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"Rats!" is a small cry of or disappointment. You drop your ice cream, you miss the last train, you see a typing mistake after you hit send — and you say "Rats!" It is mild.
"Rats!"「Rats!」 is是 a small cry小小的驚呼 of annoyance or disappointment懊惱或失望時發出的 You drop your ice cream你把冰淇淋弄掉了 you miss the last train你錯過了最後一班車 you see a typing mistake after you hit send你按下傳送後才看到打字錯誤 and you say "Rats!"這時就會說「Rats!」 It它 is mild語氣很溫和
It is a little old-fashioned and a little cartoonish, so young people may use "ugh" or a real swear word instead; , children's books, and people who do not want to swear still like this one.
It它 is a little old-fashioned有點老派 and a little cartoonish也有點卡通感 so young people may use "ugh" or a real swear word instead所以年輕人可能會改說「ugh」或真的髒話 grandparents, children's books, and people who do not want to swear爺爺奶奶、童書、還有不想罵髒話的人 still like this one還是喜歡用這個字
Nobody in that moment means the animal. You say it as its own little burst, often at the start of the sentence.
Nobody沒有人 in that moment在那個當下 means the animal是在指那種動物 You say it你會把它 as its own little burst當成一個獨立的小驚呼說出來 often at the start of the sentence常常放在句子的開頭
Though actually, the same spelling in other sentences still means the animals — so the and the voice tell you which job the word is doing.
Though actually不過其實 the same spelling同樣的拼法 in other sentences在別的句子裡 still means the animals還是指那些動物 so the punctuation and the voice所以標點符號和語氣 tell you which job the word is doing會告訴你這個字現在在做哪個工作
組成It does not split. People took the animal name rat and used the plural as a mild cry of annoyance, the way some people say "oh sugar" instead of a real swear word.
同家族的字
- ratthe animal name; the cry borrows that word as a mild show of annoyance
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。
ratsintj/ɹæts/
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informalAn expression of annoyance or disgust; damn, darn.
- 2
informalAn expression of disbelief.
- "It's damned clever — fair puzzles 'em every time. How d'ye get them?" "I tell you I don't. It's outside myself." "Rats! You can tell me, Tom. I'm Griffiths, the safe man."
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。