jinx 的意思
厄运; 咒语; 不幸的预兆
jinx 的词源
jinx(n.)
1911年,美式英语,最初是棒球俚语;可能源自jyng "一个符咒,一个魔法"(17世纪),最初意为"弯颈鸟"(也叫jynx),一种用于巫术和占卜的鸟,来自拉丁语iynx "弯颈鸟",源自希腊语iynx。Jynx从1690年代起在英语中被用作"符咒或魔法"。
Most mysterious of all in the psychics of baseball is the "jinx," that peculiar "hoodoo" which affects, at times, a man, at other times a whole team. Let a man begin to think that there is a "jinx" about, and he is done for for the time being. ["Technical World Magazine," 1911]
在棒球的神秘现象中,最神秘的要数"jinx",那种奇特的"hoodoo",有时影响一个人,有时影响整个队伍。让一个人开始认为有"jinx"存在,他就在一段时间内失败了。["Technical World Magazine," 1911]
作为动词的用法在1912年出现在美式英语中,来源于名词。相关词:Jinxed;jinxing。
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