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caitiff如何读

英：['keɪtɪf]

美：['keɪtɪf]

caitiff是什么意思

adj.卑劣的
n.卑鄙男人

caitiff英英释义

Noun:

a cowardly and despicable person

Adjective:

despicably mean and cowardly

caitiff词源中文解释

约于1300年，“邪恶的，卑鄙的，懦弱的”，源自古北法语 caitive “被俘虏的，悲惨的”（古法语 chaitif，12世纪，现代法语 chétif “瘦弱的，病弱的，贫穷的，虚弱的”），源自拉丁语 captivus “被捕获的，被俘虏的”，源自 capere 的过去分词 captus “拿，持有，抓住”（源自 PIE 词根 *kap- “抓住”）。它的同源词 captive 是同一个词的后期学术借用。在大多数罗曼语言中，它已经获得了贬义的意义（西班牙语 cautivo，意大利语 cattivo）。

caitiff词源英文解释

Middle English caitif, from Anglo-French caitif, chaitif wretched, despicable, from Latin captivus captive

The first known use of caitiff was in the 14th century

caitiff 例句

1 I am Robin Hood, as thy caitiff carcase soon shall know.

我是罗宾汉，你这匹夫马上就会知道我的厉害的。

2 "Margaret, they are but a blind: Giles says so: no matter, the old caitiff shall never see them again; I will not go till I have hidden his treasure where he shall never find it."

3 Ha, ha! the Saxon caitiffs are slinking off at the mention of this dog of a Norman!

4 Master Grasp," he said, "I have more than once given this caitiff host notice to quit, and he hath still hung on and craved to remain my tenant.

5 What punishment was severe enough for such a caitiff?

6 He varied, when he did vary, in hopes of ‘his Majesty’s princely grace and favour,’ and he naturally tried to make out that he was not a mere trembling expostulating caitiff.

7 In the tumult of his passion and fear Wade cursed the caitiff, his own legs in the swirl of the bights, his cant-dog nipping the rope to the post and checking it short.

8 Alas, caitiff that I am, why did I leave the place whereto I was appointed and wherein I had come to my old age?

9 You have allied yourself with a mean, dishonorable caitiff—a creature in whose character baseness and wickedness meet; and who has no natural affections.

10 This caitiff had the charge of the fair one whom I worshipped, and for whom I was dying of grief.

11 I heard the sword-play from the glen yonder, and soon knew the voice of that black caitiff.

12 “Eftsoon and gadzooks!” cried Jack, striking an attitude, “lead me to him, and sooth it shall go hard with me if my trusty sword drink not the caitiff’s blood.”

13 The deacon knew how his brother-official was ruled by his wife, and lustily despised the white-livered caitiff for his pusillanimity.

14 It Dies Today. The Caitiff Choir Revelations.

今天它死。合唱团的Caitiff启示。

15 Take up thy sword, caitiff, and let it work thy ruthless work of vengeance here.

16 To be reserved and caitiff in goodness is the sordidest piece of covetousness, and more contemptible than pecuniary Avarice.

17 And will any one say that he is not a miserable caitiff who sells his own divine being to that which is most godless and detestable and has no pity?

18 The caitiff who had undersold them was in the village at that moment!

19 He may be far from despising him; he may recognize his power and skill, but to be afraid of him would be the mark of the caitiff.

20 You are an arrant rogue, a caitiff vile; there can be naught between us.