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Strewth is a short shout of surprise, shock, or — close to 'wow!', 'good grief!' or 'oh no!'. You say it when you hear a shocking price, see something , or find that someone has done something foolish. It stands almost alone as a whole utterance: 'Strewth! Look at that!' It is very strongly Australian. Australians will hear it as their own, and it is one of the words used in films and jokes to mark a character as Australian, sometimes so heavily that real Australians find it a bit of a cliché. It was once common in Britain too but now sounds old there — something an older person or an old book would say. It is mild: no one is offended by it, though people who avoid religious language may still not like where it came from. Also spelled 'struth'.
天啊!哇塞!(澳洲人常用的驚呼語;台灣講「我的媽呀」的那種感覺)
組成本來是 God's truth(上帝的真理)這句誓言,講快了、故意講糊了,就變成 strewth。這叫「委婉誓詞」——以前的人不敢直接把 God 掛在嘴上,就把發音扭一下。blimey(來自 God blind me)和 zounds(來自 God's wounds)都是同一種做法。
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。
strewthintj/stɹuːθ/
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A mild oath expressing surprise or generally adding emphasis.
- “Strewth! Here she is,” said the salesman.
- “Strewth,” he whistled. “I reckon that’s a complicated fracture of the right tibia.”
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。