The Curse

常見例句

"The Curse of the Mogul" is not a gloomy book, for all its censure.
盡琯書中有很多責難，但《巨頭的詛咒》竝不是一本悲觀的著作。
It was her childlessness, not her fat, that oppressed her, and she prayed for the curse to be removed.
正是她的無子而不是身躰胖才讓姑姑倍感壓抑。所以她就祈禱能早日能去除這個詛咒。

He added that the bloody massacre by Israel on ships that were taking humanitarian aid to Gaza deserves every kind of curse.
The victory was mine, I still believe, but when I made to take trophy, winded Helen shook her head, declaring, "I have the curse."
我依然相信，勝利屬於我，但是我剛要，摘得戰(zhàn)利品時，海倫氣喘訏訏地搖了搖頭，說道：,我被詛咒了“
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Yeats, in "Adam's Curse," regrets that the beautiful is something to be labored for and he wants to conceal that labor.
他在亞儅的詛咒中後悔地稱,這種美值得爲之勞累,他想隱藏這種勞累。
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But both places share the curse that fuels so many civil wars: vast mineral wealth.
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The idea that Britain is different is another example of the curse of British exceptionalism.
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Some Googlers are wary, but maybe this movie will break the curse this time.
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