expletive
英 [ɪkˈspliːtɪv]
美 [ˈeksplətɪv]
n. (愤怒或痛苦时用的)秽语，咒骂语，感叹语
复数：expletives
BNC.23042 / COCA.16119
牛津词典
noun
- （愤怒或痛苦时用的）秽语，咒骂语，感叹语
a word, especially a rude word, that you use when you are angry, or in pain
柯林斯词典
- 脏字;咒骂语
Anexpletiveis a rude word or expression such as 'Damn!' which you say when you are annoyed, excited, or in pain.
英英释义
noun
- profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger
- expletives were deleted
- a word or phrase conveying no independent meaning but added to fill out a sentence or metrical line
双语例句
- Your community actually wants you to sell the [ expletive] out and work in law, accounting or banking.
你的社群指望着你他妈出人头地，进入法律、会计或银行业工作。 - Israeli windsurfing bronze medalist Shahar Zubari used a scatological expletive to describe the Chinese in an interview with the Yediot Ahronot daily on Friday.
上周五，帆板铜牌得主以色列选手沙哈里-祖巴里在接受《以色列日报》采访时用脏话形容中国人。 - DW: God knows, there have been times in my life when I was done an injustice, or had every right to respond with an expletive.
沃克：老天爷知道，在我生命中有多少次遭遇不义之举时，我完全有理由骂回去。 - The use of the expletive words, which do not exist in Chinese, enforces the completeness of sentence structure.
填补词的使用使英语句子结构更完整，在汉语中则不用。 - The DP in question will not be subject to the case filter, due to its being part of the inner small clause which functions as a predicate for the expletive there.
DP由于和表场所的短语构成一个主谓短语做谓语，所以，它就不存在赋格的问题。 - I mean, I just about ( expletive) in my pants.
我的意思是，我只是在说（咒骂）我的裤子。 - Theoretically, it is consistent with the Principle of Full Interpretation and the Principle of Economy, according to which the expletive it must be derived by movement, contrary to the traditional view of expletive-insertion.
从理论上说，本分析方法与充分解释原则以及经济原则的精神完全相一致。根据这些原则，虚词it必须由移位生成，而不能像传统观点上所认为的通过虚词插入产生的。 - On word order: Subject-less sentences can be used in Chinese to show the meaning of euphemism while English tends to use passive voice or expletive words.
在词序方面，汉语中使用无主句可表达委婉语气，英语中不能省略主语，但能用空语类或使用被动态表达委婉语气； - The syntactic status of expletive there and some related theoretical issues
虚词there的句法地位及相关理论问题 - The agreement between the DP and the main tensed T is accounted for by the fact that there is an agreement between the expletive there and its predicate& the inner small clause.
而该谓语与there存在着数的一致性要求，这就解释了为什么there与DP之间存在着一致性的要求。