Economist:


Grab

I will take a Grab back home.

我會在Grab上叫一輛車回家。


fuck

源自中古英語 *fukken，可能源自日耳曼語族：源自古英語 *fuccian或古諾爾斯語 *fukka，两者均源自原始日耳曼語 *fukkōną，源自原始印歐語 *pewǵ- (“击，打，刺”)。对比windfucker及其有争议的词源。
可能在772年时可考于一提到了一处地名Fuccerham的章程内，其可能意为“肏者之家”或“肏者之牧场”；1278年时出现于某记录中的“John le Fucker”可能不过为“Fulcher”的变体，类似“Fucher”、“Foker”等形式。在英语的所有发展阶段中，本词最早明确使用于与性有关的语境内可能是英国柴郡的一个1310年12月8日的法庭文件内，其提到了一个叫做“Roger Fuckebythenavel”的男子（可能是半开玩笑，或者暗指其有淫乱行为）。本词1598年首次出现在词典内。 低地蘇格蘭語 fuk/fuck可考记录出现较早，可能进一步佐证了其源自北日耳曼/斯堪的纳维亚的词源理论。进入16世纪后，本词开始被频繁使用，接替了jape和sard并广泛取代了swive。
大量基于民间词源理论的逆构词，比如fornication under consent of the king和for unlawful carnal knowledge，均不实。
义项10源自相关词义feck。

bugger

屌，肏 （用于表达强烈的不满、鄙视。）

eff

屌，肏 （用于表达强烈的不满、鄙视。）

to hell with

屌，肏 （用于表达强烈的不满、鄙视。）

screw

屌，肏 （用于表达强烈的不满、鄙视。）

mess

使用于动词短语：fuck with (“乱玩；戏耍，戏弄”)。

toy

使用于动词短语：fuck with (“乱玩；戏耍，戏弄”)。

Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity.

为了和平而打仗就像为了贞洁而打炮。

幹，肏，插入 （使用阴茎，假阴茎插入某人身上的孔、腔或乳沟等）

She shoved them up and together, pushing into me, forcing my foot to fuck her tits harder and harder while gasping as if I was shoving it deep into her body...

2006, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Glamour Girls: Femme/Femme Erotica:

Her pussy had never taken this much cock in her entire life. […] Xander took the hint and began fucking her mouth with his fingers, moving both hands to the same rhythm while his cock gained even more speed and started moving the couch back a few inches with every push. […]

2019年September25日, April Lust, Outlaw in Black: A Dark Contemporary Bad Boy Motorcycle Club Romance, E-Book Publishing World Inc.:

We decided to switch things around and have him fuck me tonight.

我们决定互换一下，让他今晚插我。

fuck me in the ass, really fuck my ass

A skinny, boyish-looking guy getting fucked by a huge muscle man.

瘦得像小孩的男人被大块头肌肉男插入

I'm afraid they're gonna fuck you on this one.

我觉得他们在这件事上会让你没有好果子吃。

I got fucked at the used car lot.

屌，肏 （用于表达强烈的不满、鄙视。）

Fuck those jerks, and fuck their stupid rules!

去他妈的这帮王八蛋，他们都是什么傻逼规则！

Fuck the fuckin' Diaz Brothers, I bury those cockroaches!

1983年December9日, Scarface, 角色 Tony Montana（Al Pacino）:

If he covered for a single motherfucker who's a kiddy-fucker, / fuck the motherfucker, he's as evil as the rapist.

I see you driving 'round town with the girl I love / and I'm like, "Fuck you!"

2010年August19日, “Fuck You”, 演出者 Cee Lo Green:

He fucked the dirty cloth out the window.

She fucked her mobile at his head in anger.

她生气地把手机砸到他头上。

The sergeant fucked me upside down.


fuck

I don't give a fuck.

Ryder: You know, it's hard to calculate how few fucks I give about Tann's opinion.

2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, 經由 PC, →OCLC，幕：Elaaden:


fuck

fark

靠，妈的 （表达沮丧和不满。）

feck

靠，妈的 （表达沮丧和不满。）

fook

靠，妈的 （表达沮丧和不满。）

frick

靠，妈的 （表达沮丧和不满。）

fsck

靠，妈的 （表达沮丧和不满。）

靠，妈的 （表达沮丧和不满。）

Oh, fuck! We left the back door unlocked.

Fuck! Why do you have to be so difficult all the time?

妈的！你一定要这么刁难人吗？

Oh, fuck! I forgot to pay that parking ticket and now they want me to appear in court!

我靠！我忘记付那张停车票，现在他们想告我！

靠，妈的 （表达惊喜。）

Fuck! That movie was good!


fuck

hell

用来加强“yes”或“no”的语气。

god

用来加强“yes”或“no”的语气。

shit

用来加强“yes”或“no”的语气。

heck

用来加强“yes”或“no”的语气。

用来加强“yes”或“no”的语气。

Do you censor your swearing? – Fuck no.

你会删减你的脏话吗？ — 删个卵。


fuck

用作表示多个常见疑问句的缩短形式。

特別用於非洲裔美國人白話

People complainin' "Monday again"... course it's Monday; fuck you thought came after Sunday? Sunday Jr.?

一帮人抱怨“又到星期一了”啥的...当然是星期一了，要不然周日下一天他妈的是啥？小周日？

Of course it's the mailman. Fuck you thought it was?

当然是送信的啊！要不然你他妈以为是谁？


bona fide

源自拉丁語 bonā fidē (“以善意”)，bona fidēs (“善意”)的斜格。

Although he failed, the prime minister made a bona fide attempt to repair the nation's damaged economy.

This is a bona fide Roman coin.

What intrigues us is what will happen when the ersatzes for the ersatzes come along. Will characters start substituting for actors, bona fide dogs for barking ladies; will people start looking at people again instead of television and at nature instead of at documentaries?

1955年June30日, “Ersatzes for Ersatzes”, 出自 The Christian Science Monitor, 卷 47, 期 182:

Ulysses Everett McGill: I am the only daddy you got! I’m the damn pater familias!
Wharvey Gal: But you ain’t bona fide!

2000, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, O Brother, Where Art Thou?:


die

源自中古英語 deyen，源自古英語 dīeġan和古諾爾斯語 deyja，两者均源自原始日耳曼語 *dawjan (“死”)。取代了古英語 sweltan，其派生出现代英语 swelt。

死 后接of，一般用法，表示死因：

He died of malaria.

In 1971 or 72, Mom's sister Carolyn Weimer died of breast cancer.

2000, Stephen King, On Writing, Pocket Books, 出版於 2002，頁號 85:

死 后接from，一般用法，表示死因，但更常用于医学语境或科学语境：

He died from heart failure.

She lived several weeks; but afterwards she died from epilepsy, to which malady she had been previously subject.

1865年March4日, British Medical Journal，頁號 213:

"Or all of them will die from the plague. Even if most of the candidates succumb […]"

2007, Frank Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, Sandworms of Dune, Tor, 出版於 2007，頁號 191:

死 后接for，常表示因上下文中的动机而死，但有时还表示间接原因：

He died for the one he loved.

Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war.

1961, Joseph Heller, Catch-22, Simon & Schuster, 出版於 1999，頁號 232:

Less than three days later, Johnson lapsed into a coma in his jail cell and died for lack of insulin.

死 后接to表示间接或直接死因（类似from）：

I can't believe I just died to a turret!

Dr Thomas concluded she had died to a blow to the head, which led to a bleed on the brain, probably a fall and had hit her head hard on the wooden bedpost, as there was blood on the bedpost.

2014, S. J. Groves, The Darker Side to Dr Carter，頁號 437:

死 后接with表示死亡的性质：

She died with dignity.

以...死亡（某种方式）

He died a hero's death.

They died a thousand deaths.

[…] he chose instead to suffer even greater personal pain, with unimaginable fortitude and resolve, albeit for a shorter time. Thus he died a small death, in order to benefit the living. Similarly, a small and voluntary death was died by Socrates.

2019, Lou Marinoff, On Human Conflict: The Philosophical Foundations of War and Peace, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN，頁號 452:

Of course, Nazis are not present in this game. Instead, we have animals that will try to cover you with dirt. As soon as you get too dirty, you will die.

1995, “Slobzone”, 出自 Coming Soon! magazine (video game review):

Whenever my brother dies, he ragequits.

我哥一死，他就气得退游戏。

I'm dying for a packet of crisps.

I'm dying for a piss.

I could see that he was dying, dying for a cigarette, dying for a fix maybe, dying for a little bit of freedom, but trapped in a hospital bed and a sick body.

2004, Paul Joseph Draus, Consumed in the city: observing tuberculosis at century's end，頁號 168:

被当做死了，被无视，被绝交

The day our sister eloped, she died to our mother.

我姐姐私奔以后，就被我们的妈妈当做死了。

"My dad […] beat us until we couldn't sit down." […] "What about your mother?" […] "She's alive. […] My aunt visits her once a year, but I don't ask about my mother. She died to me the day she chose my father over protecting us." Luke's voice hitched with emotion.

"You haven't been my son since you were ten years old. That boy died to me the day he ran away. I don't know you. You are merely a shell that resembles someone I used to know, but you are dead to me. You are the bringer of pain and death. Leave me be. Leave me with my son, Jyosh." "Mother..." Barlun pleaded.

2017, Mike Hoornstra, Descent into the Maelstrom，頁號 366:

He died a little inside each time she refused to speak to him.

每次她拒绝和他说话，他的心就凉半截。

Do you know that I went down / To the ground / Landed on both my broken-hearted knees... / […]I didn't even cry / 'Cause pieces of me had already died

2011, Ingrid Michaelson （作曲作詞）, “Ghost”, 出自 Human Again:

If anyone sees me wearing this ridiculous outfit, I'll die.

如果有人看到我穿这身奇装异服，我直接人没了。

When I found out my two favorite musicians would be recording an album together, I literally planned my own funeral arrangements and died.

当时我看到我最喜欢的两个歌手合作录新专，我直接死了。

...，我给自己安排了葬礼，然后死了。

I literally died when I saw that.

1976, an anchorman on Channel Five in California, quoted in Journal and Newsletter [of the] California Classical Association, Northern Section:

坏掉，出故障，抛锚； 没电

My car died in the middle of the freeway this morning.

今早我的车在高速路上抛锚了。

Sorry I couldn't call you. My phone died.

抱歉没给你打电话，我手机没电了。

My battery died and my charger was at home.

我电池没电了，充电器放家里了。

流产 （在一次立法会没能达到投票阶段就被丢弃）

The proposed gas tax died after the powerful rural senator refused to let it out of committee.

提出的燃油税因为权利很大的乡村参议员的阻止而流产了。

不再关心，对...漠不关心

to die to pleasure or to sin

不再感受到快乐，或，不再关心罪孽

Then there was that time I died onstage in Montreal...

我在蒙特利尔台上冷场那次，...


die

A pair of common dice with six sides each.
Various dice with different numbers of sides and distributions of values.
Dies (sense 3) on a wafer.
源自中古英語 dee，源自古法語 de（现代法語 dé），源自拉丁語 datum，源自datus (“被给予的”)，dō (“给予”)的过去分词，源自原始印歐語 *deh₃ (“展，铺”)。datum的同源對似詞。

Most dice are six-sided.

I rolled the die and moved 2 spaces on the board.

我投了骰子，然后在板子上走了两步。

When you roll two dies—or three, or four—the odds of obtaining a specific number becomes complex in a logarithmic progression.

2000, Richard Shoup, 編者Barry Lenson, Take Control Of Your Life: How to Control Fate, Luck, Chaos, Karma, and Life’s Other Unruly Forces, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN，頁號 42:

We roll two dies repeatedly until we get the first double.

2012, Rinaldo B. Schinazi, “Probability Space”, 出自 Probability with Statistical Applications, 2nd版, Birkhäuser, →ISBN, “Independent Events”, “Exercises”，頁號 16:

Roll two dies 24 times. What is the probability of rolling at least one double 6?

2014, Ionut Florescu, Ciprian A. Tudor, Handbook of Probability, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN:

When this creature enters the battlefield, roll a six-sided die. You gain life equal to the result.

2017年December8日, “Adorable Kitten”, 出自 Unstable, Wizards of the Coast:


open up

Some vacancies have opened up due to retirements.

因为有人退休所以出现了一些职位空缺。

Open up the door!

The executive pay gap is opening up again.

高管薪水差异又开始出现了。

Wilshire then opened up Everton's defence, but Van Persie lifted his finish over the onrushing Howard and also over the bar.

2011年February1日, Phil McNulty, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Everton”, 出自 BBC:

The corridor gradually opened up into a triangular room.

走道逐渐扩大成一个三角形的房间。

After three hours of questioning, he finally opened up.

盘问了三个小时后，他终于开口了。

As the convoy entered the pass, we opened up on them with everything we had.

运输队通过关卡时，我们将所有火力倾泻而下。

The sky has really opened up. I've never seen this much rain!

天真是裂开了一样。我从来没见过那么大的雨！


antonym

“rich” is an antonym of “poor”; “full” is an antonym of “empty”

“富有”是貧窮的反義詞；“滿”是“空”的反義詞


exorbitant

源自晚期拉丁語 exorbitāns，exorbitō (“偏离道路”)的现在分词，源自ex (“出，离”) + orbita (“车辙”)，见orbit。对比法語 exorbitant。

more exorbitant (comparative)
most exorbitant (superlative)

/ɪɡˈzɔːbɪtənt/

/ɛɡˈzɔːbɪtənt/

It’s a nice car, but they are charging an exorbitant price for it.

这车不错，但是价格太贵了。

You also have to pay exorbitant interest if you have credit card debt.

如果你有信用卡欠款的话，你可能也要交高昂的利息。

But whatever might be the internal thoughts of Macedonian officers, they held their peace before Alexander [the Great], whose formidable character and exorbitant self-estimation would tolerate no criticism.

1856, George Grote, “Military Operations and Conquests of Alexander, after His Winter-quarters in Persis, down to His Death At Babylon”, 出自 History of Greece, 卷 XII, London: John Murray, […], part II，頁號 282:

[M]any low-income people are "unbanked" (not served by a financial institution), and thus nearly eaten alive by exorbitant fees.

2015年January18日, Charles M[cRay] Blow, “How expensive is it to be poor [print version: International New York Times, 20 January 2015, page 7]”, 出自 The New York Times:


Fox

* (姓氏)： 源自 fox (“狐狸”)。

福斯/福克斯廣播公司，美國大型電視網。

I watched a great show on Fox last night.

昨晚我在福斯電視台觀看了一場精彩的節目。


Nobel

源自瑞典語 Nobel。

a Nobel-winning author


Yamato

源自日語 大和 (Yamato)，後者來源不明，但可能和山 (yama) 有關。

The museum curator said that the sword originated from the Yamato period in Japan.

博物館館長說，這把劍起源於日本的大和時代。

以前從大和國統治日本的皇室；日本占主導地位的民族

In Japanese society, Koreans are viewed as being of a lower rung on the social ladder compared to Yamato people.

在日本社會中，與大和人相比，韓國人被視為社會階梯的下層。


fu

UNIX fu


tubular

就词形分析为tubule + -ar。一般认为义项“很棒的”源自冲浪界行话，指“很棒的”浪是那些像管子一样将冲浪者围起来的浪。

more tubular (comparative)
most tubular (superlative)

tubular bell


sed

源自stream editor (字面意思是“流編輯器”)。

Can you sed out those trailing spaces, please?


persona

借自拉丁語 persōna (“面具；角色”)，源頭不明，可能來自personō (“聲音穿過”)；或來自古希臘語 πρόσωπον (prósōpon, “臉；外貌；古代劇場的一種面具，用以表示角色形象；社會角色”)；或來自伊特拉斯坎語 𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 (φersu)。person and parson的同源對似詞。

personas (plural)
personae (plural)
personæ (plural)

/pɜː(ɹ)ˈsəʊnə/

He keeps his online persona completely separate from his real-world one.

他在網上和現實世界的形象完全是分開的。


manga

源自日語 漫画(まんが) (manga)，來自中古漢語 漫 (中古 manH, “自由，散漫”) + 畫 (中古 hweaH|hweak)。與官話 漫畫／漫画 (mànhuà)，朝鮮語 만화 (漫畵／漫畫, manhwa)同源。最早是葛飾北齋1814年作品之題。manhua的同源對似詞。

Lately I've been reading a Brazilian manga.

最近我在讀一本巴西漫畫。


i.e.

源自拉丁語 id est (“即”) 的縮寫 i. e.。

亦即，也就是说，就是，即。

While the final episode was made, the show itself was immediately cancelled after the penultimate episode i.e. the final episode never aired.

最後一集製作完成的時候，節目卻在倒數第二集就取消了，也就是說，最後一集沒有播出過。


add up to

加起來是……；相當於；合計

The cost of this trip adds up to 1,000 yuan.

這次旅行的花費合計1000元。

Add up to these figures, and give me the total.

把這些數字加起來，把總數報給我。


absent-minded

more absent-minded (comparative)
most absent-minded (superlative)

心不在焉的，健忘的；容易分心的 （首次記錄於19世紀中期）

It took the absent-minded man twenty minutes to find his glasses on top of his head.

心不在焉的男人花了二十分鐘才發現他的眼鏡戴在了頭上。


holo

We compared the holo and apo forms of the protein.


add up

Add up the prices and find out how much it will cost.

把價格加起來，看看總價。

If small amounts of something add up, they gradually increase.

如果將少量的東西加起來，他們便會逐漸地增大。

Even small savings can add up.

即便是小額的存款也可以攢起來。

It's the little minor problems that add up.


accountable

more accountable (comparative)
most accountable (superlative)

Every man is accountable to God for his conduct.

You will be held accountable for your misdemeanors.

"Because the railway is economically and socially vital, it receives large amounts of public money and must therefore ultimately be accountable to government. [...]

2020年April22日, Philip Haigh, “Labour's blueprint for the future of Britain's railways”, 出自 Rail，頁號 28:


abolish

来自晚期中古英語 abolisshen，来自中古法語 abolir，aboliss-（引申词干），来自拉丁語 abolēre (“阻碍，减缓，〈引〉破壞，廢除”)，表始動詞abolēscere (“枯萎，消失，（古典）停止”)，可能来自ab (“自，離，遠離”) + *olēre (“增加，增長”)，后者只见于复合词。

Slavery was abolished in the nineteenth century.

奴隸制在19世紀被廢除。

2002, William Schabas, The abolition of the death penalty in international law, Cambridge University Press, title:


abracadabra

源自晚期拉丁語 abracadabra，在魔咒中使用，其词源不详。有人认为其与Abraxas (一个诺斯替教的神祇)以及多个阿拉姆语或希伯来语词עַבְרָא כְּדַבְרָא (avra kedavra, 字面意思是“所说的已经发生了”)、עַבְדָא כְּדַבְרָא (avda kedavara, 字面意思是“所说的已经做了”); אַרְבַּע-אֶחַד-אַרְבַּע (arba-eḥad-arba, 字面意思是“四一四”)有关，但无证据能佐证该说法。

/ˌæ.bɹə.kəˈdæ.bɹə/

胡言乱语；深奥难懂的话 （自19世纪）

I don’t know all the theoretical abracadabra about how it works, I’m only its pilot.

我不懂那些乱七八糟的原理，我只是个驾驶员。

Astrology was not specifically banned in the statutes against witchcraft, but so long as its technicalities remained abracadabra to the lay public there was always a risk that the practitioner might find himself arrested for sorcery.

1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012，頁號 335:


taciturn

taciturnity 的逆構詞，源自中古英語 taciturnite，源自拉丁語 taciturnitas；或者，源自法語 taciturne，得到了拉丁語 taciturnus的增强，源自tacitus (“秘密的，缄默的”)。

more taciturn (comparative)
most taciturn (superlative)

The two sisters could hardly have been more different, one so boisterous and expressive, the other so taciturn and calm.

两姐妹简直天差地别，一个又吵闹又有表现力，另一个显得沉默寡言而文静。

We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 18:

We spent a lot of time up on the staging of the great furnaces, trying to pick up the tricks of the trade from the taciturn furnacemen who sat around placidly smoking, or chewing twist, and occasionally throwing in more pig iron to the molten white-hot metal.

1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, 出自 Railway Magazine，頁號 14:


straddle

作动词时，自16世纪60年代起可考。很可能是方言词striddle的变换形式。名词自17世纪10年代起可考。

在...上骑墙，在...上不表态

Wanting to please both sides, he straddled the issue.

为了让两边都高兴，他对这个问题没有做表态。

This weed straddles the entire garden.

这种杂草蔓延于整个花园。

Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks


straddle

The first salvo fell short; the next was long; the third was a straddle.


stock phrase

個人或群體經常或習慣性使用的短語

Bart Simpson's stock phrase "I didn't do it" was once lampooned on the show itself.

巴特·辛普森的口頭禪「不是我幹的」曾被節目組自己嘲笑過。


son of a bitch

变换自以中古英語 biche-sone (“荡妇的儿子”)、古諾爾斯語 bikkju-sonr (“荡妇的儿子”)为代表的早期短语。

sons of bitches (plural)
sons of a bitch (plural)

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

王八蛋，狗娘养的，龟儿子

My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son of a bitch.

我妈从来没有意识到叫我狗娘养的意味着什么。

There's that snarling cur, and son of a Bitch Boccaline.

1685, John Eachard, The grounds & occasions of the contempt of the clergy and religion enquired into, 9th版, London，頁號 252:

He had the insolence obliquely to give me the name of Son of a Bitch.

1691, Thomas Shadwell, The Humorists, a Comedy, London，頁號 22:

[…] Count Davia, like a Son of a Bitch as he is, Chop'd upon mine and the Duke of Mantuu's Equipage, and rubb'd off with our Plate, Jewels, and other Knicknacks of Inestimable Value.

1703, Thomas Brown, Letters from the living to the living, relating to the present transactions both Publick and Private，頁號 105:

But ya ought to thank me, before I die / For the gravel in ya guts and the spit in ya eye / Because I'm the son-of-a-bitch that named you Sue

1969, Shel Silverstein （作曲作詞）, “A Boy Named Sue”, 演出者 Johnny Cash:

"This son of a bitch won’t move!" Marty exclaimed as he grappled with the supermarket cart.

“这傻逼东西推不动啊！”Marty抓着超市的购物车喊道。


mal-

源自古法語 mal-，源自拉丁語副詞 male，源自 malus。

malism, malinfluence

maleffect

malodor

maldifferentiation

壞，糟糕 不完整，未完成

maldescent

壞，糟糕 不良地，有缺陷

malfed, malnourished, malcirculation

吃得不好，營養不良，血液循環不足

malcommunication

非出於善意或未如預期進行的溝通

maladherence, malcontent


effing

同 fucking：该死的，他妈的

The effing television's on the blink again!


effing

同 fucking：该死的，他妈的

She is effing hot!

I effing hate snow!


I♥NY [I love New York.]

I ♥ U.


Unicode

於1988年作為建議草案而出現，“旨在提出一個獨特的、統一的、通用的編碼”。來自uni- + code。

This character isn't in Unicode.

統一碼標準，以及將字符表示為位元的標準

convert to Unicode


Unicode

來自不同語境的文字，通常以非標準的方式使用。有時被用作拉丁字母的反義詞。

Since most users on the site are westerners, we have banned Unicode in all text input boxes.

因為網站的大部分使用者來自西方，所以我們已禁止在所有文本輸入框內使用Unicode。


reliable

more reliable (comparative)
most reliable (superlative)

/ɹɪˈlaɪəbəl/

We're looking for someone who is reliable and hardworking.

我們正在物色可靠而又勤奮的人。

People or things that are reliable can be trusted to work well or to behave in the way that you want them to.

可靠的人和事物能夠工作得好或者能以您希望他們表現的方式來行事。


Halloween

略自All-Hallow-even，All Hallows’ Eve（All Saints Day前一天晚上的名字）。

They all get dressed up in scary costumes at Halloween.

他们万圣节时都穿上了吓人的服饰。

Black is the night full of fright / You'll be missing the day / What will be here very soon / Changing your way / A knock at your door / It is real or is it a dream / On trembling legs you open the door / And you scream... on Halloween
（請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

1987, Kai Hansen, "Halloween", Helloween, Keeper Of The Seven Keys: Part 1.


everywhere

源自中古英語 eauerihwer，又自古英語 æfre + gehwær，相當於 ever + y- + where，而非 every + where。

位於或至句意所指的各處。

He delivers the mail everywhere on this street.

We went everywhere at the school.

我們去了學校裡的每個地方。

We went to Europe last year and went everywhere: Berlin, Paris, London, and Madrid.

去年我們去了歐洲的每個地方，有到柏林、巴黎、倫敦還有馬德里。

When I shop for shoes, I like to look everywhere.

我喜歡在買鞋的時候到處看看。

I've looked everywhere in the house and still can't find my glasses.

我找遍了家裡的每個角落，還是找不到我的眼鏡。


amiss

more amiss (comparative)
most amiss (superlative)

He suspected something was amiss.

Something amiss in the arrangements had distracted the staff.

His wisdom and virtue cannot always rectify that which is amiss in himself or his circumstances.

1722, William Wollaston, The Religion of Nature Delineated:

Moreover, all were furnished with carbines and cartridge boxes, and the leader was armed with a sabre with a leather sheath. This was not so much amiss, and would do very well at a distance: but during the two hours' halt at the village aforesaid, I took it into my head, while the owners were enjoying their siesta under the shade of the gateway, just to stride in among them, and take a nearer inspection of the weapons.

1836, Charles Joseph La Trobe, The Rambler in Mexico:

There is a strong feeling across the land that something is amiss in America. You sometimes hear about these feelings when people discuss their concerns about how the baby boom generation is going to bankrupt our social security or Medicare programs, or about the growing size of the national debt that will be paid for by future generations.

2009, Robert Perrucci, Carolyn Cummings Perrucci, America at Risk: The Crisis of Hope, Trust, and Caring:


cheated

more cheated (comparative)
most cheated (superlative)

The people feel cheated by the government's decision.

人民感到被政府的決策所欺騙。


alongside

/əˌlɒŋˈsaɪd/

/əˌlɔŋˈsaɪd/

/əˌlɑŋˈsaɪd/

/əˈlɑŋˌsaɪd/

/əˌlɔŋˈsɑɪd/

Ahoy! Bring your boat alongside.


alongside

/əˌlɒŋˈsaɪd/

/əˌlɔŋˈsaɪd/

/əˌlɑŋˈsaɪd/

/əˈlɑŋˌsaɪd/

/əˌlɔŋˈsɑɪd/

The nurse worked alongside the doctor.

The Italian opted for Bolton's Cahill alongside captain John Terry - and his decision was rewarded with a goal after only 13 minutes. Bulgaria gave a hint of defensive frailties to come when they failed to clear Young's corner, and when Gareth Barry found Cahill in the box he applied the finish past Nikolay Mihaylov。

2011年September2日, Phil McNulty, “Bulgaria 0-3 England”, 出自 BBC:

A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays.

2013年June1日, “Ideas coming down the track”, 出自 The Economist, 卷 407, 期 8838，頁號 13 (Technology Quarterly):

Gatwick, on the other hand, is alongside the Brighton main line, with rail services both to the north (City and West End) and south.

2019 October, John Glover, “Heathrow rail expansion”, 出自 Modern Railways，頁號 71:


drooping

more drooping (comparative)
most drooping (superlative)

drooping flowers


haunted

more haunted (comparative)
most haunted (superlative)
hauntedest (superlative)

The hotel was haunted by a disembodied spirit.

a soldier haunted by the memories of combat

a haunted expression


tacky

tackier (comparative)
tackiest (superlative)

This paint isn't dry yet; it's still a bit tacky.

这片油漆还没干，还有点黏。


tacky

词义“没品位的”，自1888年，源自早期词义“破烂的”。参见tackey (“无人照料的马”)，自19世纪起是美国南部口语词，后普及。

That market stall sells all sorts of tacky ornaments.

那个摊卖好多劣质装饰品。

低劣的，没品味的，低俗的

That was a tacky thing to say.


amphibious

源自古希臘語 ἀμφίβιος (amphíbios)。源自ἀμφί (amphí) + βίος (bíos, “生命”)。

an amphibious vehicle

an amphibious attack

Most Dutch cities began on a terp or artificial mound to which the prehistoric amphibious folk rushed for refuge when floods rolled in.

Taiwan’s navy has taken delivery of a new, domestically made amphibious warfare ship that can be used to land troops and bolster supply lines to vulnerable islands, part of a push by Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen to achieve defence self-sufficiency.

2022年September30日, “Taiwan adds new amphibious warfare ship to defence inventory”, 出自 Al Jazeera，於2022-09-30歸檔自原頁面:


flabbergasted

more flabbergasted (comparative)
most flabbergasted (superlative)

He was flabbergasted at how much weight he had gained.

他對體重增加的幅度感到非常吃驚。

Maxwell made a lunge at his flabbergasted guest, who ducked just in time to escape the great hands reaching for him.

麥克斯韋向他目瞪口呆的客人猛撲過去，客人及時躲開，躲開了伸向他的大手。

1952, Agnes Morley Cleaveland., Satan's Paradise: from Lucien Maxwell to Fred Lambert, Houghton-Mifflin:

From behind her paper, she was flabbergasted to see a neatly dressed man helping himself to her cookies.

從報紙後面，她看到一個衣著整潔的男人正吃著她的餅乾，這讓她'大吃一驚。

2008, Dutch Sheets, Watchman Prayer: Keeping the Enemy Out While Protecting Your Family, Home, Gospel Light，頁號 57:


sunken

The sunken ship lay at a depth of 100 feet

沉船位於100英尺深的水底

She looked old and thin with sunken cheeks and hollow eyes.

她看起來又老又瘦，臉頰和眼眶都凹陷著。

The heartbreak will take some getting over; the sunken forms of the players at the full-time whistle said as much.

2023年July20日, Suzanne Wrack, “Spain win Women’s World Cup as Olga Carmona strike breaks England hearts”, 出自 The Guardian:


society

起於1530年代；借自中古法語 societé，源自古法語 societé，源自拉丁語 societās, societātem (“聯盟，社群”)，源自socius (“聯合的，同盟的；夥伴，同伴，同盟”)，源自原始印歐語 *sokʷ-yo- (“同伴”)，源自原始印歐語 *sekʷ- (“跟隨”)。

This society has been known for centuries for its colorful clothing and tight-knit family structure.

几百年以来，这个社群以其色彩缤纷的服装和紧密的家庭关系而闻名。

It was then that they decided to found a society of didgeridoo-playing unicyclists.

那時他們決定建立一個吹迪吉里杜管的獨輪車社團。

The gap between Western and Eastern societies seems to be narrowing.

東西方社會間的隔閡似乎正在縮窄。

社會（區域、地方、國家人的總和）

Our global society develops in fits and starts.

我們全球社會的發展時斷時續。

Smith was first introduced into society at the Duchess of Grand Fenwick's annual rose garden party.

史密斯第一次被邀請參加上流社會每年在芬威克大公玫瑰花園的聚會。


all-around

an all-around better player than me

Vacation with pay, annual passes, and all around better working conditions.

1911, The Railroad Telegrapher, 卷 28，頁號 1730:

In addition, be sure to reinforce - as persistently as possible - that addressing questionable behavior makes for an all-around better organization.

2005, Christopher Bauer, Better Ethics Now: How to Avoid the Ethics Disaster You Never Saw Coming:

He graduated from the Police Academy in 1957 winning the Police Commissioner's Trophy for all around highest scores-academically, physically, and for firearm proficiency.

2010, Anne T. Romano, Italian Americans in Law Enforcement，頁號 84:

Collectively, the three sections in this chapter are intended to add to what has gone before regarding personal behavior and to serve as additional food for thought for those attempting to be all-around better people.

2013, Holland E. Bynam, On Being a Better You，頁號 26:


self-made

self-structured

靠自己奮鬥成功的；白手起家的

self-formed

靠自己奮鬥成功的；白手起家的

nepotistic

靠自己奮鬥成功的；白手起家的

cronyish

靠自己奮鬥成功的；白手起家的

靠自己奮鬥成功的；白手起家的

My father was the quintessential self-made man.

我的父亲是典型的白手起家的人。

“These were people who were self-made, and self-made people made up their own words,” Mr. Sokolowski added.

2021年November9日, Max Harrison-Caldwell, 引 Peter Sokolowski, “Words Full of Sound and Fury”, 出自 The New York Times, →ISSN:


flustered

more flustered (comparative)
most flustered (superlative)

The speaker became quite flustered when she dropped all her notes.

演讲者弄掉了笔记以后慌了手脚。

Behind the scenes, Truss's camp feel positive too—claiming that while she stayed calm Sunak was “flustered”.

2022年July26日, “Tory leadership: Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss in fiercest clash yet over tax”, 出自 BBC News:


sullen

源自中古英語 solein，源自盎格魯-諾曼語 soleyn (“alone”)，源自古法語 sole (“一个的，单个的”)，源自拉丁語 sōlus (“独自”)。中古英语中，词义从“单独的”变成“闷闷不乐的”

sullener (comparative)
sullenest (superlative)

a sullen atmosphere


al-Qaeda

來自阿拉伯語 الْقَاعِدَة (al-qāʕida)，قَاعِدَة (qāʕida, “基礎，基本”)的定單數。

/ˌæl kɑːˈiːdə/

al-Qaeda often kills non-Muslim and non-Sunni civilians.


armpit

來自中古英語 armpitt、arme-pitt、armput，等同於arm + pit。
(令人不快的事物)：大概是指胳肢窩下的體味。

令人不快或不受歡迎的地方或東西

the armpit of America


sweat

源自中古英語 swete、swet、swate、swote，源自古英語 swāt，源自原始日耳曼語 *swait-、*swaitą，源自原始印歐語 *swoyd- (“流汗”),*sweyd- (“出汗”)的o音变形式。与西弗里斯蘭語 swit、荷蘭語 zweet、德語 Schweiß、丹麥語 sved、瑞典語 svett、意第緒語 שוויצן (shvitsn)（英語 shvitz）、拉丁語 sudor、法語 sueur、意大利語 sudore、西班牙語 sudor、波斯語 خوید (xwēd, “潮湿的，新鲜的”)、梵語 स्वेद (svéda)、立陶宛語 sviedri、吐火羅語B syā-和阿爾巴尼亞語 djersë同源。

Just thinking about the interview tomorrow puts me into a nervous sweat.

一想到明天的面试我就紧张得冒汗。


sweat

源自中古英語 sweten，源自古英語 swǣtan，源自原始日耳曼語 *swaitijaną (“出汗”)。 对比荷蘭語 zweten、德語 schwitzen、丹麥語 svede。shvitz的同源對似詞。

使...经皮肤排出液体：

His physicians attempted to sweat him by most powerful sudorifics.

内科医生尝试用最强效的发汗药让他出汗。

I've been sweating over my essay all day.

我今天一整天都在忙我的论文。

to sweat a spendthrift

压榨花钱大手大脚的人身上

to sweat labourers

to sweat blood

The cheese will start sweating if you don't refrigerate it.

不把奶酪放冰箱的话它就会出水。

Stop sweatin' me!

But I'ma smoke 'em now and not next time / Smoke any motherfucker that sweats me


squeamish

不详。可能是源自下列词的合并：早期形式squeamous (“神经质的”)，源自中古英語 squaimous、queimous，源自盎格魯-諾曼語 escoimus、escoymous，其词源不详；方言词sweamish、sweemish (“微弱的，神经质的”)，源自sweam (“头昏”)和方言词sweem (“昏倒，迷糊，不适”)，源自中古英語 swemen (“使...伤心，折磨，心虚”)，源自古英語 *swǣman (“烦扰”)。若如此，则与swim (“目眩，昏迷”)有关。参见sweam。

more squeamish (comparative)
most squeamish (superlative)

神经质的，过度紧张的，容易受惊吓的

He might have made a good doctor, had he not been so squeamish at the sight of blood.

如果他不像现在这样那么怕血的话，可能可以当个好医生。


staunch

源自中古英語 staunch、staunche (“状态良好的，不需维修的；稳固的，坚实的；防水的；（指人或伤口）不再流血的；肯定的；完好的；坚定地，稳健地”) [以及其他形式]，源自盎格魯-諾曼語 estaunche、古法語 estanche (“稳固的，防水的”)（现代法語 étanche (“气密的；防水的”)），estanc (“池塘”)的变体，源自estanchier (“堵塞（水流，血流等）；使...防水；解（渴）”)（现代法語 étancher），可能源自下列词之一：
* 源自通俗拉丁語 *stagnicāre，源自拉丁語 stāgnum (“一滩死水；池塘；沼泽”)，可能源自原始印歐語 *steh₂g- (“滴；渗”)。
* 源自通俗拉丁語 *stānticāre，源自*stānticus (“疲劳的”)，源自拉丁語 stāns, stāntis (“站立的；遗留的，停留的”)。stāns是stō (“站立；剩余，停留”)的现在主动分词，最终源自原始印歐語 *steh₂- (“站”)。
同源词
* 意大利語 stanco (“疲劳的”)
* 葡萄牙語 estanque (“防水的”)
* 羅曼什語 staunza (“房间”)
* 西班牙語 estanco (“关闭的，密闭的；气密的；防水的”)

stauncher (comparative)
staunchest (superlative)

constant

坚定不移的，坚持不懈的，不动摇的

determined

坚定不移的，坚持不懈的，不动摇的

persistent

坚定不移的，坚持不懈的，不动摇的

firm

坚定不移的，坚持不懈的，不动摇的

resolute

坚定不移的，坚持不懈的，不动摇的

steadfast

坚定不移的，坚持不懈的，不动摇的

unswerving

坚定不移的，坚持不懈的，不动摇的

unwavering

坚定不移的，坚持不懈的，不动摇的

unyielding

坚定不移的，坚持不懈的，不动摇的

坚定不移的，坚持不懈的，不动摇的

Without our staunch front line the enemy would have split the regiment.

没有我们牢不可破的前线敌人已经把整个团分裂了。

Is it like you, who have known me so long and sought my advice in all matters—like you, who from a girl have had a strong mind and a staunch heart?

1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge”, 出自 Master Humphrey’s Clock, 卷 II, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, chapter 6，頁號 265:

[T]ouching the much vexed question of stimulants he relished a glass of choice old wine in season as both nourishing and bloodmaking and possessing aperient virtues (notably a good burgundy which he was a staunch believer in) […]

1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 16: Eumaeus]”, 出自 Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part III [Nostos]，頁號 571:

The fast-food chain Chick-fil-A was founded by a staunch Christian, is closed on Sundays and has previously donated to organisations with anti-LGBTQ+ stances.

2023年June12日, Tom Dart, “US culture wars come to baseball as MLB celebrates Pride month”, 出自 The Guardian, →ISSN:

可靠的，忠实的，值得信任的 能够追寻到猎物踪迹的

He’s been a staunch supporter of mine through every election.

在每次选举中，他都是我忠实的支持者。

Never at any time in its history has there been so much universal anger at and criticism of the Southern. The railway's staunchest friends must concede that most of it is justified.

1959 April, P. Ransome-Wallis, “The Southern in Trouble on the Kent Coast”, 出自 Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC，頁號 213:


syndicate

來自法語 syndicat (“辛迪加辦公室；辛迪加委員會；工會”)，來自syndic (“辛迪加；代表；日內瓦首席行政官”) + -at (“表示行動或行動結果的後綴”)，來自中世紀拉丁語 *syndicatus，來自syndicus (“公司或城鎮的代表；辛迪加”) (來自古希臘語 σύνδικος (súndikos, “被告辯護人”)，來自σύν (sún, “旁邊；和”) + δίκη (díkē, “審判；正義”)) + -ātus (“從名詞組成形容詞的後綴，表示擁有某種東西或某種品質”)。
對照意大利語 sindacato (“辛迪加；工會；審計，控制，監督”)、奧克語 sendegat、葡萄牙語 sindicato (“工會”)、西班牙語 sindicado、sindicato (“辛迪加辦公室；辛迪加；工會”)。

音頻 (名詞) (澳洲)

a gambling syndicate

The worst deed ever alleged against the early sandalwood traders was that a number of natives were suffocated in a cave at Vaté, in the New Hebrides, by the smoke from a fire built at its mouth. But this was done by order of Maafu, who, on behalf of an Australian syndicate of highly-respectable merchants and church-members, was "bossing" an expedition in search of sandalwood through the New Hebrides.

1886, Julian Thomas, “Maafu, Prince of Tonga”, 出自 Cannibals & Convicts: Notes of Personal Experiences in the Western Pacific, London, New York, N.Y.: Cassel & Company, Limited, →OCLC，頁號 24:

Held at the estate of Mafia boss Joseph Barbara in Apalachin, NY, the meeting called by [Vito] Genovese in November 1957 brought over 100 mobsters from around the country to cement his power over the national crime syndicate.

1999, John Madinger, “Case Development”, 出自 Confidential Informant: Law Enforcement’s Most Valuable Tool, Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, →ISBN，頁號 178:

a gambling syndicate

In the mid-1880s, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt broke into print inauspiciously as one member of the stable of writers who supplied humorous sketches and mildly sentimental or didactic squibs for S[amuel] S[idney] McClure's newspaper syndicate.

1980, Wiliam L. Andrews, “The Apprentice Years: Experiments and Decisions”, 出自 The Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt, Baton Rouge, La., London: Louisiana State University Press, →ISBN，頁號 17:


skirmish

源自中古英語 skirmish (动词)，源自古法語 escarmouche (“小规模冲突”)，源自意大利語 scaramuccia，早期形式schermugio。escarmouche and Scaramouche的同源對似詞。

Three people were arrested after a skirmish in a bar.

酒吧里有人动手以后，三个人被逮捕了。


workaholic

All workaholics should move to Hong Kong, where working hours average over 50 per week.

所有工作狂都应该搬到香港去，那里每周平均工作时间超过50小时。

We're not looking to become workaholics who don't know how to rest or vacation, or who never hang it up long enough to go to a movie.

我们不想成为不知道如何休息或度假，或者从来不花时间去看电影的工作狂。

2016, JoAnneh Nagler, How to be an artist without losing your mind, your shirt, or your creative compass, →ISBN，頁號 80:


FAQ

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該站點的常見問題解答說您應該登錄以訪問某些頁面。


sulky

源自sulk + -y。马车相关词义的产生是由于驾驶员需要独自骑行。

sulkier (comparative)
sulkiest (superlative)

the sulky child

The first question of course was, how to get dry again: they had a consultation about this, and after a few minutes it seemed quite natural to Alice to find herself talking familiarly with them, as if she had known them all her life. Indeed, she had quite a long argument with the Lory, who at last turned sulky, and would only say, “I’m older than you, and must know better.” And this Alice would not allow, without knowing how old it was, and, as the Lory positively refused to tell its age, there was no more to be said.

1865, Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland


scowl

源自中古英語 scowlen、scoulen、skoulen（亦作中古英語 schoulen），可能源自北日耳曼語支。对比丹麥語 skule (“皱眉”)、挪威語 skule (“皱眉”)。

to scowl a rival into submission

皱着眉头显现出，皱着眉头表示

to scowl defiance


solace

源自古法語 solas，源自拉丁語 sōlācium (“安慰”)，源自原始印歐語 *selh₂- (“恕，慰”)。

You cannot put a monetary value on emotional solace.


telling

more telling (comparative)
most telling (superlative)

有力的，有效的，强效的，效果显著的

a telling blow

意味深长的，有信息量的，重要的

a telling smile

But ever since the concept of "hamartia" recurred through Aristotle's Poetics, in an attempt to describe man's ingrained iniquity, our impulse has been to identify a telling defect in those brought suddenly and dramatically low.

2014年October21日, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years – sport afforded no protection against his tragic fallibilities: Bladerunner's punishment for killing Reeva Steenkamp is but a frippery when set against the burden that her bereft parents, June and Barry, must carry [print version: No room for sentimentality in this tragedy, 13 September 2014, p. S22]”, 出自 The Daily Telegraph (Sport):

telling evidence


apparel

apparels
appareling
apparelling
appareled
apparelled

配備、裝備、供給有……的

ships appareled to fight

trees appareled with flowers

a garden appareled with greenery


shaky

shakier (comparative)
shakiest (superlative)

a shaky spot in a marsh

a shaky hand

He’s a nice guy but when he talks to me, he acts shaky.

他是個很好的人，但跟我講話的時候就表現得很緊張。

For the college clinician, restless nights after letting a shaky student walk out of the office are an occupational hazard. Are the student's safety assurances credible? Will he or she make it safely through the weekend?

2006, Paul A. Grayson, Philip W. Meilman, College Mental Health Practice，頁號 11:

Villa had plenty of opportunities to make the game safe after a shaky start and despite not reaching any great heights, they were resolute enough to take control of the game in the second half.

2011年April10日, Alistair Magowan, “Aston Villa 1 - 0 Newcastle”, 出自 BBC Sport:

shaky timber

有關本詞的更多用例，請參閱Citations:shaky。

容易搖晃的，搖搖欲墜的，不牢固的

a shaky constitution

shaky business credit


trickle

The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle.

小溪缩成了一条小小的涓流。

The tap of the washbasin in my bedroom is leaking and the trickle drives me mad at night.

我臥室洗臉盆的水龍頭漏水，整晚滴滴答答的搞得我難受得不得了。

The streams that run south and east from the mountains to the coast are short and rapid torrents after a storm, but at other times dwindle to feeble trickles of mud.

1897, James Bryce, Impressions of South Africa


trickle

The doctor trickled some iodine on the wound.

医生在伤口上滴了一点碘。

Here the water just trickles along, but later it becomes a torrent.

现在水只是细细地在流，但后面它会变成很大的洪流。

The film was so bad that people trickled out of the cinema before its end.

这部电影太烂了，还没结束就已经有人慢慢地走掉了。

Her white night-dress was smeared with blood, and a thin stream trickled down the man's bare chest which was shown by his torn-open dress.

1897, Bram Stoker, 章號 21, 出自 Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:

The period of intensive traffic is over by about 5.30 p.m. and for the rest of the evening steadily diminishes, the main activity being the Channel Islands boat trains which trickle in after about 6.30 p.m. and depart again for Weymouth an hour or so later.

1962 April, J. N. Faulkner, “Summer Saturday at Waterloo”, 出自 Modern Railways，頁號 265:


allotropic

Graphite and diamond are allotropic forms of carbon.

石墨和鑽石是碳的同素異形形式。


spearhead

发起，倡导，领导 （一次项目，一次活动等）

He spearheaded the entire project from day one.

他从第一天就开始领导整个项目。

Newcastle have put themselves within touching distance after a fantastic run which has been spearheaded by the goals of Senegal striker Cisse.

2012年April21日, Jonathan Jurejko, “Newcastle 3-0 Stoke”, 出自 BBC Sport:

George Monks spearheaded the project to solve this problem with a funicular, and work on the Lynton & Lynmouth Cliff Railway (L&LCR) began in 1887.

2021年January13日, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Spectacular funiculars”, 出自 RAIL, issue 922，頁號 53:


swath

源自中古英語 swath、swathe，源自古英語 swæþ、swaþu (“轨道；轨迹；足迹；印记；遗迹；疤痕”)，源自原始日耳曼語 *swaþō (“被风扫过之处；阔野；边境；土地”)，源自原始印歐語 *swem(bʰ)- (“折；转；荡”)。
与荷蘭語 zwade、zwad (“刈幅；干草列”)、德語 Schwade (“刈幅；干草列”)、冰島語 svæði (“区域，地区”)同源。
其他词源资料
对应中古低地德语和中古荷兰语swat，中古高地德语swade，古弗里斯蘭語 swethe (“边界”)。词干意为切割留下的痕迹。
在888年可考于英语中，意为“痕迹”，在1475年可考为更现代的词义。与德語 Schwaden (“一排割下的草或谷物”)同源。
在日耳曼语系外无确切的同源词。
* 见F. Kluge, Etymologisches Wörterbuch (De Gruyter)，词条Schwaden，和OED。

一大片，大量（的人，土地等）

A large swath of the population is opposed to this government policy.

很大一部分人口反对这项政府政策。

Five days after Hurricane Katrina, large swaths of New Orleans are still submerged in water.

飓风卡特里娜离开5天后，新奥尔良市的大片区域仍浸在水中。

It is undeniable that Malcolm was a beacon of huge strength in his lifetime. He could connect with swaths of people when others could not.

2015年February20日, Jesse Jackson, “In the Ferguson era, Malcolm X’s courage in fighting racism inspires more than ever”, 出自 The Guardian (London):


apostate

源自晚期拉丁語 apostata，源自古希臘語 ἀποστάτης (apostátēs, “反叛”)，源自ἀφίστημι (aphístēmi, “脱离，背叛”)，源自ἀπό (apó, “从，自，离”) + ἵστημι (hístēmi, “站起”)。

We must punish this apostate priest.

我们必须惩罚这个叛教的祭司。

So ſpake th' Apoſtate Angel,

1667, John Milton, “Book I”, 出自 Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; 再版為 Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC，行號 125:

An enormous number of monks and priests gave themselves up to sorcery, and there was no lack of apostate priests to perform the ceremonies of the Black Mass.

1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long，頁號 101:


lethal dose

A lethal dose 50 will cause the death of 50% of a sample of test animals.

50的致死量會導致測試動物中50%的個體死亡。