desperado

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /dɛspəˈɹɑːdəʊ/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A bold outlaw, especially one from southern portions of the Wild West.
    — The kind of persons who excite or give signal to such revolutions — students, young men of letters […], or fierce and justly bankrupt desperadoes, acting everywhere on the discontent of the millions and blowing it into flame, — might give rise to reflections as to the character of our epoch.
  2. A person in desperate circumstances or who is at the point of desperation, such as a down-and-outer, an addict, etc. colloquial
    — The shortstops and desperados were not permitted to play in this marker crap game.
  3. A person who is desperately in love or is desperate for a romantic or sexual relationship. colloquial
  4. A piece that seems determined to give itself up, typically to bring about stalemate or perpetual check.

词形变化

desperadoes plural desperados plural

词汇关系

衍生词
desperadoism

词源

From obsolete Spanish desperado, past participle of desperar, archaic form of desesperar (“to despair”), from Latin disperare (“to despair, to lose hope”), from prefix dis- + sperare (“to hope”). Doublet of desperate.
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