rascal
英 ['rɑ?sk(?)l]
美 ['r?skl]
- n. 流氓，無(wú)賴；淘氣鬼，搗蛋鬼
- adj. 不誠(chéng)實(shí)的；下賤的，卑鄙的
助記提示
1. 諧音“鬧事客”。--- 整天到處鬧事兒、惹是生非的人。
2. ras- "scrape" => rascal.
3. 其本義是“scab, dregs, filth”，然后由此引申為“最低賤階層的人(people of the lowest class)，賤民”，因?yàn)樗麄兒荏a臟、齷蹉，后來(lái)又進(jìn)一步將這些人貶義化為“流氓，惡棍，無(wú)賴”。
中文詞源
rascal 無(wú)賴，淘氣鬼來(lái)自古法語(yǔ) rascaille,暴徒，暴民，可能來(lái)自俗拉丁語(yǔ) rasicare,刮，擦，詞源同 rash,eraser.比 喻用法，刮下來(lái)的垃圾。后詞義親昵化。
英文詞源
- rascal
- rascal: [14] Rascal has been traced back ultimately to Latin rādere ‘scratch’. Its past participial stem rās- (source of English erase and razor) formed the basis of a Vulgar Latin verb *rāsicāre. From this was derived the noun *rāsica ‘scurf, scab, dregs, filth’, which passed into Old Northern French as *rasque (its central Old French counterpart, rasche, may be the source of English rash).
And it could well be that this *rasque lies behind Old French rascaille ‘mob, rabble’, which gave English rascal (the English word originally meant ‘rabble’ too, but the application to an individual person emerged in the 15th and 16th centuries). Rapscallion [17] is an alteration of a now defunct rascallion, which may have derived from rascal.
=> erase, rapscallion, rash, razor - rascal (n.)
- mid-14c., rascaile "people of the lowest class, rabble of an army," also singular, "low, tricky, dishonest person," from Old French rascaille "rabble, mob" (12c., Modern French racaille, "the rascality or base and rascall sort, the scumme, dregs, offals, outcasts, of any company" [Cotgrave, French-English Dictionary, 1611]), perhaps a diminutive from Old French rascler, from Vulgar Latin *rasicare "to scrape" (see rash (n.)). Used also in Middle English of animals not hunted as game.
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. Then a voice bawled: "Lay off! I'll kill you, you little rascal!"
- 然后一個(gè)聲音大叫道：“趕緊停下！我會(huì)殺了你的，你這個(gè)小流氓！”
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 2. He's a nice old rascal but a disaster area as a politician.
- 他是個(gè)不錯(cuò)的老家伙，但是作為一個(gè)政治家就太差勁了。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 3. Come here, you little rascal!
- 過(guò)來(lái)，你這個(gè)小壞蛋！
來(lái)自《權(quán)威詞典》
- 4. If he had done otherwise, I should have thought him a rascal.
- 如果他不這樣做, 我就認(rèn)為他是個(gè)惡棍.
來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》
- 5. Keep an eye on that rascal. Don't let him run away.
- 看住他,別讓這壞家伙跑了!
來(lái)自《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》