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recreant基本信息

读法：英 ["rekrɪənt] 美 ["rɛkrɪənt]

释义：

  • n. 懦夫；叛徒
  • adj. 胆小的；怯懦的；不忠的

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    英英释义

    Noun:

  • an abject coward
  • a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.
    • Adjective:
  • having deserted a cause or principle;"some provinces had proved recreant"
    "renegade supporters of the usurper"
  • lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful;"the craven fellow turned and ran"
    "a craven proposal to raise the white flag"
    "this recreant knight"

    • 中英词源

    recreant 懦夫，叛徒，胆小的，怯懦的

    re-,再，重新，反复，-cre,心，词源同 heart,credo,miscreant.-ant,人。即反复改变信仰的人， 见风驶舵的人，引申词义懦夫，叛徒，后用于指胆小的，怯懦的。

    recreant (adj.)
    c. 1300, "confessing oneself to be overcome or vanquished," from Old French recreant "defeated, vanquished, yielding, giving; weak, exhausted; cowardly," present participle adjective from recroire "to yield in a trial by combat, surrender allegiance," literally "believe again;" perhaps on notion of "take back one"s pledge, yield one"s cause," from re- "again, back" (see re-) + croire "entrust, believe," from Latin credere (see credo).
    Non sufficit ... nisi dicat illud verbum odiosum, quod recreantus sit. [Bracton, c. 1260]
    Meaning "cowardly" in English is from late 14c. Meaning "unfaithful to duty" is from 1640s.
    recreant (n.)
    "one who yields in combat, one who begs for mercy, one who admits defeat," early 15c., hence "coward, faint-hearted wretch;" from recreant (adj.) and from Old French recreant as a noun, "one who acknowledges defeat, a craven, coward, renegade, traitor, wretch." In English, sense of "apostate, deserter, villain" is from 1560s.
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    权威造句

    1. Some provinces had proved recreant.
    有些省份叛逆了.

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    近反义词

  • craven 懦弱的
  • cowardly 懦弱的
  • renegade 叛徒
  • deserter 背弃者
  • apostate 背教者
  • turncoat 背叛者
  • poltroon 胆怯者
  • ratter 捕鼠者

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