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英语[编辑]
词源[编辑]
源自中古英語 coward,源自古法語 coart、cuard(→法語 couard),源自coue、coe (“尾巴”) + -ard (贬义施动者名词后缀)。其中,coue、coe,源自拉丁語 cauda。可能指的是动物“转尾巴的方向或夹着尾巴(逃跑)”,尤其是狗。与英語 cower无关。取代了本土词古英語 earg。
发音[编辑]
- (英國) 英語發音:kou'əd、IPA(幫助):/ˈkaʊəd/
(英国)音频 (文檔)
- (美國) 英語發音:kou'ərd、IPA(幫助):/ˈkaʊɚd/
(美国)音频 (文檔)
- 斷字:co‧ward
- 同音词:cowered
名词[编辑]
coward (複數 cowards)
- 懦夫,胆小鬼
- 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,出版年份1623, OCLC 606515358, 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.
近义词[编辑]
衍生词汇[编辑]
形容词[编辑]
coward (比較級 more coward,最高級 most coward)

- 胆小的,怯懦的
- 近義詞: cowardly
- Template:RQ:Montaigne Florio Essayes
- c. 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, 指狮子图案) 在腿间有两条尾巴的
动词[编辑]
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)
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中古英语[编辑]
词源 1[编辑]
借自古法語 coart,等价于古法語 coe (“尾巴”) + -ard。对比taylarde。
其他形式[编辑]
发音[编辑]
名词[编辑]
coward
相关词汇[编辑]
派生語彙[编辑]
参考资料[编辑]
- “cǒuard, n.” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
形容词[编辑]
coward
派生語彙[编辑]
- 英語:coward
参考资料[编辑]
- “cǒuard, adj.” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
词源 2[编辑]
名词[编辑]
coward
- couherde的另一種寫法