判決本身
核心畫面沒有被稀釋的那一半：字還帶著實際內容。
adjective · C1
Judged by God to go to hell; under a curse and beyond saving. Used about people, and also about places or things that seem to be abandoned by God.
被詛咒的；被判入地獄的
核心畫面
Picture a verdict that cannot be appealed. Somebody has been damned — judged, cursed, sent down, with no way back. That is the full weight of the word. Now picture people saying that verdict over a printer that will not start, or a bus that is late again. A curse used every day wears thin, and what is left is not a judgement any more, only heat. Most of what you will meet is that worn-down heat; the verdict itself survives in stories, songs and religious writing.
可以想成一個不能上訴的判決。某個人被 damned 了——被判了、被詛咒了、押下去了，沒有回頭路。這是這個字原本的重…更多收起
可以想成一個不能上訴的判決。某個人被 damned 了——被判了、被詛咒了、押下去了，沒有回頭路。這是這個字原本的重量。接著再想像有人把這句判決拿去對著一台發不動的印表機、一班又誤點的公車講。詛咒天天用就會磨薄，磨到最後剩下的不是判決，只剩火氣。你在現代英文裡遇到的多半是這股磨薄了的火氣；原本那個判決則留在故事、歌詞和宗教文本裡。From the word’s history
Wiktionary gives damned as the simple past and past participle of damn, which is why the judged reading is the older shape of the word.
Wiktionary 記錄 damned 是動詞 damn 的過去式與過去分詞，所以「被判了」這個讀法是這個字比較原始的形狀，其他用法都從這個形狀長出來。
Wiktionary, entry "damned" verb section (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1049323442) — simple past and past participle of damn
Two branches
被磨薄成情緒的那一半
同一句詛咒，用到太順口，內容掉光了，只剩下說話的人有多火。
adjective · B2
Used before a noun to show that you are angry, annoyed or impatient about it. It adds feeling rather than meaning: "this damned printer" says the printer is the thing you are cross with.
該死的（表示惱火）
原始詞典資料5 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。
damnedadj/dæmd/
- 1
Godforsaken.
- You're children of the damned // like candles, watch them burn // burning in the light // you'll burn again tonight.
damnedadv/dæmd/
- 1
vulgarVery.
- What's so damned important about a football game?
- […] Jacques Cartier found the new country quite exciting, gleefully naming it Canada, from the Eskimo word canuck, which I’m told means, “I’m damned sick of all this snow and that polar bear tried to eat me.”
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。