• n. 暴徒；惡棍；刺客

來自印度語 thag,小偷，騙子，引申詞義罪犯，惡棍。

thug

thug: [19] Hindi thag means literally ‘robber, cheat’ (it is descended from Sanskrit sthaga ‘robber’, a derivative of sthagati ‘cover, hide’, which goes back ultimately to the Indo- European base *steg-, *teg- ‘cover’, source also of English deck, detect, integument, protect, thatch, etc). It came to be applied to members of a band of professional thieves and murderers in India, whose preferred method of dispatching their victims was strangulation (their other name was phansigar, literally ‘strangler’); and English took it over in the 1830s as a general term for a ‘brutally violent person’.
=> deck, detect, protect, thatch

thug (n.)

1810, "member of a gang of murderers and robbers in India who strangled their victims," from Marathi thag, thak "cheat, swindler," Hindi thag, perhaps from Sanskrit sthaga-s "cunning, fraudulent," from sthagayati "(he) covers, conceals," perhaps from PIE root *(s)teg- (2) "to cover" (see stegosaurus).

The thugs roamed about the country in bands of from 10 to 100, usually in the disguise of peddlers or pilgrims, gaining the confidence of other travelers, whom they strangled, when a favorable opportunity presented itself, with a handkerchief, an unwound turban, or a noosed cord. The shedding of blood was seldom resorted to. The motive of the thugs was not so much lust of plunder as a certain religious fanaticism. The bodies of their victims were hidden in graves dug with a consecrated pickax, and of their spoil one third was devoted to the goddess Kali, whom they worshiped. [Century Dictionary]

The more correct Indian name is phanseegur (from phansi "noose"), and the activity was described in English as far back as c. 1665. Rigorously prosecuted by the British from 1831, they were driven from existence by century's end. Transferred sense of "ruffian, cutthroat, violent lowbrow" is from 1839.

1. It gave me heart to see one thug get what he deserves.

看到一個惡棍罪有應得真是大快我心。

來自柯林斯例句

2. He edged away from the thug.

他悄悄地躲開了那個暴徒.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. The thug grappled him around the neck.

那個歹徒抓住了他的脖子.

來自《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》

4. The thug gave him a punch in the chest.

暴徒對著他的胸部打了一拳.

來自辭典例句

5. So , what makes you any different from any other high school thug?

你和高中里的其它惡霸有什么區(qū)別?

來自電影對白