• n. 愛國者

來自希臘語patriotes,同胞，鄉(xiāng)親，老鄉(xiāng)，來自pater,父親，詞源同father.-otes,狀態(tài)后綴。即同一個父親的，同一個祖先的，后用以指同胞，愛國者。

patriot

patriot: see patron

patriot (n.)

1590s, "compatriot," from Middle French patriote (15c.) and directly from Late Latin patriota "fellow-countryman" (6c.), from Greek patriotes "fellow countryman," from patrios "of one's fathers," patris "fatherland," from pater (genitive patros) "father" (see father (n.)); with -otes, suffix expressing state or condition. Liddell & Scott write that patriotes was "applied to barbarians who had only a common [patris], [politai] being used of Greeks who had a common [polis] (or free-state)."

Meaning "loyal and disinterested supporter of one's country" is attested from c. 1600, but became an ironic term of ridicule or abuse from mid-18c. in England, so that Johnson, who at first defined it as "one whose ruling passion is the love of his country," in his fourth edition added, "It is sometimes used for a factious disturber of the government."

The name of patriot had become [c. 1744] a by-word of derision. Horace Walpole scarcely exaggerated when he said that ... the most popular declaration which a candidate could make on the hustings was that he had never been and never would be a patriot. [Macaulay, "Horace Walpole," 1833]

Somewhat revived in reference to resistance movements in overrun countries in World War II, it has usually had a positive sense in American English, where the phony and rascally variety has been consigned to the word patrioteer (1928). Oriana Fallaci ["The Rage and the Pride," 2002] marvels that Americans, so fond of patriotic, patriot, and patriotism, lack the root noun and are content to express the idea of patria by cumbersome compounds such as homeland. (Joyce, Shaw, and H.G. Wells all used patria as an English word early 20c., but it failed to stick.) Patriots' Day (April 19, anniversary of the 1775 skirmishes at Lexington and Concord Bridge) was observed as a legal holiday in Maine and Massachusetts from 1894.

1. The patriot's voice trembled from the fervo ( u ) r of his emotion.

這位愛國者由于感情 激昂 而聲音發(fā)抖.

來自《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》

2. He was represented as a true patriot.

他被描繪成真正的愛國主義者.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. When toned down again , the unimpeachable patriot appeared in the witness - box.

這陣喧嘩過去, 那無懈可擊的愛國志士已經(jīng)登上了證人席.

來自英漢文學 - 雙城記

4. 'It is always as the good patriot says,'observed the functionary.

“ 這位好心的愛國者說的話總是對的, ” 那官員說.

來自英漢文學 - 雙城記

5. As a boy he was a fanatical patriot.

年少時，他是個狂熱的愛國者。

來自辭典例句