miscreant
英 ['m?skr??nt]
美['m?skr??nt]
- adj. 異端的;邪道的;極惡的
- n. 異端;惡棍;罪大惡極之人
GRE
詞態(tài)變化
復(fù)數(shù):?miscreants;
中文詞源
miscreant 惡棍,歹徒,不法之徒
來(lái)自古法語(yǔ)mescreant,信仰錯(cuò)誤的人,不信基督的人,來(lái)自mis-,壞的,錯(cuò)的,-cre,信仰,信任,詞源同credo,heart,credible.引申詞義非基督徒,異教徒,不忠之人,后用于指惡棍,歹徒等。比較 heathen,pagan.
英文詞源
- miscreant
- miscreant: see creed
- miscreant (adj.)
- c. 1300, "non-Christian, pagan, infidel;" early 15c., "heretical, unbelieving," from Old French mescreant "disbelieving" (Modern French mécréant), from mes- "wrongly" (see mis- (2)) + creant, present participle of creire "believe," from Latin credere (see credo). Meaning "villainous" is from 1590s.
- miscreant (n.)
- late 14c., "heathen, Saracen," from miscreant (adj.) or from Old French mescreant, which also had a noun sense of "infidel, pagan, heretic." Sense of "villain" first recorded 1590 in Spenser.
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. How easy it has been in this febrile atmosphere to point the finger at miscreant journalists.
- 在目前這股熱潮中,對(duì)那些不道德的記者指指戳戳是多么的容易.
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