| 释义 |
shebang N. Amer. slang.|ʃɪˈbæŋ|
Also † chebang, shee-bang.
[Of obscure origin.]
1. a. A hut, shed; one's dwelling, quarters.
1862W. Whitman Jrnl. 23–31 Dec. in Specimen Days & Collect (1882–3) 27 Their shebang enclosures of bushes. 1863― Jrnl. Jan. in Ibid., The soldiers guarding the road came out from their tents or shebangs of bushes. 1867W. L. Goss Soldier's Story viii. 153 By common consent, if any one had complaints to make, he carried them to the ‘shebang’ of Big Peter. 1872‘Mark Twain’ Innoc. at Home ii. in Roughing It, etc. (1882) 270 We've got a shebang fixed up for you to stand behind in No. I's house. 1890N. P. Langford Vigilante Days I. 83 Towards the close of the summer of 1862, the band organized by Plummer [an outlaw] having increased in numbers, he selected two points of rendezvous, as bases for their operations. These were called ‘shebangs’.
b. Applied to a vehicle.
1872‘Mark Twain’ Innoc. at Home i. in Roughing It, etc. (1882) 263 You're welcome to ride here as long as you please, but this shebang's chartered. 1877B. Harte Story of Mine 85 That..don't fetch me even of he'd chartered the whole shebang. 1899A. M. Binstead Houndsditch Day by Day 198 In a four-wheeled fever-box you must take your beaver on your knees or get it hopelessly ruffled against the roof of the old shebang.
c. A low drinking establishment, a tavern.
[1878C. Hallock Hallock's Amer. Club List & Sportsman's Gloss. p. x, Shebang, any sort of structure from a shanty to a hotel.] 1901H. G. Parker Right of Way viii. 49 There were people who called the tavern a ‘shebang’. 1908B. W. Sinclair Raw Gold vi. 68 There was a sort of sheebang—you couldn't call it a hotel if you had any regard for the truth—on the outskirts of Walsh for the accommodation of wayfarers without a camp-outfit. 1963E. C. Guillet Pioneer Farmer & Backwoodsman I. xix. 314 Less picturesque were the shebangs dotted along the rivers, where squaws and whiskey awaited the shanty boys and their winter pay.
2. ‘More widely, almost any matter of present concern; thing; business; as, tired of the whole shebang’ (Funk's Stand. Dict. 1895). Freq. in phr. the whole shebang (see also sense 1 b, quot. 1877).
1869‘Mark Twain’ Lett. to Publishers (1967) 26, I like the book, I like you and your style and your business vim, and believe the chebang will be a success. 1904W. N. Harben Georgians ix. 88, I sold out my shebang, put the money in my pocket. 1924H. Crane Let. 5 Dec. (1965) 196, I am growing more and more sick of factions, gossip, jealousies, recriminations, excoriations and the whole literary shee-bang. 1933E. E. Cummings Let. 13 Sept. (1969) 124 Camels placidly nibble the whole shebang, not merely the smallish but the spike thorns. 1948V. Palmer Golconda xiv. 109 I've..seen him standing up there on one of those outcrops overlooking the company's buildings as if he'd like to call down fire from heaven on the whole shebang. 1967Boston Sunday Herald 7 May iv. 5/2 You can't get rid of the feeling..that the people in charge of the shebang are far more pessimistic and confused than they were the last time you were here. 1977R. E. Megill Introd. Risk Analysis iii. 28 The standard deviation is then calculated by dividing the total number of wells, N, into the sum of all the group deviations..and then taking the square root of the whole shebang. |