yummy

forms:
yummier (comparative)
yummiest (superlative)

enpr: yŭm'ē

rhymes: -ʌmi

yucky

sense: 美味的


yummy

pos: noun

pos_title: 名詞

text: The Yummies were the women who, next to the Starlets and Professional Have-It-Alls, Meredith envied most, and therefore half-despised. You could see them at the latte bars, drinking green tea smoothies, hoisting their fat-cheeked offspring from one hip to the other, comparing notes on washable diapers and baby-friendly resorts.

ref: 2009, Leah McLaren, The Continuity Girl:

forms: yummies (plural)


Zagreb

pos: unknown

glosses: 萨格勒布（克罗地亚首都）


zala

etymology_texts: 繼承自原始西日耳曼語 *talu。

ipa: /tsala/

zale

צאָל

roman: tsol


zax

pos: symbol

pos_title: 符號

glosses: (國際標準) ISO 639-3 語言代碼，表示薩達尼薩波特克語。


zealot

pos_title: 名词

etymology_texts: 最初仅作中古英語 zelote，奋锐党的西门的外号，在16和17世纪得到了现在的词义。中古英语派生自拉丁語 zēlōtēs，源自古希臘語 ζηλωτής (zēlōtḗs，“竞争者，狂热信徒，追随者”)，源自ζῆλος (zêlos，“热情，妒忌”)，源自ζηλόω (zēlóō，“竞争；嫉妒”)。

glosses: 狂热者，狂热之徒 （常带负面意）

forms: zealots (plural)

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-zealot.wav

rhymes: -ɛlət

parts: zeal ot


zebras

glosses: zebra 的不定屬格單數


zebrass

glosses: 雄斑马和雌驴交配成的杂种


zeitgeber

text: Thus, while light is the most reliable and thus the primary zeitgeber, there are many factors that can be used in addition to, or in the absence of, daylight.

ref: 2017, Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep, Penguin, published 2018, page 18:

date: 自20世纪

forms:
zeitgebers (plural)
zeitgeber (plural)

ipa: /ˈtsʌɪtɡeɪbə/

ipa: /ˈzʌɪtɡeɪbə/


禮記

pos: name

pos_title: 專有名詞

glosses: 十三經之一，戴聖所編輯，為孔子弟子及其後學所記的文選。

forms: 礼记 (Simplified-Chinese)

zh_pron: Lǐjì

zh_pron: ㄌㄧˇ ㄐㄧˋ

zh_pron: lai⁵ gei³

zh_pron: lā̤-gé

zh_pron: Lé-kì

zh_pron: Lǐ-jì

zh_pron: Liijih

zh_pron: Лицзи

roman: Liczi

ipa: /li²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕi⁵¹/

zh_pron: láih gei

zh_pron: lei⁵ géi³

ipa: /lɐi̯¹³ kei̯³³/

ipa: /l̃ɛ³³⁻⁵⁵ ⁽ᵏ⁻⁾ɛi²¹³/

zh_pron: lefkix

ipa: /le⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ki²¹/

ipa: /le⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ ki⁴¹/

ipa: /le⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ki²¹/

ipa: /le⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ki¹¹/

ipa: /le⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ ki²¹/

zh_pron: lejX kiH

zh_pron: /*[r]ˤijʔ C.k(r)ə(ʔ)-s/

zh_pron: /*riːʔ kɯs/


禮記

glosses: 예기 (yegi)的漢字。

forms:
yegi (romanization)
예기 (hangeul)


禮部

glosses: 古代官署。漢時為尚書的客曹，至北周始稱為禮部。


zestful

pos: adj

pos_title: 形容詞

forms:
more zestful (comparative)
most zestful (superlative)


zetetic

etymology_texts: 派生自古希臘語 ζητητικός (zētētikós)，源自ζητέω (zētéō)。


zeugma

glosses: f. [语法]轭式省略法


禮貌

text: 你這人有沒有禮貌，講不講道理啊。

roman: Nǐ zhè rén yǒu méi yǒu lǐmào, jiǎng bù jiǎng dàolǐ a.

text: 你这人有没有礼貌，讲不讲道理啊。

forms: 礼貌 (Simplified-Chinese)

zh_pron: lǐmào

zh_pron: ㄌㄧˇ ㄇㄠˋ

zh_pron: lai⁵ maau⁶

zh_pron: lî-mau

zh_pron: li^ˋ mau^˖

zh_pron: le³ bao⁵

zh_pron: lé-māu

zh_pron: lé-bāu

zh_pron: loi² mao⁶

zh_pron: li² mao⁶

zh_pron: lǐ-màu

zh_pron: liimaw

zh_pron: лимао

roman: limao

ipa: /li²¹⁴⁻²¹ mɑʊ̯⁵¹/

homophone: 禮貌

homophone: 礼貌

homophone: 禮帽

homophone: 礼帽

zh_pron: láih maauh

zh_pron: lei⁵ mao⁶

ipa: /lɐi̯¹³ maːu̯²²/

zh_pron: li^ˊ mau

zh_pron: li¹ mau⁴

ipa: /li²⁴⁻¹¹ mau̯⁵⁵/

ipa: /li⁵³ mau³³/

zh_pron: le² ao⁵

zh_pron: lâ̤-bāu

ipa: /le⁴⁵³⁻¹³ ⁽ᵖ⁻⁾au¹¹/

zh_pron: le² wao⁵

ipa: /le³³²⁻²⁴ ⁽ᵖ⁻⁾βau²¹/

zh_pron: lefmau

ipa: /le⁴²⁻²⁴ mau̯²²/

ipa: /le⁵³⁻⁴⁴ mãũ̯³³/

ipa: /le⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ mãũ̯³³/

ipa: /le⁵³⁻⁴⁴ mãũ̯²²/

zh_pron: lefbau

ipa: /le⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ bau̯⁴¹/

zh_pron: lói mău

zh_pron: lí mău

ipa: /loi⁵²⁻³⁵ mau³⁵/

ipa: /li⁵²⁻³⁵ mau³⁵/

zh_pron: li^去 mau^去

ipa: /li²² mɔ⁴⁴/

儀禮

roman: yílǐ

禮制

roman: lǐzhì

禮數

roman: lǐshù

禮法

roman: lǐfǎ

禮節

roman: lǐjié

規矩

roman: guījǔ

體統

roman: tǐtǒng

體面

roman: tǐmiàn

有禮貌

roman: yǒulǐmào


禮貌

text: 禮貌用語

roman: lǐmào yòngyǔ

text: 礼貌用语

text: 盯著別人看很不禮貌。

roman: Dīng zhe biérén kàn hěn bù lǐmào.

text: 盯着别人看很不礼貌。

zh_pron: lǐmào

zh_pron: ㄌㄧˇ ㄇㄠˋ

zh_pron: lai⁵ maau⁶

zh_pron: lî-mau

zh_pron: li^ˋ mau^˖

zh_pron: le³ bao⁵

zh_pron: lé-māu

zh_pron: lé-bāu

zh_pron: loi² mao⁶

ipa: /li²¹⁴⁻²¹ mɑʊ̯⁵¹/

ipa: /lɐi̯¹³ maːu̯²²/

ipa: /li²⁴⁻¹¹ mau̯⁵⁵/

ipa: /le⁴⁵³⁻¹³ ⁽ᵖ⁻⁾au¹¹/

ipa: /le³³²⁻²⁴ ⁽ᵖ⁻⁾βau²¹/

ipa: /le⁴²⁻²⁴ mau̯²²/

ipa: /le⁵³⁻⁴⁴ mãũ̯³³/

ipa: /le⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ mãũ̯³³/

ipa: /le⁵³⁻⁴⁴ mãũ̯²²/

ipa: /le⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ bau̯⁴¹/

ipa: /li⁵²⁻³⁵ mau³⁵/


禮貌

text: 禮貌待人

roman: lǐmào dàirén

text: 礼貌待人

zh_pron: li² mao⁶

zh_pron: lǐ-màu

zh_pron: liimaw

zh_pron: лимао

ipa: /li²¹⁴⁻²¹ mɑʊ̯⁵¹/

zh_pron: láih maauh

zh_pron: lei⁵ mao⁶

ipa: /lɐi̯¹³ maːu̯²²/

zh_pron: li^ˊ mau

zh_pron: li¹ mau⁴

ipa: /li²⁴⁻¹¹ mau̯⁵⁵/

zh_pron: le² ao⁵

ipa: /le⁴⁵³⁻¹³ ⁽ᵖ⁻⁾au¹¹/

ipa: /le³³²⁻²⁴ ⁽ᵖ⁻⁾βau²¹/

ipa: /le⁴²⁻²⁴ mau̯²²/

ipa: /le⁵³⁻⁴⁴ mãũ̯³³/

ipa: /le⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ mãũ̯³³/

ipa: /le⁵³⁻⁴⁴ mãũ̯²²/

ipa: /le⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ bau̯⁴¹/

ipa: /li⁵²⁻³⁵ mau³⁵/


禮貌

forms:
禮貌 (canonical)
reibō (romanization)
れいばう (archaic)


禮貌

glosses: 예모 (yemo)的漢字。

forms:
yemo (romanization)
예모 (hangeul)


ziggurat

forms: ziggurats (plural)

ipa: /ˈzɪɡʊˌɹæt/

ipa: /ˈzɪɡəˌɹæt/


zinco

pos: num

pos_title: 數詞

etymology_texts: 繼承自通俗拉丁語 cīnque，拉丁語 quinque的變體。對照加泰羅尼亞語 cinc。


zinco

pos: verb

pos_title: 動詞

glosses: zincare 的第一人稱單數現在時直陳式

rhymes: -inko


zinco

glosses: zincum 的與格/奪格單數

forms: zincō (canonical)


zinger

glosses: 高速移动的物体 （尤指丢出来的）

text: On the first pitch from Kline, Lofton hits a zinger of a single into right field that J.D. Drew picks up on one bounce, and if he makes a good throw he has a chance to throw David Bell out at home plate.

ref: 2008, Joseph Sutton, (Please provide the book title or journal name), →ISBN:

text: The pitcher threw a real zinger and struck him out.

translation: 投手丢了个很快的[球]，让他三振出局了。

glosses: 妙语 （尤指反驳或羞辱人的）

text: I wasn't looking to make friends; there had been too much animosity between us in the past, and maybe the guy had a zinger waiting on me.

ref: 2007, Larry Groves, Seasons in Time, →ISBN, page 112:

text: You might think it's almost worthwhile calling them and restarting the argument just to get that final zinger in. Why do you think of something good to say when it's too late?

ref: 2012, Adam Fraser, The Third Space, →ISBN, page 124:

text: Boris Johnson is the most compelling personality in “Chums.” The shambolic style, the self-deprecating humor, the gift for zingers—it was all there in university, as was the elitist’s ambivalent approach to achievement.

ref: 2022 May 14, David Segal, “An Outsider Takes an Inside Look at the Oxford ‘Chums’ Who Run the U.K.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

text: I was still reeling from the zinger of seeing my ex on a date with my best friend.

translation: 我还没从看到我前任和我最好的朋友约会这件事带来的震惊中缓过来。

glosses: 很棒的，很活跃的，很惊人的人或物

text: They'd have to come up with a zinger for their Christmas windows to compete with that competitor's laughing Santa Claus and Stefan had that zinger in his proposal submitted to the President of the company.

ref: 2006, Olivia Hillis Wimbrow, My Beloved Bohemian, →ISBN, page 130:

text: Think about all the scientists—and all the microscopes and lab equipment and testing—that may come up with zero instead of a zinger.

ref: 2006, Cathy Pickens, Done Gone Wrong, →ISBN:

text: Here, have a strawberry zinger and don't tell Mom and Dad that we had candy in the bedroom.

ref: 2013, Paula Harrison, Rescue Princesses #5: The Snow Jewel, →ISBN:

text: “Want some—” he saluted her with one of Julia's delicate white cups and a wry arch of eyebrow, sipped and made a face “—lemon zinger tea?” At times like this she wished she was as outgoing as Nikki or gorgeous like Bailey or even a little wild and easy with men like Valery. But she was none of those things. She was plain Carrie, the librarian, wishing she could say something snappy and clever. “If you don't like lemon zinger, pick a different kind."

ref: 2016, Linda Goodnight, The Rain Sparrow, →ISBN:

forms: zingers (plural)

ipa: /ˈzɪŋə(ɹ)/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-zinger.wav

rhymes: -ɪŋə(ɹ)

one-liner

sense: 妙语 （尤指反驳或羞辱人的）


zloty

etymology_texts: 派生自波蘭語 złoty。

glosses: 茲羅提，波蘭的貨幣。1 茲羅提等於 100 格羅茨。

forms:
zlotyen
zloty (indefinite plural)
złoty (alternative)


zloty

etymology_texts: 派生自波蘭語 złoty。

glosses: 茲羅提，波蘭的貨幣。1 茲羅提等於 100 格羅茨。

forms:
zloty (plural)
zlotys (plural)
zlote (plural)
zlotych (plural)
zloties (plural)

ipa: /zlɒti/

ipa: /zlɑti/

rhymes: -ɒti


zloty

glosses: 茲羅提，波蘭的貨幣。1 茲羅提等於 100 格羅茨。

forms: złoty (alternative)


zloty

glosses: 茲羅提，波蘭的貨幣。1 茲羅提等於 100 格羅茨。

forms: zlotys (plural)

audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-Lyokoï-zloty.wav


zloty

glosses: 茲羅提，波蘭的貨幣。1 茲羅提等於 100 格羅茨。

forms:
zlotyen (definite singular)
zloty (indefinite plural)
zlotyane (definite plural)


zloty

glosses: zlot 的主格/賓格/呼格複數

forms: zloti (alternative)

audio: LL-Q809 (pol)-Olaf-zloty.wav

rhymes: -ɔtɘ

parts: zlo ty


zloty

glosses: 茲羅提，波蘭的貨幣。1 茲羅提等於 100 格羅茨。


zloty

glosses: 茲羅提，波蘭的貨幣。1 茲羅提等於 100 格羅茨。

forms:
zlotys (plural)
złoty (alternative)


zloty

glosses: 茲羅提，波蘭的貨幣。1 茲羅提等於 100 格羅茨。

ipa: /slɔtʏ/


zodiacal

glosses:
adj. [天]黄道的==葡萄牙語==
黄道带的


zola

glosses: 法国自然主义小说家的名字


zoom

glosses: m. [摄]可变焦距镜头


zoril

glosses: 南非及小亚细亚产类似臭鼬的动物


zouave

glosses: 祖阿夫 (指為法國服役的一支部隊，最初由卡比爾人組成，但現在由穿著卡比爾服裝的法國人組成)

text: faire le zouave

translation: 扮小丑

text: Arrête de faire le zouave et concentre-toi sur ton travail !

translation: 別再搞怪了，專心工作吧！

forms: zouaves (plural)

ipa: /zwav/


xanthine

forms: xanthines (plural)

homophone: xanthein

roman: xanthene


xanthoma

forms:
xanthomas (plural)
xanthomata (plural)

ipa: /zænˈθoʊmə/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Moire9-xanthoma.wav


xat

glosses: (國際標準) ISO 639-3 語言代碼，表示卡塔威希語。


xenophobe

etymology_texts: 源自xeno- + -phobe。源自古希臘語 ξένος (xénos，“外國的，奇怪的”) + 古希臘語 φόβος (phóbos，“恐懼”)。

forms: xenophobes (plural)

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-xenophobe.wav


xenophobe

glosses:
xenophob 的屈折：
強變化/混合變化主格/賓格陰性單數

glosses:
xenophob 的屈折：
強變化主格/賓格複數

glosses:
xenophob 的屈折：
弱變化主格任意性別單數

glosses:
xenophob 的屈折：
弱變化賓格陰性/中性單數

ipa: /ksenoˈfoːbə/


wack

pos_title: 形容词

etymology_texts: 英語 wacky 的逆構詞。

text: Every record they ever made was straight-up wack.

translation: 他们做过的唱片都好难听。

forms:
whack (alternative)
wacker (comparative)
wackest (superlative)

ipa: /wæk/

rhymes: -æk

homophone: whack


wack

etymology_texts: 英語 wacky 的逆構詞。

glosses: 苯环己哌啶 (亦作whack)

forms:
whack (alternative)
wacks (plural)

word: Thesaurus:strange person


wacky

etymology_texts: 源自whack (“猛击”)，意指人因为经常撞脑袋，所以举止怪异。

text: Though the idea of placing wacky made-up characters in a real-life context was carried over from Da Ali G Show—wherein Buzz Aldrin was once asked if he was upset that Michael Jackson got all the credit for inventing the moonwalk—Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat felt like something new, an attempt to square an improvised, guerrilla style of underground comedy with reality-TV stunt shows like Jackass or Fear Factor.

ref: 2012 May 15, Scott Tobias, “Film: Reviews: The Dictator”, in The Onion AV Club:

forms:
whacky (alternative)
wackier (comparative)
wackiest (superlative)

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-wacky.wav

rhymes: -æki


wacky

forms:
whacky (alternative)
wackies (plural)


Xi'an

etymology_texts: 源自漢語 西安 (Xī'ān)的漢語拼音。

glosses: 西安，中國陝西省省會城市。

forms:
Xian (alternative)
Sian (alternative)
Hsi-an (Wade–Giles alternative)

ipa: /ˈʃɪˈæn/

ipa: /ˈʃiːˈɑːn/

Chang'an

sense: 西安，中國陝西省省會城市。


Wahabi

glosses: Wahhabi的另一種拼寫法。

forms: Wahabis (plural)


wahoo

etymology_texts: 來自克里克語 uhawhu。

forms: wahoos (plural)


wahoo

etymology_texts: 來自達科他語詞彙，其第一詞素與拉科塔語 waŋ (“箭”)同源。


what

pos: pron

pos_title: 代词

etymology_texts: < 中古英語 < 古英語 hwæt < 原始日耳曼语 *hwat < 原始印欧语 *kʷos、*kʷod（产生于此词根的还有：who）。有大量的印欧同源词，例如：法语 quoi （“什么”）、俄语 кто （“谁”）。

glosses: （疑问代词）什么，甚么，何（物）

text: What is your address?　　你的地址是多少？

text: You told them what?　　你告诉他们什么了？

glosses: （英式、口语）疑问代词，等同于"Don't you agree?"。不是吗？你不觉得吗？

text: It's rather late, what?　　很晚了，不是吗？

glosses: （关系代词，非标准）同 that、which。

text: That’s her; that’s the thing what has stole his heart from me.　　那是她——也就是把他的心从我这里夺走的她。

glosses: （关系代词）（…的）东西、事情

text: He knows what he wants.　　他知道他要什么。

text: What is tossed upward falls back down.　　扔起来的东西又掉下来。

ipa: /wɔt/

ipa: /ʍɒt/

ipa: /wɒt/

ipa: /wʌt/

ipa: /ʍʌt/

homophone: Watt

roman: wot


what

pos: adv

pos_title: 副词

glosses: （多接 with）用某种方式，在某种程度上，部分地

text: What with singing and joking, the time passed quickly.　　边唱边调侃，时间很快就过去了。

text: 近义词：such

text: What a pity.　　太可惜了。

text: What a beautiful day!　　天真好！

glosses: 同 why。为何，为什么。

glosses: 连接并列性质的短语，…与…


what

pos: intj

pos_title: 感叹词

text: What! That’s amazing.　　啊？真不可思议。

glosses: （英式、口语、旧）不是吗？

text: It’s a nice day, what?　　天真好啊，不是吗？


what

pos: det

pos_title: 限定词

text: What shirt are you going to wear?　　你要穿什么衬衫？

text: What time is it?　　几点了？

text: What kind of car is that?　　那是什么车？

glosses: （用于感叹句）多么（好），真是

text: What talent he has!　　他真是有才华！

text: What a talent!　　真是厉害！


xmodem

glosses: 调制解调器的通讯协议之一


XOR

text: The XOR of (0,0) is 0; (0,1) is 1; (1,0) is 1; and (1,1) is 0.

text: XOR can be used to add bits without carrying.

forms: XORs (plural)

ipa: /ˈɛks ˈɔɹ/

ipa: /ˈzɔɹ/

notes: 布林變數和狀態（AND、OR、NOT、TRUE、FALSE等）)通常用全大寫字母書寫，以區別這些字詞的一般用法。


XOR

text: The XORed sequence has the same period as the sequence that is not XORed.

ref: 1989, IEEE Communications Society, Conference Record:

text: XORing different constants into the four s-boxes in such a cipher has exactly the same effect as XORing a single constant into each round function output.

ref: 1998, Stafford Tavares, Henk Meijer, Selected Areas in Cryptography:

text: There are weak keys in the sense that their use by foisting chosen plaintexts can be proved, which could be interesting for chip cards with a ‘burnt-in key’. First of all, however, these keys can be easily avoided—one only needs to XOR all subkeys with the hexadecimal number 0x0dae—and second, the probability that such a key can be caught is 2⁻⁹⁶; that is about one out of 10²⁹ randomly selected keys (this number even has a name: 100 quadrilliards).

ref: 2007, Reinhard Wobst, “Life After DES: New Methods, New Attacks”, in Angelika Shafir, transl., Cryptology Unlocked, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, →ISBN, section 3 (IDEA: A Special-Class Algoritmh), subsection 5 (Cryptanalyzing IDEA), page 239:

forms:
XORs (third-person singular present)
XORing (present participle)
XORed (past participle)


Xuchang

etymology_texts: 借自官話 許昌／许昌 (Xǔchāng)的漢語拼音。

glosses: 許昌（中國河南的地級市）

text: The following autumn Rev. Edwins, in company with Rev. Landahl of the Hauge Mission, fared forth on Chinese carts for central Honan, finally arriving, after many dangers and vicissitudes on the way, at Hsüchow (now Hsüchang) on the Peking-Hankow Railroad.

translation: 次年秋天，艾德温牧师和海牙传教团的兰达尔牧师一起，乘坐中国马车前往河南中部，一路上历经艰险，终于抵达京汉铁路旁的许州（今许昌）。

ref: [1938 December，Gustav Carlberg，The Story of Our China Mission [我们中国宣教的故事]，Board of Foreign Missions of the Augustana Synod，→OCLC，第6頁：

text: Chiang habitually failed to take the advice of competent strategists. One especially harmful display of this tendency came in 1948 when, against the advice of his staff and American advisers, he massed more than fifty divisions around Hsuchang to prevent Communist forces from dominating central China. The result was a complete disaster in which 550,000 Nationalist soldiers were lost, an estimated 325,000 as prisoners.

translation: 蒋介石经常不听取有能力的战略家的建议。这种倾向的一个特别有害的表现是在1948年，当时，他不顾参谋和美国顾问的建议，在许昌周围集结了50多个师，以阻止共产党军队控制华中地区。结果，国民党士兵损失了55万，估计有32.5万人被俘。

ref: [2007，Brian Taylor，「Chiang Kai-shek and the Loss of China」，收錄於 Washington College International Studies Review，第IV卷，72頁：

text: The police in the Henan city of Xuchang said on Monday that they were investigating a criminal gang headed by a man named Lu Yi whom they say may have used Henan New Fortune Group to amass control of the rural banks, and used fictitious loans to illegally transfer funds.

translation: 河南省许昌市警方周一称，他们正在调查一个以吕奕为首的犯罪团伙，警方称该团伙可能利用河南新财富集团控制村镇银行，并通过虚假贷款非法转移资金。

ref: 2022年 7月11日，Zixu Wang，Austin Ramzy，「Security Forces in China Attack Protesters Seeking Frozen Funds」，收錄於 The New York Times，→ISSN，→OCLC，原始內容存檔自 原始內容，存檔時間 2022年7月11日，「Business」：

forms:
Hsuchang (alternative)
Hsu-ch'ang (alternative)
Hsü-ch'ang (Wade–Giles alternative)

enpr: shüʹchängʹ


xor

glosses: (國際標準) ISO 639-3 語言代碼，表示科魯博語。


xor

forms: xors (plural)

ipa: /ɛksˈo(ɹ)/

ipa: /ˈzo(ɹ)/

ipa: /ˈkso(ɹ)/

rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)


xor

pos: conj

pos_title: 連詞

text: The argument leads to the conclusion that an omnipotent being could rationally be able to do one xor the other and still be omnipotent.

ref: 2002, Rob Janssen, “The rock argument”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):


xor

etymology_texts: 繼承自原始戈都語 *sɔɔr (“鞘”)，來自原始孟-高棉語 *sur[] ~ *suurʔ ~ *suər[] (“包”)。與東布魯語 sor (“鞘”)、越南語 túi (“包”)、芒語 thủl (“包”，Bi方言)、巴饒克語 hau: (“包，口袋”)等同源。

forms: XOR (alternative)

ipa: [sɔːr]


xylidine

glosses: 二甲苯胺，二甲基苯胺，氨基二甲苯

forms: xylidines (plural)


xylitol

etymology_texts: 源自古希臘語 ξύλον (xúlon，“木頭”) + -itol (“糖醇”)。

glosses: 木糖醇（C₅H₁₂O₅）

text: A note of caution to readers with pets: Xylitol is toxic to dogs and can have potentially life-threatening effects. As owners of two doggos ourselves, we encourage anyone with a dog to use extreme caution when bringing xylitol into your home.

translation: 特别提醒各位养宠物的读者：木糖醇对狗有毒，甚至可能危及生命。我们自己也养了两只狗，因此强烈建议所有养狗人士在将木糖醇带回家时务必格外小心。

ref: 2019，Matt Dorsey，Jenny Dorsey，Healthy Cocktails，Simon and Schuster，→ISBN：

forms: xylitols (plural)

ipa: /ˈzaɪlɪtɑl/

ipa: /-toʊl/

ipa: /ˈzaɪlɪtɒl/

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


wake

pos_title: 动词

etymology_texts: 中古英語 waken，古英語 wacan，来自原始日耳曼語 *wakaną。

etymology_texts: 中古英語 wakien，古英語 wacian，来自原始西日耳曼語 *wakēn，来自原始日耳曼語 *wakāną。

etymology_texts: 合併自兩個拼写和含義均相似的動詞：

text: 我通常在早上6點鐘醒來。

ref: I usually wake up at 6 am.

text: 大聲的噪音把我吵醒了。

ref: The loud noise woke me up.

text: 這次事故引起了人們對酒後駕駛的危險的認識。

ref: The accident woke people up to the dangers of drinking and driving.

forms:
wakes (third-person singular present)
waking (present participle)
woke
waked
woken (past participle)
waked (past participle)
woke (past participle)

ipa: /ˈweɪk/

rhymes: -eɪk

homophone: Wake


wake

etymology_texts: 来自中古英語 wake，来自古英語 wacu，来自原始日耳曼語 *wakō。

text: 他們為已故的朋友舉行了守夜儀式。

ref: They held a wake for their friend who had passed away.

forms: wakes (plural)


wake

etymology_texts: 可能来自中古低地德語或中古荷蘭語 wake，來自或類似於古諾爾斯語 vǫk (“冰上的洞”)（>丹麥語 våge、冰島語 vök），来自原始日耳曼語 *wakwō (“濕度”)，来自原始印歐語 *wegʷ- (“潮濕的”)。

text: 船在後面留下了一道航跡。

ref: The boat left a wake behind it.


wake

glosses: -ake的m類屈折形式。 -ake的u類屈折形式。

glosses: -ake的wa類屈折形式。


wale

glosses: -le的wa類屈折形式。


xian

etymology_texts: 源自漢語 縣／县 (xiàn)的漢語拼音。

glosses: 縣，中國的地方行政單位。

forms:
hsien (alternative)
xians (plural)

county

sense: 縣，中國的地方行政單位。


xian

etymology_texts: Xian的首字母小寫形。

glosses: (有時帶冒犯性或貶義) Xian的另一種寫法: 基督徒

forms: xians (plural)


xian

etymology_texts: Xian的首字母小寫形。

glosses: (有時帶冒犯性或貶義) Xian的另一種寫法: 基督教的

text: But what an epoch in the xian world—what a time for a xian Orator to make a deep & eternal impression on socity^([sic]).

ref: 1993, Mary Moody Emerson, edited by Simmons, Nancy Craig, The Selected Letters of Mary Moody Emerson, Athens: University of Georgia Press, page 242:


xian

pos: romanization

pos_title: 拼音

glosses: 參見： xiān

glosses: 參見： xián

glosses: 參見： xiǎn

glosses: 參見： xiàn


xylophone

forms: xylophones (plural)

enpr: zīʹlə-fōn'

ipa: /ˈzaɪləˌfoʊn/

parts: xy lo phone


walls

glosses: 墙壁（wall 的複數）

ipa: /wɔːlz/

ipa: /wɔlz/

ipa: /wɑlz/

rhymes: -ɔːlz


walls

glosses: wall的单数第三人称现在式。


walrus

etymology_texts: 出自丹麦语 hval-ros 或古诺尔斯语 hross-hvalr ("马-鲸")。

etymology_texts: 北欧古人称其为马鲸鱼。英语中也曾用海马(sea horse)称呼过这种动物。

forms:
walruses (plural)
walrus (plural)
walrusses (plural)
walri (plural)
walrii (plural)


wap

glosses: (國際標準) ISO 639-3 語言代碼，表示瓦比夏那語。


warlock

etymology_texts:
源自中古英語 warloghe、warlowe、warloȝe，源自古英語 wǣrloga (“叛徒，骗子”，字面意思是“条约撕毁者”)，源自原始西日耳曼語 *wārulogō (“骗子”)，等价于古英語 wǣr (“契约，条约，誓言”)（源自原始印歐語 *weh₁- (“真”)，亦派生出拉丁語 vērus） + loga (“骗子”)，源自原始日耳曼語 *lugô与古英语lēogan有关（→lie）。结尾的硬音-ck源自苏格兰语或北方英语，词义“男巫”亦如此（源自男巫违背自己的洗礼誓言背叛基督教与恶魔为伍的说法）。与古撒克遜語 wārlogo (“骗子，不忠诚的人”)同源。
一些作家的说法是其派生自古諾爾斯語 varðlokkur (“咒语”)，但《牛津英语词典》指出这个说法不可靠，因为这个古诺尔斯语词及其罕见，词义差距大，而且与古英语词源一致的不带硬音-k的词形出现得比带-k的早。且又没有出现带-ð-的词形。

text: He was himself a warlock, or wizard, which they knew by his taking the witch's part.

ref: 1730, Edward Burt, Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland:

text: It was the day of warlocks and apparitions, now happily driven out by the zeal of the General Assembly.

ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

glosses: 魔术师，魔法师 （任意性别）

text: “Is it because she was a warlock?” she asked. “I know different kinds of magic . . .” “No, that's not it, or at least . . .” Mereth paused, collecting her thoughts, then explained, “The warlockry doesn't help, Lady Sarai,[…]”

ref: 2015 February 25, Lawrence Watt-Evans, The Spell of the Black Dagger: A Legend of Ethshar, Wildside Press LLC, →ISBN, page 115:

text: It seemed like a strange thing for her to risk on a student she barely knew—but then, she was a warlock. Simon had no idea what they were capable of, but he was getting better at imagining.

ref: 2015 March 17, Cassandra Clare, Robin Wasserman, The Lost Herondale, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

text: Usually she blended in with the rest of the Academy faculty, making it easy to forget she was a warlock (at least, if you overlooked the blue skin). But he'd noticed that whenever another Downworlder was on campus, Catarina went out[…]

ref: 2015 July 21, Cassandra Clare, Robin Wasserman, Pale Kings and Princes, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

text: “We're also looking for a couple of warlocks,” Magnus said. “A Korean woman and a green fellow with horns.” “Oh,” said Fang with a distinct change of mood. “Them.” “You've seen them?” Alec said, trying not to sound too eager.

ref: 2020 September 1, Cassandra Clare, Wesley Chu, The Lost Book of the White, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

forms:
warluck (alternative)
warlow (obsolete alternative)
warlocks (plural)
warlick (alternative)
warlo (alternative)
warluck (alternative)
waurlock (alternative)

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-warlock.wav

notes: 由于词源关系，男巫一般更倾向于使用witch等其他词。


warlock

etymology_texts: 源自中古英語 warloghe、warlowe、warloȝe，源自古英語 wǣrloga (“叛徒，骗子”，字面意思是“条约撕毁者”)，源自wǣr (“契约，条约，誓言”)（←原始印歐語 *wēr- (“真”)，对比veritable） + loga (“骗子”)，源自原始日耳曼語 *lugô，与古英語 lēogan（→英語 lie）有关。

glosses: 恶魔 恶魔，宿敌

glosses: 术士，巫师 （被认为与恶魔为伍）

glosses:
术士，巫师 （被认为与恶魔为伍）
女巫

glosses:
术士，巫师 （被认为与恶魔为伍）
魔术师，法师

text: He wis hissel a warlock or a wicht, whit thay kent by thit he teuk 'e witch's pairt.

glosses: 魔法的，超自然的，邪恶的

glosses: 老而丑的人；爱惹麻烦的人

forms: warlocks (plural)

juglour

sense: 男巫

ell-woman

sense: 女巫


warmonger

forms: warmongers (plural)

ipa: /ˈwɔː.mʌŋ.ɡə(ɹ)/


warning

glosses:
* [正:自由軟體]警告
* [简:自由软体]警告
* 简体: 警告[航海科技]
* 正體: 警告[海事]
* 正體: 警告；警告式；報警；告警；警報[電子計算機]


warranty

glosses:
* [正:自由軟體]保證書
* [简:自由软体]保证书


wildlifer

glosses: 强烈呼吁保护野生动植物的人


wartime

text: But, she says, a wartime ban on recordings using shellac and vinyl kept the Walker version from being released.

translation: 然而，她指出，由于战时对虫胶和乙烯基唱片录制材料的禁令，沃克（Walker）的版本最终未能发行。

ref: 2002年 4月29日，Norman Pearlstine，「A Month Of Mondays If that doesn't give you the blues, nothing will. Norman Pearlstine ranks his favorite versions of the classic "Stormy Monday Blues"--one for every doggone working day of the month.」，收錄於 CNN Money：

text: Significant rail projects have been mothballed before in the face of changed circumstances - in particular, the LNER Woodhead project which was postponed due to wartime conditions and not revived until 1948, as money became available after nationalisation.

translation: 历史上，重大铁路项目因形势变化而遭搁置的情况并不鲜见——尤其是伦敦及东北铁路公司（LNER）的伍德海德（Woodhead）隧道工程，该项目曾受战时条件影响而延期，直至1948年国有化后资金到位才得以重启。

ref: 2020年 12月2日，Industry Insider，「The costs on cutting carbon」，收錄於 Rail，76頁：

forms:
war time (alternative)
wartimes (plural)

ipa: /ˈwɔː(ɹ)taɪm/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-wartime.wav

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


warty

forms:
wartier (comparative)
more warty (comparative)
wartiest (superlative)
most warty (superlative)


Warwickshire

glosses: 沃里克郡，英格蘭內陸郡名。


whimper

etymology_texts: 源自方言词whimp (“惨叫”) + -er (反复态后缀)。对比德語 wimmern (“抽泣”)。

forms: whimpers (plural)

ipa: /ˈwɪmpə(ɹ)/

ipa: /ˈʍɪmpə(ɹ)/

rhymes: -ɪmpə(ɹ)


whimper

text: The lonely puppy began to whimper as soon as we left the room.

translation: 我们离开房间以后，孤独的小狗狗开始抽泣起来。

text: “Master, please don’t punish me!” he whimpered.

translation: “主人，不要惩罚我！”他呜咽道。

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

ref: 2019 May 12, Alex McLevy, “Westeros faces a disastrous final battle on the penultimate Game of Thrones (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club:

forms:
whimpers (third-person singular present)
whimpering (present participle)
whimpered (past participle)


whimsical

text: There is nothing innocuous, innocent or whimsical in a Totalitarian society, at least in the public sphere.

ref: 2020 September 25, Charles Hugh Smith, The Road to Nowhere: Whatever Can't Be Politicized Ceases to Exist:

forms:
more whimsical (comparative)
most whimsical (superlative)

ipa: /ˈwɪmzɪkəl/

idiosyncratic

sense: 异想天开的，古怪的

parts: whim si cal


washed-up

forms:
more washed-up (comparative)
most washed-up (superlative)


willy-nilly

etymology_texts: 源自will I, nill I（有时亦用ye或he代替I），意为“如果我希望，如果我不希望”，即“无论我希不希望”。参见will (“想要，希望”)、nill (“（弃用）不想，不愿，不希望”)。

glosses: 无论（别人）想不想要；不管三七二十一；随意，随心所欲，轻易，只管

text: Some writers chasing money churn out novels willy-nilly.

translation: 一些只想着钱的作家就一股脑地写一堆[劣质]小说。

text: Whenever I see a long handsome neck, willy nilly, the thought will come uppermost—What a capital neck for carving! Those cursed executions! One can't rid one's mind of them.

ref: 1868, [Johann Wolfgang von] Goethe, translated by Arthur Duke Coleridge, Egmont. A Tragedy. […], London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, Act II, page 40:

text: I'll own I'm very glad he's come— / To hide my feelings would be silly— / You see I'm not so shy as some, / My thoughts will come out "willy-nilly."

ref: 1869 April 1, A. A. D., “Twelve Scenes in a Young Lady’s Life. No. IV. A Spring Ramble.”, in The Young Englishwoman. A Volume of Pure Literature, New Fashions, and Pretty Needlework Patterns, volume III, London: Ward, Lock, and Tyler, […], →OCLC, stanza 1, page 220, column 1:

text: He says he shall come for me willy-nilly, and father and mother say I must have him! But I don't want to—because—because—I love you best!

ref: 1895 January, Thomas Hardy, “Hearts Insurgent”, in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, volume XC, number DXXXVI, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, chapter VIII, page 194, column 2:

text: The outer world is what we wake up to every morning of our lives, is the place where, willy-nilly, we must try to make our living.

ref: 1954, Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 36:

text: The novel Alice in Wonderland describes a place where things happen willy-nilly.

translation: 小说《爱丽丝梦游仙境》写了一个有很多怪事发生的地方。

forms:
more willy-nilly (comparative)
most willy-nilly (superlative)
willy nilly (alternative)

ipa: /ˌ(ˈ)wɪliˈnɪli/

nilly-willy

sense: 无论（别人）想不想要；不管三七二十一；随意，随心所欲，轻易，只管

nolens volens

sense: 无论（别人）想不想要；不管三七二十一；随意，随心所欲，轻易，只管


willy-nilly

nilly-willy

sense: 无论想不想都会发生的


whiplash

forms: whiplashes (plural)

ipa: /ˈwɪpˌlæʃ/

ipa: /ˈʍɪpˌlæʃ/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-whiplash.wav

rhymes: -ɪplæʃ

parts: whip lash


win

glosses: (國際標準) ISO 639-3 語言代碼，表示溫尼貝戈語。


wince

etymology_texts: 源自中古英語 wincen、winchen，源自盎格魯-諾曼語 *wenchir、古諾曼語 *wenchier（对比古法語 guenchir），源自古法蘭克語 *wenkjan，源自原始日耳曼語 *wankjan。参见德語 winken。

forms: winces (plural)

ipa: /wɪns/

rhymes: -ɪns


wince

glosses: （因疼痛，痛苦而）缩身子，畏缩

text: The two Gordon setters came obediently to heel. Sir Oswald Feiling winced as he turned to go home. He had felt a warning twinge of lumbago.

ref: 1935, Francis Beeding, “7/2”, in The Norwich Victims:

glosses: 对...使用绞车 （如用来洗衣服，染染料等）

glosses: （因站不稳或不耐烦而）暴跳，乱跳，乱踢

text: A horse winces.

translation: 马在尥蹶子。

forms:
winces (third-person singular present)
wincing (present participle)
winced (past participle)


whippersnapper

forms: whippersnappers (plural)

ipa: /ˈwɪpəˌsnæpə/

ipa: /ˈʍɪpəɹˌsnæpəɹ/


winchester

notes: 有時首字母會大寫。 有時會作陰性名詞使用。


whippletree

glosses: 马车前端用以系曳绳的横木


estudiar

forms:
estudio (first-person singular indicative present)
estudiáu (past participle)


estudiar

forms:
estudio (first-person singular present)
estudií (first-person singular past)
estudiat (past participle)


estudiar

etymology_texts: 來自estudio + -ar，來自拉丁語 studium。對照拉丁語 studeō、葡萄牙語 estudar。

forms:
estudio (first-person singular present)
estudié (first-person singular past)
estudiado (past participle)

ipa: /estuˈdjaɾ/

rhymes: -aɾ


wasteland

etymology_texts: 繼承自中古英語 wast lond，早期形式weste lond的修改，來自古英語 weste land (“荒地”)；等同於waste + land。

text: Ten years of drought had left the area a wasteland.

translation: 长达十年的干旱使这片地区变成了一片荒地。

text: Here create another wasteland / On and on 'til nothing's there / Here it comes, the devastation / Poisoning the air

ref: 2007, Kai Hansen, "To Mother Earth", Gamma Ray, Land of the Free II.

text: After his experiences, he no longer found western Kansas such a wasteland.

translation: 经历了这些之后，他不再觉得堪萨斯西部是一片荒芜之地了。

text: Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland.

ref: 1961 May 9, Newton N. Minow, Television and the Public Interest:

glosses: 遭受重創不適宜居住的地區

text: Another place where, from the aesthetic point of view, a long tunnel would have been a real blessing, is East London as viewed from the carriage window on the old Great Eastern line. Despite a vast change from crowded slums to tracts of wasteland, due to its grim wartime experience, this approach still provides a shabby and unworthy introduction to the great capital.

ref: 1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 703:

text: How many nuclear missiles would have to be launched at the United States to turn it into a complete wasteland?

translation: 需要向美国发射多少枚核导弹才能将其变成一片彻底的废墟？

ref: 2014，Randall Munroe，佚名被引用者，「Weird (and Worrying) Questions from the What If? Inbox, #7」，收錄於 What If?，New York, New York：Houghton Mifflin Harcourt，→ISBN，157頁：

text: Yet had the whole train and all its bombs gone, had the engine crew merely jumped from the train and run as simple self-preservation would have suggested, or unhitched just the engine to make their escape faster, the whole town would have gone and most of the people with it, leaving just a smoking wasteland. Hundreds would have died.

translation: 然而，即便整列火车连同所有炸弹都消失了，即便火车乘务员只是出于自保本能跳下火车逃跑，或者仅仅解开机车以便更快逃脱，整个城镇以及大部分居民都会被夷为平地，只留下一片冒着浓烟的废墟。数百人将会丧生。

ref: 2022年 1月12日，Benedict le Vay，「The heroes of Soham...」，收錄於 RAIL，948期，43頁：

text: Azaz and Ray were nominated individually for what, at first glance, looked like a project to transform wasteland at South Tottenham station into a community garden.

ref: 2023 September 20, “National Rail Awards 2023”, in RAIL, page 82:

forms: wastelands (plural)

ipa: /ˈweɪs(t)ˌland/

ipa: /ˈweɪs(t)ˌlənd/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-wasteland.wav

ipa: /ˈweɪs(t)ˌlænd/

ipa: /ˈwæes(t)ˌlɛnd/

ipa: /ˈwæes(t)ˌlɘnd/


watcher

forms: watchers (plural)

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-watcher.wav

rhymes: -ɒt͡ʃə(ɹ)

rhymes: -ɑt͡ʃə(ɹ)

parts: watch er


whisky

etymology_texts: 最早出现於18世纪早期。 usque 的另一种词形 < usquebaugh 的简称（对比 whiskybae (旧)）。 源自蘇格蘭蓋爾語 uisge beatha、愛爾蘭語 uisce beatha （“生命之水”）。 对比 aquavit < 拉丁语 aqua vitae （“生命之水”）。

forms: whiskies (plural)

ipa: /ˈwɪski/

ipa: /ˈʍɪski/

parts: whis ky


whisky

glosses: whiskey的另一種拼寫法

forms: whiskys (plural)


watchtower

glosses: 岗楼，（看守用的）瞭望塔

text: Redcap - A malevolent goblin easily distinguishable by their namesake red cap, fiery red eyes, claws and iron boots. They often appear as little old men, but can run very fast despite the boots. They reside in castles and watchtowers along the English-Scottish border, but will move their residence to avoid detection.

ref: 2002, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, The Ill-Made Mute: The Bitterbynde:

forms:
watch tower (alternative)
watch-tower (alternative)
watchtowers (plural)


windowing

glosses:
* [正:自由軟體]視窗化
* [简:自由软体]窗口化
* 简体: 开窗口[信息科技]
* 正體: 開視窗[計算機]
* 正體: 開視窗[電子計算機]


windscreen

text: A vandal has just smashed our windscreen! Susan, can you go and call the insurance company?

translation: 有人把我们的挡风玻璃砸了！Susan，你能打电话给保险公司吗？

glosses: （列车上靠门处的）挡风罩

text: As well as demonstrating operating facilities, full-size car body models are used for experimenting with new types of interior finish, systems of lighting, positioning of route diagrams and advertisements, and the best form of windscreens at doorways, and the height and location of handgrips and handrails.

ref: 1951 October, “Models Assist Rolling Stock Design”, in Railway Magazine, page 647:

forms: windscreens (plural)

windshield

sense: 挡风玻璃


windscreen

forms:
windscreens (third-person singular present)
windscreening (present participle)
windscreened (past participle)


watercourse

glosses: 水道：給定的排水盆地中形成的自然河流，該河流流量不完全由鄰近地區的地表排水狀況所決定，水體在有明顯岸堤或明顯低凹的陸地所形成的有良好河床的渠道中流動，有永久或週期性的水源供水，通常（但並不一定）有可辨之水流沿著某個特定的方向流動，並在某個固定處與排入另一個水體。


whithersoever

pos_title: 副詞

text: And a certaine Scribe came, and ſaid vnto him, Maſter, I will follow thee whitherſoeuer thou goeſt.

translation: 有一個經文士前來對他說：「老師，無論你到哪裡去，我都要跟從你。」

ref: 1611，The Holy Bible, […]（King James Version），London： […] Robert Barker, […]，→OCLC，「Matthew 8:19」，第1zh-hans:列;zh-hant:欄：

text: JONES was commanded to leave the Houſe immediately, and told, that his Clothes and every thing elſe ſhould be ſent to him whitherſoever he ſhould order them.

translation: 棄兒湯姆·瓊斯的歷史

ref: 1749，Henry Fielding，「XII. Containing Love Letters, &c.」，收錄於 The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling [棄兒湯姆·瓊斯的歷史]，第II卷，London：A[ndrew] Millar, […]，→OCLC，「book VI」，305頁：

text: […] whithersoever he turned, the bars and shackles of civilization shut him in and bound him hand and foot.

translation: […] 他无论走到哪里，文明都束缚着他的手脚。

ref: 1876，Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens]，第XXXV章，收錄於 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer，Hartford, Conn.：The American Publishing Company，→OCLC，270頁：

text: [T]he flaming pillar slowly twisted and thundered off whithersoever it passes to in the bowels of the great earth, leaving Ayesha standing where it had been.

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

text: But again I thought of the emptiness and horror of reality, and boldly prepared to follow whithersoever I might be led.

ref: 1926, H.P. Lovecraft, Weird Tales, 8, No.3, 373-80.

rhymes: -ɛvə(ɹ)

anywhither

sense: 到任何地方；无论何处


whodunit

forms:
whydunnit (alternative)
whodunits (plural)


wholeheartedly

text: He jumped in wholeheartedly and began to learn the language.

translation: 他全心投入，开始学习这门语言。

text: Fans relished the traditional FA Cup fanfare from the Coldstream Guards and the hymn Abide With Me before throwing themselves wholeheartedly into an experience they have been largely deprived of since the first coronavirus lockdown began in March 2020.

ref: 2021 May 15, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 0-1 Leicester”, in BBC Sport:

forms:
whole-heartedly (alternative)
more wholeheartedly (comparative)
most wholeheartedly (superlative)


waterproof

etymology_texts: 源自water + -proof。對照西弗里斯蘭語 wetterproef (“waterproof”)，荷蘭語 waterproef (“waterproof”)。

glosses: 防水的，不滲水的，不透水的

forms:
more waterproof (comparative)
most waterproof (superlative)

waterfast

sense: 防水的


waterproof

forms:
waterproofs (third-person singular present)
waterproofing (present participle)
waterproofed (past participle)


waterproof

forms: waterproofs (plural)


waters

glosses: 海域；水域（water 的複數）

ipa: /ˈwɔːtəz/

ipa: /ˈwɔtɚz/

ipa: /ˈwɑtɚz/

parts: wa ters


waters

glosses: water的第三人稱單數一般現在時形式。


whoops

pos_title: 感嘆詞

ipa: /ʍʊps/

ipa: /ʍuːps/

ipa: /wʊps/

rhymes: -ʊps


whoops

glosses: whoop 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式

ipa: /wuːps/

ipa: /huːps/

rhymes: -uːps


whopper

text: There's a storm blowing up, Sylvester — a 'whopper', speaking in the vernacular of the peasantry.

ref: 1939, Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, Edgar Allan Woolf, The Wizard of Oz

forms: whoppers (plural)


robar

forms:
robo (first-person singular indicative present)
robáu (past participle)


robar

etymology_texts: 來自晚期拉丁語 raubāre。

forms:
robo (first-person singular present)
robí (first-person singular past)
robat (past participle)

ipa: [roˈba]

ipa: [roˈbaɾ]

ipa: [roˈβa]

ipa: [ruˈβa]


robar

pos_title: 名詞

etymology_texts: 來自英語 Rover，狗的常見名字；這個詞是在19世紀初由拜訪瑙魯的水手提出的。


robar

etymology_texts: 來自晚期拉丁語 raubāre。

forms:
robo (first-person singular present)
robé (first-person singular past)
robado (past participle)

ipa: /roˈbaɾ/

ipa: [roˈβ̞aɾ]

hurtar

sense: 搶劫，搶奪

raptar

sense: 誘拐，綁架

word: quien roba a un ladrón, tiene cien años de perdón


robar

etymology_texts: 對照意大利語 rubare。


whosoever

pos_title: 代詞

etymology_texts: 繼承自中古英語 whosoever。字面分析等同於who + so + ever。

text: Whosoever partakes of this elixir shall have eternal life.

translation: 凡領受此靈藥者，必得永生。

text: Whosoever seeks the truth must be prepared to question their own beliefs.

translation: 凡是尋求真理的人，都必須準備好質疑自己的信仰。

text: If thou do pardon whoſoeuer pray, / More ſinnes for this forgiueneſs proſper may: […]

ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedie of King Richard the Second. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Simmes for Androw Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:

text: Whoſoeuer commeth to me, and heareth my ſayings, and doeth them, I will ſhew you to whom he is like.

ref: 1611，The Holy Bible, […]（King James Version），London： […] Robert Barker, […]，→OCLC，「Luke 6:47」：

text: His mercy is a panacea, a balſome for an afflicted ſoule, a Soveraigne medicine, an alexipharmacum for all ſinne, a charme for the Divell, his mercy was great to Solomon, to Manaſſes, to Peter, great to all offenders, and whoſoever thou art, it may be ſo to thee.

ref: 1638，Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton]，「Cure of Deſpaire by Phyſick, good counſell, comforts, &c.」，收錄於 The Anatomy of Melancholy. […]，5th版，Oxford, Oxfordshire：Printed [by Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps，→OCLC，「partition 3, section 4, member 3, subsection 6」，707頁：

text: Whosoever shall be found without the soul for getting down, must stand and face the hounds of hell

ref: 1982 (date recorded)，Rod Temperton，「Thriller」，由 Michael Jackson：

forms:
whosoëver (archaic alternative)
whomsoever
whosesoever

ipa: /huːsəʊˈɛvə/

ipa: /huːsoʊˈɛvɚ/


wattage

forms: wattages (plural)

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-wattage.wav


wide-awake

forms:
more wide-awake (comparative)
most wide-awake (superlative)


wavelength

forms: wavelengths (plural)

ipa: /ˈweɪvlɛŋ(k)θ/

ipa: /ˈweɪvˌlɛŋ(k)θ/


waver

forms:
wavers (third-person singular present)
wavering (present participle)
wavered (past participle)

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-waver.wav

rhymes: -eɪvə(ɹ)

homophone: waiver


wayfaring

etymology_texts: 源自中古英語 wayferande、weyverinde、wayverinde，源自古英語 weġfarende、weġfērende (“跋涉的”)，等价于way + faring。与冰島語 vegfarandi同源。还见wayfare。

glosses: 旅行中的；(尤指) 徒步旅行的

text: If a traveller, emancipating himself slowly from the endless suburbs, and smoke, and din of dirty Wolstanstone (corrupted into Wolstone), a manufacturing town not in the South of England, proceed westward, he enters into a region of peace and rural beauty, refreshing as the vision of Beatrice was to Dante, the glimpse of earth to Satan, the thoughts of home to them who know that their lot is to perish in the wave. The village of Northington, which the wayfaring man from Wolstone may be thought thus to hail, reflects, nevertheless, the wealth of its great and smoky neighbour.

ref: 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter I, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 4–5:

forms: waifaring (obsolete alternative)

peripatetic

sense: 流动的，巡回的


wayfaring

pos_title: 名词

glosses: 旅行；(尤指) 徒步旅行

forms:
waifaring (obsolete alternative)
wayfarings (plural)


wayfaring

glosses: wayfare 的現在時分詞和動名詞


wishy-washy

etymology_texts: 英語 washy 的疊詞。

glosses: 优柔寡断的，不干脆的，犹豫不决的

text: Not wanting to be pressed for details, public relations gave a wishy-washy answer.

translation: 公关部不想被问细节，给了一个模棱两可的答复。

text: I’m not about to vote Conservative myself (I’m a wishy-washy centrist who liked Tony Blair’s early work and has since mostly voted Labour, with an occasional swing to the Liberal Democrats and Greens)[…]

ref: 2023 July 17, Rhymer Rigby, “Sick of this Conservative government? That shouldn’t stop you having Tory friends”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

text: The wishy-washy orange juice served by the cafeteria not only failed to be sweet; it was barely orange.

translation: 饭堂的橙汁太淡了，不仅不甜，连橙色都很淡。

text: Usually the quality of the liquor is judged by the "bite" of it. The hotter the better. A drink of first class, aged whisky would be ridiculed in most parts of Maine as a wishy-washy beverage fit only for mollycoddles. The Down East "soak" wants something that stings and burns all the way, and usually he gets it[…]

ref: 1915, “Maine booze turns an iron tub blue”, in The Mixer and Server:

text: And you will appreciate drinking the hot cup, or rather billy, of tea—which is more than one can call the wishy-washy concoction served up in some 'tea-houses'.

ref: 2006, Gipsy Petulengro, Romany Hints for Outdoor Living and Tips for Ramblers, page 7:

forms:
wishy-washier (comparative)
more wishy-washy (comparative)
wishy-washiest (superlative)
most wishy-washy (superlative)


ways

text: a little ways out

translation: （去，在）外面一段距离

text: “You still have a ways to go with everything,” I told him.

ref: 2007, Aryn Kyle, The God of Animals, Simon and Schuster, ISBN 1416533249, page 41:

ipa: /weɪz/

homophone: weighs

rhymes: -eɪz


wispy

forms:
wispier (comparative)
wispiest (superlative)

ipa: /ˈwɪspi/

rhymes: -ɪspi


witch hunter

forms:
witch-hunter (alternative)
witchhunter (alternative)
witch hunters (plural)


wb

pos: phrase

pos_title: 短語

glosses: welcome back (“歡迎回來”) 之首字母縮略詞


wild

pos_title: 形容詞

etymology_texts:
繼承自中古英語 weilde、wield、wielde、wijlde、wild、wilde、wyld、wylde、wyled、wyyld，繼承自古英語 wilde，繼承自原始西日耳曼語 *wilþī，繼承自原始日耳曼語 *wilþijaz (“野生的”)，源自原始印歐語 *h₂welh₁- (“頭髮；羊毛”)。
同源詞彙
和北弗里斯蘭語 wil (“野生的”)、薩特弗里斯蘭語 wíeld、wüüld (“野生的”)、西弗里斯蘭語 wyld (“野生的”)、巴伐利亞語 wüd (“野生的”)、中部法蘭克尼亞語 weld (“野生的”)、辛布里語 bill (“瘋狂的；野生的；愚蠢的”)、荷蘭語、德語和低地德語 wild (“野生的”)、盧森堡語 wëll (“野生的；野蠻的”)、維拉莫維安語 wyłd (“野生的”)、意第緒語 ווילד (vild，“野生的；野蠻的”)、丹麥語和瑞典語 vild (“野生的”)、法羅語 villur (“野生的”)、冰島語 villtur (“野生的；迷失的；野蠻的；未開墾的；未馴化的”)、書面挪威語和新挪威語 vill (“野生的”)、vill (“迷失的”)、哥特語 𐍅𐌹𐌻𐌸𐌴𐌹𐍃 (wilþeis，“野生的”)同源；亦和康沃爾語 gwlan (“羊毛”)、愛爾蘭語和蘇格蘭蓋爾語 olann (“羊毛”)、曼島語 ollan (“羊毛”)、威爾士語 gwlân (“羊毛”)、拉丁語 vellus (“羊毛”)、villus (“毛髮，粗毛”)、古希臘語 λάχνη (lákhnē，“羊毛狀的毛髮；稀疏的毛髮；布料上的軟絨毛；刺蝟的硬刺；葉子”)、立陶宛語 valai (“馬尾毛”)、白俄羅斯語 во́лас (vólas，“單根毛髮”)、捷克語和斯洛伐克語 vlas (“單根毛髮”)、馬其頓語 влас (vlas，“絨毛；毛線”)、波蘭語 włos (“單根毛髮”)、俄語和烏克蘭語 во́лос (vólos，“單根毛髮”)、塞爾維亞-克羅地亞語 вла̑с、vlȃs (“單根毛髮”)、斯洛文尼亞語 las (“頭頂的毛髮；絨毛”)、亞美尼亞語 գեղմ (geġm，“羊毛”)、中庫爾德語 پرچ (pirç，“頭頂的毛髮”)、北庫爾德語 hirî (“羊毛”)、波斯語 گرس (gors，“捲髮；辮子”)、赫梯語 𒋠𒀸 (SÍG-aš，“羊毛”)、吐火羅語A urṇ (“佛或其他神明眉間的白毫相”)、吐火羅語B *ūrṇ (“佛或其他神明眉間的白毫相”)、梵語 वल्श (valśa，“樹枝，嫩枝，小枝”)同源。

text: Przewalski's horses are the only remaining wild horses, although there are many feral horses throughout the world.

translation: 普氏野馬是現存唯一的原生野生馬，儘管世界各地有許多野化的馬。

text: In this region, the wild boars can be dangerous, but (perhaps counterintuitively) the feral hogs can be even worse.

translation: 在該地區，野生的野豬可能很危險，但（或許有悖常理地）野化豬可能更危險。

text: Thee Shepherd, thee the Woods, and deſert caves, / With wilde Thyme and the gadding Vine o'regrown,

translation: 牧羊人，樹林和荒涼的洞穴，／長滿了野生的百里香和蔓生的藤蔓，

ref: 1637，John Milton，「Lycidas」，收錄於 Poems of Mr. John Milton, […]，London： […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […]，1646 出版，→OCLC，58頁：

text: Their flowers range from the rather formal blossoming of outer London to the wilder flowering of the country, where willow-herb and broom, traveller's joy and campion, go rioting over the chalky banks of the Metropolitan Line.

translation: 它們的花朵多種多樣，從倫敦外圍較為規整的綻放，到鄉間更為狂野的盛開，柳蘭、金雀花、鐵線蓮和蠅子草在大都會線的白堊色堤岸上肆意生長。

ref: 1950 July，「Traveller's Joy」，收錄於 Railway Magazine，ii (advertisement)頁：

text: Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, and individual plants are highly heterozygous and do not breed true. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better.

translation: 植物育種一直是一場數字遊戲。……我們使用的野生物種具有豐富的遺傳變異，單株植物高度雜合且不會真實繁殖。此外，我們正在尋找稀有等位基因，所以我們嘗試的植物越多越好。

ref: 2013 May–June，David Van Tassel，Lee DeHaan，「Wild Plants to the Rescue」，收錄於 American Scientist，101卷，第3期：

glosses: 未經馴化的，非家養的 處於野生狀態的（無論是原生的、出生起便野化的，還是從家養生活中逃脫後野化的）

text: wild honey

translation: 野蜂蜜

text: I was filled with wild rage when I discovered the infidelity, and punched a hole in the wall.

translation: 當我發現對方不忠時，我心中充滿了狂怒，一拳在牆上打出了一個洞。

glosses: 喧鬧的，不守規矩的，放蕩的

text: The fraternity was infamous for its wild parties, which frequently resulted in police involvement.

translation: 該兄弟會因其瘋狂的派對而臭名昭著，這些派對經常導致警方介入。

text: Those most rural routes will not get overhead wires. As Reeve told the seminar: "Even in my wildest dreams, I can't see a business case for electrifying the Far North Line."

translation: 那些最偏遠的農村路線將不會鋪設架空電纜。正如 Reeve 在研討會上所說：「即使在我最天馬行空的夢中，我也看不到將遠北線電氣化的商業案例。」

ref: 2022年 8月10日，Philip Haigh，「Scotland switched on to electrification」，收錄於 RAIL，963期，35頁：

text: The aircraft's navigational equipment should not be powered from the wild AC bus except in an emergency, as its computers can be damaged by variations in electrical frequency.

translation: 除非在緊急情況下，飛機的導航設備不應由頻率不穩的交流匯流排供電，因為其電腦可能會因電頻率的變化而損壞。

glosses: 明顯表現出焦慮的；發狂的

text: Her mother was wild with fear when she didn't return home after the party.

translation: 派對結束後她沒有回家，她母親嚇得發狂。

text: City, in contrast, were lethargic in every area of the pitch and their main contribution in the first half-hour was to keep referee Phil Dowd busy, with Micah Richards among four of their players booked early on, in his case for a wild lunge on Young.

translation: 相比之下，曼城隊在球場各個區域都顯得無精打采，他們在前輩小時的主要貢獻就是讓裁判菲爾·多德忙個不停，米卡·理查茲是開場不久就被黃牌警告的四名曼城球員之一，就他而言，是因為對揚（Young）的一次瘋狂撲搶。

ref: 2011年 8月7日，Chris Bevan，「Man City 2-3 Man Utd」，收錄於 BBC Sport：

glosses: 蓬亂的，雜亂的，不整潔的

text: After a week on the trail without a mirror, my hair was wild and dirty.

translation: 在沒有鏡子的荒野小徑上待了一個星期後，我的頭髮變得又髒又亂。

text: I'm not wild about the idea of a two day car trip with my nephews, but it's my only option.

translation: 我對和侄子們一起開車旅行兩天的主意並不熱衷，但這是我唯一的選擇。

glosses: 非常不準確的；大失水準的，偏離目標的

text: The novice archer fired a wild shot and hit her opponent's target.

translation: 這名新手弓箭手射出了偏離目標的一箭，結果射中了對手的靶子。

glosses: 暴露在風浪中的；無遮蔽的

text: a wild roadstead

translation: 無遮蔽的停泊處

glosses: 無法表示為有限閉合多邊形鏈的

glosses: 驚人的，極好的，令人難以置信的

text: Did you hear? Pat won the lottery! — Wow, that's wild!

translation: 你聽說了嗎？帕特中彩票了！——哇，太離譜了！

glosses: 非常出乎意料的；令人震驚的；瘋狂的，糟糕的

glosses: 可作為百搭牌的； 作為通配符的

text: In this card game, aces are wild: they can take the place of any other card.

translation: 在這個紙牌遊戲中，A 是百搭的：它們可以代替任何其他牌。

text: We define a pattern as a valid GP subtree that might contain wild characters [i.e. wildcards] in any of its nodes.

translation: 我們將模式定義為一個有效的遺傳編程子樹，該子樹的任何節點可能包含通配字元［即通配符］。

ref: 2009，Leonardo Vanneschi，Steven Gustafson，Alberto Moraglio，Genetic Programming: 12th European Conference：

glosses: 意圖與電影或視頻同步，但是單獨錄製的

text: a wild track; wild sound

translation: 單獨錄製的音軌；單獨錄製的聲音

forms:
wilde (alternative)
wyld (obsolete alternative)
wilder (comparative)
wildest (superlative)

ipa: /ˈwaɪ̯ld/

ipa: [ˈwaɪ̯ld]

ipa: /ˈwaːld/

ipa: [ˈwaːld]

rhymes: -aɪld

homophone: whiled

feral

sense: 未經馴化的，非家養的

fierce

sense: 狂怒的；非常生氣的

tame

sense: 無法表示為有限閉合多邊形鏈的

feral

sense: 未經馴化的，非家養的 （尤指）野生型的：屬於未被馴化動物的不間斷祖先血統，與野化的（祖先曾被馴化但隨後未被馴化的動物）相對


wild

text: The javelin flew wild and struck a spectator, to the horror of all observing.

translation: 標槍飛偏了，擊中了一名觀眾，讓所有旁觀者都感到驚恐。

glosses: 意圖與電影或視頻同步，但是單獨錄製的

text: Let's record it wild.

translation: 我們把這段單獨錄下來吧。

forms:
wilde (alternative)
wyld (obsolete alternative)


wild

text: After mending the lion's leg, we returned him to the wild.

translation: 在治好獅子的腿後，我們將牠放歸野外。

text:
Thus every good his native wilds impart
Imprints the patriot passion on his heart;
And e’en those ills that round his mansion rise
Enhance the bliss his scanty funds supplies.

translation:
因此他的家鄉荒野賦予的每一種美好
都將愛國之情印在他的心上；
甚至他宅邸周圍的那些弊病
也增添了他微薄資金提供的樂趣。

ref: 1730–1774, Oliver Goldsmith, Introductory to Switzerland

glosses: 可以替代其他事物的東西，例如遊戲中特定的百搭牌、計算機中的通配符。

forms:
wilde (alternative)
wyld (obsolete alternative)
wilds (plural)


wild

glosses: （在城市環境中，幫派等）進行隨機的襲擊、搶劫和強姦行為

text:
...Chief of Detectives Robert Colangelo, who said the attacks appeared unrelated to money, race, drugs, or alcohol, said that some of the 20 youths brought in for questioning has told investigators that the crime spree was the product of a pastime called "wilding".
"It's not a term that we in the police had heard before," the chief said, noting that the police were unaware of any similar incident in the park recently. "They just said, 'We were going wilding.' In my mind at this point, it implies that they were going to raise hell."...

translation:
……警探長羅伯特·科蘭傑洛表示，這些襲擊似乎與金錢、種族、毒品或酒精無關。他說，在被帶去問話的20名年輕人中，有人告訴調查人員，這場瘋狂的犯罪行為是一種名為「wilding」（隨機暴行）的消遣產物。
「這不是我們警方以前聽過的詞，」這位警探長說道，並指出警方不知道公園最近發生過任何類似事件。「他們只是說，『我們去進行隨機暴行（wilding）了。』在我看來，這暗示著他們準備去大鬧一場。」……

ref: 1989年 4月22日，David E. Pitt，「Jogger's Attackers Terrorized at Least 9 in 2 Hours」，收錄於 New York Times，第1頁：

text: Now is they wildin with us / And getting rowdy with us.

translation: 現在他們和我們一起撒野 / 和我們一起狂歡。

ref: 1999, Busta Rhymes (Trevor Taheim Smith, Jr.), Iz They Wildin Wit Us? (song)

glosses: （以 wilding 或 wildin' 的形式）表現出奇怪或出乎意料的行為；發神經；亂來

text: They had a big influence on me. They had a big influence on Brooklyn period. I like the nonsense. [laughs] They were wildin'. Everyone in Brooklyn was liking that shit. They're wildin'. Their story in the stu, it gets deep.

translation: 他們對我影響很大。他們對布魯克林影響很大。我喜歡那些無厘頭的東西。［笑］他們在亂來。布魯克林的每個人都喜歡那些破事。他們在發神經。他們在錄音室的故事，真的很深奧。

ref: 2021年 4月6日，Shirley Ju，「The New Voice of Brooklyn is Here To 'Drench 'Em'」，收錄於 Flaunt Magazine，原始內容存檔自 原始內容，存檔時間 2022年9月7日：

text: Kinsey posted a clip of the incident alongside a caption that reads: "Damn the ER in Tulsa be wildin'."

translation: 金西在發布事件視頻片段的同時，還附上了一段標題：「該死，塔爾薩的急診室真是瘋了。」

ref: 2021年 10月14日，Jack Beresford，「Hospital Security Guard 'Heartbroken' After Being Fired Over Viral Video Confrontation」，收錄於 Newsweek：

text: The Ringer's Culture/NBA writer Wosney Lambre said it best: "I think it's a bad look for the players to be wilding on the fans like this. Fair or not, the players are held to a higher standard of decorum than the loser fans. It is what it is."

translation: The Ringer 網站的文化/NBA作家沃斯尼·蘭布雷說得最好：「我認為球員們這樣對球迷發飆是很難看的。不管公不公平，球員在禮節方面的標準本來就比那些失敗者球迷更高。這是不爭的事實。」

ref: 2022年 4月20日，A. Sherrod Blakely，「The Neverending Disappointment of Kyrie Irving」，收錄於 Bleacher Report：

forms:
wilde (alternative)
wyld (obsolete alternative)
wilds (third-person singular present)
wilding (present participle)
wilded (past participle)


wild

glosses: weald (“荒野；森林”)的另一種寫法

forms: wilds (plural)


wild

etymology_texts: 繼承自荷蘭語 wild，繼承自中古荷蘭語 wilt，繼承自古荷蘭語 *wildi，繼承自原始日耳曼語 *wilþijaz (“野生的”)。

forms:
wilde (attributive)
wilder (comparative)
wildste (superlative)

ipa: /vəlt/

audio: LL-Q14196 (afr)-Oesjaar-wild.wav


wild

etymology_texts: 繼承自中古荷蘭語 wilt，繼承自古荷蘭語 wildi，繼承自原始西日耳曼語 *wilþī，繼承自原始日耳曼語 *wilþijaz (“野生的”)。

forms:
wilder (comparative)
wildst (superlative)

ipa: /ʋɪlt/

rhymes: -ɪlt

homophone: wilt


wild

glosses: 野味（食物；為食肉而獵殺的動物）


wild

etymology_texts: 繼承自繼承自中古高地德語 wilde，繼承自古高地德語 wildi，繼承自原始西日耳曼語 *wilþī，繼承自原始日耳曼語 *wilþijaz (“野生的”)。

glosses: 瘋狂的，不受約束的，喧鬧的（指行為、派對等）

glosses: 瘋狂的，難以置信的（指故事、情況等）

forms:
wilder (strong nominative masculine singular)
wilder (comparative)
am wildesten (superlative)

ipa: /vɪlt/

fremd

sense: 奇怪的，陌生的


wild

etymology_texts: 繼承自古高地德語 wildi。

forms:
wilder (comparative)
wildest (superlative)

ipa: /ˈvilt/

rhymes: -ilt


wild

etymology_texts:
繼承自中古低地德語 wilde，繼承自古撒克遜語 wildi，繼承自原始西日耳曼語 *wilþī，繼承自原始日耳曼語 *wilþijaz (“野生的”)。
對照英語、荷蘭語 及 德語 wild、西弗里斯蘭語 wyld、丹麥語 vild。

forms:
willer (comparative)
willst (superlative)
weld (alternative)


wild

etymology_texts: 繼承自阿拉伯語 وَلَد (walad)。

text:
Ħarbat, mewwet dawk id-dwieli,
wild il-għaraq tal-ħaddiem,
żomm il-fqir ġol-gorboġ waħdu,
u bla ħobż, bla dawl, bla sliem!

translation:
摧毀、殺死那些葡萄藤，
工人汗水的結晶，
讓窮人獨自留在棚屋裡，
沒有麵包，沒有光明，沒有和平！

ref: 1949，Anton Buttigieg，「Ir-Riħ u l-Bnazzi」，收錄於 Mill-Gallerija ta’ Żgħożiti：

forms: ulied (plural)

ipa: /wɪlt/


wild

glosses: wilde (“野生的”)的另一種寫法


wilder

glosses: wild 的比較級形式。

ipa: /ˈwaɪldə(ɹ)/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-wilder.wav

ipa: /ˈwaɪldɚ/


wilder

etymology_texts: 源自 wild，可能受到 wilderness 的啟發，而在形式上受到 wander 的影響。

text:
Now, to smother noise and light,
Is stolen abroad the wildering night

translation:
現在，為了掩蓋喧囂與光芒，
令人迷惘的黑夜悄然降臨

ref: 1922, A. E. Housman, Last Poems XXIV, lines 29-30

text: Now in their hearts those wildered Trojans said That once more they beheld Achilles' self Gigantic in his armour.

translation: 現在，那些困惑的特洛伊人在心裡說，他們再次看到了穿著鎧甲、身形巨大的阿基里斯本人。

ref: 1913，Smyrnaeus Quintus，The Fall of Troy：

text: More tender, grateful than she could have dreamed, Fond hands passed pitying over brows and hair, And gentle words borne softly through the air, Calming her weary sense and wildered mind, By welcome, dear communion with her kind.

translation: 比她夢想的還要溫柔且充滿感激，充滿愛意的手憐憫地撫過她的眉毛和頭髮，溫和的話語輕柔地在空中傳播，透過與同類受歡迎的、親切的交流，平靜了她疲憊的感官和迷惘的心靈。

ref: 1879，Emma Lazarus，The Poems of Emma Lazarus：

text: Deep and far within the ether stretched my eyes their anxious gaze, While the swelling thoughts within me grew a wild and wildered maze, Then came floating on the distance, softly to my listening ears, Low, thrilling harmonies of worlds whirling in their bright spheres.

translation: 我的雙眼帶著焦慮的目光，深深地、遠遠地凝視著以太，而我內心不斷膨脹的思緒變成了一個狂亂而令人迷惑的迷宮，接著從遠方飄來，輕輕傳入我傾聽的耳中，那是無數世界在明亮天體中旋轉時發出的低沉而動人的和諧樂音。

ref: 1854，Effie Afton，Eventide：

forms:
wilders (third-person singular present)
wildering (present participle)
wildered (past participle)

ipa: /ˈwɪldə(ɹ)/

ipa: /ˈwɪldɚ/

rhymes: -ɪldə(ɹ)


wilder

glosses:
wildern 的屈折：
第一人稱單數現在時

glosses:
wildern 的屈折：
單數命令式

ipa: /ˈvɪldɐ/


wobble

etymology_texts: 源自早期形式wabble，可能源自低地德語 wabbeln (“晃动”)。对比荷蘭語 wiebelen和wobbelen (“晃动”)、古諾爾斯語 vafla (“盘旋；踉跄”)。

text: The fat man walked down the street with a wobble.

translation: 那个胖子摇摇晃晃地走在街上。

text: That should have been that, but Hart caught a dose of the Hennessey wobbles and spilled Adlene Guedioura's long-range shot.

ref: 2011 October 29, Neil Johnston, “Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC Sport:

text: There was a wobble on her high notes

translation: 她发高音时声音颤动了一下。

forms: wobbles (plural)

ipa: /ˈwɑbl̩/

ipa: /ˈwɒbl̩/

rhymes: -ɒbəl


wobble

text: Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.

ref: 2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, page 68:

text: the Earth wobbles slowly on its axis; the jelly wobbled on the plate

translation: 地球在其轴上缓缓地来回晃动。 果冻在盘子上晃来晃去

text: The soprano's voice wobbled alarmingly.

translation: 女高音歌手的颤抖让人不安。

text: I'm wobbling between the Liberals and the Greens.

translation: 我在自由党和绿党间犹豫不决。

text: The boy wobbled the girl's bike.

translation: 男孩让女孩的自行车摇来摇去。

forms:
wobbles (third-person singular present)
wobbling (present participle)
wobbled (past participle)


woe

pos_title: 符號

glosses: (國際標準) ISO 639-3 語言代碼，表示沃雷埃語。


wok

glosses: (國際標準) ISO 639-3 語言代碼，表示龍托語。


wok

etymology_texts: 來自粵語 鑊／镬 (wok6)。

text: The 'wok' is an efficient, all-purpose metal cooking vessel used by every housewife in China. It has two handles and is shaped like a shallow cone.

translation: 鑊是每個中國主婦都會使用的金屬製廚具，它既高效，同時又具有多種功能。鑊有兩個柄，形狀像一個淺圓錐。

forms: woks (plural)

ipa: /wɒk/

rhymes: -ɒk

homophone: walk


wok

pos_title: 動詞

etymology_texts: 來自粵語 鑊／镬 (wok6)。

forms:
woks (third-person singular present)
woking (present participle)
wokking (present participle)
woked (past participle)
wokked (past participle)


wok

etymology_texts: 源頭來自粵語 鑊／镬 (wok6)。

forms:
woks (plural)
wokken (plural)
wokje (diminutive)

ipa: /ʋɔk/

rhymes: -ɔk


wok

etymology_texts: 借自英語 wok，源頭來自粵語 鑊／镬 (wok6)。

ipa: /ˈvɔk/

audio: LL-Q809 (pol)-Olaf-wok.wav


wok

text: Na bai yu wok hat tru long kisim kaikai bilong yu na tuhat bai i kamap long pes bilong yu. Na bai yu hatwok oltaim inap yu dai na yu go bek long graun. Long wanem, mi bin wokim yu long graun, na bai yu go bek gen long graun.”

translation: →New International Version translation

ref: 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 3:19:


wok

etymology_texts: 來自中古荷蘭語 ôoc，來自古荷蘭語 ōk、ouk，來自原始日耳曼語 *auk。


web

etymology_texts: 源自中古英語 webbe，源自古英語 webb，源自原始日耳曼語 *wabją，源自原始印歐語 *webʰ- (“編織”)。

forms: webs (plural)

ipa: /wɛb/

rhymes: -ɛb


women

etymology_texts: 源自中古英语 wimmen ← 古英语 wīfmenn （“女人”） ← wīf （“雌性的”） + menn （“人”），等同于现代英语中的 wife + men。

text: Three women went for a walk.

text: 三个女人去散步。

ipa: /ˈwɪmɪn/

rhymes: -ɪmɪn

homophone: woman

parts: wom en


women

glosses: wommen的另一写法。


wed

glosses: (國際標準) ISO 639-3 語言代碼，表示維道語。


wonders

ipa: /ˈwʌndɚz/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-wonders.wav

ipa: /ˈwʌndəz/

parts: won ders


wonders

glosses: wonder 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


wedgie

glosses: 恶作剧：把别人的内裤用力往上提，使其夹在股沟中。

forms: wedgies (plural)

rhymes: -ɛdʒi


wee-wee

etymology_texts: wee的叠词，排尿的拟声词。

glosses: 尿 尿尿，嘘嘘

glosses: 小弟弟；亦可指女性外阴。

text: “I agree he’s gorgeous,” said his friend, “but someone told me he has the smallest wee-wee in New York.”

ref: 1978, Andrew Holleran, Dancer from the Dance, New York: New American Library, Chapter 2, p. 45:

forms:
weewee (alternative)
wee wee (alternative)
wee-wees (plural)

wee

sense: 尿

pee-pee

sense: 外阴

willy

sense: 男性外阴

twinkle

sense: 女性外阴


wee-wee

etymology_texts: wee的叠词，排尿的拟声词。

forms:
weewee (alternative)
wee wee (alternative)
wee-wees (third-person singular present)
wee-weeing (present participle)
wee-weed (past participle)


woo

glosses: (國際標準) ISO 639-3 語言代碼，表示瑪儂拜語。


week

forms: weeks (plural)

ipa: /wik/

enpr: wēk

ipa: /wiːk/

audio: En-uk-a week.ogg

rhymes: -iːk

homophone: weak


woodchuck

etymology_texts:
源自克里語 ocêk, otchek (“漁夫”)，源自奧吉布瓦語 ojiig (“漁夫”)，或類似的阿爾岡昆語族語言，其後應用在土撥鼠。
早期寫作woodshock，現在有時仍用於指貂。

glosses: 美洲旱獺，北美土撥鼠（Marmota monax）

forms: woodchucks (plural)

groundhog

sense: 美洲旱獺，北美土撥鼠（Marmota monax）

whistle pig

sense: 美洲旱獺，北美土撥鼠（Marmota monax）

land-beaver

sense: 美洲旱獺，北美土撥鼠（Marmota monax）

moonack

sense: 美洲旱獺，北美土撥鼠（Marmota monax）


weekends

glosses: weekend 的不定屬格單數


weekly

etymology_texts: 源自中古英語 wekely、weikly (副詞)，等同於week + -ly。對比荷蘭語 wekelijks、德語 wöchentlich、丹麥語 ugentlig、挪威語 ukentlig、冰島語 vikulega、瑞典語 veckovis。

text: She visits her mother weekly.

translation: 她每週去她母親那一次。

homophone: weakly


weekly

text: He's going for his weekly check-up at the hospital.

translation: 他每週都要去醫院做檢查。

text: In summer, we cut the grass on a weekly basis.

translation: 夏天的時候，我們每週割一次草。


weekly

forms: weeklies (plural)

ウィークリー

roman: wīkurī


woodcock

forms:
woodcock (plural)
woodcocks (plural)


woodcut

forms: woodcuts (plural)

ipa: /ˈwʊdˌkʌt/

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

xylography

sense: 木版術

woodblock

sense: 木板畫


woodpecker

forms: woodpeckers (plural)

enpr: wo͝odʹpĕkər

ipa: /ˈwʊdpɛkə/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-woodpecker.wav

enpr: wo͝odʹpĕ'kər

ipa: /ˈwʊdˌpɛkɚ/

parts: wood peck er


weka

text: Thin darned socks, and old old clothes. The greatcoat. A superb weka feather cloak.

ref: 1983，Keri Hulme，The Bone People，Penguin，1986 出版，374頁：

forms: wekas (plural)


weka

forms:
wekas (plural)
wekaatje (diminutive)
wek (alternative)

ral

sense: 紐西蘭秧雞（Gallirallus australis）


weka

etymology_texts: 借自奧地利德語 Wecken。

glosses: 一种用小麦粉制成的糕点，产于捷克、斯洛伐克和波兰，类似于法棍面包，但更宽、更大、更蓬松，表面更光滑

audio: LL-Q809 (pol)-Olaf-weka.wav

rhymes: -ɛka

angielka

parts: we ka


weka

etymology_texts: 繼承自原始班圖語 *-béeka。

forms:
-weka (canonical)
kuweka (infinitive)


weka

etymology_texts: 繼承自原始加勒比語 *weka (“拉屎，排便”)。

ipa: [weka]


welcher

pos_title: 关系代词

glosses: （关系代词，主格阳性单数、属格阴性单数、与格阴性单数、属格复数）

text: Mein Lehrer, welcher sehr streng ist, hat mich heute gelobt.　　我很严的老师今天表扬了我。

text: Das war die schönste Zeit, welcher ich mich entsinnen kann.　那是我能记得的最美好的时光。

text: Meine Lehrerin, welcher ich zu Dank verpflichtet bin, ist erkrankt.　我很感激的那个女老师病了。

text: die Toten, welcher wir heute gedenken　被我们铭记的死者

ipa: /ˈvɛlçɐ/

parts: wel cher


welcher

pos_title: 不定代词

glosses: （不定代词，指事物，主格阳性单数、属格阴性单数、与格阴性单数、属格复数）哪个

text: Soll ich Käse mitbringen oder ist noch welcher im Kühlschrank?　我该捎干酪回来吗？还是冰箱里还有？


woolgather

text: I had bad times after that—crying at night and woolgathering by day. For two terms I slackened and had bad reports.

ref: 1911, H.G. Wells, The Door in the Wall:

forms:
gather wool (alternative)
wool-gather (alternative)
woolgathers (third-person singular present)
woolgathering (present participle)
woolgathered (past participle)

daydream

sense: 发呆，心不在焉


woozy

pos_title: 形容词

etymology_texts: 源自中古英語 wosy (“泥泞的”)，源自中古英語 wose (“泥土，泥浆”) + -y。英語 oozy 的同源對似詞。可能受到了boozy的影响。

glosses: 迷糊的，头昏眼花的，混乱的

text: I got off the rollercoaster feeling a bit woozy.

translation: 我下了过山车，有点晕乎乎的。

glosses: 醉的 （受酒精或药物影响的）

forms:
woozier (comparative)
wooziest (superlative)

ipa: /ˈwuːzi/

rhymes: -uːzi

giddy

sense: 头昏眼花

sense: 醉


wop

etymology_texts: 借自那不勒斯語 guappo (“夥計；男人”)，借自西班牙語 guapo (“大膽的；英俊的”，問候語)。

forms: wops (plural)

ipa: /wɒp/

rhymes: -ɒp


wop

glosses: whop (“擊打”)的另一種寫法

forms:
wops (third-person singular present)
wopping (present participle)
wopped (past participle)
weop (alternative)
wope (alternative)


wop

etymology_texts: 繼承自古英語 wōp，繼承自原始西日耳曼語 *wōp，繼承自原始日耳曼語 *wōpaz。

forms: wopes (plural)

ipa: /woːp/


wop

etymology_texts: 繼承自原始日耳曼語 *wōpaz (“吵鬧；哭泣”)。

forms:
wōp (canonical)
wōpas (nominative plural)


wop

etymology_texts: 繼承自原始日耳曼語 *wōpaz (“吵鬧；哭泣”)。

glosses: wēpan 的第一人稱/第三人稱單數過去時直陳式

forms: wōp (canonical)


Worcestershire

pos_title: 专有名词

glosses: 伍斯特郡，英格兰中部地区郡名。


well-established

glosses: 根深蒂固的；位置稳固的；广受承认的；得到确立的


wordless

forms:
more wordless (comparative)
most wordless (superlative)

speechless

sense: 無言的


well-known

forms:
well known (alternative)
wellknown (alternative)
better-known (comparative)
more well-known (comparative)
best-known (superlative)
most well-known (superlative)

ipa: /ˌwɛlˈnoʊn/

ipa: /ˌwɛlˈnəʊn/


well-worn

text: The decay of social norms and status quo systems triggering an authoritarian tightening of the screws is a well-worn pattern throughout human history.

ref: 2023 August 28, Charles Hugh Smith, Neither Comply Nor Resist:

forms:
more well-worn (comparative)
most well-worn (superlative)


wen

etymology_texts: 來自中古英語 wen、wenne，來自古英語 wenn、wænn (“粉瘤”)，來自原始日耳曼語 *wanjaz。與荷蘭語 wen (“甲狀腺腫”)、低地德語 Ween (“粉瘤”)、方言德語 Wenne (“粉瘤”)、丹麥語 van、væne同源。

text: When I have met an immigrant tottering under a bundle which contained his all--looking like an enormous wen which had grown out of the nape of his neck--I have pitied him, not because that was his all, but because he had all that to carry.

ref: 1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Walden:

text: Creeps, foreigners with tinted, oily skin, wens, sties, cysts, wheezes, bad teeth, limps, staring or—worse—with Strange Faraway Smiles.

ref: 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:

text: I am debating whether to risk scratching the right side of my jaw, where there is a wen.

ref: 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, Abacus 2013, p. 4:

forms: wens (plural)

enpr: wĕn

ipa: /wɛn/

rhymes: -ɛn

homophone: when


wen

glosses: 盧恩字母，後被 w 取代


wen

etymology_texts: when的視覺方言拼法。


wen

etymology_texts: when的視覺方言拼法。


wen

etymology_texts: when的視覺方言拼法。


wen

etymology_texts: 來自荷蘭語 winnen，來自中古荷蘭語 winnen，來自古荷蘭語 winnan，來自原始日耳曼語 *winnaną，來自原始印歐語 *wenh₁- (“努力、渴望、願、愛”)。

forms:
wen (present)
wennende (present participle)
gewen (past participle)

ipa: /vɛn/


wen

etymology_texts: 來自原始日耳曼語 *hwannē。與英語 when、德語 wann同源。

text: And I thought about the scent of her blossoms, at the shuddering of her branches, at the songs of her birds, and I asked myself: when do we smell these?

ref: En ik dacht aan den geur harer bloesems, aan het huiveren harer takken, aan den zang harer vogelen; en ik vroeg mij: wen rieken wij die? (V. Someren, 1822)

ipa: /ʋɛn/


wen

etymology_texts: 來自原始日耳曼語 *hwannē。與英語 when、德語 wann同源。

text: There have I, when the birds flew, looked privily in each nest!

ref: Daar heb ik wen de vogels vlogen, heimelik in elk nest geschouwd! (L. De Mont, 1880)


wen

glosses: wennen的第一人稱單數現在時直陳式。


wen

etymology_texts: 來自古諾爾斯語 hvern。


wen

glosses: wer 的賓格：誰 (方言受詞)。

text: 有誰向你詢問嗎？

ref: Wen hast du gefragt?

ipa: [veːn]

rhymes: -eːn


wen

pos_title: 羅馬化

notes: 外文在轉寫漢語拼音時，常常無法區分原本詞句的聲調，而以輕聲/無聲調的形式寫出。


wen

glosses: wayn (“馬車”)的另一種寫法


wen

glosses: wynne (“快樂，幸福”)的另一種寫法


wen

glosses: (北部) winnen (“贏”)的另一種寫法


wen

etymology_texts: 來自原始日耳曼語 *wēniz，來自原始印歐語 *wenh₁- (“愛”)。與古弗里斯蘭語 wen、古撒克遜語 wan、古高地德語 wān（德語 Wahn (“幻想”)）、古諾爾斯語 ván、哥特語 𐍅𐌴𐌽𐍃 (wēns)同源。

forms:
wēn (canonical)
wan (alternative)

ipa: /weːn/


wen

etymology_texts: 來自原始斯拉夫語 *vъ́nъ。

text: Jiż mie widzieli, wen uciekali ode mnie.

na dwór

sense: 野外、外面


wen

glosses: gwen (“白色 （陰性）”)的軟音詞首音變


wench

etymology_texts:
名词派生自中古英語 wench、wenche (“女婴；女孩（尤指未婚的）；少妇；女奴隶；女仆；亲爱的；妾；妓女”) [以及其他形式]，略自中古英語 wenchel (“女孩；女仆；小孩”)，源自古英語 wenċel、winċel (“小孩；侍者；奴隶”)，源自原始日耳曼語 *wankilą，源自原始日耳曼語 *wankijaną (“摇，曳”)。英语词与古高地德語 wenken (“摇曳；投降”)、wankōn (“踉跄”)同源。
动词和形容词派生自名词。

text: Jane played the role of a wench in an Elizabethan comedy.

translation: Jane在一出伊丽莎白时代的喜剧里扮演少女。

text: I, like a tẽder harted wench, skriked out for feare of the divell.

translation: The New Arcadia

ref: c. 1580，Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney]，「[The Second Booke] Chapter 14」，收錄於 Fulke Greville, Matthew Gwinne, and John Florio（編），The Covntesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia]，London： […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie，1590 出版，→OCLC；republished in Albert Feuillerat（編），The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia（Cambridge English Classics: The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney；I），Cambridge, Cambridgeshire：University Press，1912，→OCLC，238頁：

text: [H]ee weepes like a wench that had ſhed her / milke, he hath confeſt himſelfe to Morgan, whom hee ſuppoſes to be a Friar, [...]

ref: c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV、scene iii], page 247, column 2:

text: Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz ſtayed by En-rogel: (for they might not be ſeene to come into the citie) and a wench went and told them: and they went, and tolde king Dauid.

translation: 那時，約拿單和亞希瑪斯在隱羅結那裡等候，不敢進城，恐怕被人看見。有一個使女出來，將這話告訴他們，他們就去報信給大衛王。

ref: 1611，The Holy Bible, […]（King James Version），London： […] Robert Barker, […]，→OCLC，「2 Samuel 17:17」，第1zh-hans:列;zh-hant:欄：

text: We got wenches on the benches, and bitties with titties / Housing all girlies from city to city

ref: 1986年 11月15日，Beastie Boys，Rick Rubin，「Rhymin & Stealin」，收錄於 Licensed to Ill，由 the Beastie Boys：

glosses: 少女，女孩 地位低微的女孩

translation: Jane在一出伊丽莎白时代的喜剧里扮演少女。

text: The woman is a brazen, hard-looking wench, a female pedlar, who hawks needles, thread, cheap looking-glasses, pious pictures, almanacs, hair-pins, ballads, of the most humble pattern, through the country.

ref: 1871, W[illiam] Barry, “The Barony of Threeneheila within Drum”, in Moorland and Stream. With Notes and Prose Idyls on Shooting and Trout Fishing, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 25:

glosses: （对女性的爱称，尤对妻子、女儿或女朋友） 亲爱的

text: When they had kyndled a fyre in the myddes of the palys / and were sett doune to gedder / Peter alsoo sate doune amonge them. And won off the wenches / as he sate / beholde him by the light and sett goode eyesight on him / and sayde: This same was also with hym. Then he denyed hym sayinge: Woman I knowe hym nott.

ref: 1526，[威廉廷代爾譯]，The Newe Testamẽt […]（丁道爾譯本），[Worms, Germany：Peter Schöffer]，→OCLC，「The Gospell off S. Luke xxij:[55–57], folios cxiiii, recto – cxiiii, verso」：

text: [...] working for Colonel Boone a the time--and two more men whose names I disremember now, and a nigger wench we had for a cook. [...] So I got onto one of the ponies and led the others down to the spring near camp to water them while the wench was a getting breakfast, and some o' the rest o' the outfit was a fixin the saddles and greasing the wagon.

ref: 1881, Henry Inman, “A Legend of Pawnee Rock; or How the life of an old trapper was saved by a bird”, in Stories of the Old Santa Fe Trail, Kansas City, Missouri: Ramsey, Millett & Hudson, page 89,91:

text: Whilſt Men have theſe Ambitious Fancies, / And wanton Wenches read Romances, / Our Sex will—What? out with it: Lye: / And Theirs in equal Strains reply.

ref: 1702, Mat[thew] Prior, “To a Young Gentleman in Love. A Tale.”, in Poems on Several Occasions, 2nd edition, London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, […], published 1709, →OCLC, page 103:

text: Nancy Basset, 28, likely wench, mulatto / Proved to be free. / Certified free as per General Birch Certificate. // Patience Jackson, 23, very likely wench, mulatto / Says she was born free Rhode Island. / Certified free as per General Birch Certificate.

ref: 1776–1787, Carmelita Robertson, Elizabeth E. D. Eve, Black Loyalists of Nova Scotia: Tracing the History of Tracadie Loyalists, 1776–87 (Curatorial Report; no. 91), Halifax, N.S.: History Section, Nova Scotia Museum, Department of Tourism & Culture, published 2000, →ISBN:

text: A colored girl [...] was fined ten dollars in the Freedman's Court yesterday, for being drunk and disorderly. Not having the money in her possession, she requested that a guard be sent with her to her residence to procure it. The Provost allowed a guard to wait on the wench, who, as soon as she found herself inside of her own door, locked it, and left the poor guard outside without the money. He returned to court without either the wench or fine.

ref: 1866 March 2, “Sharp Wench”, in The Appeal, St. Paul; Minneapolis, Minn.: Parker, Burgett & Hardy, →OCLC, page 3; quoted in Hannah Rosen, “Notes”, in Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South (Gender and American Culture), Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2009, →ISBN, footnote 186, page 282:

text: So complete was this illusion, claims [Eric] Lott, that many audience members, including Mark Twain's mother, believed they were seeing authentic, biologically black performers on New York stages. Of course, wench characters seem to especially test the bounds of authentic performance. Played by men, wenches were nonetheless read by audiences as beautiful women: [...] [E]xtant photographs and engravings of wench performers do not always represent them as blacked up, [...] In antebellum minstrel shows, wench songs were most often sung about mulatto women rather than by them.

ref: 2014, Kirsten Pullen, “Light Egyptian: Lena Horne and the Representation of Black Femininity”, in Like a Natural Woman: Spectacular Female Performance in Classical Hollywood, New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, pages 106–107:

forms: wenches (plural)

ipa: /wɛntʃ/

rhymes: -ɛntʃ

negress

sense: 女黑人（尤指奴隶）


wench

text: This is ſure ſome hide-bound ſtudent, that proportions his expence by his penſion; and wencheth at Tottenham court for ſtewed prunes and cheeſcakes.

ref: 1638, Thomas Nabbes, The Bride, a Comedie. […], London: Printed by R[ichard] H[odgkinson] for Laurence Blaikelocke […], published 1640, →OCLC; republished in Playes, Maskes, Epigrams, Elegies, and Epithalamiums. […], London: Printed by I. Dawson, […], 1639, →OCLC, Act II, scene iv:

text: He [a man under the influence of the planet Mars] hath a marke or ſcar in his face, is broad-ſhouldered, a ſturdy ſtrong body, being bold and proud, given to mocke, ſcorne, quarrell, drinke, game and wench: which you may eaſily know by the Signe he is in; if in the houſe of ♀ he wencheth, if in ☿s he ſteals, [...]

ref: 1647, William Lilly, “Another Briefe Description of the Shapes and Formes of the Planets”, in Christian Astrology Modestly Treated of in Three Books. […], London: Printed by Tho[mas] Brudenell for John Partridge and Humph[rey] Blunden, […], →OCLC, page 85:

text: In ſhort, Ned has drank, wenched, fought, and beggared himſelf, through an exalted ſolicitude for the general emolument, and is now cloſe pent up in one of our priſons, out of a pure and diſintereſted regard for the welfare of ſociety.

ref: 1767, [Hugh Kelly], “Saturday, May 1”, in The Babler. Containing a Careful Selection from those Entertaining and Interesting Essays, which have Given the Public so much Satisfaction under that Title during a Course of Four Years, in Owen’s Weekly Chronicle, volume II, number LXVI, London: Printed for J[ohn] Newbery, […]; L. Hawes, W. Clarke, and R. Collins, […]; and J. Harrison, […], →OCLC:

text: I know a clergyman who, having enjoyed for several years the world's good opinion, was turned off, through a ridiculous pique, by a young nobleman to whom he was preceptor. [...] He drank, wenched, and was so complete a gambler, that, had he kept his old situation much longer, he would have ruined the principles of his pupil.

ref: 1807 March, [Charles] Dibdin, “Dibdin’s Tour. [Letter 1 … Introductory.]”, in The Polyanthos, volume IV, Boston, Mass.: Published by J[oseph] T[inker] Buckingham, […], →OCLC, footnote, page 247:

text: Bundy's reasons for leaving the Cape are obscure. He drinks, but that doesn't dim his powers. He wenches. But so do we all.

ref: 1972, Philip K[indred] Dick, chapter 1, in We Can Build You (DAW SF Books; no. 14), New York, N.Y.: DAW Books, →OCLC; republished London: HarperVoyager, HarperCollins, 2008, →ISBN, page 11:

text: Already, you see, I had begun to acquire a taste for rakery and wenching among the London debutantes.

ref: 1979 October, Roald Dahl, chapter 1, in My Uncle Oswald, London: Michael Joseph, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, 2011, →ISBN:

forms:
wenches (third-person singular present)
wenching (present participle)
wenched (past participle)


werewolf

etymology_texts:
來自中古英語 werwolf，來自古英語 werwulf，來自原始西日耳曼語 *werawulf，來自原始西日耳曼語 *wer (“人”) + *wulf (“狼”)。與wer + wolf或were- + wolf相同意義。與荷蘭語 weerwolf，低地德語 Warwulf，德語 Werwolf，丹麥語 varulv，瑞典語 varulv同源，還可能與芬蘭語 vironsusi有關。
對照法語 garou，在loup-garou，法國方言gairou，varou (“狼人”)，中世紀拉丁語 gerulphus，garulphus (“狼人”) (來自日耳曼語族)。

glosses: 在滿月時會變身像狼的人類般的生物，狼人。

forms:
werwolf (alternative)
were-wolf (alternative)
were wolf (alternative)
wehrwolf (alternative)
warwolf (alternative)
werewolves (plural)

ipa: /ˈwɛːwʊlf/

ipa: /ˈwɪəwʊlf/

ipa: /ˈwɛəɹwʊlf/

ipa: /ˈwɪəɹwʊlf/

ipa: /ˈwɜɹwʊlf/

wolfman

sense: 在滿月時會變身像狼的人類般的生物，狼人。

lycanthrope

sense: 在滿月時會變身像狼的人類般的生物，狼人。

man-wolf

sense: 在滿月時會變身像狼的人類般的生物，狼人。

werewolfess

sense: 女性


worldwide

forms:
more worldwide (comparative)
most worldwide (superlative)

ipa: /ˈwɜːldwaɪd/

ipa: /ˌwɜːldˈwaɪd/

ipa: /ˈwɝldˌwaɪd/

ipa: /ˌwɝldˈwaɪd/

parts: world wide


Westminster

pos_title: 專有名詞

etymology_texts: 源自威斯敏斯特教堂（Westminster Abbey） ← west + minster

glosses: 英國議會，其辦公地點爲威斯敏斯特宫。

glosses: 威斯敏斯特，美國馬里蘭州城市。

ipa: /ˈwɛs(t)ˌmɪnstə/

ipa: /ˈwɛstˌmɪnstɚ/


wetness

etymology_texts: 繼承自中古英語 wetnes, wetnesse，來自古英語 wǣtnes。字面分析等同於wet + -ness。

forms: wetnesses (plural)

rhymes: -ɛtnəs


whack

etymology_texts: 不详，原为苏格兰英语。可能是拟声词，但对比中古英語 thakken ← 古英語 þaccian（其因与本词异文合并而派生出thwack）。

text: C'mon. Take a whack at it.

translation: 来嘛，来试一下。

text: 40 bucks a whack.

translation: 40块一次。

text: For one thing I had a splendid supper when I got on board—a whack of cold, lean beef and pighells, bread, butter ad lib., tea, and plenty of good bread.

ref: 1951, Katherine Mansfield, Letters to John Middleton Murry, 1913-1922,

text: There were problems over the installation of the engine and the handling. The team had paid top whack for the two Coopers, but the company gave them no help at all.

ref: 2014, Anthony Pritchard, Grand Prix Ferrari (page 203)

text: It's a whack!

translation: 说定了！

glosses: 反斜线，反斜杠 ⟨ \ ⟩

forms: whacks (plural)

ipa: /wæk/

ipa: /ʍæk/

rhymes: -æk

homophone: wack

whack-up

sense: 拆分，瓜分

PCP

sense: 苯环己哌啶，天使粉


whack

pos_title: 动词

text: The bat whacked the baseball.

translation: 球棍打到了棒球上。

text: Rodsmen were whacking their way through willow brakes.

ref: G. W. Cable

text: Niko Bellic: So you want me to talk to him? / Jimmy Pegorino: I want you to whack him! And after that I want you to kill all the other rats I surround myself with...

ref: 2008 April 29, Rockstar, Grand Theft Auto 4, Take-Two Interactive, level/area: Flatline:

text: to whack the spoils of a robbery

translation: 瓜分抢劫得来的赃物

text: The fidgety Majors were whacked 9-1 by the Kitchener Panthers at Couch and now trail their rivals 2-0 in an increasingly uncomfortable best-of-seven Intercounty Baseball League first-round series.

ref: 2012, Ryan Pyette, Majors, Panthers play mind games, The London Free Press:

text: Recently I was over in Ireland, I love the place, proper fishing, can't whack it!

ref: 2012, Steve Cullen, Total Flyfisher:

forms:
whacks (third-person singular present)
whacking (present participle)
whacked (past participle)


whack

glosses: wack (“疯狂的”)的另一種寫法

text: That's whack, yo!

translation: 太牛逼了吧！

forms:
whacker (comparative)
whackest (superlative)


whacked

glosses: whack 的簡單過去時和過去時分詞


whacked

text: After that all-night party, we were all whacked.

translation: 那次通宵聚会后，我们都累坏了。

glosses: 吸毒後進入興奮狀態的，嗑嗨的

text: Big Dima said he found it 'very much sexiness' knowing we could hear him getting whacked on speed and fucking Svetlana's rather sparse brains out almost every day.

ref: 2014, Boris Mihailovic, At the Altar of the Road Gods: Stories of motorcycles and other drugs:

forms:
more whacked (comparative)
most whacked (superlative)


wow

glosses: (國際標準) ISO 639-3 語言代碼，表示沃沃尼語。


whammy

forms:
whammie (alternative)
whammies (plural)

ipa: /ˈ(h)wæmi/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-whammy.wav

rhymes: -æmi

parts: wham my


wreak

etymology_texts: 古英语 wrecan，来自德语的*wrek-，来自印欧语系的*wreg-。与荷兰语wreken、德语rächen、瑞典语vräka、拉丁语urgere同源，均来自同样的印欧词根。

glosses: 发泄或释放，特别在导致危害或伤害时。

text: The earthquake wreaked havoc in the city.

text: She wreaked her anger on his car.

text: Kill the foul thief, and wreak me for my son.

ref: 1856-1885 — Alfred Tennyson, Gareth and Lynette

forms:
wreaks (third-person singular present)
wreaking (present participle)
wreaked
wrought
wroke
wreaked (past participle)
wrought (past participle)
wroke (past participle)
wroken (past participle)

enpr: rēk

ipa: /ɹiːk/

ipa: /ɹik/

homophone: reek

aiheuttaa

sense: 发泄或释放

kurittaa

sense: 加害或报复


wreak

etymology_texts: wreche的北方变体，在上述的词源1后受到影响。

text: 1885: Of a surety none murdered the damsel but I; take her wreak on me this moment — Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 19

forms: wreaks (plural)


whatnot

glosses: etagere (“放古董的架子”)之同義詞

forms: whatnots (plural)


wretchedness

text: She saw only that he was quiet and unobtrusive, and she liked him for it. He did not disturb the wretchedness of her mind by ill-timed conversation.

ref: 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, chapter 3

forms: wretchednesses (plural)


wrongdoer

text: Get and keep wrongdoers out of your thorp (village).

forms: wrongdoers (plural)


whelm

etymology_texts: 繼承自中古英語 whelmen。

forms:
whelms (third-person singular present)
whelming (present participle)
whelmed (past participle)

enpr: whĕlm

enpr: wĕlm

ipa: /ʍɛlm/

ipa: /wɛlm/

rhymes: -ɛlm

word: whemmel, whemmle, whammel, whummel, whummle


whereabouts

forms: whereabouts (plural)

ipa: /ˌʍɛəɹəˈbaʊts/

ipa: /ˌwɛəɹəˈbaʊts/

ipa: /ˈʍɛəɹəˌbaʊts/

ipa: /ˈwɛəɹəˌbaʊts/


title: wuhan

redirect: Wuhan

pos: hard-redirect


wherefore

pos_title: 副词

etymology_texts: 源自中古英語 wherfor、wherfore、hwarfore，等价于where- (“什么”) + for。 对比荷蘭語 waarvoor (“为何”)、德語 wofür (“为何”)、丹麥語和挪威語 hvorfor (“为何”)、瑞典語 varför (“为何”)。详见where、for。

text: Wherefore doe the wicked liue, become old, yea, are mightie in power?

ref: 1611，The Holy Bible, […]（King James Version），London： […] Robert Barker, […]，→OCLC，「Job 21:7」，第1zh-hans:列;zh-hant:欄：

text: "Good morning, Mrs. Denny," he said. "Wherefore this worried look on your face? Has that reprobate James been misbehaving himself?"

ref: 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond:

text: Wherefore, Judge G. Thomas Porteous, Jr., is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors and should be removed from office.

ref: 2010 March 17, House of the United States, House Resolution 1031:

forms: wherefor (alternative)

enpr: wâ(r)'fô(r)"

ipa: /ˈweə(ɹ)ˌfɔː(ɹ)/

enpr: hwâ(r)'fô(r)"

ipa: /ˈʍeə(ɹ)ˌfɔː(ɹ)/

notes: 将“wherefore”解读为“where”是常见的误解，这种误读有时会出现在莎士比亚的《罗密欧与朱丽叶》的复述中，且常是为了喜剧效果。在《罗密欧与朱丽叶》中“Wherefore art thou Romeo?”（第2幕第2场第33句台词）意思不是“你在哪，罗密欧”，而是“为什么是你，罗密欧？”（“为什么你属于蒙塔古家族？”，即和朱丽叶的家族有世仇的一个家族）。

parts: where fore


wherefore

pos_title: 连词

text: Wherefore, thus ſaith the holy one of Iſrael, Becauſe ye deſpise this word, and truſt in oppreſſion and peruerſeneſſe, and ſtay thereon: Therefore this iniquitie ſhalbe to you as a breach ready to fall, ſwelling out in a high wall, whoſe breaking commeth ſuddenly at an inſtant.

translation: 所以以色列的聖者如此說：『因為你們藐視這訓誨的話，倚賴欺壓和乖僻，以此為可靠的，故此，這罪孽在你們身上好像將要破裂凸出來的高牆，頃刻之間忽然坍塌。

ref: 1611，The Holy Bible, […]（King James Version），London： […] Robert Barker, […]，→OCLC，「Isaiah 30:12–13」，第1zh-hans:列;zh-hant:欄：

text: Wherefore it was that by the time the authorities awoke to the fact that something had happened Billy Byrne was fifty miles west of Joliet, bowling along aboard a fast Santa Fe freight.

ref: 1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Mucker, The Gutenberg Project, published 2009:

ipa: /ˈʍeə(ɹ)ˌfɔː(ɹ)/


wherefore

text: Ant[ipholus of Syracuse]. Shall I tell you why? / S. Dro. [Dromio of Syracuse] I, ſir, and wherefore; for they ſay, euery why hath a wherefore.

ref: c. 1594, William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 88, column 2:

text: They want their money without reference to the hows and wherefores.

ref: 1996, Richard Bausch, Good Evening Mr. & Mrs. America, and All the Ships at Sea, page 72:

forms:
wherefor (alternative)
wherefores (plural)

ipa: /ˈʍeə(ɹ)ˌfɔː(ɹ)/


wurst

etymology_texts: 借自德語 Wurst (“香肠”)，源自中古高地德語 wurst，源自古高地德語 wurst，源自原始西日耳曼語 *wursti (“弯曲或扭曲的东西”)，源自原始印歐語 *wert-、*werd- (“扭，转”)。与古撒克遜語 worst (“德式香肠”)、古英語 weorþan (“成为，变为”)同源。英語 wors 的同源對似詞。与英語 worsted (“一种纱线”)无关。详见worth (“成为；降临，发生”)。

text: In summer, you're welcomed into a flower-decked garden set against a backdrop of ancient vineyards. You can fill up your platter with some of the best wursts and roast meats (especially the delectable pork), along with freshly made salads.

ref: 2011, Dardis McNamee, Frommer's Austria

forms:
würst (alternative)
wursts (plural)
wurscht (alternative)
Wurst (alternative)

ipa: /wɝst/

ipa: /vɝst/

ipa: /vʊɹst/

ipa: /wɜːst/

ipa: /vɜːst/

ipa: /vʊəst/

homophone: worst

rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)st


wurst

text: Das ist mir wurst.

translation: 那不关我事。

egal

sense: 无所谓地


wherein

pos_title: 副詞

enpr: (h)wârinʹ

ipa: /(h)wɛɹˈɪn/

enpr: wârinʹ

ipa: /wɛəɹˈɪn/


wyvern

etymology_texts: 变换自中古英語 wyver (“蝰蛇”)，借自古諾曼語 wivre，源自拉丁語 vīpera (“蝰蛇，蛇”)。英語 weever和英語 viper 的同源對似詞。

text: Notions of freedom are tied up in drink / Our ideal life contains a tavern / Where man may sit and talk of or just think / All without fear of the nighted wyvern, / Or yet another tavern where it appears.

ref: 1940-54 The Collected Poetry of Malcolm Lowry, "WE SIT UNHACKLED DRUNK AND MAD TO EDIT", UBC Press,1992, p.222:

forms:
wivern (alternative)
wiver (alternative)
wyver (alternative)
wyverns (plural)

enpr: wī'və(r)n

enpr: wĭ'və(r)n

enpr: wē'və(r)n

ipa: /ˈwaɪvə(ɹ)n/

ipa: /ˈwɪvə(ɹ)n/

ipa: /ˈwiːvə(ɹ)n/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-wyvern1.wav

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-wyvern2.wav

rhymes: -aɪvə(ɹ)n

rhymes: -ɪvə(ɹ)n

rhymes: -iːvə(ɹ)n


wherewithal

pos_title: 名詞

glosses: 完成某項任務所需的資金、設備或手段

text: I would like to help your project, but I do not have the wherewithal.

translation: 我想幫助你的計劃，但我沒有足夠的資金。

text: Justice was sold at the tribunals, and the most enormous crimes escaped from punishment, when the criminals had wherewithal to corrupt their judges.

ref: 1688, John Dryden, The Life of St Francis Xavier, book II, translation of original by Dominique Bouhours:

text: Big Council meeting! At the bookshop in twenty minutes. Carfare will be refunded. Can we scrape together the wherewithal?

ref: 1954, Edward Eager, Half Magic:

text: "I just can't imagine," Philip said, "having that kind of self-knowledge, that kind of...wherewithal at fifteen.[…]"

ref: 1986, David Leavitt, The Lost Language of Cranes, paperback edition, Penguin, page 67:

text: […] A single slice of this could leave you supine in front of the Queen's speech without even the wherewithal to reach for the remote control.

ref: 2011 December 15, Felicity Cloake, “How to cook the perfect nut roast”, in Guardian:

text: Although Emma comes to realise she's trapped in a kind of hell, married to a dullard she despises, she lacks the intellectual wherewithal to plot a breakout more sophisticated than consorting with idiots such as Leon and Rodolphe.

ref: 2019, John O’Connell, Bowie's Bookshelf, →ISBN:

text: In political economic terms, the pandemic worked to intensify a development that the decline in the neoliberal order had already set in motion: namely, a conviction that government was the only institution with the wherewithal to address severe economic and social hardship.

ref: 2022, Gary Gerstle, chapter 8, in The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order […] , New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, Part II. The Neoliberal Order, 1970–2020:

forms: wherewithals (plural)

ipa: /ˈwɛə.wɪ.ðɔːl/


wherewithal

text: Wherewithall shall a yong man cleanse his way? by taking heede thereto according to thy word.

translation: 少年人用什麼潔淨他的行為呢？是要遵行你的話！（和合本）

ref: 1611，The Holy Bible, […]（King James Version），London： […] Robert Barker, […]，→OCLC，「Psalms 119:9」：

text: Rich. Northumberland, thou Ladder wherewithall / The mounting Bullingbrooke aſcends my Throne

ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 41, column 2:

ipa: /ˈwɛə.wɪ.ðɔːl/

whereby

sense: 用何種方法


whether

pos_title: 連詞

etymology_texts: 古英語 hwæþer ← 原始日耳曼語 *hwaþeraz，*hwaz (“誰”)的比較級。與英語either, 德語 weder (“兩者都不”), 瑞典語 var, 冰島語 hvor (“兩者之一”)同源。

enpr: wĕthə(r)

ipa: /ˈwɛðə(ɹ)/

enpr: hwĕthə(r)

ipa: /ˈʍɛðə(ɹ)/

rhymes: -ɛðə(ɹ)

homophone: weather

roman: wether

parts: wheth er


vacuo

glosses:
vacuo/cua
adj. 空的，无人担任的(职务)，轻浮的，空泛的


vacuous

etymology_texts: 借自拉丁語 vacuus (“空的”)。

glosses: 空洞的，无意义的；无聊的

forms:
more vacuous (comparative)
most vacuous (superlative)


vacuum-packed

glosses: vacuum-pack 的簡單過去時和過去時分詞


vagg

glosses: 将..当作流浪者加以逮捕


venial

glosses:
adj. (罪行、过失)轻微的，可以宽恕的==葡萄牙語==
可原谅的


vaginal

glosses: adj. [解]阴道的，[动,植]鞘的


ventilated

glosses: ventilate 的簡單過去時和過去時分詞


ventilating

glosses: ventilate 的現在時分詞和動名詞


vagus

glosses: 漫游的，漂泊的，游荡的，徘徊的

glosses: 动摇不定的，不可靠的，不稳定的

forms:
vaga (feminine)
vagum (neuter)

raw_tags: ；第一/第二類變格形容詞


val

glosses:
valer 的屈折：
第三人稱單數現在時直陳式

glosses:
valer 的屈折：
第二人稱單數命令式


val

pos_title: 名词

forms:
vallen (plural)
valletje (diminutive)

ipa: /vɑl/


val

glosses: vallen 的第一人称单数现在时直陈式形。

glosses: vallen 的命令式形。


val

forms:
vals (genitive singular)
völ (nominative plural)

ipa: /vaːl/

rhymes: -aːl


val

etymology_texts: < 古諾爾斯語 vaðill （“浅水”）。


val

etymology_texts: < 古諾爾斯語 valr。


val

etymology_texts: < 古諾爾斯語 val。

text: Du har ikkje noko val.　你没有选择。

text: Kven skal du røysta på til valet?　你什么时候去给选举投票？

forms:
valet (definite singular)
val (indefinite plural)
vala (definite plural)


val

etymology_texts: < 某斯拉夫语 valŭ。

forms: valuri (plural)


val

etymology_texts: < 拉丁語 vallum （“堡垒”）。


val

etymology_texts: < 原始斯拉夫语 *valъ < 原始印欧语 *wel(H)- （“转，滚”）。

forms:
vȃl (canonical)
ва̑л

ipa: /ʋâːl/


valediction

etymology_texts: 1614年。借自拉丁語 valedīcere，valedīcō (“告别”)的现在主动不定式，源自valē，valeō (“健康，无恙”，动词)的命令式 + dīcō (“说”)。

forms: valedictions (plural)

sincerely

sense: 信件末尾用语


valedictorian

glosses: （在毕业典礼上致告别辞的）毕业生代表

text: Our oldest son was valedictorian of his high school class and went to a top university. But right about this time two years ago, our second son told us he wasn’t interested in college.

ref: 2020 July 2, Arthur C. Brooks, “A College Degree Is No Guarantee of a Good Life”, in The Atlantic:

text: At first, it seemed a joyous occasion. There was an audible gasp in the room, then boisterous cheering and applause when the announcement was made: Ikeria Washington and Layla Temple had been named 2021 valedictorian and salutatorian for West Point High School.

ref: 2021 June 11, Stephanie Saul, “Two Black Students Won School Honors. Then Came the Calls for a Recount.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

glosses: 状元，毕业班中成绩最高者

forms: valedictorians (plural)

dux

sense: 状元，毕业班中成绩最高者

salutatorian

sense: （在毕业典礼上致告别辞的）毕业生代表


valencia

etymology_texts: 可能源自法语 Valence。

glosses: 一种西装背心所用的织物，纬线是羊毛，经纱是丝绸或棉花。


veracious

forms:
more veracious (comparative)
most veracious (superlative)

ipa: /vəˈɹeɪ.ʃəs/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-veracious.wav

rhymes: -eɪʃəs

homophone: voracious


verbal

glosses:
adj. 语言的，口头的，动词的==葡萄牙語==
动词的


validation

glosses: 確認；驗證 [電子計算機]

forms: validations (plural)


verbiage

etymology_texts: 源自法語 verbiage。英语词可能可以分析作verb (“動詞”) + -age。

text: A very garrulous person, he approached the counter in a fog of verbiage.

ref: 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 39):

text: bureaucratic verbiage

text: The comparison of coincidences in the verbiage of different languages, and affinity of etymological formation, are interesting subjects of philological investigation.

ref: 1846, Margaret Thornley, The True End of Education and the Means Adapted to It:

text: Use concise military verbiage.

ref: 1947, George S. Patton, War as I Knew It:

forms: verbiages (plural)

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-verbiage.wav

notes: 本词有贬义色彩。一般用diction、phrasing等来表示“措辞”。


verbiage

audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-Lyokoï-verbiage.wav

blablabla

sense: 赘语，废话


verbose

etymology_texts: 源自拉丁語 verbōsus (“冗长的，长篇大论的，啰嗦的”) + 英語 -ose (指“满是...、像...”的后缀)。verbōsus派生自verbum (“词语”)（最终源自原始印歐語 *werh₁- (“说”)）+ -ōsus (指“满是...、过于...、倾向于...”的后缀，用于从名词构成形容词)。。等价于verb + -ose。

glosses: 冗长的，啰嗦的 [自17世纪]

text: I omit more than an Hundred Things, that would engage to perſonal Reflection; for my Soul hath no Pleaſure in ſtriving therein, as knowing the inconſiſtancy of that uncharitable virulent Temper with a Chriſtian Spirit, which I am aſſured is quite another Thing, from what is Verboſe, Abuſive[,] Cavilling, Airy, and meerly Notional; [...]

ref: 1672, W[illiam] P[enn], “To the Impartial Reader”, in The Spirit of Truth Vindicated, against that of Error & Envy; […], [London: […] Andrew Sowle ...], →OCLC, page 8:

text: We mentioned as another of the faults of Dr. [Charles] Anthon's book, that it exhibited his usual verbose grandiloquence. [...] We objected, for instance, to the lexicon, as loaded with useless words; and we suggested that the probable cause was the desire of procuring for it the appearance of completeness and originality.

ref: 1840 October, “Art. XI.—Critical Notices. 1.—A Reply to an Attack on Anthon’s Greek Reader, in the North American Review for July, 1840. The Knickerbocker. Extra. New York. 8vo. pp. 11.”, in The North American Review, volume LI, number CIX, Boston, Mass.: Ferdinand Andrews, […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 498:

text: So with sentences or the combinations of words. Much skill is required for their construction. They must convey your meaning accurately, and as far as possible in the natural order of thought, and yet they must not be complex, involved, verbose, stiff, ungainly, or tautological. They must be brief, but not curt; explicit, but not verbose. Here, again, good taste must be your guide, rather than rules which teachers propound, but which the pupil never follows.

ref: 1863, Edward W[illiam] Cox, “Letter VIII. Words—Sentences—Rhythm.”, in The Arts of Writing, Reading and Speaking, in Letters to a Law Student, London: John Crockford, […], →OCLC, page 51:

text: On the Furness section the sign at Grange is as brief—PASSENGERS MUST CROSS BY THE SUBWAY—as that at the next station, Arnside, is verbose: PASSENGERS ARE REQUESTED TO CROSS THE LINE BY THE BRIDGE. IT IS DANGEROUS TO CROSS THE RAILS.

ref: 1942 April, Bernard Fielding, “Crossing the Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 103:

text: In modern processors, you pay a bigger performance hit for having verbose code than for having an extra function call because larger code can cause secondary cache hits.

ref: 1999, Michael Hyman, Phani Vaddadi, “Dealing with Compiler-generated Code”, in Mike and Phani’s Essential C++ Techniques (Books for Professionals by Professionals), New York, N.Y.: Apress, →DOI, →ISBN, technique 46 (Wrap New to Save Space), page 40:

text: Some patients are especially difficult to interview. Recalcitrant patients, verbose patients, confused patients, patients whose command of the English language is limited, patients with hearing impairments, patients with aphasia, impatient patients, and patients hospitalized in isolation rooms all may be difficult to interview. [...] The best approach for recalcitrant or verbose patients is to exert firm control of the interview and ask directed questions to draw information from the recalcitrant patient and redirect the verbose patient.

ref: 2012, Karen J. Tietze, “Taking Medication Histories”, in Clinical Skills for Pharmacists: A Patient-focused Approach, 3rd edition, St. Louis, Mo.: Elsevier Mosby, →ISBN, page 38, column 1:

glosses: 详细的 （输出、日志等，常用来做诊断调试）

text: You should use verbose logging sparingly. Turning on verbose logging for every process would result in log files so large they would become useless.

ref: 2001, Richard Blum, “Common Postfix Problems”, in Postfix, Indianapolis, Ind.: Sams Publishing, →ISBN, part III (Advanced Postfix Server Topics), page 532:

text: Verbose logging adds extra detail and increases the descriptiveness of the log entries made. Verbose logging also adds one additional client log file that is specific to DCM, SmsClrHost.log, and one management point log file, MP_GetSdmPackage.log.

ref: 2009, Kerrie Meyler, Byron Holt, Greg Ramsey [et al.], “Desired Configuration Management”, in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Unleashed, Indianapolis, Ind.: Sams Publishing, →ISBN, part III (Configuration Manager Operations):

text: For troubleshooting purposes, enable verbose logging for the WUA by following these steps: [...]

ref: 2015, Andre Della Monica, Chris Shilt, Russ Rimmerman, Rushi Faldu, “Understanding Software Update Architecture: Client Side”, in Mitch Tulloch, editor, Microsoft System Center: Software Update Management Field Experience, Redmond, Wash.: Microsoft Press, →ISBN, page 19:

forms:
more verbose (comparative)
most verbose (superlative)

ipa: /vəˈbəʊs/

ipa: /vɚˈboʊs/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-verbose.wav

rhymes: -əʊs

parts: verb ose


verbose

glosses: verbōsus 的呼格陽性單數

forms: verbōse (canonical)


verboten

etymology_texts: 借自德語 verboten (“禁止的，不許的”)。

text: Before that, students and professors could date whomever we wanted; the next day we were off-limits to one another—verboten, traife, dangerous (and perhaps, therefore, all the more alluring).

translation: 在此之前，學生和教授可以和我們想要的任何人約會；第二天，我們彼此都被禁止了——被禁止的，不潔淨的，危險的（也許，因而更有吸引力）。

ref: 2015年 2月27日，Laura Kipnis，「Sexual Paranoia Strikes Academe」，收錄於 The Chronicle of Higher Education：

text: Or was it because he has since been steeped in the relentless positivity of Silicon Valley, where it is verboten to imagine a bad outcome?

translation: 還是因為他後來一直沉浸在矽谷無情的積極態度中，在那裡，想像一個壞的結果是被禁止的？

ref: 2018年 8月2日，Kara Swisher，「The Expensive Education of Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley」，收錄於 New York Times：

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-verboten.wav


verboten

text: Für die Massen ist die Nation der Inbegriff alles Mystischen, Imponderabilen, schlechthin Unbegreiflichen – auf diesem Gebiet ist alles erlaubt und kann alles verboten sein, hier wachsen die großen Männer, deren Größe an der Kleinheit der Umstehenden gemessen wird.

translation: 對大眾來說，國家是一切神秘、不可估量、完全不可理解的化身——在這個領域，一切都被允許，一切都可以被禁止，偉人在這裡成長，他們的偉大是用旁觀者的渺小來衡量的。

ref: 1929，庫爾特·圖霍爾斯基，Das Lächeln der Mona Lisa (Sammelband)，Ernst Rowohlt Verlag，第120頁：

forms: verbotener (strong nominative masculine singular)

ipa: /fɛɐ̯ˈboːtn̩/

ipa: /fɛɐ̯ˈboːtən/


verdant

forms:
more verdant (comparative)
most verdant (superlative)


vallum

etymology_texts: < vallus （“栅栏”）。

forms: vallī (genitive)


valor

glosses:
m. 价值，价格，勇敢，效力，用处，[数]值
pl. 证券==葡萄牙語==
价值；价值；勇猛


valorous

text: this present booke compyled by virgyle ryght subtyl and Ingenyous oratour & poete Intytuled Eneydos hath be translated oute of latyn in to comyn langage In whiche may alle valyaunt prynces and other nobles see many valorous fayttes of armes.

ref: 大約1490 William Caxton (translator), The Boke of Eneydos, Westminster, Preface,

text: […] he esteems himself happy that he hath fallen into the hands of one, as he thinks, the most brave, valorous, and thrice-worthy signieur of England.

ref: 1599，William Shakespeare，「The Life of Henry the Fift」，收錄於 Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […]（First Folio），London： […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount，1623 出版，→OCLC，「[Act IV, scene iv]」：

text: […] I shall be at York—at the head of my daring and valorous fellows, as ready to support any bold design as thy policy can be to form one.

ref: 1820，沃尔特·司各特，艾凡赫，(please specify |volume=I, II, or III)卷，爱丁堡： […] Archibald Constable and Co.；伦敦：Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […]，→OCLC：

text: He held up the glass. “To your valorous wounds. To the silver medal.”

ref: 1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, New York: Scribner, Book I, Chapter 10, p. 70,

text: There are many valorous stories told of her, which enthral grown men as well as children.

ref: 2004, Andrea Levy, Small Island, London: Review, Chapter Twelve, p. 139,

forms:
valourous (alternative)
more valorous (comparative)
most valorous (superlative)


valuable

forms:
more valuable (comparative)
most valuable (superlative)

ipa: /ˈvæljuəbl̩/

ipa: /ˈvæljəbl̩/

parts: val u ab le

parts: val uab le


valuable

forms: valuables (plural)