flagrant

英 ['fleɪgr(ə)nt] 美 ['fleɡrənt]

解释

※ 提供单词"flagrant"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

flagrant 罪恶昭彰的

来自PIE*bhleg, 照明，闪光，来自PIE*bhel的扩大形式，词源同flame, blaze. 原义为闪光的，辉煌的。然后由于不知道的原因词义贬义化。参照中国反腐案例。

flagrant: flagrant: [15] Etymologically, flagrant means ‘burning, blazing’. It comes, via French, from the present participle of Latin flagrāre ‘burn’ (source of English conflagration [16]). This in turn went back to Indo-European *bhleg-, which also produced English flame. The use of flagrant for ‘shameless, shocking’, an 18th-century development, comes from the Latin phrase in flagrante delicto ‘red-handed’, literally ‘with the crime still blazing’.
=> conflagration, flame
flagrant (adj.): c. 1500, "resplendent" (obsolete), from Latin flagrantem (nominative flagrans) "burning, blazing, glowing," figuratively "glowing with passion, eager, vehement," present participle of flagrare "to burn, blaze, glow" from Proto-Italic *flagro- "burning" (cognates: Oscan flagio-, an epithet of Iuppiter), corresponding to PIE *bhleg-ro-, from *bhleg- "to shine, flash, burn" (cognates: Greek phlegein "to burn, scorch," Latin fulgere "to shine"), from root *bhel- (1) "to shine, flash, burn" (see bleach (v.)). Sense of "glaringly offensive, scandalous" (rarely used of persons) first recorded 1706, probably from common legalese phrase flagrante delicto "while the crime is being committed, red-handed," literally "with the crime still blazing." Related: Flagrantly.

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1. The judge called the decision "a flagrant violation of international law": 法官称这一决定是“对国际法的公然违背”。

4. The attack on civilians is a flagrant violation of the peace agreement.: 袭击平民的举动公然违背了和平协定.

5. His failure to turn his attention to flagrant wastes of public money is inexcusable.: 他未能注意到公共资金的公然浪费，这是不可原谅的。