stone the crows
英语[编辑]
词源[编辑]
在20世纪10年代原为澳大利亚英语，“指以前看守农田并用石头砸糟蹋庄稼的乌鸦的职业”。[1]
发音[编辑]
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叹词[编辑]
- (英國，澳大利亞，口語) 天啊 （表达惊讶或仅强调的一般化叹词）
- 1924, C. J. Dennis, “Rose Of Spadgers”, 出自 Sentimental Bloke and Other Verses, 出版於 1988，頁號 86:
- “Why, stone the crows! I′ll look yous up,” sez ′e. / “I need some friends: I ain′t got wife nor chick.”
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- 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books，頁號 141:
- The he pinched himself to make sure he was really awake, "Stone the crows!" he said softly. "Stone the crows!"
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- 1988, Janette Turner Hospital, Charades，頁號 63:
- So I says to meself: stone the crows, I′m a doomed man, might as well shoot through. It was cyclone time, see, and there′s been flash floods and this rock as big as a house has gone.
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- 2008, Norman Jorgensen, Jack′s Island, ReadHowYouWant, 出版於 2011，頁號 170:
- ‘Stone the crows,’ I whispered in sheer relief.
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用法说明[编辑]
可以和其他类似俗语一起使用，比如：stone the crows and pickle the lizards。
近义词[编辑]
参考资料[编辑]
- ↑ James Lambert The Macquarie Book of Slang (Sydney: Macquarie Library) 1996.