dirty word
英 [ˈdɜːti wɜːd]
美 [ˈdɜːrti wɜːrd]
令人讨厌的字眼; 脏字; 粗鄙的字眼
英英释义
noun
- a word that is considered to be unmentionable
- `failure' is a dirty word to him
 
 - an offensive or indecent word or phrase
 
双语例句
- Mortgage-backed security, a dirty word no longer?
抵押贷款担保证券,终于“解禁”? - Why is feminism a dirty word? Why is motherhood seen as the ultimate goal for every woman? Why are pants getting smaller?
为何女权主义成为一个禁忌字眼?为何为人母会被视为所有女性的终极目标?为何女性的裤子正越来越缩水? - After all, during most of the past decade, as Japanese prices gently drifted down, Western economists and policymakers have recoiled in horror; deflation has been a dirty word.
毕竟,过去十年里,随着日本物价在大部分时间缓慢下降,西方经济学家和政策制定者感到惊恐;通缩是一个贬义词。 - Everybody uses "supernatural" like it's a dirty word.
每个人使用超自然这个词的时候认为它是个不好的词。 - Oh no I know, a dirty word.
哦不,我知道一个脏词。 - Hearsay: What toddlers do when anyone mutters a dirty word.
道听途说:蹒跚学步的孩子在听到有人讲脏话时做的事。 - Yasukuni Shrine – a dirty word linked with WII war criminals.
一个二战战犯之类的脏词。 - Deficit spending seems to be turning into something of a dirty word in Washington, D.
在华盛顿,透支看起来开始成为禁忌字眼。 - Even before last September's meltdown, Barack Obama was trying to nudge his compatriots towards the idea that government is not always a dirty word.
早在去年9月份政治权利变更以来,奥巴马不断试图提醒他的同胞们,政府并不总是给人负面的印象。 - And I knew that word "nigger" was a dirty word.
我知道那是个脏字。 
