deuce

英 [djuːs]

美 [duːs]

n.  局末平分; 二点的纸牌; (用于问句中表示烦恼、厌恶)到底，究竟

复数：deuces　

经济

BNC.37704 / COCA.30753

牛津词典

noun

• 局末平分
  the situation when both players have 40 as a score, after which one player must win two points one after the other in order to win the game
• 二点的纸牌
  a playing card with two pips on it
  1. the deuce of clubs
     梅花二
• （用于问句中表示烦恼、厌恶）到底，究竟
  used in questions to show that you are annoyed
  1. What the deuce is he doing?
     他到底在干什么？

柯林斯词典

• (网球比赛中双方各得 40 分时的)局末平分（之后一方须连得两分方可获胜）
  Deuceis the score in a game of tennis when both players have forty points. One player has to win two points one after the other to win the game.

英英释义

noun

• one of the four playing cards in a deck that have two spots
  Synonym:two
• a word used in exclamations of confusion
  1. what the devil
  2. the deuce with it
  3. the dickens you say
  Synonym:devildickens
• the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number
  Synonym:two2II
• a tie in tennis or table tennis that requires winning two successive points to win the game

双语例句

• But who the deuce is he following?
  可是他在跟什么鬼呢？
• The deuce! How could he possibly know what business we are doing without telling him?
  真见鬼了！你不告诉他他怎么会知道我们俩在做这个买卖那？
• She never leaves the beaten track. How do they go to deuce every time?
  她从来都是墨守成规。为何每次都打成平手。
• That's my uncle deuce.
  那是我的叔叔杜斯。
• I got to drop a deuce like no one's business.
  得干得神不知鬼不觉。
• David had a strong constitution originally, but he had played the deuce with it.
  大卫的身体原先很壮实，但他把它搞坏了。
• The deuce is in it if I cannot do it.
  这事我做不成才怪呢。
• When the deuce can we get this work done?
  我们究竟什么时候才能做完这项工作呢？
• I only discovered it by accident, and I have been driving like the deuce to overtake you.
  我是碰巧发现你走了的，所以像鬼似地驾着车拼命地追，才赶上了你。
• Had a deuce of a time getting out of town; a deuce of a family row.
  离开城镇过了段倒霉的日子；家庭口角的不幸。