Anyone who regularly uses chatrooms or instant messaging will almost undoubtedly¹ be familiar with responses consisting only of this little sequence of three letters--meh. For the uninitiated, meh is a new interjection peppering news items, messageboards, chatrooms and blogs across the English-speaking Internet, and it's an informal linguistic² equivalent of a simple shrug³ of the shoulders.

定期光顾聊天室或使用即时信息的人肯定对meh这个回复很熟悉。对于不太了解形势的人来说，meh是新近在英文网络新闻、论坛、聊天室以及博客中蹿红的一个感叹词，传达的意思跟“耸耸肩”的意思差不多。

 

No one is completely certain how the use of meh originated, but most sources quote a 2001 episode of The Simpsons as one of the earliest examples. Impossible to accurately⁴ define, meh is cropping up increasingly to mean something like a non-commital OK, whatever, if you want, I don't mind … Circumstances surrounding its utterance⁵ (and, if spoken, tone of voice) give it a more specific meaning, but in general terms, meh usually implies some kind of indifference⁶ to what has just been said.

关于meh这个用法的起源，没有完全确定的说法，不过大部分引源都显示2001年《辛普森一家》的剧集中最早使用了meh这个说法。虽然无法给出明确的定义，但meh这个词在越来越多的场合表示心不在焉的“行”、“随便”、“看你吧”、“我无所谓”等意思。说这个词时的具体场景（以及说话时的语气）可能会让它具体的意思有所区别，但总的来说，meh通常表示对所闻之事漠然或不关心的态度。