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标题[每日] caitiff (n) 卑鄙的人
时间Wed Dec 3 18:14:46 2008
Word of the Day (Wednesday December 3, 2008)
caitiff \KAY-tif\, noun, adjective:
Pronunciation:
http://0rz.tw/dc55m
1. cowardly and mean
noun:
1. a mean, cowardly person
But there was no need: the towering threat and the flaming eye
and the swift rush buffeted the
caitiff away: he recoiled three
steps, and nearly fell down.
-- Charles Reade, The Atlantic, -14396
Captain Thomas J. C. Martyn ... was asked to give his opinion
on recent despatches from Berlin which stated that Count Manfred
von Richthofen, celebrated German flyer, was not shot in the air
but killed by
caitiff riflemen after he had made a safe landing
behind the British lines.
-- Friendly Enemies, Time, 8018
c.1300, from Old North French caitive "captive, miserable," from
Latin captivum; originally the word meant a "captive, prisoner"
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