释义 |
darneddarned /dɑːnd $ dɑːrnd/ adjective spoken informal - But you're all going to have to work a darned sight harder.
- He saw now that they only wanted the darned things for analysis.
- Perhaps, after all, a general election is only the sublimation of a darned good riot.
- Seems the boy was flying too low, hit one of those darned electricity cables.
- We were a darned sight better than them.
► a (damn/darned/darn) sight more/better etc- Actually, a damn sight more than from that stiff gherkin Smott.
- I prefer my women a little older and a damn sight more sober.
- If he listened to Anthony Scrivener, he would be a darned sight better.
- Perhaps not up there with Wilburforce but a damn sight more daring than anything Diana ever did!
- The Galapagos finch was a darn sight more valuable than Sandra Willmot.
- We were a darned sight better than them.
1I’ll be darned! used when you are surprised about something: Did they really? I’ll be darned!2I’ll be darned if ... used to emphasize that you will not allow something to happen3darned if I know used to emphasize that you do not know something |