assailant
外观
英语
[编辑]词源
[编辑]源自古法语 asaillant,源自动词asaillir (“跳上”),源自拉丁语 assaliō,源自ad (“朝,向”) + saliō (“跳”)。
发音
[编辑]名词
[编辑]assailant (复数 assailants)
- 攻击者
- 2018, Edo Konrad, "Living in the constant shadow of settler violence", +972 Magazine:
- In the village of Aqraba, the Sheikh Saadeh Mosque was set on fire before the assailants graffitied the words “price tag” and “revenge” on its walls.
- (请为本使用例添加中文翻译)
- 2018, Edo Konrad, "Living in the constant shadow of settler violence", +972 Magazine:
- 〈引〉 激烈的反对者
形容词
[编辑]assailant (无比较级)
- 攻击性的
- 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes, lines 1687 to 1696.
- But he though blind of sight, / Despis'd, and thought extinguish'd quite, / With inward eyes illuminated, / His fiery virtue roused / From under ashes into sudden flame, / And as an evening dragon came, / Assailant on the perched roosts / And nests in order ranged / Of tame villatic fowl, but as an eagle / His cloudless thunder bolted on their heads.
- (请为本引文添加中文翻译)
- 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes, lines 1687 to 1696.