shenanigans

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源自shenanigan +‎ -s。

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(標準英音，澳大利亞) 國際音標^(幫助): /ʃɪˈnæn.ɪ.ɡənz/, [ʃɪˈnæn.ɪ.ɡn̩z]
- 音頻 (昆士蘭)： (檔案)
(通用美式，加拿大) 國際音標^(幫助): /ʃəˈnæn.ə.ɡɪnz/, /-ɡənz/
斷字：she‧na‧ni‧gans

名詞

shenanigans 複 (normally plural，singular shenanigan)

(不可數) 惡作劇，尤指兒童的惡作劇。（19世紀中期至今）
Shanti and Tom are playing noisily upstairs again. They’re up to their usual shenanigans.
香蒂和湯姆又在樓上吵吵鬧鬧地玩耍。他們又在搞慣常的惡作劇。
- 1890，Kate Chopin，“Perplexing Things”, in At Fault. A Novel，St. Louis, Mo.: Nixon-Jones Printing Co., →OCLC，頁 159:
  Well, I'm not the woman to stand any shenanigans from a child of mine. I could name you dead loads of women that are just completely walked over by their children.
  好吧，我不是那種能忍受我的孩子做出任何惡作劇的女人。我可以說出很多被她們的孩子完全踐踏的女人的屍體。
(不可數) 欺騙的伎倆；詭計；遊戲。（從 19 世紀中葉開始）
You should learn to spot their shenanigans and avoid being fooled.
你應該學會識別他們的詭計並避免被愚弄。

The advertisement said it would cost $50, but they charged me $75 at the register. I declare shenanigans.
廣告上說要花 50 美元，但他們在收銀台向我收取了 75 美元。我宣布這是詭計。
- 1855 September，“Mr. Soap’s Yachting Excursion”, in Yankee Notions，卷 IV, 期 9, New York, N.Y.: Published by T. W. Strong, 98 Nassau-st., →OCLC，頁 280:
  One of Professor [John] Moon's most astonishing "experiments," consisted of holding a watch suspended from a short chain at arm's length, and allowing anyone in the pit to pull pistol and "blaze away" at the word "fire," whereupon the watch would most unconscionably disappear. An individual who had attended several evenings and witnessed the "experiment," suspected, in the classic language of the times, that there was something of "shenanigan" in it.
  約翰·穆恩教授最令人震驚的“實驗”之一是，將一塊手錶懸掛在一條短鏈上，距離手臂很遠，然後讓坑里的任何人在聽到“火”這個詞時拔出手槍並“射擊”，然後手錶就會毫無意義地消失。一位參加了數晚的“實驗”並目睹了這一“實驗”的人，用當時的經典語言來說，懷疑其中存在某種“詭計”的成分。
- [1877]，Cha[rle]s H. Sparks，“Political History”, in History of Winneshiek County, with Biographical Sketches of Its Eminent Men，Decorah, Iowa: Jas. Alex. Leonard, →OCLC，頁 31:
  There are stories still told how money was used and promised, but from the best knowledge I can acquire, I think this is not true. If sharp practice was played, and "shenanigan" was used, we, to-day, looking back upon those times, cannot say that evil has come of it.
  仍然有一些故事講述如何使用和承諾資金，但從我所能獲得的最佳知識來看，我認為這不是真的。如果當時確實存在不正當手段，使用“詭計”，那麼今天我們回顧當時的情況，不能說當時造成了邪惡。
- 1921，William M. McCoy，“At the Shrine of Faith”, in The Valley of the Sun，New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company; published by arrangement with The H. K. Fly Company, →OCLC，頁s 77–78:
  And you remember that she is a pal of ours, and you're to act like a gentleman, no shenanigans, or I'll skin you alive!
  你記得她是我們的朋友，你要表現得像個紳士，不許搞詭計，否則我就活剝了你的皮！
- 1993，Edward Toman，章號 9, in Shambles Corner，London: Flamingo, HarperCollins, →ISBN，頁 125:
  On the table top behind him lay the letter from the Vatican. It was what he had dreaded. Shenanigans like that don't go for long unnoticed. Canon Tom may have provided the Church with a touch of class, but when the chips were down, he was expendable.
  他身後的桌面上放著梵蒂岡寄來的信。這正是他所害怕的。類似這樣的詭計不會長期不被注意。湯姆牧師或許為教會帶來了一絲優雅，但當情況危急時，他便成了可有可無的犧牲品。
- 2017年11月10日，Zachary Brennan，“Gottlieb: ‘End the shenanigans’ on slow-playing REMS to delay generic drug competition”, in Endpoints News‎^[1]，存檔自the original on 11 March 2018:
  FDA [Food and Drug Administration] commissioner Scott Gottlieb yesterday called on brand name drug companies to "end the shenanigans" that restrict generic drug competition, specifically pointing to the tactic of slow-playing shared Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) terms intended to prevent generic manufacturers from purchasing drug products needed to run bioequivalence or bioavailability studies that FDA approval requires.
  FDA [食品和藥物管理局] 局長斯科特·戈特利布昨天呼籲品牌藥公司“停止限制仿製藥競爭的詭計”，特別指出了緩慢執行共享風險評估和緩解策略 (REMS) 條款的策略，旨在阻止仿製藥製造商購買需要進行 FDA 批准的生物等效性或生物利用度研究的藥品。
- 2017年12月13日，Courtney Connley，“Meryl Streep on Weinstein: If more women were in leadership ‘the shenanigans wouldn't have occurred’”, in CNBC‎^[2]，存檔自the original on 13 December 2017:
  In a panel discussion at BuzzFeed's office, Oscar-winner Meryl Streep told "The Post" director Steven Spielberg and co-star Tom Hanks that settlements like those paid to Harvey Weinstein's accusers would not have been necessary if more women held positions of power. "If the boards of the company were half female, there wouldn't ever have been payoffs to anybody," Streep said. "None of this – the shenanigans wouldn't have occurred."
  在 BuzzFeed 辦公室舉行的小組討論中，奧斯卡獎得主梅莉史翠普告訴《華盛頓郵報》導演史蒂芬史匹柏和聯合主演湯姆漢克斯，如果有更多女性掌握權力，就沒有必要向哈維韋恩斯坦的指控者支付這樣的和解金。史翠普說：“如果公司董事會中有一半是女性，那麼就不會有人得到賄賂了。” “這些詭計都不會發生。”
- 2020年9月30日，CGP Grey，片头起10:39, in Supreme Court Shenanigans !!!‎^[3]，存檔自the original on 16 January 2024:
  It shouldn't take much imagination to see why the forced dismissal of Congress by the president would be the most truly of nuclear shenanigans and the fallout would affect, like every part of the government. But that's the sort of thing that can happen when shenanigans infinitely escalate.
  不難想像，總統強行解散國會會成為真正的核子詭計，後果將影響政府的每個部門。但當詭計無限升級時，這種事情就會發生。
(不可數) 奇怪、不尋常、怪異或古怪的事件。
- 2009年1月20日，Dan Shive，El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Tuesday, Jan 20, 2009:
  "I'm sorry, but I'm not going to devote any of tonight's news to evil monkey shenanigans unless you can find something more down to earth to focus your report on."
  “很抱歉，我不會把今晚的新聞用來報道邪惡猴子的怪事，除非你能找到一些更現實的內容作為報道的重點。”
(可數) shenanigan 的複數。

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