felon
英 ['felən]
美 ['fɛlən]
- n. [法] 重罪犯；瘭疽；惡棍
- n. (Felon)人名；(法)弗隆
英文詞源
- felon
- felon: [13] Medieval Latin fellō (a word of uncertain origin, sometimes referred to Latin fel ‘gall, poison’) meant ‘evil-doer’. Its nominative form gave English the adjective fell ‘fierce, lethal’, via Old French fel, while its stem form, fellōn-, passed into English through Old French felon. The derivative felony [13] comes from Old French felonie.
=> fell - felon (n.)
- c. 1300, "one who deceives or commits treason; one who is wicked or evil; evil-doer," used of Lucifer and Herod, from Old French felon "evil-doer, scoundrel, traitor, rebel, oath-breaker, the Devil" (9c.), from Medieval Latin fellonem (nominative fello) "evil-doer," which is of uncertain origin, perhaps from Frankish *fillo, *filljo "person who whips or beats, scourger" (source of Old High German fillen "to whip"); or from Latin fel "gall, poison," on the notion of "one full of bitterness." Celtic origins also have been proposed.
Another theory (advanced by Professor R. Atkinson of Dublin) traces it to Latin fellare "to suck" (see fecund), which had an obscene secondary meaning in classical Latin (well-known to readers of Martial and Catullus), which would make a felon etymologically a "cock-sucker." OED inclines toward the "gall" explanation, but finds Atkinson's "most plausible" of the others.
Also by c. 1300 in English in a general legal sense "criminal; one who has committed a felony," however that was defined. Century Dictionary notes, "the term is not applicable after legal punishment has been completed." In Middle English it also was an adjective, "traitorous, wicked, malignant." Australian official James Mudie (1837), coined felonry "as the appellative of an order or class of persons in New South Wales,--an order which happily exists in no other country in the world."
雙語例句
- 1. So I answered up like a felon fighting for his freedom, and I answered pat, because I was telling the truth, which is sometimes a help.
- 因此,我馬上回答,就像一個重罪犯在爭取自由一樣, 而且,我答得這麽迅速是因為我在說實話, 這有時會有幫助.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 2. He's a convicted felon.
- 他是個已定罪的重犯。
來自辭典例句
- 3. Hitler's early'successes " were only the startling depredations of a resolute felon.
- 希特勒的早期 “ 勝利 ”,隻不過是一個死心塌地的惡棍出人意料地搶掠得手而已.
來自辭典例句
- 4. I'm a convicted federal felon.
- 我成了一個已定罪的全國重犯.
來自辭典例句
- 5. I found out my ex - partner's a liar and a felon.
- 我發現我的超級 搭檔 是個慣於說謊者.
來自電影對白