Rogue
[rəʊg] or [roɡ]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A vagrant; an idle, sturdy beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
(n.) A deliberately dishonest person; a knave; a cheat.
(n.) One who is pleasantly mischievous or frolicsome; hence, often used as a term of endearment.
(n.) An elephant that has separated from a herd and roams about alone, in which state it is very savage.
(n.) A worthless plant occuring among seedlings of some choice variety.
(v. i.) To wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks.
(v. t.) To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry.
(v. t.) To destroy (plants that do not come up to a required standard).
編輯:利拉
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Knave, villain, swindler, sharper, cheat, trickster, rascal, scamp, scoundrel, scapegrace, caitiff.[2]. Mischievous fellow.
安妮編輯
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Vagabond, scamp, rascal, villain, cheat, swindler, sharper
ANT:True-penny, gentleman
手打:利蒂希娅
解釋/意思:
n. a dishonest person: a knave: a mischievous or frolicsome person: a vagrant a sturdy beggar: a wag: a playful person: a plant that falls short of a standard.—v.i. to play the rogue.—v.t. to cheat.—ns. Rogue′-el′ephant one which lives solitarily and is of dangerous temper; Rogue′-house a lock-up; Rogue′-mon′ey an assessment formerly levied in every county in Scotland for the expenses of catching and prosecuting criminals; Rog′uery knavish tricks: fraud: mischievousness: waggery; Rogue′ship; Rogue's′-march music played when drumming a soldier from a regiment or driving any one away in disgrace.—adj. Rog′uish knavish: mischievous: waggish.—adv. Rog′uishly.—n. Rog′uishness.—adj. Rō′guy (obs.).—Rogues' gallery a collection of photographs of criminals kept at police headquarters.
安尼塔整理
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To see or think yourself a rogue, foretells you are about to commit some indiscretion which will give your friends uneasiness of mind. You are likely to suffer from a passing malady. For a woman to think her husband or lover is a rogue, foretells she will be painfully distressed over neglect shown her by a friend.
手打:朱迪
例句/造句/用法:
- We need only note two of their names, Carnot, who was an honest republican, and Barras, who was conspicuously a rogue. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Now this odious, artful rogue of a Major was thinking in his own mind that he was sure of his case. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- You're a damned rogue, says the old gentleman, making a hideous grimace at the door as he shuts it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Everybody is right, I suppose, and the world is a rogue. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- He is seduced into the life of pleasure, and becomes a lawless person and a rogue. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Time was you called him better names than rogue and swindler. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- What a blooming young creature you seem, and what a prize the rogue has got! 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Rogue Riderhood was soon roused, and soon undrew the bolt and let him in. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I can't say as you treat me exactly like a lady, and--now don't laugh--oh, you sly, pretty rogue! 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- The purport of the muttering was: 'that Rogue Riderhood, by George! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- You shall put it plain if you want it answered,' thought the Rogue, doggedly; 'I ain't a-going a wolunteering. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- We must have you whipt; you are at least as much rogue as fool. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The Rogue had got the clue he wanted, though he held it with a clumsy hand. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Rogue Riderhood had been busy with the river that day. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- And I couldn't be a match for the rogues, without being a match for you, who are the blackest-looking and the worst rogue between this and France. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- There still remained an arrest to be effected, but what were these commonplace rogues that he should soil his hands with them? 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- How think you, Sir Brian, were we not better make a virtue of necessity, and compound with the rogues by delivering up our prisoners? 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- It is curious, when a man is bent upon play, by what clumsy rogues he will allow himself to be cheated, Dobbin said; and Emmy said, Indeed. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Why, said Brummell to several of these half-and-half sort of gentry, have not I called you Dick, Tom, and John, you rogues? 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- It means lowering the value of the stone, and cheating the rogues in that way! 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- But suppose the rogues are bolder than you think, sir? 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- It IS the pretty face which creates sympathy in the hearts of men, those wicked rogues. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Early in the coming week, the rogues must needs be released, and left free to follow their own devices. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- How is your friend Mr. Godfrey Ablewhite, after the mauling he got from the rogues in Northumberland Street? 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- The men wear cleaned gloves, and are sad rogues, certainly, but they are not worse than Jack This and Tom That. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- You will remember that in the oligarchy were found two classes--rogues and paupers, whom we compared to drones with and without stings. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- What inhuman rogues there are in the world! 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- And I couldn't be a match for the rogues, without being a match for you, who are the blackest-looking and the worst rogue between this and France. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Adeimantus further argues that the ideal is wholly at variance with facts; for experience proves philosophers to be either useless or rogues. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- In 1871 criminals were ordered to be photographed in England, and in America the Rogues’ Gallery became an institution in New York as early as 1857, ambrotypes being first used. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
手打:所罗门