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noun djuːsd(j)us 1North American The two on dice or playing cards. 骰子（或纸牌）中的二 a doctored die having two deuces Example sentencesExamples - The deuce of clubs starts - the holder leads it to the first trick.
- In this version, both deuces of Clubs are removed from the combined cards.
- Betting big with a pair of deuces in Texas Hold 'Em could lead to a third deuce and a win on ‘the river.’
- The deuce of each suit is called the sow (die Sau).
- Likewise, if a good player with deuces showing is calling a bet by a pair of Kings, chances are good that the deuces won't lose because Aces over deuces or rolled up deuces are likely.
- If anyone goes out of cards during ‘the Count’, the game continues until someone is unable to play a deuce or an ace, and draws their cards.
- I looked down to find a useless deuce as my stranger and fired a bet out there, while positively holding the worst hand (still a pair of queens).
- After the deuces are picked up, there is one more round of betting, then it's time for the surviving players to show their cards.
- All of the deuces and jokers are wild cards.
- If a joker or deuce is discarded, it is placed crosswise on the discard pile so that it remains visible when other cards are discarded on top of it.
- Some players play with both jokers and with the deuce of spades as the third highest trump in the game.
- Yet we don't count up two diamonds from the deuce and two from the trey, but treat each card as a complete unity.
- The dealer gave her a deuce and she jumped from fifth place to second place and earned $22,000 in doing so.
- Let's say everybody is dealt a bunch of small cards and the dealer has a deuce up.
- ‘Five Card Draw, deuces wild,’ David announced, deftly dealing out the cards.
- The high-low deuces were introduced, and the multiple scoring (where strikes were counted apart from points) was devised.
- But see, you never knew, because deuces became treys in the outer boroughs.
- This can only be bid by the dealer, and is only allowed if the dealer holds the ace, king and deuce of trumps.
- At other times, it's always deuces when they aren't wild.
- In some games certain cards are wild - either the deuces or a joker added to the deck - and in some games there is a cumulative jackpot which is won by a high hand such as a royal flush.
- 1.1 A throw of two at dice.
掷骰子所得的二 Example sentencesExamples - My double-down blackjack bets drew deuces, the ball avoided my numbers in roulette like it owed them money, and if a player needed a card to beat me, then by God, that card was gonna come.
- If he should now throw 2 deuces for a total of 5, the player then throws all five dice for the third throw.
- 1.2dated, informal A two-dollar bill.
〈非正式，旧〉两美元纸币 a deuce for the hat-check girl Example sentencesExamples - Sure enough, I handed over a twenty and said "two please", back came three fresh Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond deuces.
- The Legal Tender deuces have always held a special attraction to collectors.
2Tennis
The score of 40 all in a game, at which each player needs two consecutive points to win the game. 〔网球〕局末平分；盘末平分 the Swede pegged him back to deuce from 40-love a marathon game that went to eleven deuces Example sentencesExamples - They had a match point in the semi-final against the Cantrells, but Burdett served a double fault on the sudden-death second deuce in which this point is decisive under the rules of the competition designed to prevent drawn-out matches.
- Schnyder, serving for the match at 6-5, trailed 0-40 but held her serve after three deuces.
- Federer was in the sort of form which took him to the Wimbledon title this year, with Blake staving off an amazing 19 out of 20 break-point opportunities, and surviving 10 deuces in one service game.
- I believe that happens during a deuce when the server has just won a point, and if he or she wins the next point the game is theirs.
- Capriati had chances to break the Myskina serve in a long fifth game, but failed to do so and paid the price in the next game when Myskina made the vital breakthrough after a sequence of deuces.
OriginLate 15th century: from Old French deus 'two', from Latin duos. The two different meanings of deuce both come from Latin duus ‘two’, by different routes. The earliest meaning, from the late 15th century, was ‘a throw of two at dice’. The immediate source was the French word for ‘two’ (modern deux). In the mid 17th century this was reinforced by German duus, meaning ‘bad luck or mischief’ and by association ‘the devil’. The connection arose because two is the worst or unluckiest throw you can have when playing with two dice. Expressions where deuce is interchangeable with devil (as in ‘where the deuce …’ or ‘a deuce of a…’) are now rather old-fashioned. In the late 16th century, deuce was a stage in the original form of tennis, now known as real tennis, which is played with a solid ball on an enclosed court. In real tennis deuce is five or more games all.
Rhymesabstruse, abuse, adduce, Ballets Russes, Belarus, Bruce, burnous, caboose, charlotte russe, conduce, deduce, diffuse, douce, educe, excuse, goose, induce, introduce, juice, Larousse, loose, luce, misuse, moose, mousse, noose, obtuse, Palouse, produce, profuse, puce, recluse, reduce, Rousse, seduce, sluice, Sousse, spruce, traduce, truce, use, vamoose, Zeus noun djuːsd(j)us the deuceinformal Used as a euphemism for ‘devil’ in expressions of annoyance, impatience, surprise, etc. 〈非正式，婉〉究竟，到底 用于表示恼怒、不耐烦、吃惊或用于加重语气 how the deuce are we to make a profit? 我们到底该怎么办才能赚钱？ what the deuce are you trying to do? 你到底想干什么？ Example sentencesExamples - And when you feel so extremely a fool and a bad golfer to boot, what the deuce can you do, except throw the club away?
- Well, what the deuce are you waiting for, old boy?
- In 49th Parallel, who knows what the deuce he is doing, other than turning in what I believe to be the only bad performance in any Powell and Pressburger film.
- You know I go to bed every night at 9: 30 and hate like the deuce to get up at 5: 30, though I expect I am getting fat.
- I'm back and now you can ask me: What the deuce is Deuce Bigelow: Male Gigolo, anyway?
- Surprisingly, there is no recorded conversation along the lines of: ‘Who the deuce sent her that piano?
Phrasesinformal Used to emphasize how bad, difficult, or serious something is. 用于加重语气非常糟糕的;非常困难的；非常严重的 Example sentencesExamples - If Hitler's army had been composed of Movie Nazis, it would have been, to quote any of the cocky, effete soldiers David Niven played in the 60s, a damned deuce of a thing, eh?
- Ken Allen & Les Hair are in the artillery & they have a pretty rough spin occasionally & get in a deuce of a state especially when they are up with the guns.
- Then we had to wait a deuce of a time for our bath where we got rid of the Somme mud.
- It makes a deuce of a day of it but it is a great spell between the drills.
- Tweedy commiserated with Brooks about the task: ‘It is going to be a deuce of a job to replace the Editor; but with the present Journal taken care of, it will give time to think future plans over.’
- I forgot to tell you I think that for about 4 days from the 19th onward we had a deuce of a heat wave.
you go up the ladder like the deuce Example sentencesExamples - When the bell rang, the little chap said, ‘now Mr., you skin out like the deuce,’ and off the youngster ran, leaving the disconcerted minister to make explanations as best he could.
- The air was thick with tear gas, which makes one's eyes water like the deuce.
- I only discovered it by accident, and I have been driving like the deuce to overtake you.
- All day and every day since the stunt we have been shelling and shelled like the deuce.
- I hear it is going ahead like the deuce.
informal Trouble to be expected. Example sentencesExamples - I think it most probable - though of course it's only an opinion - that you'll all have the deuce to pay before you get that malaria out of your systems.
- We took down the swing, we dismembered the rope bed, we tore down the clothes line (there was the deuce to pay for that), and joined them all together in one loose whole.
- My boy, there is always the deuce to pay.
- ‘Mother,’ said little Bobby, bursting into the house all out of breath, ‘there's going to be the deuce to pay down at the grocer's’.
OriginMid 17th century: from Low German duus, probably of the same origin as deuce1 (two aces at dice being the worst throw). nound(j)usd(y)o͞os 1North American The two on dice or playing cards. 骰子（或纸牌）中的二 a doctored die having two deuces Example sentencesExamples - This can only be bid by the dealer, and is only allowed if the dealer holds the ace, king and deuce of trumps.
- In this version, both deuces of Clubs are removed from the combined cards.
- The deuce of each suit is called the sow (die Sau).
- In some games certain cards are wild - either the deuces or a joker added to the deck - and in some games there is a cumulative jackpot which is won by a high hand such as a royal flush.
- If a joker or deuce is discarded, it is placed crosswise on the discard pile so that it remains visible when other cards are discarded on top of it.
- Betting big with a pair of deuces in Texas Hold 'Em could lead to a third deuce and a win on ‘the river.’
- The deuce of clubs starts - the holder leads it to the first trick.
- Yet we don't count up two diamonds from the deuce and two from the trey, but treat each card as a complete unity.
- If anyone goes out of cards during ‘the Count’, the game continues until someone is unable to play a deuce or an ace, and draws their cards.
- ‘Five Card Draw, deuces wild,’ David announced, deftly dealing out the cards.
- All of the deuces and jokers are wild cards.
- After the deuces are picked up, there is one more round of betting, then it's time for the surviving players to show their cards.
- At other times, it's always deuces when they aren't wild.
- Some players play with both jokers and with the deuce of spades as the third highest trump in the game.
- Likewise, if a good player with deuces showing is calling a bet by a pair of Kings, chances are good that the deuces won't lose because Aces over deuces or rolled up deuces are likely.
- The high-low deuces were introduced, and the multiple scoring (where strikes were counted apart from points) was devised.
- But see, you never knew, because deuces became treys in the outer boroughs.
- I looked down to find a useless deuce as my stranger and fired a bet out there, while positively holding the worst hand (still a pair of queens).
- The dealer gave her a deuce and she jumped from fifth place to second place and earned $22,000 in doing so.
- Let's say everybody is dealt a bunch of small cards and the dealer has a deuce up.
- 1.1 A throw of two at dice.
掷骰子所得的二 Example sentencesExamples - If he should now throw 2 deuces for a total of 5, the player then throws all five dice for the third throw.
- My double-down blackjack bets drew deuces, the ball avoided my numbers in roulette like it owed them money, and if a player needed a card to beat me, then by God, that card was gonna come.
- 1.2dated, informal A two-dollar bill.
〈非正式，旧〉两美元纸币 a deuce for the hat-check girl Example sentencesExamples - The Legal Tender deuces have always held a special attraction to collectors.
- Sure enough, I handed over a twenty and said "two please", back came three fresh Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond deuces.
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The tie score of 40-all in a game, at which a player needs two consecutive points to win the game. 〔网球〕局末平分；盘末平分 the Swede pegged him back to deuce from 40-love a marathon game that went to eleven deuces Example sentencesExamples - They had a match point in the semi-final against the Cantrells, but Burdett served a double fault on the sudden-death second deuce in which this point is decisive under the rules of the competition designed to prevent drawn-out matches.
- Federer was in the sort of form which took him to the Wimbledon title this year, with Blake staving off an amazing 19 out of 20 break-point opportunities, and surviving 10 deuces in one service game.
- Schnyder, serving for the match at 6-5, trailed 0-40 but held her serve after three deuces.
- I believe that happens during a deuce when the server has just won a point, and if he or she wins the next point the game is theirs.
- Capriati had chances to break the Myskina serve in a long fifth game, but failed to do so and paid the price in the next game when Myskina made the vital breakthrough after a sequence of deuces.
OriginLate 15th century: from Old French deus ‘two’, from Latin duos. nound(j)usd(y)o͞os the deuceinformal Used as a euphemism for “devil” in expressions of annoyance, impatience, or surprise or for emphasis. 〈非正式，婉〉究竟，到底 用于表示恼怒、不耐烦、吃惊或用于加重语气 how the deuce are we to make a profit? 我们到底该怎么办才能赚钱？ what the deuce are you trying to do? 你到底想干什么？ Example sentencesExamples - Well, what the deuce are you waiting for, old boy?
- In 49th Parallel, who knows what the deuce he is doing, other than turning in what I believe to be the only bad performance in any Powell and Pressburger film.
- And when you feel so extremely a fool and a bad golfer to boot, what the deuce can you do, except throw the club away?
- You know I go to bed every night at 9: 30 and hate like the deuce to get up at 5: 30, though I expect I am getting fat.
- I'm back and now you can ask me: What the deuce is Deuce Bigelow: Male Gigolo, anyway?
- Surprisingly, there is no recorded conversation along the lines of: ‘Who the deuce sent her that piano?
Phrasesinformal Used to emphasize how bad, difficult, or serious something is. 用于加重语气非常糟糕的;非常困难的；非常严重的 Example sentencesExamples - Ken Allen & Les Hair are in the artillery & they have a pretty rough spin occasionally & get in a deuce of a state especially when they are up with the guns.
- Tweedy commiserated with Brooks about the task: ‘It is going to be a deuce of a job to replace the Editor; but with the present Journal taken care of, it will give time to think future plans over.’
- It makes a deuce of a day of it but it is a great spell between the drills.
- I forgot to tell you I think that for about 4 days from the 19th onward we had a deuce of a heat wave.
- If Hitler's army had been composed of Movie Nazis, it would have been, to quote any of the cocky, effete soldiers David Niven played in the 60s, a damned deuce of a thing, eh?
- Then we had to wait a deuce of a time for our bath where we got rid of the Somme mud.
OriginMid 17th century: from Low German duus, probably of the same origin as deuce (two aces at dice being the worst throw). |