砸在人身上
最原本的用法:對象是一個人,通常是男的。
noun · B2
A very rude name for a man you are angry with, or a man you think is cruel, unfair or dishonest. It is one of the strongest insults in American English and it shocks many listeners.
王八蛋
One way to hold this phrase: it is the heaviest thing a speaker can pick up and throw. Thrown at a man, it is an insult that drags his family in too. Thrown at a job, it makes the job into an opponent that fought back. Thrown at nobody, it is just the sound a person makes when something lands on them. The words never get lighter; what changes is where they are aimed and how the voice carries them.
Middle English had biche-sone, literally the son of a bitch, itself translated word for word from Old Norse bikkju-sonr. The insult has always worked by pointing at the mother in order to bring the man down.
中古英文有 biche-sone,字面就是「母狗的兒子」,而這個講法又是照著古北歐語 bikkju-sonr 一字一字翻過來的。從最早開始,它的打法就是繞過去講對方的母親,藉此把這個人講到最低。
Wiktionary entry for son of a bitch, etymology_text supplied in the evidence packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:764450939:44885)
Three branches
砸在人身上
最原本的用法:對象是一個人,通常是男的。
noun · B2
A very rude name for a man you are angry with, or a man you think is cruel, unfair or dishonest. It is one of the strongest insults in American English and it shocks many listeners.
王八蛋
砸在事情上
對象從人換成一件事,那件事就被當成會反抗的對手。
noun · B2
If a job, a task or a part of a journey is a son of a bitch, it is very hard and it wears you out.
有夠難搞
誰也沒砸到,只是喊出來
沒有對象,只剩下情緒本身衝出口。
interjection · B2
Shouted on its own when something suddenly goes wrong, hurts, or surprises you. It is a strong, rude cry, and the feeling behind it can be anger, pain, shock or even delight.
可惡!/我的天!
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。
son of a bitchnoun
vulgaroffensivederogatoryslangAn objectionable, despicable person.
vulgaroffensivederogatoryslangAny objectionable thing.
vulgarslangAn impressive, daring, or admirable man.
A suffering person deemed deserving of compassion.
son of a bitchintj
vulgarslangUsed to express anger, contempt, astonishment, disappointment, dismay, etc.
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。