deplorable
a. 可叹的, 悲惨的, 凄惨的
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1.
A person or thing that is to be deplored.
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2.
A supporter of Donald Trump.
美国 贬义 政治
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To be deplored.
To be felt sorrow for; worthy of compassion; lamentable.
We were all saddened by the deplorable death of his son.
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To be deplored.
Deserving strong condemnation; shockingly bad, wretched.
Poor children suffer permanent damage due to deplorable living conditions and deplorable treatment by law enforcement.
Poor children are often accused of having deplorable manners, when they are, in fact, simply responding to society in ways that mirror how society treats them.
词汇关系
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PIE word *de The adjective is borrowed from French déplorable (“lamentable, regrettable”), or from its etymon Late Latin dēplōrābilis + English -able (suffix meaning ‘relevant to, suitable to’). Dēplōrābilis is derived from Latin dēplōrō (“to bemoan, complain about; to bewail, lament, deplore”) + -ābilis (suffix meaning ‘able or worthy to be’); while dēplōrō is from dē- (intensifying prefix) + plōrō (“to cry out; to complain; to lament, deplore”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₃(w)- (“to flow; to swim”)). By surface analysis, deplore + -able. The noun is derived from the adjective. Noun sense 2 refers to a campaign speech by the American politician and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton (born 1947) during the 2016 United States presidential election calling half of the supporters of her Republican opponent Donald Trump (born 1946) a “basket of deplorables”.
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