coward
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英語[編輯]
詞源[編輯]
源自中古英語 coward,源自古法語 coart、cuard(→法語 couard),源自coue、coe (「尾巴」) + -ard (貶義施動者名詞後綴)。其中,coue、coe,源自拉丁語 cauda。可能指的是動物「轉尾巴的方向或夾着尾巴(逃跑)」,尤其是狗。與英語 cower無關。取代了本土詞古英語 earg。
發音[編輯]
- (英國) 英語發音:kou'əd、國際音標(幫助):/ˈkaʊəd/
(英國)音頻 (文檔)
- (美國) 英語發音:kou'ərd、國際音標(幫助):/ˈkaʊɚd/
(美國)音頻 (文檔)
- 斷字:co‧ward
- 同音詞:cowered
名詞[編輯]
coward (複數 cowards)
- 懦夫,膽小鬼
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, 「The Tragedie of Ivlivs Cæsar」, 出自 Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, 出版於 1623, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii,頁號 117, column 1:
- Cowards dye many times before their deaths, / The valiant neuer taſte of death but once: […]
- (請為本引文添加中文翻譯)
- 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part II Chapter IV, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
- He tortured himself to find out how he could make his declaration to her, and always halting between the fear of displeasing her and the shame of being such a coward, he wept with discouragement and desire. Then he took energetic resolutions, wrote letters that he tore up, put it off to times that he again deferred.
近義詞[編輯]
衍生詞彙[編輯]
形容詞[編輯]
coward (比較級 more coward,最高級 most coward)
- 膽小的,怯懦的
- 近義詞: cowardly
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- 大約1605 William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act II, Scene 4,[1]
- He rais』d the house with loud and coward cries.
- 1709, Matthew Prior, 「Celia to Damon」 in Poems on Several Occasions, London: Jacob Tonson, 2nd edition, p. 89,[2]
- Invading Fears repel my Coward Joy;
- And Ills foreseen the pleasant Bliss destroy.
- (紋章學,指獅子圖案) 在腿間有兩條尾巴的
動詞[編輯]
coward (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 cowards,現在分詞 cowarding,一般過去時及過去分詞 cowarded)
- (及物,棄用) 恫嚇
- 1820, John Chalkhill, Thealma and Clearchus:
- The first he coped with was their captain, whom / His sword sent headless to seek out a tomb. / This cowarded the valour of the rest, […]
- (請為本引文添加中文翻譯)
參考資料[編輯]
中古英語[編輯]
詞源 1[編輯]
借自古法語 coart,等價於古法語 coe (「尾巴」) + -ard。對比taylarde。
其他形式[編輯]
發音[編輯]
名詞[編輯]
coward
相關詞彙[編輯]
派生語彙[編輯]
參考資料[編輯]
- 「cǒuard, n.」 in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
形容詞[編輯]
coward
派生語彙[編輯]
- 英語: coward
參考資料[編輯]
- 「cǒuard, adj.」 in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
詞源 2[編輯]
名詞[編輯]
coward
- couherde的另一種寫法