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单词 public enemy
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public enemy
public enemy n. [compare Middle French, French ennemi public (1560 or earlier)] an enemy common to a number of nations, a general enemy (cf. sense A. 2c); (also, now the usual sense) a person considered as a threat to the community (cf. sense A. 2a); cf. public enemy number one n.
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public enemy1548
enemy of the people1888
public enemy number one1930
Great Satan1967
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. ii Who woulde be obstinate & refuse to returne to his parte, should be accepted and taken as a publike enemy to hym and his countrey.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan 390 Nor is there any repugnancy between fearing the Laws, and not fearing a publique Enemy.
1756 G. Whitefield Short Addr. 9 We may as lawfully draw our swords, in order to defend ourselves against our common and public Enemy.
1842 A. Alison Hist. Europe from French Revol. X. lxxvii. 840 A declaration was..signed by all the Powers..which..proscribed Napoleon as a public enemy, with whom neither peace nor truce could be concluded.
1890 Star & Sentinel (Gettysburg, Pa.) 27 May The average tramp is a public enemy and will usually commit crime when he has the opportunity.
1940 ‘N. Blake’ Malice in Wonderland ii. ix. 123 The presence of a public enemy in our midst.
1999 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 20 May 70/4 The FBI reacted to his provocations by making Elijah a public enemy.
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