dastardly
音标:
英音/ ˈdæstədli / 美音/ ˈdæstərdli /
听听基本释意:
外刊例句:
“My government will not rest until we have brought the perpetrators of this dastardly and heinous crime to justice,” Mr. Marcos said in a statement.
马科斯在一份声明中表示:“除非我们将这一卑鄙而令人发指的罪行的肇事者绳之以法,否则我的政府不会停下来。”
—New York Times
“This was horrific, dastardly conduct. … Not only were the victims particularly young, a lot of the conduct was committed while they were sleeping.”
“这是可怕、卑鄙的行为……受害者不仅特别年轻,而且很多行为都是在他们睡觉时发生的。”
—Fox News
“Google can be a dastardly place,” as he put it.
正如他所说,“谷歌可能是一个卑鄙的地方”。
—Washington Times
基本释意:
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卑鄙的;懦弱的
同义词:
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短释义:
Use the adjective dastardly to describe a person or action that’s underhanded and mean. Criminals, pirates, and bullies are all frequently called dastardly. An unprovoked military strike is also sometimes described as dastardly, referencing President Franklin Roosevelt’s famous 1941 speech after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which he called an “unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan.” In the 1500s, dastardly meant “dull,” from the now-obsolete dastard, “one who is lazy or dull.”
卑鄙的人是无赖或胆怯的恶棍。超级英雄可能会试图保护一座城市免受卑鄙犯罪主谋的侵害。
长释义:
Use the adjective dastardly to describe a person or action that’s underhanded and mean. Criminals, pirates, and bullies are all frequently called dastardly. An unprovoked military strike is also sometimes described as dastardly, referencing President Franklin Roosevelt’s famous 1941 speech after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which he called an “unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan.” In the 1500s, dastardly meant “dull,” from the now-obsolete dastard, “one who is lazy or dull.”
用卑鄙的形容词来形容卑鄙卑鄙的人或行为。罪犯、海盗和恶霸都经常被称为卑鄙的人。无端的军事打击有时也被描述为卑鄙的,指的是富兰克林·罗斯福总统 1941 年日本偷袭珍珠港后发表的著名演讲,他称这次袭击是“日本无端的卑鄙攻击”。在 1500 年代,dastardly 的意思是“迟钝”,源自现已过时的 dastard,“懒惰或迟钝的人”。
文学例句:
In that hour she had hated Mrs. Balfame, although she neither believed her guilty nor was tempted to the dastardly course of helping to force the appearance of guilt upon her.
在那一刻,她讨厌巴尔法姆太太,尽管她既不相信她有罪,也不愿意采取卑鄙的做法,帮助她强迫她表现出有罪的样子。
—Mrs. Balfame
A Novel by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
He was a fellow-pupil of Michael Angelo, and is best known by the dastardly blow he dealt him with a mallet, disfiguring him for life.
他是米开朗基罗的同学,最著名的是他用木槌对米开朗基罗进行了卑鄙的打击,使他终生毁容。
—The Grotesque in Church Art by Wildridge, T. Tindall
If divorce had presented itself as the dastardly antithesis of all this, it could easily have been cast onto the other pan of the scales, along with betrayal, illness, thieving, assault and mendacity.
如果离婚本身就是这一切的卑鄙对立面,那么它很容易与背叛、疾病、盗窃、攻击和谎言一起被转移到天平的另一盘上。
—Atonement by Ian McEwan
词源:
dastardly (adj.)1560s, “showing despicable cowardice,” originally “dull,” from Middle English dastard + -ly (1). Related: Dastardliness (1550s).Related entries & more
下面是词源的翻译(机器翻译比较难翻,参考着看)
dastardly (adj.)1560s,“表现出卑鄙的怯懦”,最初是“沉闷的”,源自中古英语 dastard + -ly (1)。相关:卑鄙(1550 年代)。相关条目及更多
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