“晚上吃什么啊？”“随便。”“我这个菜味道还不错吧？”“还行。”
这样的对话内容熟悉吗？因为大家听“随便”这个回答太多，所以后来有了“没有‘随便’这道菜”一说。听到“还行”就知道其实就是“不好”的意思。你知道吗？英语里其实也有这样类似的回答，而且更简洁呢，就叫meh（音同mei），这个词在2015年6月刚刚被收录进《牛津英语词典》。
Anyone who regularly uses chatrooms or instant messaging will almost undoubtedly 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 linguistic equivalent of a simple shrug 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 accurately 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 utterance (and, if spoken, tone of voice) give it a more specific meaning, but in general terms, meh usually implies some kind of indifference to what has just been said.
