- 1惡名昭彰的；聲名狼藉的（口語也可半開玩笑，指大家都知道的缺點）
If someone or something is notorious, they are famous in a bad way — people know them because of something they do not admire. A notorious criminal, a notorious error, a road notorious for accidents. It is stronger and colder than well-known. Newspapers like it. In careful English it still means “known for the worse thing”. Though actually, in everyday talk people also use it with a half-smile: notorious for being late, notorious for burning the toast. That use is common and not always cruel; it means “everyone already knows this failing”. You will also meet notoriously as the how-word: notoriously difficult, notoriously unreliable. Do not use notorious when you only mean famous or popular; a notorious singer would sound like a scandal, not a compliment. The matching noun is .
From the word’s history
From Medieval Latin nōtōrius 'evident, well-known', from Latin nōtus 'known'.
源自中世紀拉丁文 nōtōrius「眾所周知的」，來自 nōtus「已知的」。
組成From Late Middle English notoryous, from Medieval Latin nōtōrius (“known; well-known; known for something bad”), from Latin nōtus (“known”) + -tōrius. Nōtus is the past form of nōscō, “to get to know”.
同家族的字
- notorietythe noun: the state of being known in that bad way
原始詞典資料6 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。
notoriousadj/nə(ʊ)ˈtɔː.ɹɪ.əs/
- 1
Senses with an unfavourable connotation.
- Such Men theſe had, to Miſchiefe vvholly bent, / In Villanie, notorious for their skill, / Diſhoneſt, deſp'rate, mercileſſe, and rude, / That dar'd into Damnation to intrude.
- You notorious ſtinkardly bearevvard, do's my breath ſmell?
- 2
Senses with an unfavourable connotation.
- Sir, ſir, I ſhall haue Lavv in Epheſus, / To your notorious ſhame, I doubt it not.
- [T]he Apoſtle by the vvord diſorderly, does not mean perſons that live in any courſe of notorious ſin; but by diſorderly, he means Ignavos, Inutiles, idle and unprofitable perſons; perſons of no uſe to the Church, or to the State: […]
- 3
Senses with a favourable or neutral connotation.
- Lett him [God] notorious make, / That in good part he did thy offrings take.
- Some vvill blame me for that I have omitted this and that tovvne and Caſtle, as though I purpoſed to mention any but ſuch as vvere moſt notorious, and vvere mentioned by ancient authours. Neither verily vvere it vvorth the labour once to name them, vvhen as beſide the naked name there is nothing memorable.
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obsoleteSenses with a favourable or neutral connotation.
- For the elder ſort of them are rough, hard, thinne and leane ſcragges, ſtatuelinges, lothſome to touch and to looke vpon, ſomevvhat long, nothing but skinne and bone, yet very notorious and goodly too ſee to, in regard of their grauity, hoarenes and aunciency.
- It is not every possibility, every seeming, every faint show or glimmering appearance, which sufficeth to ground bad opinion or reproachful discourse concerning our brother: the matter should be clear, notorious, and palpable, before we admit a disadvantageous conceit into our head, a distasteful resentment into our heart, a harsh word into our mouth about him.
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obsoleteSenses with a favourable or neutral connotation.
- But what hope is there to haue fidelitie well kept amonge us in promises and bargaynes, whan for the breache therof is prouided no punisshement, nor yet notorious rebuke; […]
- The King therefore firſt called his Councell together at the Charter-houſe at Shine. VVhich Councell vvas held vvith great ſecrecie, but the open Decrees thereof, vvhich preſently came abroad, vvere three. […] The next vvas, that Edvvard Plantagenet, then Cloſe-priſoner in the Tovver, ſhould be in the moſt publike and notorious manner, that could be deuiſed, ſhevved vnto the people: In part to diſcharge the King of the Enuie of that opinion and bruite, hovv he had beene put to death priuily in the Tovver; […]
notoriousadv/nə(ʊ)ˈtɔː.ɹɪ.əs/
- 1
obsoleteSynonym of notoriously.
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