Deuce

(noun.) one of the four playing cards in a deck that have two spots.

(noun.) a tie in tennis or table tennis that requires winning two successive points to win the game.

编辑:梅布尔

• It's a hundred and ten pounds, the deuce take it! 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• How the deuce, my dear, would you have me behave respectfully to such a fool as your brother? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• But the deuce a bit would they sit down. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• It's only a hundred-and-seventy, and the deuce is in it if we can't raise that. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• No; what the deuce would you call her for? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• What the deuce is it all about? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• What the deuce can she find in that spooney of a Pitt Crawley? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• What the deuce! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• What the deuce is he knocking at his own door for? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Why the deuce can't they come together! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• He passed, and I went on; a few steps, and I turned: a sliding sound and an exclamation of What the deuce is to do now? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• And where the deuce did you pick him up? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Even you cast me off over there, and I felt just ready to go to the deuce, he began apologetically. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• If it were the deuce's own scribble, and yo' axed me to read in it for yo'r sake, and th' oud gentleman's, I'd do it. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• What the deuce have you done with yourself this last month? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I say, how soon at the appearance of these grand court cards, did those poor little neglected deuces sink down to the bottom of the pack. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

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