dastard

n. 懦夫, 卑鄙的人 a. 怯懦的

发音

UK /ˈdɑːstəd/
UK /ˈdæstəd/
US /ˈdæstɚd/

词形变化

dastards 复数 dastards dastarded dastarding dastards 三单 dastarding 现在分词 dastarded 过去式 dastarded 过去分词 more dastard 比较级 most dastard 最高级

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A malicious coward; a dishonorable sneak.

v.
  1. 1.

    To dastardize.

    Would my short life had yet a shorter date! / I'm weary of this flesh which holds us here, / And dastards manly souls with hope and fear; / These heats and colds still in our breast make war, / Agues and fevers all our passions are.

adj.
  1. 1.

    Meanly shrinking from danger, cowardly, dastardly.

    1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book III, Canto One, Stanza 22, in The Faerie Queene, Books Three and Four, edited by Dorothy Stephens, Hackett, 2006, p. 13, Like dastard Curres, that having at a bay The salvage beast embost in wearie chace, Dare not adventure on the stubborne pray, Ne byte before, but rome from place to place, To get a snatch, when turned is his face.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

coward
形容词

同义词 1

dastardly

近义相关 2

cowardly fearful

词源

From Middle English dastard (“a dullard”), most likely formed from *dast, a base derived from Old Norse dæstr (“exhausted, breathless”) + -ard. Compare Icelandic dasaður (“exhausted”), dialectal Swedish däst (“weary”), Middle Dutch dasaert, daasaardt (“a fool”), English dazed (“stupefied”).

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