单词
guilt
英 [g?lt]
美[ɡ?lt]
基本信息
- n. 犯罪，过失；内疚
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词态变化
形容词:?guiltless;
中文词源
guilt 有罪，自责，内疚
词源不详。可能来自guild, 付款，支付。引申义支付罚金，赎罪。
英文词源
- guilt
- guilt: [OE] Guilt is a strictly English word; no other Germanic, or indeed Indo-European language has it, and it is not clear where it came from. One theory is that, like guild and yield, it comes ultimately from Germanic *gelth- ‘pay’, and originally meant ‘debt’. This is not generally accepted, but it is notable that the German word schuld means ‘debt’ as well as ‘guilt’, with ‘debt’ being the original sense.
- guilt (n.)
- Old English gylt "crime, sin, moral defect, failure of duty," of unknown origin, though some suspect a connection to Old English gieldan "to pay for, debt," but OED editors find this "inadmissible phonologically." The -u- is an unetymological insertion. In law, "That state of a moral agent which results from his commission of a crime or an offense wilfully or by consent" [Century Dictionary], from early 14c. Then use for "sense of guilt," considered erroneous by purists, is first recorded 1680s. Guilt by association recorded by 1919.
- guilt (v.)
- "to influence someone by appealing to his sense of guiltiness," by 1995, from guilt (n.). Related: Guilted; guilting. Old English also had a verbal form, gyltan (Middle English gilt), but it was intransitive and meant "to commit an offense, act criminally."
双语例句
- 1. The drinking and the guilt fed on each other.
- 酗酒和犯罪彼此助长。
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- 2. His creative drive has been strangled by his sense of political guilt.
- 他的创造欲望已被他的政治负罪感扼杀了。
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- 3. Too many women are like me, guilt ridden about the kids.
- 很多女人都像我一样，对孩子充满了内疚。
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- 4. She wanted some admission of guilt from her father.
- 她期待她父亲能够认罪。
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- 5. I was too weighed down by guilt to eat the sweet.
- 我满怀内疚，吃不下甜食。
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