out of kilter
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源自out of + kilter、kelter (“（良好的）条件，秩序，条理；状态”)。最后一个词词源不详，但在英国[1]和美国[2]是方言用词。
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- (俗語) 不正常的，不协调的，混乱的，失去条理的，失灵的，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.
- 我熬夜看了一部电影以后，我的作息规律就完全被打乱了。
- 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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用法说明 编辑
还能与throw连用，如“an impact can throw the adjustment out of kilter”（“撞击会让这些调整完全混乱”）。
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- ↑ 约瑟夫·莱特, editor (1902), “KELTER, sb.1 and v.1”, The English Dialect Dictionary: […] [英语方言词典： […]], 卷III (H–L), 伦敦: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, OCLC 81937840, 页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.
