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单词 rogue
释义
rogue1 nounrogue2 adjective
roguerogue1 /rəʊɡ $ roʊɡ/ noun [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINrogue1
Origin:
1500-1600 Perhaps from roger ‘beggar pretending to be a poor student’ (1500-1600), perhaps from Latin rogare ‘to ask’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • A new breed of rogue had been born.
  • After this, but before the car or rogue had been traced, the rogue sold the car to an innocent purchaser.
  • And to get them, the president needs rogues.
  • I uphold the law of this realm - and the law states quite clearly that vagrants are rogues and vagabonds.
  • The rogue and her octogenarian gang from the countryside have all departed.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1a man or boy who behaves badly, but who you like in spite of this – often used humorously:  What’s the old rogue done now, I wonder? a lovable rogue2British English old-fashioned a man who is dishonest and has a bad character
rogue1 nounrogue2 adjective
roguerogue2 adjective [only before noun] Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Rogue trader Nick Leeson lost millions of dollars for his company.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Despite saturating the area with herbicide, he found rogue oilseed rape plants thriving in ditches and around telephone poles.
  • For one thing, intelligence does have some impact on foreign policy, for example, towards rogue states.
  • Some are rogue states with which we may some day clash.
  • When I first met him, he was a female rogue character.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
 What happens when a spy goes rogue?
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
· For one thing, intelligence does have some impact on foreign policy, for example, towards rogue states.· Some are rogue states with which we may some day clash.
1not behaving in the usual or accepted way and often causing trouble:  rogue moneylenders Officials are concerned about rogue regimes that may have nuclear weapons. What happens when a spy goes rogue?2a rogue wild animal lives apart from the main group and is often dangerous
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