out of kilter

英語

詞源

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，但在英國和美國是方言用詞。

發音

• (標準英音) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˌaʊt əv ˈkɪltə/
• (通用美式) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˌaʊt əv ˈkɪltɚ/

• （澳洲）音頻：

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• 斷字：out of kil‧ter

介詞短語

out of kilter

1. (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，第 140 頁:

     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年5月29日, 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, 第 I (1848–1861) 卷s, Rochester, N.Y., London: Susan B. Anthony; Charles Mann […], 出版於 1887, →OCLC，第 116 頁:

     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，第 72 頁:

     [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年3月10日, 「An Airliner Cracks Up in Pine Woods near Atlanta and Seven People Die」, 出自 Henry R[obinson] Luce 編, Life, 第 10 卷, 第 10 期, Chicago, Ill., New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, photograph caption，第 27 頁:

     Snowstorms often knock the Government's Salt Lake radio range out of kilter.

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   • 2018年6月17日, 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

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

• out of kelter

相關詞彙

• off-kilter