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In British English, if you bollock someone, you tell them off in an angry, sharp way — you make it very clear you do not like what they have done. It is informal, and it is rude. You would not put it in a school essay, and you would not say it to a teacher. Friends and might say it to each other (“The boss bollocked me for being late”). Though actually the word first meant a — literally a “little ball” — and that older meaning is still alive in bollocks, which British people also shout when something goes wrong. The angry-telling-off meaning grew out of that rough body-part talk. American English almost never uses this verb; Americans would say tell off or chew out.
痛罵、臭罵(英式粗話;課堂上說「罵一頓」即可)
組成From Old English bealluc, a testicle, literally “little ball.” By the pieces you can still see: ball + -ock (a small one).
同家族的字
- ballthe root: a round thing; the old word meant a little ball
- bollocksthe usual British plural; also a swear word when things go wrong
- bollockingthe telling-off itself, as a noun
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
bollocknoun/ˈbɒ.lək/
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vulgarA testicle.
- You've got a bollock hanging out of your shorts.
bollockverb/ˈbɒ.lək/
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vulgarTo reprimand severely and grossly.
- The boss bollocked me for coming in late.
- The goalkeeper gave his defenders a bollocking when they made a mistake.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。