Awesomesauce 赞酱

Awesomesauce is an informal term describing someone or something as extremely good or excellent.

Awesomesauce（超赞的、棒呆的）是种非正式用语，用于形容某人或某事物特别棒或极好的。

 

If you want to describe something as excellent, you can use awesomesauce; on the other side of the coin, anything of a poor or disappointing standard is weak sauce. Weak sauce came first, and has a comprehensible origin as a metaphor²; an inadequate³ sauce would certainly let down an otherwise decent meal. Though awesomesauce clearly comes from the words awesome¹ and sauce, the former is currently beating the latter in the Oxford⁴ English Corpus and Oxford Twitter Corpus.

如果你想形容一样东西很棒，你可以用“awesomesauce”；相反，很差劲、令人失望的东西就是“weak sauce（弱酱）”。先出现的是“weak sauce（弱酱）”，这个词是个来源很好理解的比喻：酱汁不够好肯定会让美食变味。虽然“awesomesauce（赞酱）”明显是 “awesome（很赞的）”和“sauce（酱汁）”组合起来，但它现在已经在牛津英语语料库和牛津推特语料库把“弱酱”打败了。