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复数:thugs
thuggish (adj.), thuggery (n.)
noun
see usage paragraph below a violent or brutish criminal or bully a gang of thugs … in American History X, Norton … plays a vicious young Venice Beach thug, a racist skinhead with … a thick black swastika tattooed over one bulging pec, and a gleam of murder in his eye.—Owen Gleiberman An authoritarian government willing to use the most brutal means to hold on to power; a dictator whose thugs have murdered, tortured, imprisoned or intimidated tens of thousands of civilians …—Michiko Kakutani
a brutal thug
a member of a group of murderous robbers in India's past whose activities were suppressed in the early 19th century
1810年,"印度的一伙谋杀和抢劫犯人,他们勒死受害者",来自马拉地语 thag, thak "骗子,欺诈者",印地语 thag,可能来自梵语 sthaga-s "狡猾的,欺诈的",来自 sthagayati "(他)掩盖,隐藏",来自 PIE 词根 *(s)teg- "覆盖"。
The thugs roamed about the country in bands of from 10 to 100, usually in the disguise of peddlers or pilgrims, gaining the confidence of other travelers, whom they strangled, when a favorable opportunity presented itself, with a handkerchief, an unwound turban, or a noosed cord. The shedding of blood was seldom resorted to. The motive of the thugs was not so much lust of plunder as a certain religious fanaticism. The bodies of their victims were hidden in graves dug with a consecrated pickax, and of their spoil one third was devoted to the goddess Kali, whom they worshiped. [Century Dictionary]
这些暴徒以10至100人的团队在国内游荡,通常伪装成小贩或朝圣者,获得其他旅行者的信任,然后在有利的机会出现时,用手帕、解开的头巾或套索勒死他们。他们很少流血。这些暴徒的动机不是为了掠夺,而是出于某种宗教狂热。他们将受害者的尸体埋藏在用神圣的镐挖掘的坟墓中,他们崇拜的女神卡利获得了他们战利品的三分之一。[世纪词典]
更准确的印度名称是 phanseegur(来自 phansi "套索"),这种活动在英语中早在公元1665年就有描述。从1831年开始,英国人严厉打击他们,到世纪末他们已经消失了。"恶棍,刺客,暴力低俗人"的引申义来自1839年。
Hindi & Urdu ṭhag, literally, thief
The first known use of thug was in 1839
thumb1 of 2noun
the short thick first finger of the human hand next to the index finger
the similar structure in lower animals
the part of a glove or mitten that covers the thumb
thumb2 of 2verb
to turn pages with the thumb
thumb through a book
to seek or get a ride in a passing automobile by sticking out one's thumb
thumb1 of 2noun
the short thick first finger of the human hand next to the index finger
the similar structure in lower animals
the part of a glove or mitten that covers the thumb
thumb2 of 2verb
to turn pages with the thumb
thumb through a book
to seek or get a ride in a passing automobile by sticking out one's thumb
thuliumnoun
a soft rare metallic element see element
thugnoun
ruffian
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ruffian
1 Get out, or I'll call the police , you thug.
出去, 不然我报警.
2 Maybe there were magic powers hiding in the way your older brother made all the worst thugs in the neighborhood play basketball with you even though you double-dribbled every time they threw you the ball.
3 Someone had even cleaned and wrapped the mild abrasions on my hands and the knife wound from three days ago when Ambrose’s thugs had tried to kill me.
4 ...the cowardly thugs who mug old people.
抢劫老人的胆小恶棍
5 She's just getting on, practicing her little religion, and in comes this big thug who says she can't practice it.
她只是在遵循自己的小信仰,然后一个恶棍闯进来说不许她继续。
6 One thug whacked Shorty across the shoulders with a baseball bat, and, as the foreman tried to spin around, another man kicked him in the balls and he sat down, half-blacking out, half-vomiting.
7 The victim had no chance when four or five thugs ganged up on him.
当四、五个暴徒联合起来攻击那个受害者时,他就没有任何反抗的希望了.
8 The thugs showed no pity.
那些恶棍一点慈悲心也没有.
9 Many a highly placed thug, it is hoped , is beginning to sleep less easily at night.
我们期望那些威胁度过高的嫌疑暴徒在晚上休息时不再过于安心.
10 I am not a thug, gangster, hoodlum, nor monster.
11 It happens, however, that criminals and thugs tend to be undesirable warriors To begin with, they are often difficult to control.
12 Sometimes he appeared like a mother's boy, at other times a thug.
他有时看上去像个妈妈的宝宝, 有时又像个歹徒.
13 His presence reverberated through the cramped rooms and crooked hallways as every thug, thief, dealer, con man, and steerer came a little more awake.
14 They seemed the embodiment of the kind of young thug feared by nearly all urban-dwellers, and the mysterious gunman who shot them down seemed like an avenging angel.
15 They assaulted by a gang of thugs in the street.
他们在街上遭到一伙暴徒的突然袭击.
16 “Personal combat has no meaning. It is an unfair justice anyway. It is the thugs who win.”
17 Herein lay another complaint the people had with the educated and tricky thugs who were trying to form a conservancy district in order to build the Zopilote’s private swimming lake behind the Indian Creek Dam.
18 He was done over by a gang of thugs after a football match.
他在足球比赛结束以后受到一帮暴徒的殴打.
19 I think the fact that her mom has to constantly defend all those thugs is starting to screw with her head.
20 But now his thoughts were muddied with these thugs and thieves, with Inej’s courage and Jesper’s daring, and with Nina, always Nina.
1 暴徒
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3 暗杀者
6 罪犯
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7 恶棍
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