maverick

英 ['mæv(ə)rɪk] 美 ['mævərɪk]

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※ 提供单词"maverick"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。

maverick 特立独行的人

来自美国19世纪德克萨斯农场主Samuel Maverick,在当时其它农场主都会给自己的牲畜打上记号，只有Mavericks例外，因此，就由其名字引申词义特立独行。但据说他不给牲畜打记号的原因是，既然别人都有记号，那么所有没记号的牛都是他的。

maverick: maverick: [19] Originally, in the American West, a maverick was an unbranded calf that had become separated from its mother and its herd (by convention, any farmer or stockman who came upon such a calf could add it to his herd and brand it as his own). The name probably comes from Samuel Augustus Maverick (1803– 70), a Texas cattle-owner (and ancestor of the Maury Maverick who coined the word gobbledegook) who did not brand the calves of one of his herds. The familiar modern metaphorical application to an awkwardly independent-minded person was in place before the end of the 19th century.
maverick (n.): 1867, "calf or yearling found without an owner's brand," so called for Samuel A. Maverick (1803-1870), Texas cattle owner who was negligent in branding his calves. Sense of "individualist, unconventional person" is first recorded 1886, via notion of "masterless."

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1. Her independence and maverick behaviour precluded any chance of promotion.: 她的独立精神和自行其是断送了一切升迁的机会。

3. He was too much of a maverick ever to hold high office.: 他太特立独行，永远不可能做高官。

5. Wisconsin's independent, maverick, polyglot nature was firmly established by 1848 , the year it became a state.: 威斯康星的独立不羁、自行其是、多族裔的特性是于1848年它成为一个州时就牢固形成的.