zilch

• n. 零，无；无价值之物；小人物
• n. (Zilch)人名；(德)齐尔希

词源不确定，或来自Mr Zilch，漫画小说中不重要的角色，可能是模仿支支吾吾的声音创造出来的人名，引申词义小人物，零等。

1. a quantity of no importance;

"it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"

"reduced to nil all the work we had done"

"we racked up a pathetic goose egg"

"it was all for naught"

"I didn't hear zilch about it"

zilch (n.)

"nothing," 1957; "insignificant person," 1933, from use of Zilch as a generic comical-sounding surname for an insignificant person (especially Joe Zilch). There was a Mr. Zilch (1931), comic character in the magazine "Ballyhoo," and the use perhaps originated c. 1922 in U.S. college or theater slang. Probably a nonsense syllable, suggestive of the end of the alphabet, but Zilch is an actual German surname of Slavic origin.

The [Cadence] agency aims to have each album cover actually promote the record, on the theory that "the day of pretty, boffy, zoomy and zingy covers for the sake of zilch is no more." ["Billboard," Oct. 28, 1957]

At the moment these shares are worth zilch.

现在这些股票一文不值。

柯林斯例句

The team's morale fell to zilch owing to the unexpected defeat.

由于这次出乎意料的失利,球队的士气低落到极点.

互联网

It has zilch chance of happening.

这样的事不可能发生.

互联网