misbegotten

英语

词源

mis- +‎ begotten

发音

• (标准英音) 国际音标^(帮助): /ˌmɪsbɪˈɡɒtn̩/
• (通用美式) 国际音标^(帮助): /ˌmɪsbɪˈɡɑtn̩/

形容词

misbegotten (比较级 more misbegotten，最高级 most misbegotten)

1. (指人) 私生的
2. (引申义，比喻义) 考虑不周的，筹划不好的
   • 2012 March 22nd, Scott Tobias, “Cabin Boy” in The A.V. Club:

     Many of the strangest, most misbegotten studio films of the last 20 years have been comedies, perhaps because middle-aged executives have no comprehension of what the younger generation finds funny.

3. (引申义) 糟糕的，无用的
   • 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney: Ure Smith, 出版于 1965，第 82 页:

     "Do they not sneakingly bestow on me their crass inability to do anything with their own misbegotten progeny, a subterfuge which I scornfully fub off on text-books?"

     （请为本引文添加中文翻译）

动词

misbegotten

1. misbeget 的过去时分词

名词

misbegotten (复数 misbegotten)

1. (弃用，有时贬义) 私生子，私生女
2. (广义，复数) 家门不幸的人
   • 1973, Philippa Foot, “Nietzsche: The Revaluation of Values” in Nietzsche: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Robert C. Solomon、Garden City, New York: Anchor Books, ISBN 0385033443, page 161:

     By preserving the incapable and “misbegotten”, and by insisting that they be the object of compassionate attention, it would cause even the strong to be infected with gloom and nihilism.

参见

• misbeget

• misbegetten

• misbegot

参考资料

• OED (3rd ed., June 2002), “misbegotten, n. and adj.”