queer

queer
adjective

noun

verb

[with obj.](informal)spoil or ruin (an agreement, event, or situation)
(非正式)毁坏，搞糟（协议，事件，局面）
Reg didn't want someone meddling and queering the deal at the last minute.
雷吉不想有人在最后时刻瞎折腾，毁了这桩交易。

常用词组
in Queer Street

(Brit. informal, dated)in difficulty, typically by being in debt
(英，非正式，旧)（尤指因负债而）陷入困境

queer someone's pitch

(Brit.)spoil someone's plans or chances of doing something, especially secretly or maliciously
(英)（尤指暗中或不怀好意地）破坏某人的计划（或机会）

派生
queerish
adjective
queerly
adverb
queerness
noun
语源

early 16th cent.: considered to be from German quer 'oblique, perverse', but the origin is doubtful

用法

The word queer was first used to mean ‘homosexual’ in the early 20th century: it was originally, and usually still is, a deliberately offensive and aggressive term when used by heterosexual people. In recent years, however, gay people have taken the word queer and deliberately used it in place of gay or homosexual, in an attempt, by using the word positively, to deprive it of its negative power. This use of queer is now well established and widely used among gay people (especially as an adjective or noun modifier, as in queer rights; queer-bashing) and at present exists alongside the other, deliberately offensive use

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