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An ingrate is a person who is not grateful — someone who takes help, gifts, or kindness and does not show thanks, or even turns against the person who helped them. It is an old, sharp word, more for books, speeches, and angry talk than for a normal day. Friends are more likely to say ungrateful. Calling someone an ingrate is an insult with a slightly old bite. Though actually, older books could also say an ingrate child, meaning the child was ungrateful, but today you will almost always meet it as a name for a person. It is not a soft word.
忘恩負義的人。口語更常說「白眼狼」；ingrate 偏書面、帶罵人意味。
組成From Latin ingrātus: in- (not) + grātus (pleasing, thankful). Cognate with French ingrat. First in English in the 1300s.
同家族的字
- gratefulthe positive: feeling thanks, from the same Latin grātus
- ungratefulthe common modern word for the same idea
- gratitudethe feeling of thanks that an ingrate does not show
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
ingrateadj/ˈɪnɡɹeɪt/
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obsoleteUngrateful.
- Many of theſe might ſeem ingrate and unkind children, that vvill no better acknovvledge and recogniſe their parents in vvords and outvvard pretence, but abrenounce and caſt them off, as though they hated them as dogs and ſerpents.
- Yet in his mind malitious and ingrate
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obsoleteUnfriendly; unpleasant.
ingratenoun/ˈɪnɡɹeɪt/
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An ungrateful or unpleasant person.
- But Mr Pecksniff, dismissing all ephemeral considerations of social pleasure and enjoyment, concentrated his meditations on the one great virtuous purpose before him, of casting out that ingrate and deceiver, whose presence yet troubled his domestic hearth, and was a sacrilege upon the altars of his household gods.
- "Speak the truth, you ingrate!" cried Miss Havisham, passionately striking her stick upon the floor; “you are tired of me.”
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。