You can picture accursed as a mark that somebody laid on a thing on purpose: a curse spoken over a house, a family, a hill, so that from then on things go wrong there and keep going wrong. The whole word is the state left behind after that speaking.

accursed 可以想成「有人對它下過咒」留下的那個印記:有人對一棟房子、一個家族、一座山說了狠話,從此那裡事事不順,而且一直不順。整個字就是那句咒語說完之後留下來的狀態。抓住這個畫面,現代那個罵東西的用法就很好懂了——說話的人是把這句古老的咒語搬過來用。

From the word’s history

From Middle English acursed, the past participle of acursen (to curse), from Old English acursian, built on curs (curse); first attested in the 13th century. The word is literally the finished act of cursing, frozen as a description.

來自中古英語 acursed,是動詞 acursen(詛咒)的過去分詞,再往前是古英語 ācursian,字根是 curs(curse)。十三世紀就有紀錄。所以這個字字面上就是「詛咒這個動作做完之後的狀態」,被凍成一個形容詞。

Wiktionary etymology supplied in the evidence packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:321225693): From Middle English acursed, from acursen, from Old English acursian, from curs; first attested in the 13th century.

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