out of kilter
英語[編輯]
詞源[編輯]
源自out of + kilter、kelter (「（良好的）條件，秩序，條理；狀態」)。最後一個詞詞源不詳，但在英國[1]和美國[2]是方言用詞。
發音[編輯]
介詞短語[編輯]
- (俗語) 不正常的，不協調的，混亂的，失去條理的，失靈的，故障的
- 近義詞： 參見Thesaurus:out of order
- I stayed up late to watch a movie, and my entire sleeping schedule has been out of kilter ever since.
- 我熬夜看了一部電影以後，我的作息規律就完全被打亂了。
- 1762, [Susan Smythies], 「Presents the Reader with a Prospect of the Sullens」, 出自 The Stage-coach: Containing the Character of Mr. Manly, and the History of His Fellow Travellers, Dublin: Printed by Henry Saunders […], →OCLC，頁號 140:
- Aye, ſquire, that thing [a statue of Hercules] has been fixt in this ſpot I warrant you theſe hundred years; it was ſadly out of kilter when I came to the eſtate, but I got my neighbour the conſtable, who is a carpenter, to make him that right arm, and put the ſtaff into it, for I could not bear to ſee ſuch a clumſy log as he had in it before; [...]
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- 1851 5月 29, Sojourner Truth, reported by Frances D[ana] Gage, 「Ohio [Reminiscences by Frances D. Gage. Sojourner Truth. [Ain’t I a Woman?]]」, 出自 History of Woman Suffrage. [...] In Three Volumes, 卷s I (1848–1861), Rochester, N.Y., London: Susan B. Anthony; Charles Mann […], 出版於 1887, →OCLC，頁號 116:
- Wall, chilern, whar dar is so much racket dar must be somethin' out o' kilter. I thik dat 'twixt de niggers of de Souf and de womin at de Norf, all talkin' 'bout rights, de white men will be in a fix pretty soon.
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- 1890, Charles Erskine, 章號 V, 出自 Twenty Years before the Mast: […], Boston, Mass.: Published by the author, →OCLC，頁號 72:
- [T]hey are either round-shouldered, knock-kneed, bow-legged, or parrot-toed; some are also badly cross-eyed. It seems as if they can see two different ways at the same time. Jack says they are lop-sided and out of kilter altogether.
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- 1941 3月 10, 「An Airliner Cracks Up in Pine Woods near Atlanta and Seven People Die」, 出自 Henry R[obinson] Luce 編, Life, 卷 10, 期 10, Chicago, Ill., New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, photograph caption，頁號 27:
- Snowstorms often knock the Government's Salt Lake radio range out of kilter.
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- 2018 6月 17, Barney Ronay, 「Mexico’s Hirving Lozano stuns world champions Germany for brilliant win」, 出自 Katharine Viner 編, The Guardian[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC，於5 August 2019歸檔自原頁面:
- This was a champion team out of kilter, stung by what was arguably an act of disrespect to their opponents, a failure to appreciate their threat and the fine planning of Carlos Osorio, and never really able to regain its balance.
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用法說明[編輯]
還能與throw連用，如「an impact can throw the adjustment out of kilter」（「撞擊會讓這些調整完全混亂」）。
其他形式[編輯]
相關詞彙[編輯]
參考資料[編輯]
- ↑ 約瑟夫·萊特, editor (1902), 「KELTER, sb.1 and v.1」, The English Dialect Dictionary: […] [英語方言詞典： […]], 卷III (H–L), 倫敦: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, OCLC 81937840, 頁415, 卷2
- ↑ 「kelter, kilter, n.2」, OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1901; 「kilter, n.」, Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
