haggard
haggard 英 [ˈhægəd] 美 [ˈhægərd]
adj. 憔悴的；野性的 n. 野鹰
名词复数:haggards
- Someone who is haggard looks exhausted and worn out, exactly how you'd expect someone who's been lost at sea for days to look.
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- adj. 憔悴的；野性的
- n. 野鹰
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1. Just for a moment, let's put aside our memories of Mel Gibson's haggard mug shots and raging, bigoted meltdowns.
让我们暂时把我们记忆中梅尔·吉布森憔悴的面部特写以及他的暴怒，固执的崩溃(?)
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2. The house door was ajar, too; light entered from its unclosed windows; Hindley had come out, and stood on the kitchen hearth, haggard and drowsy.
大厅的门也还是半开，从那没有关上的窗户那儿进来了光亮。 辛德雷已经出来了，站在厨房炉边，憔悴而懒塌塌的。
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3. In the grey of the morning the two students, pallid and haggard from anxiety and with the terror of their adventure still beating tumultuously in their blood, met at the medical college.
在天色泛白的时候，这两个学生在医学院碰了面，惴惴不安的心情反映到了他们苍白憔悴的脸上，而刚刚的骇人经历则仍然使其惊魂未定。
- haggard (adj.) 1560s, "wild, unruly" (originally in reference to hawks), from Middle French haggard, probably from Old French faulcon hagard "wild falcon," literally "falcon of the woods," from hagard, hagart, from Middle High German hag "hedge, copse, wood," from Proto-Germanic *hagon, from PIE root *kagh- "to catch, seize;" also "wickerwork, fence" (see hedge (n.)). OED, however, finds this derivation "very doubtful." Sense perhaps reinforced by Low German hager "gaunt, haggard." Sense of "with a haunted and wild expression" first recorded 1690s; that of "careworn" first recorded 1853. Sense influenced by association with hag. Related: Haggardly; haggardness.
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