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tar·na·tion AHD[tär-nāʹshən] 【新英格兰】 【美国南部】 D.J.[tɑːˈneɪʃən]K.K.[tɑrˈneʃən]n.(名词)- The act of damning or the condition of being damned.诅咒,被诅咒:诅咒的行为或被诅咒的状况
interj.(感叹词)- Used to express anger or annoyance.该死的:用来表示愤怒或烦躁
- tarn(al) tarn(al)
- (damn)ation (damn)ation
注释- The noun and interjectiontarnation illustrate suffixation, the addition of a suffix to a word.Tarnation and darnation (the latter probably having come first) are both euphemistic forms ofdamnation. Tarnationseems to have been influenced by tarnal, another mild oath derived from (e ) ternal! TheOxford English Dictionary cites late-18th-century examples of tarnation from New England, indicating that it has been part of American speech since colonial days.既是名词又是感叹词的tarnation 阐明了加后缀的构词法, 即将一个后缀加到一个词的末尾。Tarnation 和 darnation (后者可能先出现) 都是damnstion这个词的委婉形式。 Tarnation看来是受了 tarnal 一词的影响, 后者是从(e ) ternal 派生出来的一个较温和的诅咒语。 牛津英语辞典 援引了18世纪后期新英格兰地区居民使用 tarnation 一词的例子, 以此说明自殖民地时期起它就是美国语言的一部分
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