ruffian

英 [ˈrʌfiən]

美 [ˈrʌfiən]

n.  暴徒; 恶棍

复数：ruffians　

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BNC.22925 / COCA.26175

牛津词典

noun

• 暴徒；恶棍
  a violent man, especially one who commits crimes

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 流氓;恶棍;暴徒;罪犯
  Aruffianis a man who behaves violently and is involved in crime.
  1. ...gangs of ruffians who lurk about intent on troublemaking.
     潜伏在周围意图制造麻烦的匪帮

英英释义

noun

• a cruel and brutal fellow
  Synonym:bullytoughhooliganroughneckrowdyyobyoboyobbo

双语例句

• He also admitted that you had some interest in a mill or mills that necessitated your riding about alone, or attended by a ruffian who, Captain Butler assures us, is a murderer.
  他还承认你对一家或几家厂子都很有兴趣，因此得坐着马车到处跑，而巴特勒船长告诉我们，赶车的那个恶棍还杀过人呢。
• In the place where she heard Heathcliff termed a'vulgar young ruffian,'and'worse than a brute,'she took care not to act like him;
  在有人说希斯克利夫是“粗俗的小流氓”，和“不如畜生”的地方，她尽量表现得不像他。
• A young ruffian; a hoodlum.
  小流氓；无赖。
• Part one is the analysis of Wang Shuo's novels, prose and essays, which displays the form of ruffian culture.
  第一部分是对王朔小说文本及散文随笔进行分析，展示痞子文化精神的表现形态。
• If that little ruffian belonged to me, I should give him a touch of the rope's end.
  那小流氓要是我的孩子，我就要用鞭子揍他一顿。
• And when the ruffian had told him, with another oath, that this was so.
  那恶棍又骂了一声，说是的。
• As a ruffian, I will be happier if I will be given a wife and endure hardships of a woman.
  “咱这个老光棍，要是再分给一个老婆，叫咱也受受女人的罪才更好呢！”（丁玲《太阳照在桑乾河上》）
• If that ruffian does not mend his ways, he will come to the gallows some day.
  如果那个恶棍不改邪归正的话，他总有一天会上绞刑架的。
• We discover: The Phonetic ruffian of novel of Wang Shuo is a performance that the author emphasizing "truth" and pursuing "truth" in fact.
  我们发现：王朔小说语言的痞味儿其实正是作者崇尚真，追求真的表现。
• The greatest ruffian, the most hardened violator of the laws of society, is not altogether without it.
  最大的恶棍，极其严重地违犯社会法律的人，也不会全然丧失同情心。