• n. 工作；事情；住所

美國內(nèi)戰(zhàn)時士兵俚語，詞源不詳。可能改寫自 shebeen,簡易棚屋搭建的非法售酒處，或來自 法語 chabane,棚屋，小木屋，詞源同 cabin.或純屬擬聲構(gòu)詞，模仿用木頭臨時搭建的屋子嘎 吱嘎吱的聲音，比較 bang,擊打聲。常見于習(xí)語 the whole shebang,全部家當(dāng)，一切。

shebang (n.)

1862, "hut, shed, shelter," popularized among soldiers in the U.S. Civil War, but like other Civil War slang (such as skedaddle) of uncertain origin. Perhaps an alteration of shebeen (q.v.), but shebang in the sense "tavern," a seemingly necessary transitional sense, is not attested before 1878 and shebeen seems to have been not much used in the U.S. Bartlett's 1877 edition describes it as "A strange word that had its origin during the late civil war. It is applied alike to a room, a shop, or a hut, a tent, a cabin; an engine house." Phrase the whole shebang first recorded 1869, but relation to the earlier use of the word is obscure. Either or both senses also might be mangled pronunciations of French char-à-banc, a bus-like wagon with many seats. For an older guess:

[Shebang] used even yet by students of Yale College and elsewhere to designate their rooms, or a theatrical or other performance in a public hall, has its origin probably in a corruption of the French cabane, a hut, familiar to the troops that came from Louisiana, and constantly used in the Confederate camp for the simple huts, which they built with such alacrity and skill for their winter quarters. The constant intercourse between the outposts soon made the term familiar to the Federal army also. ["Americanisms: The English of the New World," Maximillian Schele De Vere, New York, Charles Scribner & Co., 1872.]

1. I'm sick of the whole shebang.

我對整個這件事發(fā)膩了.

來自《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》

2. The whole shebang smells sort of fishy to me.

整個事情使我覺得有點蹊蹺.

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3. Module shebang paper and mounted hinges from the device.

模塊裝入齊紙臺和折頁裝置之間.

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4. Hazy about demand from shebang.

不清楚工作對自己的要求.

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5. We saw the whole shebang.

我們看到了整個事情的經(jīng)過.

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