miles gloriosus

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A standard character in ancient comedy and in modern comedy depicting ancient military figures: the bravado-filled, self-important, swaggering soldier. literary
    — [I]t of course ought not to be said that the General who assumes the responsibility behaved "generously" on one occasion and "magnanimously" upon another. About such expressions there is a reminiscence of the classical "Miles gloriosus" of the British Nelson, or of the American Winfield Scott.

词形变化

milites gloriosi plural

词源

Borrowed from Latin mīles (“soldier”) + glōriōsus (“glorious”).
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