英:['reɪkhel]
美:['reɪkˌhel]
英:['reɪkhel]
美:['reɪkˌhel]
rake·hell
reIk hel
词根:rakish
adj.rakish 潇洒的;放荡的;轻快的;俏皮的
noun
a dissolute or debauched man; rake or rou�.
adjective
dissolute, immoral, or debauched.
"邪恶的,放荡的恶棍; 彻头彻尾的恶棍",1550年代(作为形容词的1540年代),可能是中古英语 rakel(形容词)的改变(通过与 rake(n.1)和 Hell 相关联),意为"仓促的,鲁莽的,任性的",这可能来自于 raken "前进,前行",源自古英语 racian "前进,移动,加速",这是一个起源不明的词。但动词短语 rake Hell "彻底地去(地狱)"可追溯到1540年代。比较 rakeshame(n.)"生活不体面的人"(1590年代)。
The first known use of rakehell was circa 1560
1 Rakehell is rounders forever.
浪子永远是浪子。
2 Sometimes it's not the women to change a rakehell, but the women just appear when the rakehell want to change himself.
往往不是女人改变一个浪子,而是女人在浪子想要改变的时候刚好出现。
3 It deals with an exclusive Oxford undergraduate dining club, the Riot, named after an 18th century rakehell.
4 Breakfast with Pauling Agre claims he was a "rakehell" as an adolescent who enjoyed an idyllic childhood in a small town in Minnesota.
5 There was Woodward as "The Fine Gentleman," with the inimitable rakehell air in which the heroes of Wycherly and Congreve and Farquhar live again.
6 The "Rose," in Wood Street, was a sponging-house, well known to the rakehells and spendthrifts of Charles II.'s time.
7 But for such rakehells, Neither fire nor flood will kill them.
8 "It is some freak of that drunken rakehell," said Albert, in a low voice, to his sister, who had crept out after him on tiptoe.
9 The tsar Ivan sought in monastic toil Tranquility; his palace, filled erewhile With haughty minions, grew to all appearance A monastery; the very rakehells seemed Obedient monks, the terrible tsar appeared A pious abbot.
10 Now that he's a man, he's an abandoned profligate, a brawler, a drunkard, a rakehell.
11 And indeed I believe the insolence of this creature will ruin her master at last, by driving away men of sobriety and business, and making the place a den of vagabonds and rakehells.
12 What else was the stinking rakehell seeking but to put himself right again in the eyes of a town that was nauseated with him and his excesses?
13 As it is, he has gone even lower than that abandoned scourer; so low that even this rakehell duke must become his enemy for his own credit's sake.
14 a resort popular with wealthy rakehells
3 无赖
tough vagabond reprobate roguish rascally scoundrelly rakehelly rough rowdy wretch scoundrel castaway ruffian blackguard scallywag scapegrace varlet scalawag bezonian
5 放荡的
easy fast loose gay profligate licentious libertine dissolute rakish debauched dissipated coltish tarty raffish rackety rakehelly jadish cadgy half-shot Nice wild liberal messy abandoned slippery easygoing wanton riotous lecherous sluttish leching
7 放荡
easy fast loose gay profligate licentious libertine dissolute rakish debauched dissipated coltish tarty raffish rackety rakehelly jadish jadishly loosely rakishly jadishness sculduddery pleasure dissipation orgy debauchery licentiousness profligacy debauch libertinism dissipate be on the tiles cadgy half-shot Nice wild liberal messy abandoned slippery easygoing wanton riotous lecherous sluttish leching riot fling dissolution folly incontinence fastness rake