| 释义 |
jinx orig. U.S.|dʒɪŋks|
Also ginks, jinks.
[app. f. jynx 2.]
A person or thing that brings bad luck or exercises evil influence; a hoodoo, a Jonah. Also attrib. and Comb.
1911Chicago Daily News 19 Sept. 6/3 Dave Shean and ‘Peaches’ Graham..have not escaped the jinx that has been following the champions. 1919Oxf. Mag. 7 Mar., Will some one remove the jinx? On Friday, February 28, we lost to Oriel and Merton by 3 goals to nil. On Saturday, March 1,..we lost to Queen's by 1–0. 1926Anderson & Stallings What Price Glory iii, in Three American Plays 88 This town is a jinx for me. 1927A. Miller Colfax Bk.-Plate xiv. 172, I thrust that jinx of a book back into the lowest left-hand drawer. 1931Collier's 26 Sept. 57/3 They say he is a jinx to them and they cannot beat him in any manner, shape, or form. 1932J. T. Farrell Young Lonigan iv. 157 Young Corbett who was born with a horse shoe in his hands..put a jinx on Terrible Terry. 1948Menjou & Musselman It took Nine Tailors 96 There has never been such a jinx picture as that one. 1955E. Pound Classic Anthol. iii. 179 Jinx on the remnants everywhere. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 24 Jan. 41/4 The family jinx, in this case dark strangers who erupt into the bourgeois marriages of three generations, leaving behind an illegitimate child and the torturing memory of a bliss that might have been. 1962Times 19 Feb. 3/7 A jinx-ridden Thomas somehow contrived to miss the kick. 1969Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 30 Nov. 8/4 A man and two boys went fishing Friday, and Mary went along. The boat capsized, and apparently she alone survived. ‘I'm either a jinx, or very lucky,’ she says. 1972‘E. Lathen’ Murder without Icing (1973) xxiii. 198 I'm beginning to think that damned team is a jinx... It's been a bad-luck team from the beginning.
So jinx v. trans. (freq. pass.) to cast a spell on, to bring bad luck upon; jinxed ppl. a.
[1912C. Mathewson Pitching in a Pinch xi. 244 He outjinxed our champion jinx killer.] 1917Amer. Mag. Apr. 43/1 What do you mean—humming love songs when their darn pitcher is forcing in runs? You jinxed my ball club. 1934J. T. Farrell Young Manhood iv. 61, I know they ain't loaded. But use these ones. Them damn things is jinxed! 1946E. O'Neill Iceman Cometh (1947) iii. 147 I's an ole gamblin' man and I knows bad luck when I feels it!.. But it's white man's bad luck. He can't jinx me! 1956D. Barnham One Man's Window 26 He told me he was ‘jinxed’. He explained that on his last three trips [in a fighter aircraft] he had been in trouble. 1962K. Orvis Damned & Destroyed xi. 73 I'm jinxed. No fix. All blew up. 1972G. Durrell Catch me a Colobus vii. 152 I'm damned if I'm going to take up all my animals and myself and my wife in a jinxed plane. No, I'm afraid I'll have to get another charter flight. |