3VERB (尤指用粗话)抱怨,发牢骚;咒骂 If you curse something, you complain angrily about it, especially using rude language. (尤指用粗话)抱怨,发牢骚;咒骂
So we set off again, cursing the delay, towards the west. [VERB noun]
于是,我们一面抱怨延误了时间,一面又朝西出发了。
She silently cursed her own stupidity. [VERB noun]
她在心里默默地骂自己愚蠢。
4N-COUNT 诅咒;咒语 If you say that there is a curse on someone, you mean that there seems to be a supernatural power causing unpleasant things to happen to them. 诅咒;咒语
Maybe there is a curse on my family. [+ on/upon]
可能我的家族受到了诅咒。
He's been the object of a voodoo curse.
他受到伏都教的诅咒。
5N-COUNT [usually singular]祸根;祸端;祸水 You can refer to something that causes a great deal of trouble or harm as a curse . 祸根;祸端;祸水
Apathy is the long-standing curse of British local democracy. [+ of]
冷漠是英国地方民主制度长期以来难以推广的祸根。
Summer colds are a terrible curse.
夏季感冒是极其糟糕的事。
Quotations
A plague o' both your housesWilliam ShakespeareRomeo and Juliet
How comes it that you curse, Frère Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my languageFrançois RabelaisGargantua
[Cursing] is an operation which in literature, particularly in the drama, is commonly fatal to the victim. Nevertheless, the liability to a cursing is a risk that cuts but a small figure in fixing the rates of life insuranceAmbrose BierceThe Devil's Dictionary