expletive
expletive 英 [ɪkˈspli:tɪv] 美 [ˈeksplətɪv]
adj. 附加的；填补的 n. 填补物；咒骂语
名词复数:expletives
- An expletive is a swear word, a curse you let out when you are startled or mad. You probably already know a lot of expletives, but you don’t need to see them here, no way in heck.
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- adj. 附加的；填补的
- n. 填补物；咒骂语
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1. If you’re a basketball purist, that’s the [expletive] you want to see.
如果你是一名篮球纯粹主义者，那就正是你会想要见识的东西。
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2. The people around her that are full of (expletive), just agreeing with her, like, it’s kind of crazy.
她周围的那些人满怀（咒骂语），总是附和她，一切都疯了。
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3. The Save: So Gibbo’s been a naughty boy and had some filthy, expletive-peppered rants splashed all over the news.
拯救策略：吉普森一直是个淘气男人,在各地的新闻里都有一些他肮脏胡言乱语的咒骂之词。
- expletive (adj.) mid-15c., in grammar, "correlative," from Latin expletivus "serving to fill out" (see expletive (n.)).
- expletive (n.) 1610s, "a word or phrase serving to fill out a sentence or metrical line," from Middle French explétif (15c.) and directly from Late Latin expletivus "serving to fill out," from explet-, past participle stem of Latin explere "fill out, fill up, glut," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + plere "to fill" (from PIE root *pele- (1) "to fill").
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