One way to hold this word: a curse has been laid on someone, and it does not wash off. It travels with them, or with the thing they are carrying, and harm keeps arriving. Every other use borrows that picture — sometimes seriously, and very often as a joke.
From the word’s history
Middle English cursed, curst, equivalent to curse + -ed.
中古英文寫作 cursed、curst、cursyd，等於 curse（詛咒）加上 -ed，所以它從一開始就是「被下了咒的」這個畫面。
Wiktionary entry supplied in the evidence packet (etymology_text: From Middle English cursed, cursd, curst, corsed, curset, cursyd, equivalent to curse + -ed).
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原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
cursedadj/ˈkɜːsɪd/
- 1
Under some divine harm, malady, or other curse.
- 2
obsoleteShrewish, ill-tempered (often applied to women).
- Leonato By my troth neece thou wilt neuer get thee a huſband, if thou be ſo ſhrewd of thy tongue. / brother Infaith ſhees too curſt. / Beatrice Too curſt is more then curſt, I ſhall leſſen Gods ſending that way, for it is ſaide, God ſends a curſt cow ſhort hornes, but to a cow too curſt, he ſends none.
- 3
hateful; damnable; accursed
- That cursed bird keeps stealing my milk!
- 4
Frightening or unsettling, or humorously portrayed as such.
- “Cursed images, to me, leave you with a general uneasy feeling,” the account’s [@cursedimages] anonymous author told Gizmodo. “There could be certain qualities, like someone looking directly at the camera or an orb floating in the background.”
cursedadv
- 1
datedslangDamnably; awfully.
- I intended handing you the crown, but when I got here and realized how cursed unpleasant it might be I funked it. I decided to send the damned thing back by post without a word.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。