| 单词 | spotted man |
| 释义 | > as lemmasspotted man 5. Recognized, identified, or singled out, esp. as a criminal or a person acting suspiciously. Usually in spotted man. Cf. marked man n. at marked adj. and n. Compounds 1. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [adjective] > marked as criminal or suspect spotted1851 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 484/1 At length he became ‘spotted’. The police got to know him. 1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 438/1 I have been transported, and am a ‘spotted man’, with whom the police can do as they like. 1864 Daily Tel. 17 May Because the defaulter becomes a ‘spotted’ man, whose word can never more be trusted. 1905 W. B. McCord Hist. Columbiana County viii. 109/2 His inborn sympathy with the ‘downtrodden race’, led him into the anti-slavery movement. Thenceforward he was a ‘spotted man’ in Caldwell County. 1945 A. G. Dickens Diary 7 June in Lübeck Diary (1947) 90 Among the nazis I was a spotted man, because I was a lodge-member and a church-member and an opponent of the methods of nazipress. < as lemmas |
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