interloper

英 ['?nt?l??p?] 美['?nt?lop?]

TEM8GRE暢通詞匯

復數:?interlopers;

interloper 闖入者

inter-,在內，在中間，相互，-lop,跑，跳，詞源同leap,elope.引申詞義闖入者。

interloper: interloper: [16] An interloper is literally someone who ‘runs between’. The word was coined in English, but based on Dutch loper, a derivative of lopen ‘run’ (to which English leap is related). It originally denoted someone who engaged in trade without authorization, and only in the 17th century took on its present-day meaning ‘interfering outsider’.
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interloper (n.): 1590s, enterloper, "unauthorized trader trespassing on privileges of chartered companies," probably a hybrid from inter- "between" + -loper (from landloper "vagabond, adventurer," also, according to Johnson, "a term of reproach used by seamen of those who pass their lives on shore"); perhaps a dialectal form of leap, or from Middle Dutch loper "runner, rover," from lopen "to run," from Proto-Germanic *hlaupan "to leap" (see leap (v.)). General sense of "self-interested intruder" is from 1630s.

2. In the constituencies of Great Britain she was still an interloper - cold, affected, and unacceptably right wing.: 在大不列顛國內的各選區,人們仍然把她視為半路闖出來的陌生人 —— 一個冷漠, 矯揉造作的極右派.

3. Both creatures shrunk back into the rocks, even though Judith's attention was fixed on the interloper.: 即使是現在茱蒂絲的注意力被入侵者完全吸引了,他倆還是不由自主地退回到了石堆里.

4. Pauline is conniving interloper, befriending the lonely wife while the husband is busy working.: 寶琳則是默認的第三者, 在丈夫忙于工作時照顧那位孤獨的妻子.