- 1輕率的、漫不經心的、滿不在乎的（不是「騎士」）
If someone is cavalier about rules, principles, or people’s feelings, they do not take them seriously enough — offhand, almost careless, sometimes a bit arrogant. “A cavalier attitude” is the pairing you will meet again and again, in news and essays more than in playground talk. Though actually, the feeling grew out of an older noun: a cavalier was a , a knight, and later a stylish in the English Civil War. That kind of person could look high-and-mighty. The adjective kept the “I am above this” flavour and dropped the horse. The noun still exists, but this entry is the “not caring enough” meaning.
From the word’s history
From French cavalier 'horseman', ultimately Latin caballus 'horse'.
源自拉丁文 caballus「馬」，原指騎士；騎士的神氣作風引申為滿不在乎。
組成Borrowed from Middle French cavalier (“horseman”), from Old Italian cavaliere (“mounted soldier, knight”), from Old Occitan cavalier, from Late Latin caballārius (“horseman”), from Latin caballus (“horse”). The “don’t care” sense came later, from the proud horseman to the offhand attitude.
原始詞典資料16 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Cavaliername詞源 1
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A small city, the county seat of Pembina County, North Dakota, United States.
Cavaliernoun詞源 2
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historicalA royalist partisan of Charles I of England during the English Civil War, especially from the upper classes.
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dogslifestylepetsA Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.
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A Chevrolet Cavalier.
cavalieradj/ˌkævəˈlɪɚ/
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Lacking the proper care or concern for something important, reckless, rash, high-handed.
- But, on the following day, no sign of Poirot. I was getting angry. He was really treating us in the most cavalier fashion.
- Such a cavalier attitude might seem to suggest that doctors consider the uterus as dispensable an organ as, say, an appendix—and some feminists have accused the medical profession of just such callousness […]
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High-spirited.
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Supercilious.
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obsoleteFree and easy; unconcerned with formalities
- Leporello (a surname that proved the antechamber not to be wholly illiterate), far from resembling Don Juan’s trembling valet, was a handsome young man, with an animated face, nimble in gait, and of cavalier manners; wearing elegantly enough the clothes which had, doubtless, appertained to his master; and evidently quite the pet of the ladies present, and paying assiduous court to Mademoiselle Astarté, the queen of the party.
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historicalOf or pertaining to the party of King Charles I of England (1600–1649).
cavaliernoun/ˌkævəˈlɪɚ/
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historicalA military man serving on horse, (chiefly) early modern cavalry officers who had abandoned the heavy armor of medieval knights.
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historicalA gallant: a sprightly young dashing military man.
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historicalA gentleman of the class of such officers.
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slangSomeone with an uncircumcised penis.
- The roundheads in the school showers easily equalled the cavaliers.
- Since penile preference is so tied up with personal aesthetics and body image, it seems both logical and fair to leave the choice of cavalier or roundhead to the owner of the organ, thus avoiding the sort of life-long pain expressed in a comment like this:[…]
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architectureA defensive work rising from a bastion, etc., and overlooking the surrounding area.
cavalierverb/ˌkævəˈlɪɚ/
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datedOf a man: to act in a gallant and dashing manner toward (women).
- His social and kind nature is inferred from his cavaliering the ladies Percy and Mortimer, and introducing them, before their husbands depart for the war.
- "I thought," Graeme burred at him, transfixing him with shrewd eyes, "that you were cavaliering the Italian girl, Beatrice Cenci or Vittoria Colonna or whatever her name is?"
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