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Rubbish — but meant as a judgement, not a description. You call something dreck when it is of terrible quality and you want to say so with contempt: a bad film, a badly written book, cheap products, empty television. 'That new album is dreck.' It is uncountable, so no 'a dreck' and no plural, and it usually stands alone as the whole verdict, or comes after a word like 'complete', 'utter', or 'pure'. The flavour comes from where it entered English: , where the word means dirt or excrement. So it is coarse in origin, though in English it has into more of a critic's insult than a swear word. It's most at home in American English, especially in New York and in arts journalism, where 'commercial dreck' is almost a set phrase. Many British and most speakers won't recognise it, so it's a word worth understanding when you read reviews rather than one to reach for in conversation.
垃圾貨、爛東西(罵作品或商品品質極差,帶輕蔑口氣)
組成From Yiddish דרעק (drek), meaning dirt or crap, which came from German Dreck — still the ordinary German word for dirt or filth. It arrived in American English through Jewish communities in New York, along with a whole set of Yiddish words that entered the language the same way.
原始詞典資料1 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。
drecknoun/dɹɛk/
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informalTrash; rubbish; useless or worthless stuff.
- Unfortunately, the conversation soon turned into a late-night freshman-year dorm-room debate, as he stumbled into a controversy of his own making by using Holocaust deniers and their appalling falsehoods as an example of how much dreck should be allowed on the platform.
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。