| 单词 | felon |
|---|---|
| 音标 | ['felən] |
| 解释 | n.重罪犯 |
| 红宝书 | 【英】 n.重罪犯(a person guilty of a major crime; criminal) |
| 字源 | felon (n.) late 13c., from Old French felon "evil-doer, scoundrel, traitor, rebel, the Devil" (9c.), from Medieval Latin fellonem (nominative fello) "evil-doer," of uncertain origin, perhaps from Frankish *fillo, *filljo "person who whips or beats, scourger" (source of Old High German fillen "to whip"); or from Latin fel "gall, poison," on the notion of "one full of bitterness." Another theory (advanced by Professor R. Atkinson of Dublin) traces it to Latin fellare "to suck" (see fecund), which had an obscene secondary meaning in classical Latin (well-known to readers of Martial and Catullus), which would make a felon etymologically a "cock-sucker." OED inclines toward the "gall" explanation, but finds Atkinson's "most plausible" of the others. |
| 不择手段背单词 | n. 重罪犯 = criminal 【记】犯了重罪的人头就会被fell到地上 on. Fall在罪恶之上on的人－重罪犯 【参】felony(n 重罪: 谋杀、强奸等) |
| 趣味全助记 | 【记】fell + on 想象扑上去杀人，打人的罪犯情景 |
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