tarnation

名词 n. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv. 感叹词 intj.
中文释义
美 /tɑɹˈneɪʃən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act or process of damnation or reprobation; hell. archaic,countable,regional,uncountable
    — What in tarnation is going on?
  2. Someone or something that causes trouble; troublemaker. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — I would say more, but RADLEY's come up to tell me I must go and meet that tarnation BANCROFT.
形容词 adj.
  1. Bothersome; devilish.
    — Now you go 'long back to the house, Marm Winthrop, and if riding 'longside of a popish priest don't speerit me into the bottomless pit, I'll be blamed if I don't go some day into his church and find out what all that tarnation lingo means.
  2. Generic intensifier.
    — Some time in the month o' August, I think it wur, I found myself in London wi'out a tarnation cent.
副词 adv.
  1. Very; extremely.
    — He was so tarnation black you couldn't see him except in the middle of the day.
感叹词 intj.
  1. Used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt, etc. archaic
    — "Tarnation! You all right?" "Hell, no, I ain't all right!"

词形变化

tarnations plural more tarnation comparative most tarnation superlative more tarnation comparative most tarnation superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
what in tarnation

词源

词源 1
From darnation, influenced by tarnal (from eternal); see darn.
词源 2
From darnation, influenced by tarnal (from eternal); see darn.
词源 3
From darnation, influenced by tarnal (from eternal); see darn.
词源 4
From darnation, influenced by tarnal (from eternal); see darn.
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