prevarication
英語[編輯]
詞源[編輯]
源自盎格魯-諾曼語 prevaricassion、中古法語 prevarication和其來源,拉丁語 praevāricātiō (「與對手串通;偏離正軌;欺瞞」),源自praevāricor的詞幹。
發音[編輯]
名詞[編輯]
prevarication (可數 和 不可數,複數 prevarications)
- (現已罕用) 偏離正軌
- 近義詞: transgression、perversion
- 搪塞,遮掩
- 近義詞: deceit、evasiveness
- Prevarication became the order of the day in his government while truth was a stranger in those halls.
- (請為本使用例添加中文翻譯)
- Template:RQ:Cowper Retirement
- Template:RQ:Eliot Silas Marner
- 2012年10月6日,「Charlemagne: Mysterious Mariano」,出自 The Economist[1]:
- Mr Rajoy frustrates many with his prevarication over a fresh euro-zone bail-out, which now comes with a conditional promise from the European Central Bank (ECB) to help bring down Spain’s stifling borrowing costs.
- (請為本引文添加中文翻譯)
- (秘密的)濫用公職
- (法律, 歷史, 古羅馬) (被告人和線人的)串通,勾結
- (法律) 本詞語需要翻譯為漢語。請協助添加,並移除
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模板。- 1628,Robert Le Grys, Argenis,翻譯自John Barclay的作品:
- If it shall appeare, that they haue forfeited their Faith, or wronged their Client by preuarication.
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參考資料[編輯]
- 「prevarication」, Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, OCLC 800618302
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中古法語[編輯]
名詞[編輯]
prevarication f (複數 prevarications)
派生語彙[編輯]
- → 英語:prevarication
- 法語:prévarication