miscreant
miscreant 英 [ˈmɪskriənt] 美 [ˈmɪskriənt]
adj. 异端的；邪道的；极恶的 n. 异端；恶棍；罪大恶极之人
名词复数:miscreants
- A miscreant is a person who is bad––who lies, breaks the law, yells at small puppies. It's a somewhat old-fashioned word, popular with old ladies shocked at having their purses stolen at the opera.
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- adj. 异端的；邪道的；极恶的
- n. 异端；恶棍；罪大恶极之人
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1. Mr Godoy Toscano's desafuero may not mark an end to impunity in Mexican politics, but it does symbolically put every miscreant politician in the country on notice.
罢免托斯卡诺先生可能并不能代表墨西哥政治豁免的结束，但是它却象征性地让该国的政治恶棍们开始留神了。
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2. These were certainly on the mind of one miscreant as he broke into a home in Lanzhou, a city in northwest China, in May of 2010.
当2010年5月他破门而入一个兰州房间时，顶上这些想法，肯定出现在下面这个恶棍的脑海中过。
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3. The argument went that Col Gaddafi had watched the fate of fellow miscreant Saddam Hussein, hanged by Iraqis after a US-instigated legal process, and had learnt a sobering lesson.
都说这种转变发生的原因在于卡扎菲上校目睹了流氓萨达姆，在美国主导的一场法律审判后，让伊拉克人绞死的下场，他如同大梦初醒。
- miscreant (adj.) c. 1300, "non-Christian, pagan, infidel;" early 15c., "heretical, unbelieving," from Old French mescreant "disbelieving" (Modern French mécréant), from mes- "wrongly" (see mis- (2)) + creant, present participle of creire "believe," from Latin credere "to believe" (see credo). Meaning "villainous" is from 1590s.
- miscreant (n.) late 14c., "heathen, Saracen," from miscreant (adj.) or from Old French mescreant, which also had a noun sense of "infidel, pagan, heretic." Sense of "villain" first recorded 1590 in Spenser.
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