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单词 you'll wish you'd never been born
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you'll wish you'd never been born
b. to wish one had never been born and variants: to experience such profound suffering or distress that one would prefer not to exist (chiefly in hyperbolic use). Now often as a threat or promise that a person will deeply regret some undertaking or experience; esp. in you'll wish you'd never been born.In early use sometimes with allusion to the biblical figure of Job, who expressed such a sentiment in reaction to the ordeals to which (with God's permission) he was subjected by Satan (Job 3:3; see quot. a1382).
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OE St. Christopher (Vitell. A.xv) in S. Rypins Three Old Eng. Prose Texts (1924) 68 Eadig wær ðu Dagnus gi[f] þu næfre geboren nære þu ðe þus wæl[grimlice] hetst tintregian þillicne godes cemp[an].
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Job iii. 3 Pershe the dai in the whiche I am born, and the nyȝt in the which it is seid, A man is conceyued.
c1450 (a1400) Orologium Sapientiæ in Anglia (1888) 10 360 (MED) Hit hadde be better to me ȝif I had neuer be borne, or ellis þat I hadde perisched in my moder wombe, þanne þat I hadde so vnprofitabil spendid þe tyme þat was graunted to me forto do penauns.
1627 J. Barlow Seasonable Disc. Spirituall Stedfastnesse 169 The gracelesse man, shall tremble at a paper-Canon; quake, at the wagging of a leafe..; And wish, he had never bin born.
1741 J. Duchal Serm. Death J. Abernethy 9 What shall become of me now?.. Would I had never been born, or had not lived to see this day.
1857 Edinb. Dissected xxvii. 325 Here Mrs Macalpine flung herself down on a chair, and..burst into a flood of tears. She wished, like Job, that she had never been born.
1896 H. Hill Guilty Gold xx. 223 The chap that's hurt my nipper, if I puts hand on him, will wish to God he'd never been born.
1985 H. Halkin tr. A. Oz Perfect Peace (1993) ix. 182 Either he's out of here..by tomorrow, or I'll do something so terrible you'll wish you'd never been born.
2017 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 22 Nov. Cider gives you a hangover so bad you'll wish you'd never been born.
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