bork(v.)
"通过猛烈攻击候选人的职业和信仰来抹黑其形象",1987年,源自美国法官罗伯特·H· Bork(1927-2012)的名字。他在1987年被提名为最高法院法官,但遭到了激烈的反对运动。这并非第一个被用作动词的名字:
[John Quincy Adams's] printed assault upon Jonathan Russell—who had been so ill-advised as to cast doubts upon the patriotism of Adams's conduct at Ghent—was so deadly that for many years afterwards the vocabulary of America was increased, though not enriched, by the transitive verb "to Jonathan-Russell," meaning to pulverize an opponent. [George Dangerfield, "The Era of Good Feeling," 1953]
[约翰·昆西·亚当斯] 对乔纳森·拉塞尔的攻击——他曾不明智地对亚当斯在根特的行为表示怀疑——是如此致命,以至于多年后美国的词汇量增加了,尽管没有丰富,其中包括及物动词“乔纳森-拉塞尔”,意思是粉碎对手。[乔治·丹杰菲尔德,《好感时代》,1953年]
该词起源时间:1987年