有人對你做這件事
這是畫面裡的動作本身:有人在交易裡多拿了你的錢。
verb · C1
To cheat someone, especially over money, so that they pay much more than a thing is worth or get much less than they were promised.
坑、騙(錢)
這個拼法底下其實是2個不同的字,意思沒有關係, 只是長得一樣。下面分開列出來。跳到 坑、騙(錢) · (某部位)疼得厲害
You can think of this gyp as the moment you look back at a deal and see that the other side had already worked it out. The money is gone, the thing is in your hand, and it is worth much less than you paid. The verb is someone doing that to you; the noun is either the thing you are left holding or the whole unfair situation you are standing in. The word also carries a warning label, and that belongs to the picture too: dictionaries mark it and sometimes offensive, because it is widely thought to come from Gypsy, a name for Roma people.
Wiktionary says the origin is uncertain: perhaps from gypsy, reflecting a stereotype of Roma people as swindlers — the same pattern as jew (defraud) and welsh (default on a debt) — and possibly instead from dupe. The first account is why the word carries its label.
Wiktionary 說來源不確定:可能來自 gypsy,背後是把 Roma 人講成騙子的刻板印象,跟 jew(詐騙)、welsh(賴帳)是同一種造字方式;也有另一種說法,認為是從 dupe(騙)變來的。第一種說法正是這個字被標上 derogatory 的原因,所以學這個字的時候,意思和標籤要一起記。
Wiktionary etymology 1 text supplied in packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:617643553:3381)
Two branches
有人對你做這件事
這是畫面裡的動作本身:有人在交易裡多拿了你的錢。
verb · C1
To cheat someone, especially over money, so that they pay much more than a thing is worth or get much less than they were promised.
坑、騙(錢)
你手上那樣東西、你當下那件事
同一個畫面停格之後,可以指鏡頭裡的那樣東西,也可以指整個場面。
noun · C1
A situation in which you feel you have been cheated or treated unfairly, often said as a complaint: 'What a gyp!'
太坑了(的情況)
A second word, same spelling
You can think of this gyp as something giving you a hard time. It only lives inside one expression — give somebody gyp — and in that expression there is always a source doing the punishing and a person taking it. The source can be your old knee, or it can be a person standing in front of you who is not pleased. The somebody in the middle is always the one on the receiving end.
Wiktionary files the pain sense under a separate etymology, suggesting it may come from gee up, the call used to urge a horse on. That is only a suggestion, and it means this family need not be read as a metaphor grown from the cheating sense.
Wiktionary 把「疼痛」的 gyp 放在另一條詞源底下,推測可能來自 gee up(趕馬前進的吆喝)。這只是推測,不確定。重要的是它提醒我們:這一組不必硬要從「騙人」那個意思長出來,兩邊很可能本來就是不同的字。
Wiktionary etymology 4 text supplied in packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:617655570:895)
One branch
有東西在修理你
兩個意思共用同一個句型,差別只在主詞是什麼。
noun · C1
In 'give somebody gyp': to hurt someone a lot, usually a part of the body that has given trouble before.
(某部位)疼得厲害