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Malcontent Sends Back Things ˌmælkən'tent  N 不平者;不满者 Rebellion

Front malcontent
Pron [ˌmælkən'tent]
Back 【malcontent】
 n. 不平者;不满者
The rebellion was started by some malcontents who had been dissatisfied with the policy.
叛变起于一些向来对政策不满的人。
Vocab
malcontentdiscontented as toward authority

A malcontent is someone who's always dissatisfied. The guy at the restaurant who sends back the steak because it's too rare, then sends it back a second time complaining that it's not rare enough — he's a malcontent.

Malcontent is often used to describe people who complain about more important things than steaks — things like social and political injustice. In Shakespeare's day, the Malcontent was a popular character type. Hamlet was a classic Malcontent. He believed that his uncle, King Claudius, murdered his father for power, and it made him angry that everyone else seemed to think that Claudius was a good person.

All forms of 'malcontent' will appear on average once every 4570 pages.
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