ignominious
英語
[編輯]詞源
[編輯]源自法語或古法語 ignominieux，源自拉丁語 ignōminiōsus (「可恥的」)，源自ignōminia (「名譽掃地」)，源自ig- (「不」) + nomen (「名譽」)（前綴為in-的同化形式）。 就詞形分析為ignominy + -ious。
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[編輯]形容詞
[編輯]ignominious (比較級 more ignominious，最高級 most ignominious)
- 恥辱的，不光彩的
- The time when the pseudovirtuous men and women die a painful and ignominious death has yet to come.
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- 1776, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol I, ch 1—pt ii:
- The golden eagle, which glittered in the front of the legion, was the object of their fondest devotion; nor was it esteemed less impious than it was ignominious, to abandon that sacred ensign in the hour of danger.
- 1830, The Book of Mormon:
- And it came to pass that they took him; and his name was Nehor; and they carried him upon the top of the hill Manti, and there he was caused, or rather did acknowledge, between the heavens and the earth, that what he had taught to the people was contrary to the word of God; and there he suffered an ignominious death.
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- 1902, Thomas Ebenezer Webb, The Mystery of William Shakespeare: A Summary of Evidence，第 242 頁:
- Greene died of a debauch; and Marlowe, the gracer of tragedians, perished in an ignominious brawl.
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- 1945年8月17日, George Orwell [筆名；本名 Eric Arthur Blair], 章號 6, 出自 Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:
- In sheer malignity, thinking to set back our plans and avenge himself for his ignominious expulsion, this traitor has crept here under cover of night and destroyed our work of nearly a year.
- 2016年6月27日, Daniel Taylor, 「England humiliated as Iceland knock them out of Euro 2016」, 出自 The Guardian[1], London:
- For Roy Hodgson it was a desperate and ignominious way to end his four years as England manager. Whatever else happened in that time, his period in office will probably always be remembered for the full-on humiliation that accompanied this defeat and the knowledge it will rank among the more infamous results in the history of the national team.
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- 2017年6月7日, Adam Lusher, 「Adnan Khashoggi: the 'whoremonger' whose arms deals funded a playboy life of decadence and 'pleasure wives'」, 出自 The Independent[2], London:
- And yet it also seems that Khashoggi avoided anything as ignominious as personal bankruptcy.
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