- 1整攤；全部（口語，幾乎都說 the whole shebang）。
In everyday English, shebang almost always turns up in one set phrase: the whole shebang. That means the entire thing — every part, the full set-up, the lot. You packed the tent, the food, the chairs? You packed the whole shebang. Informal, mainly American, a little old-fashioned in flavour but still very much alive. People say it with a shrug or a grin; it is not a school word and not a legal word. Though actually, you hardly ever hear shebang on its own. Dictionaries may list it as a noun meaning “the whole affair,” but speakers nearly always put whole in front. Older American use also had shebang as a rough hut, inn, or temporary shelter — often not a kind word for the place — and that sense has mostly . Nobody is quite sure where the word began.
組成Origin unknown. First seen in 1854 in Pennsylvania as chebang, for an Oddfellows lodge. In the early 1860s it is found meaning an inn, and soon after a temporary shelter. The earliest uses (1854–1859), spelled chebang, already feel like “an affair,” “a matter,” or “a happening,” which fits today’s “the whole thing.” The sense of a building, often looking down on it and usually spelled shebang, seems to start in the American West just before the Civil War and spread with the soldiers.
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
shebangnoun詞源 1/ʃɪˈbæŋ(ɡ)/
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datedinformalA lean-to or temporary shelter.
- Their shebang enclosures of bushes.
- They say that old pirate, Kingfisher Culpepper, had a stock of the real thing from Robertson County laid in his shebang on the Marsh just before he died.
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datedinformalA place or building; a store, saloon, or brothel.
- Along all the roads on the reservation to all the mines, at the crossing of every stream or fresh-water spring, and near the principal Indian villages, an inn or shebang is established, ostensibly for the entertainment of travellers, but almost universally used as a den for supplying liquor to Indians."
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informalAny matter of present concern; thing; or business; most commonly in the phrase the whole shebang.
- On the third the whole "chebang" was removed [...]
- I like the book, I like you and your style and your business vim, and believe the chebang will be a success.
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obsoleteinformalA vehicle.
- […] So they got into the empty omnibus and sat down. Colonel Jack says: “...What is the name of this.” Colonel Jim told him it was a barouche. After a while he poked his head out in front and said to the driver, “I say, Johnny, this suits me. We want this shebang all day. Let the horses go.”
shebangnoun詞源 2/ʃɪˈbæŋ(ɡ)/
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computingengineeringmathematicsThe character string "#!" used at the beginning of a computer file to indicate which interpreter can process the commands in the file, chiefly used in Unix and related operating systems.
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