2012年4月6日 星期五

2012_04_06 Agley = awry; 出差錯;錯了。

Word of the Day for Friday, April  6, 2012
agley \uh-GLEE\, adjective:
Off the right line; awry; wrong.
Reasoning closely, I deduced that her interview with LP Runkle must have gone awry or, as I much prefer to put it, agley.
 -- P. G. Wodehouse, Much Obliged, Jeeves
This had been one of those agley days.
 -- Alisa Craig, The Grub-and-Stakers Move a Mountain
Agley comes from the Middle English word glien meaning "a squint," as in "to look at sideways."

右行;出差錯;錯了。

推理緊密,我推測,她用LP朗克爾採訪必須出了錯,或者作為我更喜歡把它agley
- 體育G.伍德豪斯非常感謝佔道

已經這些agley
- 阿利薩克雷格,蠐螬Stakers移動

agley側身中古英語單詞glien意思是“斜視”,如

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