darning

1. V-T If you darn something knitted or made of cloth, you repair a hole in it by sewing stitches across the hole and then weaving stitches in and out of them. 織補(bǔ)

Aunt Emilie darned old socks. 埃米莉阿姨把舊襪子補(bǔ)好了。

2. N a patch of darned work on a garment 縫補(bǔ)處

3. ADJ People sometimes use darn or darned to emphasize what they are saying, often when they are annoyed. 該死的; 可惡的 (表示厭惡)[非正式] [ADJ n]

There's not a darn thing he can do about it. 在這件事上你根本什么都做不了。

4. ADV Darn is also an adverb. 非常地[ADV adj/adv]

...the desire to be free to do just as we darn well please. …自由地做我們真正想做的事情的渴望。

5. PHRASE You can say I'll be darned to show that you are very surprised about something. 我太驚奇了[美國英語] [非正式]

"A talking pig!" he exclaimed. "Well, I'll be darned."

“一頭會(huì)說話的豬！”他驚叫到，“啊，我太驚奇了”。