cant
cant 英 [kænt] 美 [kænt]
n. 斜面；伪善之言；黑话；角落 vi. 倾斜；讲黑话 vt. 把…棱角去掉；使…倾斜；甩掉
名词复数:cants 比较级:canter 最高级:cantest
- Cant is language repeated so often and so mechanically that it's essentially empty of meaning. Cant can also mean the specialized jargon of a particular group — like the "cant of piracy" (e.g., Ahoy! Lubber! Arrr!).
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- n. 斜面；伪善之言；黑话；角落
- vi. 倾斜；讲黑话
- vt. 把…棱角去掉；使…倾斜；甩掉
- adj. 行话的；哀诉声的；假仁假义的
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1. Because my kids are stalked by paparazzi, they cant always go to a park or a movie with me.
因为我的孩子们总是被那些八卦小报跟踪，他们也不能和我经常去公园或者影院。
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2. Sweetie, we cant prevent what cant predict.Isnt thereanything I could do? Yes, yes.
亲爱的，我们不能预防我们所不能预知的,有什么是我能做的么？
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3. Because plastic cant say no?
还是因为塑料不会说'不"?
- cant (n.1) "pretentious or insincere talk, ostentatious conventionality in speech," 1709. The earliest use is as a slang word for "the whining speech of beggars asking for alms" (1640s), from the verb in this sense (1560s), from Old North French canter (Old French chanter) "to sing, chant," from Latin cantare, frequentative of canere "to sing" (from PIE root *kan- "to sing").
- cant (n.2) "slope, slant," late 14c., first in Scottish writing and apparently meaning "edge, brink," a word of uncertain origin. "words identical in form and corresponding in sense are found in many languages, Teutonic, Slavonic, Romanic, Celtic" [OED]. It was rare in English before c. 1600. Meaning "slope, slanting or tilting position" is from 1847.
- cant (v.1) 1560s, "to speak in a whining voice," from cant (n.1). From c. 1600 as "to speak in the jargon of thieves and vagabonds;" 1670s as "talk hypocritically in pompous phraseology." Related: Canted; canting.
- cant (v.2) 1540s, "give a cant to an edge," from cant (n.2). From 1741 as "put in an oblique position;" in sailing, "move obliquely," 1784. Related: Canted; canting.
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