Front | malcontent |
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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. malcontent |
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