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varlet基本信息

varlet基本信息

读法：英 ["vɑːlɪt] 美

释义：

n. 恶棍；无赖

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英英释义

Noun:

a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel

in medieval times a youth acting as a knight"s attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood

中英词源

varlet 无赖，恶棍

来自古法语vaslet拼写变体，仆人，词源同valet,vassal.引申词义无赖，恶棍。词义演变参照villain.

varlet: varlet: [15] Varlet and valet [16] are doublets – they come from the same ultimate source. This was Vulgar Latin *vassus, a borrowing from Old Celtic *wasso- ‘young man, squire’. From *vassus were derived two medieval Latin diminutive forms: vassallus, which has given English vassal [14], and *vassellitus. This passed into Old French as vaslet, which diversified into valet (source of English valet) and varlet (source of English varlet).

Both to begin with retained their original connotations of a ‘young man in service to a knight’, and hence by extension any ‘feudal retainer or servant’, but while valet still denotes a ‘servant’, varlet went down in the world in the 16th century to ‘knave’.
=> valet, vassal
varlet (n.): mid-15c., "servant, attendant of a knight," from Middle French varlet (14c.), variant of vaslet, originally "squire, young man," from Old French vassal (see vassal). The meaning "rascal, rogue" is 1540s.

词态变化

复数 varlets;

权威造句

1. An ape"s an ape , a varlet"s a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet.: 尽管衣绸穿红,猿猴还是猿猴, 侍从还是侍从.

2. An ape an ape, a varlet"s a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet.: 尽管衣绸穿红, 猿猴仍是猿猴, 侍从仍是侍从.

近反义词

rapscallion 流氓

knave 无赖

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rascal 淘气鬼

scallywag 饭桶

rogue 流氓

scalawag 无赖汉

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