因目睹无谓的暴力与灾祸而生的疲惫——你被迫修正对这个世界的预期，像一个开了线的旧稻草人一样撑着自己，除了站在那里看着，什么也做不了。 A state of exhaustion inspired by acts of senseless violence — propping yourself up like an old scarecrow, able to do nothing but stand there and watch.
A state of exhaustion inspired by acts of senseless violence — propping yourself up like an old scarecrow, able to do nothing but stand there and watch. 因目睹无谓的暴力与灾祸而生的疲惫——你被迫修正对这个世界的预期，像一个开了线的旧稻草人一样撑着自己，除了站在那里看着，什么也做不了。
词源etymology
日语 久延毘古，一般解作 崩え（kue，崩坏、破败）＋ 彦（hiko，男子）——「崩坏之男」， 指被风吹雨打得破破烂烂的稻草人。
Japanese 久延毘古, usually parsed as kue (“crumbling, broken”) + hiko (“young man”) — “the crumbling man”: a scarecrow beaten shapeless by wind and rain.
背景the story
在日本，久延毘古是《古事记》（712 年）里的一位真神——一位稻草人神，不能走路，却知晓天下万物。 大国主在美保岬遇到一位无人识得的小神，是蟾蜍建议去问久延毘古，他一口道出那是神産巣日神之子少名毘古那。 今天他被当作学问与农事之神供奉在奈良县樱井市的久延彦神社（大神神社境内），考生会去求学业。
在英语互联网上，John Koenig 于 2012 年 12 月把这个名字借走，给了它一个全新的含义——那种目睹无谓暴力后的疲惫感。 他取的是那个意象：一个整天站着看世界流过的稻草人，因此见多识广，却也因此被钉在原地。
所以这是一个穿着日文外衣的英文新词。它在两种语言里指着完全不同的东西，而这件事本身， 比任何一边的含义都更值得讲。
In Japan, Kuebiko is a real god of the Kojiki (712 CE) — a scarecrow deity who cannot walk, yet knows everything under heaven. When Ōkuninushi met a tiny god nobody could name at Cape Miho, a toad suggested asking Kuebiko — who named the stranger at once: Sukunabikona, child of Kamimusubi. Today he is enshrined at the Kuebiko Shrine in Sakurai, Nara, as a god of learning and agriculture; students visit before exams.
On the English-speaking internet, John Koenig borrowed the name in December 2012 and gave it a new meaning — the weariness of witnessing senseless violence. He took the image: a scarecrow that stands all day watching the world go by, wise because of it, and nailed in place by it.
So this is an English neologism wearing Japanese clothes. It points at entirely different things in its two languages — and that fact is better than either meaning.
中文里的邻居neighbors in chinese
「哀莫大于心死」太重——那是彻底的绝望，而 kuebiko 里还残留着「想做点什么」的意愿，只是做不到。 更接近的也许是「无力感」三个字，但它太平淡，没有那个站着不动的形象。
哀莫大于心死 (“no grief is greater than a heart gone dead”) is too heavy — that is terminal despair, while kuebiko still holds the wish to do something, only not the power. 无力感 (“powerlessness”) is closer but flat: it has no figure standing in a field.
A state of exhaustion inspired by acts of senseless violence, which force you to revise your image of what can happen in this world — mending the fences of your expectations … and propping yourself up like an old scarecrow, who's bursting at the seams but powerless to do anything but stand there and watch.一种因无谓暴力而起的疲惫——它迫使你修正「这个世界会发生什么」的想象……像一个旧稻草人一样撑住自己：浑身开线，却什么也做不了，只能站在那里看。（中译） John Koenig John Koenig · The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows · 2012
After a week of headlines she could not finish reading, she recognized the feeling as kuebiko — not grief exactly, but the exhaustion of standing upright with nothing to offer. 自拟例句 our own example, not a quotation Doomscrolling past midnight, he finally had a name for it — kuebiko — and turned the phone face-down. 自拟例句 our own example, not a quotation He wasn't sad, exactly. He was kuebiko — upright, stuffed with straw, watching the field burn. 自拟例句 our own example, not a quotation 不在词典中，且母语里不是这个意思。 正式写作不要用。 若在创意写作里使用，建议连它的双重身份一起写——那个稻草人的形象，是这个词最好的部分。
Not in dictionaries — and not what the word means in its home language. Keep it out of formal writing. If you use it in creative writing, bring the double identity along: the scarecrow is the best part of the word.