英语
词源
源自盎格鲁-诺曼语 prevaricassion、中古法语 prevarication和其来源,拉丁语 praevāricātiō (“与对手串通;偏离正轨;欺瞒”),源自praevāricor的词干。
发音
名词
prevarication(可数 & 不可数,复数 prevarications)
- (现已罕用) 偏离正轨
- 近义词: transgression、perversion
- 搪塞,遮掩
- 近义词: deceit、evasiveness
- Prevarication became the order of the day in his government while truth was a stranger in those halls.
- (请为本使用例添加中文翻译)
- Template:RQ:Cowper Retirement
- Template:RQ:Eliot Silas Marner
- 2012年10月6日,“Charlemagne: Mysterious Mariano”,出自 The Economist[1]:
- Mr Rajoy frustrates many with his prevarication over a fresh euro-zone bail-out, which now comes with a conditional promise from the European Central Bank (ECB) to help bring down Spain’s stifling borrowing costs.
- (请为本引文添加中文翻译)
- (秘密的)滥用公职
- (法律, 历史, 古罗马) (被告人和线人的)串通,勾结
- (法律) 本词语需要翻译为汉语。请协助添加,并移除
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模板。- 1628,Robert Le Grys, Argenis,翻译自John Barclay的作品:
- If it shall appeare, that they haue forfeited their Faith, or wronged their Client by preuarication.
- (请为本引文添加中文翻译)
参考资料
- prevarication in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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中古法语
名词
prevarication f(复数 prevarications)
派生语汇
- → 英语: prevarication
- 法语: prévarication