Curse

(noun.) profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger; 'expletives were deleted'.

(noun.) a severe affliction.

(verb.) utter obscenities or profanities; 'The drunken men were cursing loudly in the street'.

(verb.) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon; 'The bad witch cursed the child'.

(verb.) heap obscenities upon; 'The taxi driver who felt he didn't get a high enough tip cursed the passenger'.

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• Give my love to your aunt, George dear, and implore her not to curse the viper that has crossed your path and blighted your existence. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I say that these monstrous laws of yours will bring a curse upon the land--God will not let such wickedness endure. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• The curse is laid upon them of being and doing what it approves, and when they attempt first principles the failure is ludicrous. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• With the idea of uncleanness would come ideas of cleansing and of removing a curse. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The curse of St Withold upon them and upon me! 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Single men have, no doubt, a right to curse themselves as much as they please; but men with wives involve two in the doom they pray down. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Well, I won't go to any more of their cursed nonsense, Tom, said St. Clare; on my honor, I won't. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• He cursed and vilified the hilltop. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• In my quiet days, when I was my own man, I never quarrelled with the night for being long, nor cursed my bed for its thorns. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• So many men had cursed him at the end. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• I cursed him before God, and told him I'd die sooner than live with him. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• You are a cursed emigrant, cried a farrier, making at him in a furious manner through the press, hammer in hand; and you are a cursed aristocrat! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing and eating aspirin and cursing harlots. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• They were reviling and cursing him. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Do the best you can,--do what you must,--and make it up in hating and cursing. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• When she mentioned Pablo, Agustín started cursing. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Pilar stopped cursing and listened. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• After me poured a yelling, cheering, cursing throng of Helium's best fighting-men. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Their force has long passed away--Age has no pleasures, wrinkles have no influence, revenge itself dies away in impotent curses. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Curses on your head, and black death on your heart, you imp! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• As for the landlord of the hotel, his curses against the English nation were violent for the rest of his natural life. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I don't care a curse for the T'other governor, alive or dead, but I care a many curses for my own self. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• He dared not own that the severity of the sentence frightened him, and that its fulfilment had come too soon upon his curses. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• He went downstairs, where, by the way, he vented the most horrid curses upon the unoffending footman, his subordinate. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Curst Ate bides upon the threshold stone. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.

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