3325英語網 單詞
roue的意思
roue
[r?'e]
- n. 放蕩者；享樂者
中文詞源
roue 老色鬼，老酒鬼
來自法語 roue,放蕩者，酒鬼，色鬼，原為古法語 rouer 的過去分詞，來自 rouer,車裂，輪裂， 來自拉丁語 rotare,滾動，轉動，來自 rota,輪子，詞源同 rotate,rotary.幽默用法。
英文詞源
- roue (n.)
- "debauchee," 1800, from French roué "dissipated man, rake," originally past participle of Old French rouer "to break on the wheel" (15c.), from Latin rotare "roll" (see rotary). Said to have been first applied in French c. 1720 to dissolute friends of the Duke of Orleans (regent of France 1715-23), to suggest the punishment they deserved; but probably rather from a secondary, figurative sense in French of "jaded, worn out," from the notion of "broken, run-over, beat down."