thug
thug 英 [θʌg] 美 [θʌɡ]
n. 暴徒；恶棍；刺客
名词复数:thugs
- A thug is a bad guy or a bully, especially a violent one. A thug might break into someone's house, push its owners around, and steal their TV.
- 请先登录
- n. 暴徒；恶棍；刺客
-
1. Scargill was perceived as a militant hero by the unions, and as a Marxist thug by most of the mainstream press.
斯卡吉尔被各工会视为骁勇善战的英雄，却被主流媒体看成一个马克思主义的暴徒。
-
2. Mr Walker is now a professor of English at a state college in Massachusetts, far from the streets he used to haunt as a thug.
沃克没有在他以往混迹的街头上成为一个恶棍，恰恰相反，现在他是麻省一所州立大学的英语教授。
-
3. A CHIEF of Police who had seen an Officer beating a thug was very indignant, and said he must not do so any more on pain of dismissal.
一个警察局长看到一个警察正在打一个恶棍，他很气愤，告诫这个警察不许再这样做，否则就开除他。
- thug (n.) 1810, "member of a gang of murderers and robbers in India who strangled their victims," from Marathi thag, thak "cheat, swindler," Hindi thag, perhaps from Sanskrit sthaga-s "cunning, fraudulent," from sthagayati "(he) covers, conceals," from PIE root *(s)teg- "to cover."
- 请先登录
0 个回复