| 释义 |
hung up, a. and adj. phr.|ˈhʌŋʌp|
Also hung-up.
[f. vbl. phr. to hang up (hang v. 29 d).]
1. Put into abeyance, delayed.
1878Lumberman's Gaz. 18 Dec. 426 Others..find..their logs ‘hung up’ for want of water to float them.
2. Confused, bewildered, mixed-up. Also hung-up on, obsessed with, preoccupied with (cf. also quot. 1961). slang.
[1909J. R. Ware Passing Eng. 156/1 Hung up, from the American—where personal catastrophe is referred to by this phrase.] 1945L. Shelly Jive Talk Dict. 21/1 All hung up, completely bewildered. 1957[see daddy 3]. 1958New Statesman 6 Sept. 294/2 Helping each other in those phases in which they are ‘hung up’. 1961Rigney & Smith Real Bohemia p. xv, Hung up, to be, one's behavior is ‘stuck’ in one pattern. 1966Sunday Times (Colour Suppl.) 13 Feb. 35/4 Hung up, obsessed, cf. ‘he is hung up on that girl’. 1966New Statesman 1 Apr. 458/3 The U.S. is ‘hung up’, paralysed into inaction because it cannot reconcile the political goal of uniting Germany with the ideological necessity of maintaining Western Europe as an anti-communist fortress. 1968Word Study Feb. 5/2 American students of poetry have been hung up on the lines ever since. 1969It 11–24 Apr. 13/4 How we manage to generate so many good things on this hung-up, repressed little island I simply don't know. 1970Daily Tel. 26 Nov. 9/2 You get so hung-up with the place you feel like going out and smashing something. 1971New Scientist 4 Mar. 485/2 Roszak is very hung up on the power that science grants. 1971B. Malamud Tenants 54 He was more than a little hung up, stupid from lack of sleep, worried about his work. |