flagrant
英 ['fleɪgr(ə)nt]
美 ['fleɡrənt]
- adj. 公然的；不能容忍的；非常的；臭名远扬的；明目张胆的；恶名昭著的（名词flagrancy，副词flagrantly）
助记提示
1. flagr- + -ant.
2. => burning, blazing, glowing.
3. 引申为：公然的，明目张胆的；臭名远扬的，声名狼藉的。
4. fragrance, flagrance: r 是一朵花，l 像个粪勺.
5. flagrance => flagrant.
6. fragrant前面是r联想成“花”，flagrant前面是l联想成“棍子”。
7. 有花(r)才芳香(fragrant)，拿棍子(l)打人的是明目张胆的、臭名昭著的(flagrant)。
中文词源
flagrant 罪恶昭彰的来自PIE*bhleg, 照明，闪光，来自PIE*bhel的扩大形式，词源同flame, blaze. 原义为闪光的，辉煌的。然后由于不知道的原因词义贬义化。参照中国反腐案例。
英文词源
- flagrant
- flagrant: [15] Etymologically, flagrant means ‘burning, blazing’. It comes, via French, from the present participle of Latin flagrāre ‘burn’ (source of English conflagration [16]). This in turn went back to Indo-European *bhleg-, which also produced English flame. The use of flagrant for ‘shameless, shocking’, an 18th-century development, comes from the Latin phrase in flagrante delicto ‘red-handed’, literally ‘with the crime still blazing’.
=> conflagration, flame - flagrant (adj.)
- c. 1500, "resplendent" (obsolete), from Latin flagrantem (nominative flagrans) "burning, blazing, glowing," figuratively "glowing with passion, eager, vehement," present participle of flagrare "to burn, blaze, glow" from Proto-Italic *flagro- "burning" (cognates: Oscan flagio-, an epithet of Iuppiter), corresponding to PIE *bhleg-ro-, from *bhleg- "to shine, flash, burn" (cognates: Greek phlegein "to burn, scorch," Latin fulgere "to shine"), from root *bhel- (1) "to shine, flash, burn" (see bleach (v.)). Sense of "glaringly offensive, scandalous" (rarely used of persons) first recorded 1706, probably from common legalese phrase flagrante delicto "while the crime is being committed, red-handed," literally "with the crime still blazing." Related: Flagrantly.
双语例句
- 1. The judge called the decision "a flagrant violation of international law"
- 法官称这一决定是“对国际法的公然违背”。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. a flagrant abuse of human rights
- 粗暴的践踏人权
来自《权威词典》
- 3. Telling the story was a flagrant breach of trust.
- 说谎是一种可耻的破坏信誉的行为.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 4. The attack on civilians is a flagrant violation of the peace agreement.
- 袭击平民的举动公然违背了和平协定.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 5. His failure to turn his attention to flagrant wastes of public money is inexcusable.
- 他未能注意到公共资金的公然浪费，这是不可原谅的。
来自柯林斯例句