“晚上吃什么啊？”“隨便。”“我這個菜味道還不錯吧？”“還行。”

這樣的對話內容熟悉嗎？因為大家聽“隨便”這個回答太多，所以后來有了“沒有‘隨便’這道菜”一說。聽到“還行”就知道其實就是“不好”的意思。你知道嗎？英語里其實也有這樣類似的回答，而且更簡潔呢，就叫meh（音同mei）。

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.

定期光顧聊天室或使用即時信息的人肯定對meh這個回復很熟悉。對于不太了解形勢的人來說，meh是新近在英文網絡新聞、論壇、聊天室以及博客中躥紅的一個感嘆詞，傳達的意思跟“聳聳肩”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.

關于meh這個用法的起源，沒有完全確定的說法，不過大部分引源都顯示2001年《辛普森一家》的劇集中最早使用了meh這個說法。雖然無法給出明確的定義，但meh這個詞在越來越多的場合表示心不在焉的“行”、“隨便”、“看你吧”、“我無所謂”等意思。說這個詞時的具體場景（以及說話時的語氣）可能會讓它具體的意思有所區別，但總的來說，meh通常表示對所聞之事漠然或不關心的態度。

For example:

'Want to go for a walk?' – 'Dunno … Meh.'

“想走走嗎？”——“不知道啊，隨便吧。”

'Do you like my new shirt?' – 'Meh.'

“我的新裙子怎么樣？”——“還行吧。”