sic

动词 v. 副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To mark with a bracketed sic.
    — The fact is, of course, that the modern reviewer’s taste is not really shocked by half the things he sics or otherwise castigates, but he must find something to say and above all make a slow of purism.
  2. To incite an attack by, especially a dog or dogs. transitive
    — He sicced his dog on me!
  3. To set upon; to chase; to attack. transitive
    — Sic ’em, Mitzi.
副词 adv.
  1. Thus; as written; used to indicate, for example, that text is being quoted as it is from the source. not-comparable
    — When it is all over they merge and go in a body to visit [...] the Telegraph Office – with plausible expressions of regret and excuses for the mob ‘which’ they say ‘is deplorably ignorant and will not be restrained when its feelings are strongly moved’ – sic, the fact being that the mob’s feelings will never be ‘moved’ unless it is by one of them.
  2. Used in the manner of scare quotes broadly,not-comparable
    — In the past few months, we in Upstate N.Y. have been subjected to fire bombings, firings, verbal and physical harassment, etc. The list goes on and on. These (sic) Christians are calling for a million marchers and may very well get that many.

词形变化

sics present,singular,third-person siccing participle,present sicced participle,past sicced past sics present,singular,third-person siccing participle,present sicced participle,past sicced past sicc alternative sick alternative

词汇关系

相关词
sic pro sic passim sic transit gloria mundi sic semper tyrannis sic bo

词源

词源 1
Learned borrowing from Latin sīc (“thus, so”).
词源 2
Variant of seek.
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