| 正面 | 6923.curse 英 [kɜːs]美 [kɝs] ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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| 背面 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 释义: 1. 克死.2.【例】Our tribe is under a curse.我们的部族正遭天谴。3.【助记】谐音(克死)—诅骂n. 诅咒;咒骂vt. 诅咒;咒骂vi. 诅咒;咒骂 例句: 1. Apathy is the long-standing curse of British local democracy.冷漠是英国地方民主制度长期以来难以推广的祸根。 curse 诅咒词源不详。 cursecurse: [OE] Curse first appeared in late Old English (in the early 11th century) as curs. It has no known linguistic relatives, and it is not clear where it comes from. Perhaps the most plausible suggestion is that it was borrowed from Old French curuz ‘anger’ (which probably came from the verb *corruptiāre, a Vulgar Latin derivative of Latin corrumpere ‘destroy’ – source of English corrupt), and that curse itself therefore originally meant ‘anger, wrath’. The colloquial alteration cuss dates from the 18th century.=> corrupt, rupturecurse (n.)late Old English curs "a prayer that evil or harm befall one," of uncertain origin, perhaps from Old French curuz "anger," or Latin cursus "course." Connection with cross is unlikely. No similar word exists in Germanic, Romance, or Celtic. Curses as a histrionic exclamation is from 1885. The curse "menstruation" is from 1930. Curse of Scotland, the 9 of diamonds in cards, is attested from 1791, but the origin is obscure.curse (v.)Old English cursian, from the source of curse (n.). Meaning "to swear profanely" is from early 13c. Related: Cursed; cursing." |
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