| 释义 |
rapist orig. U.S.|ˈreɪpɪst|
[f. rape n.2 + -ist.]
One guilty of rape. Also fig.
1883National Police Gaz. (U.S.) 5 May 6/4 (heading) The stalwart resistance a married woman offered a would-be ‘nigger’ rapist. 1889Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 13 June, Two horse thieves and a rapist were sentenced..this morning. 1901Nation (N.Y.) 18 Apr. 313/1 A bill having been passed by the State legislators, March 20, 1901 ‘providing for the public execution of convicted rapists’. 1937Sun (Baltimore) 16 July 1/4 The State demanded the chair for Norris as ‘a warning to other rapists and a protection for the womanhood of the State’. 1938I. Kuhn Assigned to Adventure vi. 54 Men had lived with death so long that they seized upon life with a rapist's lust. 1949Time 19 Dec. 23/3 We follow a system which amounts to rape of the land. We are no careful husbandmen—not husbands but rapists. 1953R. Chandler Long Good-Bye xxiv. 153 Take your hands off me, you goddamned rapist. 1959Guardian 20 Oct. 9/1 A convicted kidnapper and rapist. 1975Daily Mirror 14 Apr. 5/2 Hooded rapist claims victim no 6... The rapist who is terrorising a city's bed⁓sitter girls struck again yesterday. |