Drat the file, and drat the bone!

该死的锉，该死的骨头！

Everything that existed had to have a beginning. Oh, drat! She opened the two envelopes again.

已经存在的万事万物必然有个开端的。哦！这个问题真是烦死人了！ 她再度拆开那两封信。

Oh drat! said the old gunner in his anger. That rascal must be covered with six-inch armor plate!

真怪！老炮手暴跳如雷，说，这混蛋的身上一定有一层六英厚的铁甲！

Drat. I can't believe it. If I hadn't been working the dinner shift I would've run right into the robbers.

该死, 太难以置信了, 要不是一直在餐厅上班, 可就和盗贼正面相遇了。

However in1787 he was asked to head the committee that would drat the new constitution.

然而在 1787 年， 他被要求领导起草新宪法的委员会。

Drat you. You'll never outrun my...

混蛋 你们永远别想逃的。

“They were camped in a big dratty farmhouse room, ” I might write; it was another year or two before I discovered that drat and draft were different words.

“他们在一间dratty（dratty这个词跟前面的otiologist一样，也是作者生造出来的。它的名词drat意为“诅咒，咒骂”）的农舍里安顿下来。”直到又过了一两年之后才发现，原来drat跟表示“通风”的draft不是一个词。