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Deplorable means very bad in a way that shocks you, or that makes you feel someone should be ashamed.
DeplorableDeplorable means very bad in a way that shocks you意思是糟到讓你震驚 or that makes you feel someone should be ashamed或是讓你覺得某人應該感到丟臉
Housing can be in a deplorable state. A person’s manners, a government’s neglect, the condition of a hospital — these are the kinds of things people call deplorable.
Housing can be in a deplorable state住宅的狀況可能會用deplorable來形容。 A person's manners, a government's neglect, the condition of a hospital一個人的舉止、一個政府的失職、一間醫院的狀況 — these are the kinds of things people call deplorable這些都是人們會用deplorable來形容的事
It is a strong, rather formal word: speeches, news, angry letters. You would not usually call a burnt toast deplorable unless you were being funny on purpose.
It is a strong, rather formal word這是一個語氣很強、相當正式的字: speeches, news, angry letters常出現在演講、新聞、憤怒的投書裡。 You would not usually call a burnt toast deplorable通常不會用deplorable來說一片烤焦的吐司 unless you were being funny on purpose除非你是故意在開玩笑
Though actually, people stretch it. Some speakers use it for anything they strongly dislike, which drains a little of the old “this is bad” force.
Though actually不過事實上 people stretch it人們也會延伸這個字的用法。 Some speakers use it for anything they strongly dislike有些人會把它用在任何他們強烈不喜歡的事情上 which drains a little of the old 'this is shamefully bad' force這樣一來,原本「這件事糟到令人羞愧」的力道,就被削弱了一點
In US the plural noun deplorables was used as a label for a group of voters — a fighting, later use of the same word, not the core dictionary sense.
In US politics在美國政治裡 the plural noun deplorables was used as a label for a group of voters複數名詞deplorables曾被用來當作某一群選民的標籤 — a fighting, later use of the same word這是同一個字後來被拿來當作戰鬥用語的用法 not the core dictionary sense不是字典裡的核心意思
組成Borrowed from French déplorable, or from Late Latin dēplōrābilis, plus English -able (“able to be / worthy to be”). By surface analysis: deplore + -able — so “fit to be deplored”.
同家族的字
- deplorethe verb: to condemn or lament something strongly
- deplorablythe adverb
原始詞典資料4 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。
deplorableadj/dɪˈplɔːɹəbl̩/
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To be deplored.
- We were all saddened by the deplorable death of his son.
- [T]he storie of / Your most deplorable fortune at the first warmde mee / With more then modest heates, but since I saw you / I am all fire, and shall turne cyndars, yf / You showe not mercie to mee.
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To be deplored.
- Poor children suffer permanent damage due to deplorable living conditions and deplorable treatment by law enforcement.
- Poor children are often accused of having deplorable manners, when they are, in fact, simply responding to society in ways that mirror how society treats them.
deplorablenoun/dɪˈplɔːɹəbl̩/
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A person or thing that is to be deplored.
- [W]hat better is an old fellow, mauled with rheumatism and other deplorables.
- [H]eralding, this season, an end of the most awful of all apparel abominations, that most despicable of all deplorables, the ankle sock.
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derogatorygovernmentpoliticsA supporter of Donald Trump.
- He [Donald Trump] did not say who “the guys” were—but [John Maguire] Dowd knew he meant the Trump base, the crowds at his rallies, the Fox News watchers, the deplorables.
- Trump's fate, [Steve] Bannon declared, rested with the deplorables, who had to be brought to the kind of fearful emotional pitch that would get them to the polls.
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。