lout

英 [laʊt]美 [laʊt]
  • n. 笨拙的人
  • vt. 愚弄
  • vi. 鞠躬；屈服
GRE 畅通词汇

助记提示

Lout：老土——笨人

中文词源

lout 举止粗野的人

来自PIE*leud,低头，弯腰，变小，词源同loiter,little.其原义为乞讨，骗子，小丑，乡巴佬等。后用于校园俚语无赖，举止粗野的人。

英文词源

lout (n.)
1540s, "awkward fellow, clown, bumpkin," perhaps from a dialectal survival of Middle English louten (v.) "bow down" (c. 1300), from Old English lutan "bow low," from Proto-Germanic *lut- "to bow, bend, stoop" (cognates: Old Norse lutr "stooping," which might also be the source of the modern English word), from PIE *leud- "to lurk" (cognates: Gothic luton "to deceive," Old English lot "deceit), also "to be small" (see little). Non-Germanic cognates probably include Lithuanian liudeti "to mourn;" Old Church Slavonic luditi "to deceive," ludu "foolish." Sense of "cad" is first attested 1857 in British schoolboy slang.

双语例句

1. He's just an ill-bred lout.
他是个缺乏教养的乡巴佬。
来自辞典例句
2. He had no training , no skills, he was just a big, bungling , useless lout!
什么也不行, 什么也不会, 自己只是个傻大黑粗的废物!
来自汉英文学 - 骆驼祥子
3. This lout guards the crypt like a Cerberus.
这个笨蛋象冥府守门狗一样守着地窖.
来自电影对白
4. Some of the films on TV would scare the lout of adults as well as children.
电视上的某些影片不仅会吓坏了孩子们,而且也会使成年人吓得魂不附体.
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