lout
英 [laʊt]
美 [laʊt]
n. 笨拙的人
vt. 愚弄
vi. 鞠躬；屈服
GRE词汇
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记忆方法
Lout：老土——笨人
中文词源
lout 举止粗野的人来自PIE*leud,低头，弯腰，变小，词源同loiter,little.其原义为乞讨，骗子，小丑，乡巴佬等。后用于校园俚语无赖，举止粗野的人。
英语词源
lout (n.)
1540s, "awkward fellow, clown, bumpkin," perhaps from a dialectal survival of Middle English louten (v.) "bow down" (c. 1300), from Old English lutan "bow low," from Proto-Germanic *lut- "to bow, bend, stoop" (cognates: Old Norse lutr "stooping," which might also be the source of the modern English word), from PIE *leud- "to lurk" (cognates: Gothic luton "to deceive," Old English lot "deceit), also "to be small" (see little). Non-Germanic cognates probably include Lithuanian liudeti "to mourn;" Old Church Slavonic luditi "to deceive," ludu "foolish." Sense of "cad" is first attested 1857 in British schoolboy slang.
权威例句
1. He's just an ill-bred lout. 他是个缺乏教养的乡巴佬。
2. He had no training , no skills, he was just a big, bungling , useless lout! 什么也不行, 什么也不会, 自己只是个傻大黑粗的废物!
3. This lout guards the crypt like a Cerberus. 这个笨蛋象冥府守门狗一样守着地窖.
4. Some of the films on TV would scare the lout of adults as well as children. 电视上的某些影片不仅会吓坏了孩子们,而且也会使成年人吓得魂不附体.