Old English, person from a tribe from central Asia that overran Europe in the 4c. and 5c., from Medieval Latin Hunni, apparently ultimately from Turkic Hun-yü, the name of a tribe (they were known in China as Han or Hiong-nu). Figurative sense of "reckless destroyer of beauty" is from 1806. Applied to the German in World War I by their enemies because of stories of atrocities, but the nickname originally was urged on German soldiers bound for China by Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1900, which caused a scandal.
双语例句
1. Hun-garian businessmen have had a head start over most of their Eastern European neighbors.
匈牙利商人已经领先于东欧邻国的大多数同行了。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Prime Minister Hun Sen has sought to steer a course between the two groups.
洪森首相设法游走于两个集团之间。
来自柯林斯例句
3. The fifth century was the Hun's century.
5世纪是匈奴的世纪.
来自英汉非文学 - 历史
4. Let the Hun do that.
让德国佬去干那种事儿.
来自演讲部分
5. But these great Hun raids practically consummated the end of the Latin Roman Empire.