• n. [法] 重罪犯；瘭疽；惡棍
• n. (Felon)人名；(法)弗隆

詞源不確定。一種說法認(rèn)為來自拉丁詞根fe, 吮吸，特指男人之間的口交，在古羅馬時(shí)期這種行為是為人所不恥的和被鄙視的，因而引申該詞義。

felon

felon: [13] Medieval Latin fellō (a word of uncertain origin, sometimes referred to Latin fel ‘gall, poison’) meant ‘evil-doer’. Its nominative form gave English the adjective fell ‘fierce, lethal’, via Old French fel, while its stem form, fellōn-, passed into English through Old French felon. The derivative felony [13] comes from Old French felonie.
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felon (n.)

c. 1300, "one who deceives or commits treason; one who is wicked or evil; evil-doer," used of Lucifer and Herod, from Old French felon "evil-doer, scoundrel, traitor, rebel, oath-breaker, the Devil" (9c.), from Medieval Latin fellonem (nominative fello) "evil-doer," which is of uncertain origin, perhaps from Frankish *fillo, *filljo "person who whips or beats, scourger" (source of Old High German fillen "to whip"); or from Latin fel "gall, poison," on the notion of "one full of bitterness." Celtic origins also have been proposed.

Another theory (advanced by Professor R. Atkinson of Dublin) traces it to Latin fellare "to suck" (see fecund), which had an obscene secondary meaning in classical Latin (well-known to readers of Martial and Catullus), which would make a felon etymologically a "cock-sucker." OED inclines toward the "gall" explanation, but finds Atkinson's "most plausible" of the others.

Also by c. 1300 in English in a general legal sense "criminal; one who has committed a felony," however that was defined. Century Dictionary notes, "the term is not applicable after legal punishment has been completed." In Middle English it also was an adjective, "traitorous, wicked, malignant." Australian official James Mudie (1837), coined felonry "as the appellative of an order or class of persons in New South Wales,--an order which happily exists in no other country in the world."

1. So I answered up like a felon fighting for his freedom, and I answered pat, because I was telling the truth, which is sometimes a help.

因此,我馬上回答,就像一個(gè)重罪犯在爭取自由一樣, 而且,我答得這么迅速是因?yàn)槲以谡f實(shí)話, 這有時(shí)會(huì)有幫助.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

2. He's a convicted felon.

他是個(gè)已定罪的重犯。

來自辭典例句

3. Hitler's early'successes " were only the startling depredations of a resolute felon.

希特勒的早期 “ 勝利 ”,只不過是一個(gè)死心塌地的惡棍出人意料地?fù)屄拥檬侄?

來自辭典例句

4. I'm a convicted federal felon.

我成了一個(gè)已定罪的全國重犯.

來自辭典例句

5. I found out my ex - partner's a liar and a felon.

我發(fā)現(xiàn)我的超級(jí) 搭檔 是個(gè)慣于說謊者.

來自電影對(duì)白