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英語(yǔ)單詞

coward是什么意思

coward

英 ['ka??d] 美 ['ka??d]
  • n. 懦夫,懦弱的人
  • adj. 膽小的,懦怯的
  • n. (Coward)人名;(英)科沃德

中文詞源


coward 膽小鬼

來自拉丁詞cauda, 尾巴,詞源同coda, queue. 原指動(dòng)物夾著尾巴逃走,后指人膽小。

英文詞源


coward
coward: [13] Etymologically, a coward seems to be ‘someone who runs away with his tail between his legs’. It comes from Old French cuard, which was based on *cōda, the Vulgar Latin descendant of Latin cauda ‘tail’. (The apparently similar cower [13] is no relation, coming from Middle Low German *kūren ‘lie in wait’.)
coward (n.)
mid-13c., from Old French coart "coward" (no longer the usual word in French, which has now in this sense poltron, from Italian, and lache), from coe "tail," from Latin coda, popular dialect variant of cauda "tail," which is of uncertain origin + -ard, an agent noun suffix denoting one that carries on some action or possesses some quality, with derogatory connotation (see -ard).

The word probably reflects an animal metaphoric sense still found in expressions like turning tail and tail between legs. Coart was the name of the hare in Old French versions of "Reynard the Fox." Italian codardo, Spanish cobarde are from French.
The identification of coward & bully has gone so far in the popular consciousness that persons & acts in which no trace of fear is to be found are often called coward(ly) merely because advantage has been taken of superior strength or position .... [Fowler]
As a surname (attested from 1255) it represents Old English cuhyrde "cow-herd." Farmer has coward's castle "a pulpit," "Because a clergyman may deliver himself therefrom without fear of contradiction or argument."

雙語(yǔ)例句


1. She shot to stardom on Broadway in a Noel Coward play.
她因在百老匯出演了一部諾埃爾·科沃德的戲一炮而紅。

來自柯林斯例句

2. He's a coward and a bully who confuses physical strength with manhood.
他是一個(gè)懦夫,一個(gè)分不清蠻力和大丈夫氣概的恃強(qiáng)凌弱者。

來自柯林斯例句

3. "You're a coward," Mark said very plainly and soberly.
馬克非常直率而嚴(yán)肅地說:“你是個(gè)懦夫。”

來自柯林斯例句

4. I don't want to see you ever again, you coward! "
我再不要看見你這個(gè)Coward! ”

來自漢英文學(xué) - 圍城

5. She was a rotten coward.
她是一個(gè)討厭的膽小鬼。

來自柯林斯例句

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