imprecation

英 [ˌɪmprɪˈkeɪʃn]

美 [ˌɪmprɪˈkeɪʃn]

n.  咒语

复数：imprecations　

GRE

BNC.36580 / COCA.33712

牛津词典

noun

• 咒语
  a curse (= an offensive word that is used to express extreme anger)

柯林斯词典

• 咒骂;辱骂
  Animprecationis something rude, angry, or hostile that is said to or about someone.

英英释义

noun

• the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult)
  1. he suffered the imprecations of the mob
  Synonym:malediction
• a slanderous accusation

双语例句

• Subjunctive mood is a verb form, indicating the speakers intention and attitude, including order, suggest, wish, hypothesis, politeness, imprecation etc.
  虚拟语气是一种动词形式，表示说话人的意图和态度，包括命令、建议、愿望、假设、委婉、祈求等多重含义。
• Let me do not pray to get the asylum in the inclemency, But pray the ability fearlessness of face them, Let I not imprecation I of pain and sufferings will stop, But beg my heart and can conquer it.
  让我不要祈祷在险恶中得到庇护，但祈祷能无畏的面对它们，让我不祈求我的痛苦会停止，但求我的心能征服它。
• He was happy to combine in the same imprecation the two things which he most detested, Prussia and England.
  他以能那样把他最恨的两件东西，普鲁士和英格兰，连缀在一句骂人的话里而感到得意。
• I even once had imprecation, let me have so for a day, there is a pretty woman in the heart, will appear at my standing at present.
  我甚至有过祈求，让我有那么一天，有一个我心中的仙子，会出现在我的眼前。
• The Limits and Surmount of Contracted Social Autonomy's Function& The Political-Ecosystem Imprecation to Civil Society
  契约性社会自治的限度与超越&市民社会的政治生态诉求