Slang A distinctive emotional aura or atmosphere regarded as being instinctively sensed or experienced. Often used in the plural.

一种独特的情绪上的气氛或者环境，被认为能被直觉感觉到的。经常用在复数中。

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But then I found in the Bloomsbury Dictionary of Contemporary Slang a very similar entry supposedly dating from the 1980s in Britain.

不过后来，我在《布隆·贝里当代俚语词典》里看到一个非常类似的条目，据推测出自1980年代的英国。

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A few of these slang terms prove so useful that they graduate into respectable society.

这些俚语中的一些被证明是十分有用的，因而逐渐进入了上流社会。

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meaning killed. The Random House Historical Dictionary of Slang provides a possible explanation for the use of eighty-six in restaurants.

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I am told that it plays on a slang phrase then current, "to make a gazebo of yourself," meaning"to make a spectacle of yourself and a fool of yourself, publicly."

有人告诉我这是当时的说法,建筑楼台意思是“,当众出丑,大庭广众下出洋相“

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They speak loudly and warmly to each other in an accent that alternates between a drawling slang and a polite and mannered form of address.

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