- 1暴徒、惡棍、打手。注意在美國這個字常被用來針對年輕黑人男性，帶有種族歧視的味道，用之前要想一下。
A thug is a violent man — someone rough and who hurts people, often for money and often working with others. You picture him with his fists, not with an argument. Newspapers love the word: 'football thugs', 'a gang of thugs broke into the shop'. It is always an insult; nobody calls himself a thug in normal English. It can be stretched a little away from real violence, to mean someone who bullies and pushes people around — 'the boss is a thug' means he people, not that he punches them. The history is worth knowing. The word came into English from India, from Hindustani ठग (ṭ), meaning a cheat or . The Thuggee were gangs who robbed and killed in India from the 1600s to the 1800s, often by strangling them. Under British rule many Indian words came into English, and by 1810 'thug' meant a member of those gangs; by 1839 it had to mean any cruel or violent man. Now, one important thing your students should know before they use it: in American English today, 'thug' is frequently used about young Black men in a way many people hear as racist — a polite-looking word doing an ugly job. Plenty of Americans will react strongly if you use it that way. It is not a banned word, but it is not the safe, neutral word for 'criminal' that a dictionary line makes it look like.
組成Borrowed whole from Hindustani ठग (ṭhag), 'a cheat, a swindler', which goes back to Prakrit 𑀞𑀕 (ṭhaga). It came into English through British rule in India, where the Thuggee gangs robbed and strangled travellers.
原始詞典資料10 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。
thugnoun/θʌɡ/
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A person who is a member of a gang or criminal organization.
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A violent, aggressive, or truculent person.
- They call you a land of license—free but to thug and thief.
- Every summer brought the prospect of the dragonships snaking their way upriver, each vessel filled with thirty or more rapacious thugs.
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A criminal that extorts people.
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A person who use intimidation to coerce others.
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historicalOne of a band of assassins formerly active in northern India who worshipped Kali and sacrificed their victims to her.
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One who, usually as a result of social disadvantage, has turned to committing crimes (e.g. selling drugs, robbery, assault, etc.) to make a living; a gangsta.
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agriculturebusinesshorticultureAn overvigorous plant that spreads and dominates the flowerbed.
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A wooden bat used in the game of miniten, fitting around the player's hand.
thugverb/θʌɡ/
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informalTo commit acts of thuggery, to live the life of a thug, to menace, to commit crime.
- Mr. Ingleby ascertained at the office—after threading the mazes of passage and staircase as though he expected momently to be Thugged—that his nephew had not yet come.
- The report then records the arrest of the whole force of the union paper, the Victor Record, the forced resignation of many other civil officers in the Cripple Creek district who were in sympathy with the miners, […] the severe thugging of many of the well-known labor organizers,
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informal(often with out) To appear as a thug; to dress and act in a manner reminiscent of a thug.
- I don’t thug out, but I’m not Wall Street, either. Russell Simmons and Puffy have clothes for this look in the affordable range.
- Oh. Besides Allen Iverson, basketball players don’t be thugged out enough for me. I like me a roughneck.
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