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deplorable
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🇺🇸 /dɪplˈɔɹʌbʌl/
🇬🇧 /dɪˈplɔːɹəbl̩/
deplorable 主要表示“糟糕到令人惋惜、谴责的”,可修饰事情、状况等;作名词时指令人惋惜的人或事,也可特指美国政治语境中对特朗普支持者的贬称。
💡 记忆钩子
想象一件糟糕得让人摇头叹息、觉得“不该这样”的事:它就是 deplorable;把这种“值得哀叹的人或事”直接当作名词,就成了“令人惋惜者”。在特定的美国政治语境中,这个词又被用作对特朗普支持者的贬称。
📝 学习建议
- 先掌握形容词“令人惋惜、可悲的”这一核心义,再认识名词用法;名词义不是普通的“坏人”同义词。
- 不要把 deplorable 弱化成一般的“不太好”或单纯的“可惜”,它通常带有强烈的负面评价。
- 遇到大写或政治新闻语境时,留意它可能是在指特定群体,而不是按普通名词义理解。
📖 中文释义
adj
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core 可悲的;令人惋惜的📖 形容事情糟糕到让人感到悲痛、惋惜或强烈不满,仿佛它不应该发生或不应该达到这种程度。💡 常用“deplorable + 名词”,例如表示某种行为、状况或结果非常令人痛惜。它比一般的负面形容词语气更强,常带有道德谴责意味;不要把它只理解成“令人失望的”。The hospital's deplorable conditions shocked the inspectors.这家医院糟糕得令人无法接受的状况让检查人员震惊。It was deplorable that the children had nowhere safe to play.孩子们没有安全的地方玩,实在令人痛心。
more deplorable
comparative
most deplorable
superlative
noun
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rare 令人惋惜的人或事📖 把“值得哀叹或谴责的”这一形容词义当作名词使用,指这样的人或事物。💡 常见结构是“the deplorables”,也可以用单数形式指某一个被这样评价的人或事。该用法带有强烈的负面评价,通常见于评论性文字;不要把它当作普通的群体名称。
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rare 特朗普支持者(贬称)📖 在美国政治新闻中,它可特指特朗普的支持者,源自2016年竞选期间的一句有争议的政治表达;这里的称呼本身带有贬义。💡 常见于“the deplorables”以及讨论2016年美国总统选举的语境中。它是带政治立场和侮辱色彩的特定称呼,不宜在普通对话中用来中性地称呼特朗普支持者;遇到它时要结合上下文判断是否指这一政治义。US derogatory neologism specifically
deplorables
plural
📘 英文释义 (WordNet)
共 3 组
bad; unfortunate; ; ;
同义词集:
deplorable
distressing
lamentable
pitiful
sad
sorry
my finances were in a deplorable state
a lamentable decision
her clothes were in sad shape
a sorry state of affairs
近似: bad
bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure; ;
同义词集:
condemnable
criminal
deplorable
reprehensible
vicious
a criminal waste of talent
a deplorable act of violence
adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife
近似: wrong
of very poor quality or condition; ;
同义词集:
deplorable
execrable
miserable
woeful
wretched
deplorable housing conditions in the inner city
woeful treatment of the accused
woeful errors of judgment
近似: inferior
🌳 词源
形容词源自法语或其词源晚期拉丁语,和“哀叹、痛惜”有关;名词由该形容词转化而来。名词的第二义与2016年美国总统选举中出现的政治表达有关。
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”.
🔄 变式
deplorables
plural
more deplorable
compar
most deplorable
superl
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