darn
verb [transitive, intransitive]Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they darn | |
| he / she / it darns | |
| past simple darned | |
| past participle darned | |
| -ing form darning |
- 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)’.
Idioms
darn it!
I’ll be darned!
- (informal, especially North American English)
used to show that you are surprised about something （表示吃惊）真没想到，真叫我吃惊 Well, I’ll be darned! They knew about it all the time! 好吧，我真该死！他们一直都知道这件事！