darn
verb/dɑːn/
/dɑːrn/
[transitive, intransitive]Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they darn | /dɑːn/ /dɑːrn/ |
| he / she / it darns | /dɑːnz/ /dɑːrnz/ |
| past simple darned | /dɑːnd/ /dɑːrnd/ |
| past participle darned | /dɑːnd/ /dɑːrnd/ |
| -ing form darning | /ˈdɑːnɪŋ/ /ˈdɑːrnɪŋ/ |
- darn (something) to repair a hole in a piece of clothing by sewing stitches across the hole
织补；缝补 - to darn socks
补袜子
Oxford Collocations DictionaryDarn is used with these nouns as the object:- sock
Word Originverb early 17th cent.: perhaps from dialect dern ‘to hide’, which is from Old English diernan, of West Germanic origin; compare with Middle Dutch dernen ‘stop holes in (a dyke)’. - to darn socks
Idioms
darn it!
- (informal, especially North American English) used as a mild swear word to show that you are angry or annoyed about something, to avoid saying ‘damn’
见鬼，真气人，真糟糕（婉辞，与 damn 同义） - Darn it! I've lost my keys!
真见鬼，我的钥匙丢了！
- Darn it! I've lost my keys!
I’ll be darned!
- (informal, especially North American English) used to show that you are surprised about something
（表示惊奇）哎呀，咦 - Well, I’ll be darned! They knew about it all the time!
好吧，我会被诅咒的！他们一直都知道这件事！
- Well, I’ll be darned! They knew about it all the time!