- 1（書面）誹謗
Libel is a written or published false statement that damages someone's reputation - like printing a false story in a newspaper that hurts someone's good name. It's a legal word, and it's important to know it's specifically about WRITTEN or published false statements (in print, pictures, or online); a SPOKEN false statement has its own separate word, slander.
From the word’s history
From Middle English libel, from Old French libelle, from Latin libellus 'petition', literally 'booklet'.
經古法文來自拉丁文 libellus「小冊子、請願書」。
組成From Latin libellus, 'little book', from liber, 'book'.
同家族的字
- libraryshares the same Latin root liber, meaning 'book'
原始詞典資料7 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。
libelnoun/ˈlaɪbəl/
- 1
A written or pictorial false statement which unjustly seeks to damage someone's reputation.
- 2
The act or tort of displaying such a statement publicly.
- 3
Any defamatory writing; a lampoon; a satire.
- 4
lawA written declaration or statement by the plaintiff of their cause of action, and of the relief they seek.
- These provisions of law being in force, the steamer Rio Grande, owned, as was alleged, by persons in Mexico, being in the port of Mobile, in the Southern District of Alabama, certain materialmen, on the 26th of November, 1867, filed separate libels against her in the district court for the said district.
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A brief writing of any kind, especially a declaration, bill, certificate, request, supplication, etc.
- a libel of forsaking [divorcement]
libelverb/ˈlaɪbəl/
- 1
lawTo defame (someone), especially in a manner that meets the legal definition of libel.
- He libelled her when he published that.
- But vvhat ſo pure, vvhich envious tongues vvill ſpare? / Some vvicked vvits have libell'd all the fair.
- 2
lawTo proceed against (goods, a ship, etc.) by filing a legal claim.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。