darn

英 [dɑ?n] 美[dɑrn]

TEM8低頻詞擴展詞匯

復數:?darns;第三人稱單數:?darns;過去式:?darned;過去分詞:?darned;現在分詞:?darning;

Darn：大恩。慈母手中線，游子身上衣。母愛是世間最大的恩情----織補衣物。

darn 織補，該死的

1.織補，來自PIE*dher, 固定，支撐，詞源同endure, firm. 引申詞義織補。

2.該死的，來自damn的委婉語。

darn: darn: English has two distinct words darn. The verb ‘mend with stitches’ [16] may come ultimately from an Old English verb diernan ‘hide’, a derivative of the adjective dierne ‘secret’, which in turn was descended from West Germanic *darnjaz. Darn the mild curse [18], which arose in American English, is usually taken to be a euphemistic alteration of damn, although it has been suggested, not very plausibly, that it too came from dern, the modern English descendant of Old English dierne, in the sense ‘dark, dreary’.
darn (v.): "to mend" c. 1600, perhaps from Middle French darner "mend," from darne "piece," from Breton darn "piece, fragment, part." Alternative etymology is from obsolete dern (see dern). Related: Darned; darning.
darn (interj.): tame curse word, 1781, American English euphemism for damn, said to have originated in New England when swearing was a punishable offense; if so, its spread was probably influenced by 'tarnal, short for Eternal, as in By the Eternal (God), favorite exclamation of Andrew Jackson, among others (see tarnation). Related: darned (past participle adjective, 1806); darndest (superlative, 1844).

5. Why don't you switch the darn thing off and listen to me!: 把那討厭的東西關掉，專心聽我講話好不好！