dickens

英 [ˈdɪkɪnz]

美 [ˈdɪkɪnz]

n.  (用于问句代替devil， 表示烦恼或吃惊)究竟，到底; (某人)…极了，太…了，多么…啊

BNC.7241 / COCA.29026

牛津词典

noun

• （用于问句代替devil， 表示烦恼或吃惊）究竟，到底
  used in questions instead of devil to show that you are annoyed or surprised
  1. Where the dickens did he go?
     他究竟上哪儿去了？
• （某人）…极了，太…了，多么…啊
  used when you are saying how attractive, etc. sb is
  1. cute as the dickens
     可爱极了

英英释义

noun

• a word used in exclamations of confusion
  1. what the devil
  2. the deuce with it
  3. the dickens you say
  Synonym:devildeuce

双语例句

• Had Dickens foreseen that his novel would cause such a commotion, he would not have written it.
  如果狄更斯预见到他的小说会引起这样的一种骚动，他也许就不会写了。
• Shakespeare was not contemporary with dickens.
  莎士比亚与狄更斯不是同时代的人。
• I have only read four books of Dickens's.
  我只看过狄更斯的四本书。
• Several of Dickens's novels were screened in the 1930's.
  狄更斯的好几部小说在30年代就拍成了电影。
• He has gone off Dickens and the other Victorian novelists.
  他不再爱读狄更斯和其他维多利亚时代小说家的作品了。
• Dickens was lauded for his social and moral sensitivity
  狄更斯以其敏锐的社会和道德触觉为人称道。
• I like the novels of Dickens very much. I've read almost all of them in Chinese translation.
  我很喜欢狄更斯的小说，他小说的中译本我几乎全读过。
• Dickens was contemporary with Gong Zizheng.
  狄更斯和龚自珍同时代。
• Dickens 'novels have enriched English literature.
  狄更斯的小说丰富了英国文学。
• Dickens 'novels are full of vivid characterization.
  狄更斯的小说中充满了栩栩如生的人物形象。