whack

英语

词源

不详，原为苏格兰英语。可能是拟声词，但对比中古英語 thakken ← 古英語 þaccian（其因与本词异文合并而派生出thwack）。

发音

• 國際音標^(幫助): /wæk/
• (wine/whine) 國際音標^(幫助): /ʍæk/

• （澳洲）音频：

  (檔案)

• 韻部：-æk
• 同音詞：wack (带有wine-whine兼并的口音)

名词

whack (複數 whacks)

1. 重击 （无论是否击中）
2. 重击声
3. (美國，俚語) 尝试

   C'mon. Take a whack at it.

   来嘛，来试一下。

   40 bucks a whack.

   40块一次。

4. (原為英國cant，较为過時) 一份 （尤指一大部分）
   • Template:RQ:Thackeray Pendennis
   • Template:RQ:London White Fang
   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: Appleton, Chapter VII, page 108,^[1]

     “ […] O'Cannon's a taxpayer. He pays his whack towards the upkeep of the State School up in town—”

   • 1951, Katherine Mansfield, Letters to John Middleton Murry, 1913-1922,

     For one thing I had a splendid supper when I got on board—a whack of cold, lean beef and pighells, bread, butter ad lib., tea, and plenty of good bread.

   • 2014, Anthony Pritchard, Grand Prix Ferrari (page 203)

     There were problems over the installation of the engine and the handling. The team had paid top whack for the two Coopers, but the company gave them no help at all.

5. (棄用) 拆分，瓜分

   近義詞：whack-up、divvying up、division

6. (美國，棄用) 约定，协议
   • Template:RQ:Twain Tom Sawyer

   It's a whack!

   说定了！

7. (過時，迪斯科时代毒品俚語) 苯环己哌啶，天使粉

   近義詞：PCP、phencyclidine、wack

8. (字體排印，計算機，俚語) 反斜线，反斜杠 ⟨ \ ⟩

   del c:\docs\readme.txt

   可读作Delete c colon whack docs whack readme dot text.

衍生词汇

• full whack
• go whacks
• have a whack at
• out of whack
• take a whack at
• top whack
• wacky
• whack up、whack-up

动词

whack (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 whacks，現在分詞 whacking，一般過去時及過去分詞 whacked)

1. 重击

   The bat whacked the baseball.

   球棍打到了棒球上。

   • Template:RQ:Conrad Heart of Darkness
   • G. W. Cable

     Rodsmen were whacking their way through willow brakes.

2. (俚語) 干掉，杀掉

   近義詞：參見Thesaurus:kill

   • 2008 4月 29, Rockstar, Grand Theft Auto 4, Take-Two Interactive，關卡/區域：Flatline:

     Niko Bellic: So you want me to talk to him? / Jimmy Pegorino: I want you to whack him! And after that I want you to kill all the other rats I surround myself with...

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

3. (及物，俚語) 瓜分 （常带up）

   to whack the spoils of a robbery

   瓜分抢劫得来的赃物

   • 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, London: G. Newbold, Volume 2, p. 152,

     When the sewer-hunters consider they have searched long enough […] the gang […] count out the money they have picked up, and proceed to dispose of the old metal, bones, rope, &c.; this done, they then, as they term it, “whack” the whole lot; that is, they divide it equally among all hands.

4. (運動) 彻底打败，彻底击败
   • 2012, Ryan Pyette, Majors, Panthers play mind games, The London Free Press:

     The fidgety Majors were whacked 9-1 by the Kitchener Panthers at Couch and now trail their rivals 2-0 in an increasingly uncomfortable best-of-seven Intercounty Baseball League first-round series.

5. (英國，常用否定) 超过，胜过
   • 2012, Steve Cullen, Total Flyfisher:

     Recently I was over in Ireland, I love the place, proper fishing, can't whack it!

衍生词汇

• whack-a-mole
• whack off
• whack the illy

形容词

whack (比較級 whacker，最高級 whackest)

1. wack (“疯狂的”)的另一種寫法

   That's whack, yo!

   太牛逼了吧！

   • 2007, Joyce E. Davis, Can't Stop The Shine, page 51:

     As they joked about the big butts on female celebrities and what rappers had the whackest lyrics, Malcolm paid little attention to Kalia besides squeezing her hand or grabbing her arm to hold himself up […]

参考资料

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed. "whack, n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1923.