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
- As far as she is concerned, cooking is a dirty word!
就她而言，烹调是件讨厌的事。 - My children think that work is a dirty word!
我的孩子都觉得这项工作讨厌。 - 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。 - For many teachers, change is dirty word.
对许多教师来说，变化是个令人讨厌的字眼。 - 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。 - 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。 - For the environmentally aware, 'disposable' has become a dirty word.
从环保角度考虑，“一次性”已变成了一个忌讳的字眼。 - But I doubt that Bernanke would choose such language today; in the current climate, particularly in the US, "monetisation" is a dirty word.
但我怀疑伯南克如今会选择这样的措辞：在当前环境下，尤其是在美国，“货币化”已成为一个禁忌字眼。 - Profit wasn't a dirty word.
利润这个词也不是那么难听。 - 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。