He uttered several vigorous expletives when he dropped the iron on his foot. 他的熨斗掉下砸在脚上, 他随口骂了几声.
`Damn!' is an expletive. `该死!'是咒骂语.
A word that stands in place of and anticipates a following word or phrase. In the sentence There are many books on the table, the word there functions as an expletive. 语助词一个单词代替或提前指代某一后面的词或短语。在句子有许多书在桌子上中,单词there的功能就是一个语助词
expletive
[ noun ]
profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger
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a word or phrase conveying no independent meaning but added to fill out a sentence or metrical line
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Expletive \Ex"ple*tive\, a. [L. expletivus, from expletus, p. p. of explere to fill up; ex out+plere to fill, akin to plenus full: cf. F. expl['e]tif. See {Full}.] Filling up; hence, added merely for the purpose of filling up; superfluous. ``Expletive imagery.'' --Hallam.
Expletive phrases to plump his speech. --Barrow.
Expletive \Ex"ple*tive\, n. A word, letter, or syllable not necessary to the sense, but inserted to fill a vacancy; an oath.
While explectives their feeble aid to join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line. --Pope.
"You (expletive), you're not my partner; you don't tell me how to spend my money," Mrs. Helmsley once said, according to a former underling who was a prosecution witness at her federal trial on extortion and tax fraud charges.
New "Mondo" converts returned to their seats, clutching T-shirts embossed with an expletive.
What's Jello going to do?" Campbell kept it clean for "Donahue," although Bob DeMoss _ director of the conservative Focus on Family _ stunned Phil with an expletive that was heard in some markets where the show is broadcast live.
DeMoss later apologized, and NBC received dozens of phone calls about the expletive.
Asked about living conditions, they laughed bitterly and one uttered an expletive.
"I don't know why the (expletive) I'm holding this stock," he says, declining to comment further.
Apologies don't mean (expletive).
"No (expletive)," Cronin, then 59 and on his second-to-last flight, replied.
One shot into the net produced a particular grimace from the president and an expletive between clenched teeth. "Sorry," he said quickly.