interloper
英 ['ɪntələʊpə]
美 ['ɪntɚlopɚ]
- n. 闯入者;(为私利)干涉他人事务者;无执照营业者
TEM8 GRE
interloper 闯入者inter-,在内,在中间,相互,-lop,跑,跳,词源同leap,elope.引申词义闯入者。
- interloper
- interloper: [16] An interloper is literally someone who ‘runs between’. The word was coined in English, but based on Dutch loper, a derivative of lopen ‘run’ (to which English leap is related). It originally denoted someone who engaged in trade without authorization, and only in the 17th century took on its present-day meaning ‘interfering outsider’.
=> leap - interloper (n.)
- 1590s, enterloper, "unauthorized trader trespassing on privileges of chartered companies," probably a hybrid from inter- "between" + -loper (from landloper "vagabond, adventurer," also, according to Johnson, "a term of reproach used by seamen of those who pass their lives on shore"); perhaps a dialectal form of leap, or from Middle Dutch loper "runner, rover," from lopen "to run," from Proto-Germanic *hlaupan "to leap" (see leap (v.)). General sense of "self-interested intruder" is from 1630s.
- 1. She felt like an interloper in her own family.
- 她感到在自己家里像个外人。
来自辞典例句
- 2. In the constituencies of Great Britain she was still an interloper - cold, affected, and unacceptably right wing.
- 在大不列颠国内的各选区,人们仍然把她视为半路闯出来的陌生人 —— 一个冷漠, 矫揉造作的极右派.
来自辞典例句
- 3. Both creatures shrunk back into the rocks, even though Judith's attention was fixed on the interloper.
- 即使是现在茱蒂丝的注意力被入侵者完全吸引了,他俩还是不由自主地退回到了石堆里.
来自互联网
- 4. Pauline is conniving interloper, befriending the lonely wife while the husband is busy working.
- 宝琳则是默认的第三者, 在丈夫忙于工作时照顾那位孤独的妻子.
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