charlatan

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈʃɑːlətən/    美 /ˈʃɑɹlətən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A mountebank, someone who addresses crowds in the street; (especially), an itinerant seller of medicines or drugs. obsolete
    — The poor foreigner, more dead than alive, answered that he was an Italian charlatan, who had practised with some reputation in Padua […].
  2. A malicious trickster; a fake person, especially one who deceives for personal profit.
    — “If there’s something you don’t understand,” urged Dr. Breed, “ask Dr. Horvath to explain it. He’s very good at explaining.” He turned to me. “Dr. Hoenikker used to say that any scientist who couldn’t explain to an eight-year-old what he was doing was a charlatan.” “Then I’m dumber than an eight-year-old,” Miss Pefko mourned. “I don’t even know what a charlatan is.”

词形变化

charlatans plural

词汇关系

衍生词
charlatanic charlatanical charlatanship
相关词
charlatanism charlatanry

词源

From Middle French charlatan, from Old Italian ciarlatano (“quack”), a blend of ciarlatore (“chatterer”) + cerretano (“hawker, quack”, literally “native of Cerreto”) (Cerreto di Spoleto being a village in Umbria, known for its quacks).
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