birthday suit
英語[編輯]
其他形式[編輯]
詞源[編輯]
源自出生時一絲不掛的說法。
發音[編輯]
（澳洲）音頻 （文檔）
名詞[編輯]
birthday suit (複數 birthday suits)
- (俗語，常，幽默) 出生時穿的衣服，即一絲不掛
- George embarrassed his aunt by answering the door in his birthday suit.
- George一絲不掛地去應門，讓他的阿姨尷尬不已。
- 1842, H., 「Short Rides in an Author's Omnibus」, 出自 Thomas Hood 編, The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist，頁號 267:
- Nature, the universal tailor, provides for every other animal a birthday suit of clothes which is to outlast his life; but man, though so peculiarly sensitive to the assaults of the elements, is ushered into this nether sphere without any covering, in order that he may be compelled to exert his faculties, and become his own tailor, and thereby his own civilizer.
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- 1998, Paul Vaughn, 「Confessions of a Naked Writer」, 出自 Orange Coast，頁號 185:
- At last I'm down to the nitty-gritty, my original birthday suit. Where do I put my hands? I need pockets.
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- 2000, Denis Charles Phillips, The Expanded Social Scientist's Bestiary: A Guide to Fabled Threats to, and Defenses of, Naturalistic Social Science，頁號 85:
- The terms naturalistic and naturalism suffer from the fact that they have a range of meanings, covering a variety of things from the Romantic submission to nature or the collecting of butterflies to the practice of bathing on the beach clad only in one's birthday suit.
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- 2001, Tom Slattery, Immodest Proposals: Through the Pornographic Looking Glass，頁號 181:
- A person suddenly caught naked by the collapse of a building wall is treated quite differently than a person who intentionally 「streaks」 a public gathering in his or her birthday suit.
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- 僅按字面意思，並無比喻或俗語義；參見birthday、suit。
用法說明[編輯]
- 一般用於短語「in one's birthday suit」，但有時亦單獨使用。如「Guess what she was wearing? Her birthday suit! (「你猜猜她穿了啥？啥都沒穿！」)」。