katzenjammer

英 ['k?tz?n,d??m?] 美[,k?ts?n'j?m?]

katzenjammer (n.): 1849, "a hangover," American English colloquial, from German katzen, comb. form of katze "cat" (see cat (n.)) + jammer "distress, wailing" (see yammer). Hence, "any unpleasant reaction" (1897).
Pleasure can intoxicate, passion can inebriate, success can make you quite as drunk as champagne. The waking from these several stages of delights will bring the same result--Katzenjammer. In English you would call it reaction; but whole pages of English cannot express the sick, empty, weary, vacant feeling which is so concisely contained within these four German syllables. ["Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine," August 1884]
Katzenjammer Kids "spectacularly naughty children" is from title of comic strip first drawn by German-born U.S. comic strip artist Rudolph Dirks (1877-1968) in 1897 for the "New York Journal." It was temporarily de-Germanized during World War I:
"THE SHENANIGAN KIDS" is the new American name for the original "Katzenjammer Kids." Although the original name and idea were pure Holland Dutch, some people may have had the mistaken impression that they were of Germanic origin, and hence the change. It is the same splendid comic as in the past. [International Feature Service advertisement in "Editor & Publisher," July 6, 1918]

1. The taxi driver tried to cure his katzenjammer with aspirin.: 那個(gè)出租車司機(jī)想用阿斯匹林治他的宿醉).

2. Williams showed the symptoms of the psychological katzenjammer newcomers know so well.: 威廉斯先生顯示出新人所熟悉的那種心理上不安的癥狀.

3. The speaker's speech produced a public katzenjammer which forced him to retract certain statements.: 那演講者的演講引起了公開(kāi)的騷動(dòng),而迫使他收回某些聲明.