英语单词

weakling是什么意思

weakling

英 ['wiːklɪŋ] 美 ['wiklɪŋ]
  • n. 虚弱的人;懦怯者
  • adj. 虚弱的;懦弱的

英文词源


weakling (n.)
1520s, coined by Tyndale from weak (adj.) + -ling as a loan-translation of Luther's Weichling "effeminate man" (from German weich "soft") in I Cor. vi.9, where the Greek is malakoi, from malakos "soft, soft to the touch," "Like the Lat. mollis, metaph. and in a bad sense: effeminate, of a catamite, a male who submits his body to unnatural lewdness" ["Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament"].

双语例句


1. I'm a useless weakling, and I can't stand excitement.
我没有胆量去承受那激动, 我还是希望我能不见着他.

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2. What a weakling, how boring!
就这么稀松没劲 呀 !

来自汉英文学 - 骆驼祥子

3. The author characterizes the central figure as a weakling.
作者把书中的中心人物描绘成一个懦弱的人.

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4. The governor in Algeria, Chatel, was a weakling.
阿尔及利亚省长卓脱尔是个懦弱者.

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5. You are a miserable weakling.
你是一个可怜的弱者.

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