expletive
US /ˈek.splə.t̬ɪv/
UK /ɪkˈspliː.tɪv/
名詞
1.
髒話, 咒罵語
an oath or swear word
範例:
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He uttered an expletive when he hit his thumb with the hammer.
他用錘子砸到拇指時，爆出了一句髒話。
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The movie was full of expletives, so it wasn't suitable for children.
這部電影充滿了髒話，所以不適合兒童觀看。
2.
贅詞, 填充詞
a word or phrase inserted into a sentence, especially for emphasis, that is not necessary to the meaning of the sentence
範例:
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The phrase 'there is' in 'There is a cat on the mat' is an expletive construction.
「墊子上有一隻貓」中的「有」是一個贅詞結構。
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In grammar, an expletive can be a word like 'it' or 'there' that fills a syntactic position but adds no semantic meaning.
在語法中，贅詞可以是像「it」或「there」這樣的詞，它們填充句法位置但沒有增加語義。