| 词汇 | villain |
| 词源 | villain. Villain derives from the Latin villanus, “a serf,” and the first villains, the word recorded early in the 14th century, were serfs in feudal England. From its meaning of a poor low- born rustic, villain within half a century came to mean a base person disposed to criminal acts. The word was first applied to a play’s antagonist by Charles Lamb in 1822. |
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