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
- Coercion is a dirty word to most liberals now, but it need not forever be so.
对大多数自由主义者来说，「强制」是脏话，但无需永远是这样的。 - 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。 - To many people "compromise" is a dirty word.
对于许多人来说，妥协是个忌讳字眼。 - Isn't that a dirty word in the whole "keeping it casual" scenario?
当初“随意交往”不是你提出来的吗？ - Profit wasn't a dirty word.
利润这个词也不是那么难听。 - And I knew that word "nigger" was a dirty word.
我知道那是个脏字。 - The term stimulus is already a dirty word, even within the Obama administration.
刺激已变成一个肮脏的字眼，甚至在奥巴马政府内部也是如此。 - Holiday is a dirty word to most people in this office.
对这个办公室的大多数人来说，假期是很令人讨厌的。 - 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。 - 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。