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If you call a place godforsaken, you mean it feels empty, far from other people, and — nothing to look at, nowhere nice to sit, no reason to stay. A godforsaken village might have one shop, a dusty road, and silence after six. A godforsaken hotel might be ugly, lonely, and a long way from town. The picture inside the word is strong: as if God walked away and left the place behind. Though actually, people who say it are often not talking about church at all. They are complaining. They mean “this dump,” “the middle of nowhere,” “a sad, dull spot.” It is almost always used of places (town, village, stretch of road, corner of a building), not of people. It sounds tired and a bit bitter, more spoken than careful writing, and it is not a kind word if someone lives there. You would not put it on a to the mayor.
鳥不生蛋的;荒涼偏僻的(帶「被上帝拋下」的味道)
組成God + forsaken (left behind, given up). As if God went away and never came back.
同家族的字
- forsaketo leave someone or something and not return; forsaken is the left-behind form
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。
godforsakenadj/ˌɡɒd.fə(ɹ)ˈseɪ.kɪn/
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Abandoned by a deity or God.
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Desolate, boring and depressing.
- I wanted nothing more than to get out of that godforsaken place without delay.
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。