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This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Steve Mirsky.

Iktsuarpok. If you've ever called in a pizza order and then stepped out the door a ?couple of times to see if the delivery guy was there yet, well, you've experienced iktsuarpok. It's an Inuit word that "refers to the anticipation1 one feels when waiting for someone, whereby one keeps going outside to check if they have arrived." That's what University of East London psychologist Tim Lomas wrote in 2016 in the Journal of Positive Psychology2.

Iktsuarpok was just one entry in his paper, titled "Towards a Positive Cross-Cultural Lexicography: Enriching Our Emotional Landscape through 216 'Untranslatable' Words Pertaining3 to Well-Being4." Untranslatable as single words in English, that is.

Other examples include the Georgian word shemomedjamo, meaning to be full but to keep eating because the food is so good; Bantu's mbuki-mvuki, whipping off your clothes to dance; and Waldeinsamkeit—that's a German word for the mysterious, and possibly slightly creepy, solitude5 you may feel when you're in the woods by yourself.

Early this morning, Lomas tweeted another such single word that covers a lot of meaning: Jayus. It's Indonesian, and it means "a joke so unfunny (or told so badly) that you just have to laugh." Why did he tweet that today? Check the calendar. And be filled with melancholy6 and world-weariness. You know. Weltschmertz.

For Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky.


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1 anticipation iMTyh     
n.预期，预料，期望
参考例句：
  • We waited at the station in anticipation of her arrival.我们在车站等着，期待她的到来。
  • The animals grew restless as if in anticipation of an earthquake.各种动物都变得焦躁不安，像是感到了地震即将发生。
2 psychology U0Wze     
n.心理，心理学，心理状态
参考例句：
  • She has a background in child psychology.她受过儿童心理学的教育。
  • He studied philosophy and psychology at Cambridge.他在剑桥大学学习哲学和心理学。
3 pertaining d922913cc247e3b4138741a43c1ceeb2     
与…有关系的，附属…的，为…固有的(to)
参考例句：
  • Living conditions are vastly different from those pertaining in their country of origin. 生活条件与他们祖国大不相同。
  • The inspector was interested in everything pertaining to the school. 视察员对有关学校的一切都感兴趣。
4 well-being Fe3zbn     
n.安康，安乐，幸福
参考例句：
  • He always has the well-being of the masses at heart.他总是把群众的疾苦挂在心上。
  • My concern for their well-being was misunderstood as interference.我关心他们的幸福，却被误解为多管闲事。
5 solitude xF9yw     
n. 孤独; 独居,荒僻之地,幽静的地方
参考例句：
  • People need a chance to reflect on spiritual matters in solitude. 人们需要独处的机会来反思精神上的事情。
  • They searched for a place where they could live in solitude. 他们寻找一个可以过隐居生活的地方。
6 melancholy t7rz8     
n.忧郁，愁思；adj.令人感伤（沮丧）的，忧郁的
参考例句：
  • All at once he fell into a state of profound melancholy.他立即陷入无尽的忧思之中。
  • He felt melancholy after he failed the exam.这次考试没通过，他感到很郁闷。

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