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A written spelling of "son of a bitch" said fast, the way it actually sounds in the mouths of some American speakers — the three words down into two , SUM-bitch. This is a strong swear word, and I want you to understand it rather than use it. It is used two ways. , at a person: "that sumbitch stole my truck." But also, surprisingly, or with admiration, about a person or even a thing: "the old sumbitch still runs" about a car, or a laugh and "you sumbitch" to a friend who just won. Tone of voice decides which one it is, and that is very hard for a to hear correctly. You will meet this spelling in novels, films, and song lyrics, almost always in the mouth of a rural or working-class American character, often Southern. Writers spell it this way on purpose to show you how the person talks. It is not a separate word from "son of a bitch" — it is the same word written down as sound. Read it, understand it, and leave it alone in your own speech.
「狗娘養的」「這王八蛋」的美式口語連音寫法(son of a bitch 唸快變成的)。台灣的字幕常翻成「這狗娘養的」「這混帳」。要注意這個字有時候不是罵人,是帶著佩服或親近在講,像台語的「這夭壽的還真行」那種語氣,翻成中文很難照字面走。
組成It does not split into meaningful pieces. It is one phrase — son of a bitch — worn down by fast speech and then written the way it sounds. This kind of spelling has a name: eye dialect. Writers use it to put an accent on the page.
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。
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。