Curse的意思|Curse的解释-里氏词典

curse [kә:s]

n. 咒骂, 诅咒

vt. 诅咒, 咒骂

Our tribe is under a curse.
我们的部落正受诅咒。
She cursed him for ruining her life.
她诅咒他，说他毁了她的一生。
He bawled out a curse.
他大声咒骂。

curse
curst

[ noun ]

profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger

<noun.communication>

expletives were deleted

an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group

<noun.communication>

an evil spell

<noun.communication>

a witch put a curse on his whole family

he put the whammy on me

something causing misery or death

<noun.state>

the bane of my life

a severe affliction

<noun.event>

[ verb ]

Curse \Curse\, v. i.
To utter imprecations or curses; to affirm or deny with
imprecations; to swear.

Then began he to curse and to swear. --Matt. xxi.
74.

His spirits hear me,
And yet I need must curse. --Shak.

Curse \Curse\, n. [AS. curs. See {Curse}, v. t.]
1. An invocation of, or prayer for, harm or injury;
malediction.

Lady, you know no rules of charity,
Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.
--Shak.

2. Evil pronounced or invoked upon another, solemnly, or in
passion; subjection to, or sentence of, divine
condemnation.

The priest shall write these curses in a book.
--Num. v. 23.

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost. --Old
Proverb.

3. The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which
brings evil or severe affliction; torment.

The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance.
--Shak.

All that I eat, or drink, or shall beget,
Is propagated curse. --Milton.

{The curse of Scotland} (Card Playing), the nine of diamonds.

{Not worth a curse}. See under {Cress}.

Syn: Malediction; imprecation; execration. See {Malediction}.

Curse \Curse\ (k?rs), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cursed} (k?rst) or
{Curst}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Cursing}.] [AS. cursian, corsian,
perh. of Scand. origin; cf. Dan. korse to make the sign of
the cross, Sw. korsa, fr. Dan. & Sw. kors cross, Icel kross,
all these Scand. words coming fr. OF. crois, croiz, fr. L.
crux cross. Cf. {Cross}.]
1. To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury
upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.

Thou shalt not . . . curse the ruler of thy people.
--Ex. xxii.
28.

Ere sunset I'll make thee curse the deed. --Shak.

2. To bring great evil upon; to be the cause of serious harm
or unhappiness to; to furnish with that which will be a
cause of deep trouble; to afflict or injure grievously; to
harass or torment.

On impious realms and barbarous kings impose
Thy plagues, and curse 'em with such sons as those.
--Pope.

{To curse by bell, book, and candle}. See under {Bell}.

Leaves have turned brown and fallen off the beloved 65-foot tree since a potent herbicide was poured at its base in what police said was an attempt by a 45-year-old farm-supply salesman to cast a spell or a curse.
Now he has to sort it out with skeptics, with Democrats who see him as the wrong representative to choose after a presidential election in which the L word _ liberal _ was used by Republicans as a political curse.
He'd curse and yell at her," Sexton said.
The headline of Ms. Kirkpatrick's piece, "Anita Hill's Victims," and her peroration, "And working women may well curse the name of Anita Hill in years to come," have brought the non-ethic of blaming the victim to a new low.
Roger Brinner, economist at DRI McGraw-Hill, the old Data Resources organization so highly esteemed by many economists, recently accused the Federal Reserve of not having the courage to eliminate the cussed curse.
But he is equally relentless about the failings of our society, frequently reminding readers that the U.S. has suffered grievously from the "curse of racism" and other social pathologies.
"God will curse and scorch with hellfire the pale faces which harbor evil for the nation.
Soldiers tell of being demoralized by confrontations with Arab youths who curse them and hurl stones even under gunfire, making troops feel they are fighting a losing battle.
Shortages in this country of 38 million people are a daily curse of life.
May God curse them all." - Saddam Hussein in a New Year's message to his people.
The curse was lifted when he cleansed himself by bathing in the river Pactolus, known today as Sart Cayi, famous for its golden sands.
One other odd feature of the new-issues market is "the winner's curse," Prof.
After a campaign in which Republicans made the word "liberal" into a political curse, most of the Democrats at the Philadelphia conference want a change in the message and a move toward the middle.
Timothy Noble was good as Monterone, who puts a curse on Rigoletto.
Unfortunately, the public has a curse of being a month late and a dollar short."
"We need to reverse the curse on Halloween night," Larry Lea said when he announced his campaign.
Malman did not mention a curse, but such lists are sometimes put on altars by practitioners of voodoo-like Afro-Caribbean religions to place a hex on those named.
Taxi drivers curse their battered Moskvich cars.
This plus the late payment of bills is probably the greatest curse of the small business sector.
Childlessness is a curse, and lots of children are a blessing no matter how poor you are.
Remember the Chinese curse - 'may you live in interesting times'?
My fellow citizens, in this terrible Second World War, in this curse for my generation, I saw and experienced endless suffering, destruction and pain.
As a girl, she saw Babe Ruth play for the Red Sox before his celebrated trade to the New York Yankees 1919, a trade fans have recalled as "the curse of the Bambino" in predicting eventual repetition of the team's late-season collapse.
There have been the tragedies - the dramatic deaths of Grace and Stefano haunted by the curse of the beautiful Flemish girl betrayed by one of Rainier's womanising predecessors who vowed 'Never will a Grimaldi find true happiness in marriage'.
If one believes in the curse, it was perhaps fated that at the start of the Spanish Civil War, Raimundita's daughter would be visiting her aunt and uncle in a village outside Madrid when a group of militiamen came to call.
They were raised through the efforts of Japanese farmers over thousands of years." And indeed, for a long time the bulls seemed to carry a Tut-like curse.
Anyone leaving his house will be punished!" For Jericho, the Israelis are the latest of many invaders, like the warrior Joshua, who felled its famous walls with a blast of trumpets and put a curse on any man who would rebuild the town.
The wicked witch (Bernadette Peters) who lives next door has put a curse on them but tells them that if they will find four items for her, she will lift the curse.
The wicked witch (Bernadette Peters) who lives next door has put a curse on them but tells them that if they will find four items for her, she will lift the curse.
If a man or a woman has the urge to curse, he or she should give the entire audience (grandmothers or not) due consideration.

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