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Doggone is a soft, rather old American way to show you are a bit , or to make a feeling stronger, without using a real swear word. People say that doggone… before a thing that is bothering them, or doggone it when something goes wrong. Though actually, it is not always angry: a person can also say a doggone good pie, using it only to press on the feeling. It stands in for a much harder curse that uses God's name. Older speakers and country speech use it more than young city speakers. It is informal. You would not put it in a school essay, and you will hear it far more in American English than in British English.
「該死的」、「真是的」(美式口語;不是狗,是把更重的髒話改輕來說)
組成A milder stand-in for goddamn or goddamned. Speakers changed the sounds so they were not quite saying the holy name or the hard curse.
原始詞典資料3 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。
doggoneverb/ˈdɒɡ.ɒn/
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dialectalTo damn; to curse.
- […] doggoning something or other with deep sincerity.
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。