egregious
英語 編輯
詞源 編輯
源自拉丁語 ēgregius,源自e- (「自,從」) + grex (「群,群體」) + 英語形容詞後綴-ous,源自晚期拉丁語後綴-osus (「充滿...的」),反映了帶有正面色彩的「出類拔萃」。
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形容詞 編輯
egregious (比較級 more egregious,最高級 most egregious)
- 嚴重的,劇烈的 (尤帶有負面色彩)
- The student has made egregious errors on the examination.
- 學生在考試時犯了很嚴重的錯誤。
- 16thC, Christopher Marlowe, Ignoto,
- I cannot cross my arms, or sigh "Ah me," / "Ah me forlorn!" egregious foppery! / I cannot buss thy fill, play with thy hair, / Swearing by Jove, "Thou art most debonnaire!"
- Template:RQ:Shakespeare All's Well
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], 章號 XXXI, 出自 Francesca Carrara. […], 卷 III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC,頁號 257:
- Good Heaven! when we observe what egregious nonsense other people talk, what woful follies other people commit, sure we must be tempted to turn upon ourselves and ask—"What do I do that is equally silly?"
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- 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[1]
- When the goal is simply to be as faithful as possible to the material—as if a movie were a marriage, and a rights contract the vow—the best result is a skillful abridgment, one that hits all the important marks without losing anything egregious.
- 2014年1月21日,Hermione Hoby,「Julia Roberts interview for August: Osage County – 'I might actually go to hell for this ...': Julia Roberts reveals why her violent, Oscar-nominated performance in August: Osage County made her feel 'like a terrible person' [print version: 'I might actually go to hell for this ...' (18 January 2014, p. R4)]」,出自 The Daily Telegraph (Review)[2]:
- She's sitting opposite a window that's gently breezing into her face, wafting her hair into cover-girl perfection ... It's a little moment that seems to encapsulate her appeal: ... her gorgeousness being so egregious that even breezes oblige with their tousle-fanning effects ...
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- 非常壞的,非常糟糕的,駭人聽聞的
用法說明 編輯
負面詞義在16世紀末葉出現,可能是為了諷刺。在那之前指正面的「出類拔萃」,「傑出」。Webster亦給出了古舊詞義「傑出的」,並註解說現代詞義常帶負面色彩(比如「an eregious error」),常前接於表述性名詞,如ass、blunderer、rascal和rogue。意大利語和西班牙語同源詞egregio以及葡萄牙語 egrégio仍保留且僅限於褒義。
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參考資料 編輯
- 「egregious」, Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.