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A smirk is a smile that people. It is small, often one-sided, and it says something the person is not saying out loud: 'I know something you don't', 'I was right and you were wrong', 'I'm enjoying this'. It is the face of someone who is pleased about your trouble, or pleased with themselves.
A smirk一個 smirk is就是 a smile that annoys people會讓人不爽的笑容。It它 is small很小，often one-sided常常是歪一邊的，and而且 it says something the person is not saying out loud它在說一些這個人沒講出口的話：'I know something you don't'像是「I know something you don't」，'I was right and you were wrong'「I was right and you were wrong」，'I'm enjoying this'「I'm enjoying this」這種意思。It它 is the face of someone就是那種人的表情，who is pleased about your trouble看到你倒楣覺得爽，or pleased with themselves或是對自己感到得意的表情。
Smirk is both a verb (to smirk, he smirked at me) and a noun (a smirk, wipe that smirk off your face). The judgement is in the word itself — nobody smirks in a nice way, so calling someone's smile a smirk is already saying you dislike it.
Smirk這個字 is both a verb既是動詞（to smirk, he smirked at me像 to smirk、he smirked at me 這樣用），and a noun也是名詞（a smirk, wipe that smirk off your face像 a smirk、wipe that smirk off your face 這樣用）。The judgement is in the word itself這個字本身就帶著批評的意味——nobody smirks in a nice way沒有人是用好意在smirk的，so所以 calling someone's smile a smirk把某人的笑容說成smirk，is already saying you dislike it就已經在表示你不喜歡那個笑容了。
It is common in stories and in ordinary talk. Interestingly, the word did not always mean this: for hundreds of years it just meant 'to smile', and the unpleasant meaning grew later.
It它 is common in stories and in ordinary talk在故事裡和平常講話中都很常見。Interestingly有趣的是，the word did not always mean this這個字並不是一直都是這個意思：for hundreds of years好幾百年來，it just meant 'to smile'它就只是「微笑」的意思，and而 the unpleasant meaning grew later這種帶點討厭意味的用法是後來才發展出來的。
組成From Old English smearcian, meaning simply 'to smile'. It shares a family with 'smile' itself. The mocking meaning only appeared in later centuries — before the 1700s it could still mean an ordinary smile.
同家族的字
- smilea doublet — the same ancient root arriving in English by two paths
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
smirknoun/smɜːk/
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An uneven, often crooked smile that is insolent, self-satisfied, conceited or scornful.
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A forced or affected smile.
- The bride, all smirk and blush, had just entered.
- We sat at a long table with a huge salmon on a platter in the center, prepared Szechuan style. Dad sat at one end of the table, and regaled all present with his stories. In the middle of one convoluted yarn, he rose and went around to the salmon in the center of the table. Using his fingers, he dug an eyeball out of the fish, popped it in his mouth and swallowed it whole as we looked on, aghast. “A real delicacy,” he said, with a boyish smirk.
smirkverb/smɜːk/
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To smile in a way that is affected, smug, insolent or contemptuous.
smirkadj/smɜːk/
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obsoletesmart; spruce; affected; simpering
- So smirk, so smooth, his pricked Ears.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。