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If someone has a roguish look or a roguish smile, their face says they are — and that they have probably just done something a little dishonest, or are about to. It is not the face of a real criminal. A rogue was once a dishonest ; roguish kept the “cheeky and not quite good” part and dropped most of the danger. You use it for charm: a roguish grin, a roguish twinkle in the eye. It sounds a bit and British; in everyday talk a student might just say a naughty smile or a mischievous look. It is almost always about an expression or manner, not about a person’s whole life.
帶點壞壞的、俏皮不懷好意的(多用來形容笑容或神情)
原始詞典資料2 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。
roguishadj/ˈɹəʊɡɪʃ/
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Unprincipled or unscrupulous.
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Mischievous and playful.
- "She'll be a match for poor little Cupid, with his tiny bow and arrow, I dare say," said Grace Fitzgerald, with a roguish eye.
- Hortense, with her rich chestnut locks so luxuriantly knotted, plaited, twisted, as if she did not know how to dispose of all their abundance, with her vermillion lips, damask cheek, and roguish laughing eye.
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。