1. 1更生人(台灣較常用;口語也說「坐過牢的人」)。中國大陸較常說「刑滿釋放人員」。

    An ex-con is a person who was in prison for a crime and is now free. It is informal. Newspapers and crime stories use it a lot; though actually, in some mouths it sounds rough, as if the prison years are still the main thing about the person. A kinder or more careful way is former prisoner or ex-convict. Con here is short for convict. It is not the con in con artist, which means a trick — that is a different word that just looks the same.

    ex-con 指曾經因為犯罪坐過牢、現在已經出獄的人,屬於口語。新聞和犯罪故事常用它。這裡的 con 是 convict(罪犯)的縮寫。

    有些人說起來語氣比較粗,好像坐牢的經歷就是這個人最主要的標籤。比較客氣的說法是「former prisoner」或「ex-convict」。

    「con artist」的 con 是騙局的意思,是另外一個字,只是拼法一樣。

From the word’s history

From ex- + con (convict).

由 ex-「前」加 con(convict,囚犯)構成。

Wiktionary

組成From ex- (former, from Latin ex) + con.

同家族的字

  • convictcon here is the short informal form of convict
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原始詞典資料1 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。

ex-connoun

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    informalA former prisoner.

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