lout
英 [la?t]
美[la?t]
- n. 笨拙的人
- vt. 愚弄
- vi. 鞠躬;屈服
暢通詞匯GRE
詞態(tài)變化
復(fù)數(shù):?louts;形容詞:?loutish;
助記提示
Lout:老土——笨人
中文詞源
lout 舉止粗野的人
來自PIE*leud,低頭,彎腰,變小,詞源同loiter,little.其原義為乞討,騙子,小丑,鄉(xiāng)巴佬等。后用于校園俚語無賴,舉止粗野的人。
英文詞源
- lout (n.)
- 1540s, "awkward fellow, clown, bumpkin," perhaps from a dialectal survival of Middle English louten (v.) "bow down" (c. 1300), from Old English lutan "bow low," from Proto-Germanic *lut- "to bow, bend, stoop" (cognates: Old Norse lutr "stooping," which might also be the source of the modern English word), from PIE *leud- "to lurk" (cognates: Gothic luton "to deceive," Old English lot "deceit), also "to be small" (see little). Non-Germanic cognates probably include Lithuanian liudeti "to mourn;" Old Church Slavonic luditi "to deceive," ludu "foolish." Sense of "cad" is first attested 1857 in British schoolboy slang.
雙語例句
- 1. He's just an ill-bred lout.
- 他是個缺乏教養(yǎng)的鄉(xiāng)巴佬。
來自辭典例句
- 2. He had no training , no skills, he was just a big, bungling , useless lout!
- 什么也不行, 什么也不會, 自己只是個傻大黑粗的廢物!
來自漢英文學(xué) - 駱駝祥子
- 3. This lout guards the crypt like a Cerberus.
- 這個笨蛋象冥府守門狗一樣守著地窖.
來自電影對白
- 4. Some of the films on TV would scare the lout of adults as well as children.
- 電視上的某些影片不僅會嚇壞了孩子們,而且也會使成年人嚇得魂不附體.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)