| 正面 | 4988.plaintiff 英 ['pleɪntɪf]美 ['plentɪf]     |
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| 背面 |      释义： 1. 专家把它吐出来了。n. 原告 例句： 1. The plaintiff's sole witness, a gambler and layabout, was easily discredited.原告唯一的证人嗜赌成性，游手好闲，其证词一下子就被推翻了。 plaintiff 原告，起诉人来自plaint,起诉，诉讼，-iff,形容词后缀，对应-ive.后词性由形容词变为名词，引申词义原告，起诉人。 plaintiffplaintiff: see plagueplaintiff (n.)c. 1400, from Anglo-French pleintif (late 13c.), noun use of Old French plaintif "complaining; wretched, miserable," from plainte (see plaint). Identical with plaintive at first; the form that receded into legal usage retained the older -iff spelling." |