| 单词 |
kaput |
| 释义 |
kaput, a. (in pred. use). slang.|kəˈpʊt|
Also kaputt.
[ad. G. kaputt, f. Fr. (être) capot (to be) without tricks in the card-game of piquet; see capot n.1]
a. Finished, worn out; dead or destroyed.
b. Rendered useless or unable to function.
1895W. M. Conway Alps from End to End iii. 59 The thing would then go wie's Donnerwetter and the man would be kaput at once. [1914Duchess of Sutherland Six Weeks at the War p. xiv, When Prussian military despotism is ‘Kaputt’—to use the Germans' favourite word about their foe, meaning ‘done’.] 1924Glasgow Herald 11 Dec. 7 The intellectual consciousness is kaput. a1930D. H. Lawrence Last Poems (1932) 286 So self-willed, self-centred, self-conscious people die The death of nothingness, worn-out machines, kaput! 1955E. Pound Classic Anthol. i. 19 North gate, sorrow's edge, Purse kaput, nothing to pledge. 1959J. Braine Vodi iv. 63 He could now see that his whole life was kaputt. 1972New Yorker 9 Sept. 30 It's a real American tragedy—Wunderkind at twenty, Übermensch at thirty, kaputt at forty. 1975J. Symons Three Pipe Problem xix. 220 Sherlock Holmes is finished. Finito. Kaput. |
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