He sat, cursing himself, till his tea was stewed. 他坐着咒骂自己,直到把茶煮浓了。
Curse \Curse\ (k?rs), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cursed} (k?rst) or {Curst}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Cursing}.] [AS. cursian, corsian, perh. of Scand. origin; cf. Dan. korse to make the sign of the cross, Sw. korsa, fr. Dan. & Sw. kors cross, Icel kross, all these Scand. words coming fr. OF. crois, croiz, fr. L. crux cross. Cf. {Cross}.] 1. To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.
Thou shalt not . . . curse the ruler of thy people. --Ex. xxii. 28.
Ere sunset I'll make thee curse the deed. --Shak.
2. To bring great evil upon; to be the cause of serious harm or unhappiness to; to furnish with that which will be a cause of deep trouble; to afflict or injure grievously; to harass or torment.
On impious realms and barbarous kings impose Thy plagues, and curse 'em with such sons as those. --Pope.
{To curse by bell, book, and candle}. See under {Bell}.
When police ordered the 1985 eviction, the adult MOVE members refused to come out and kept their children with them, cursing the police through bullhorns and promising to fight them.
The day a stranger forced his way into Nancy Ziegenmeyer's car, cursing her for being white and savagely assaulting her, was just the first of two events that changed her life.
If you were one of those New Yorkers trapped in Seventh Avenue traffic somewhere between 33rd and Central Park on a certain day last June, you may as well know what the roadblock was you were cursing.
Cut off from his company and half his family, he spends much of his time pounding out long letters to lawyers and friends, pouring over Amerco results and cursing the day he first dreamed of a family dynasty.
A policewoman took the shirt from Miss Forman last month after forcing her to remove it at Jerusalem's central bus station when an angry crowd of 50 surrounded the girl, cursing her.