deplorable

參見：déplorable

英語

詞源

原始印歐語詞
*de

形容詞借自法語 déplorable (「可悲的」)，或源自其詞源晚期拉丁語 dēplōrābilis + 英語 -able (「能夠...的」)。其中Dēplōrābilis派生自拉丁語 dēplōrō (「抱怨；痛惜，悲痛」) + -ābilis (「能夠...的，應受...的」)，而dēplōrō源自dē- (程度增強前綴) + plōrō (「喊出；抱怨；悲痛」)（可能源自原始印歐語 *pleh₃(w)- (「流；游泳」)）。

名詞派生自形容詞。美國政治相關義項指的是美國政客及民主黨人希拉里·克林頓（1947年生）在2016年美國總統選舉期間的一次講話中說，她的對手共和黨人唐納德·特朗普（1946年生）的支持者是「basket of deplorables」（一群可悲的人）。

發音

• (英國) 國際音標^(幫助)：/dɪˈplɔːɹəbəɫ/

• （美國）音頻：

  (檔案)

形容詞

deplorable (比較級 more deplorable，最高級 most deplorable)

1. 極差的，惡劣的，應遭譴責的

   Poor children suffer permanent damage due to deplorable living conditions and deplorable treatment by law enforcement.

   貧困兒童因惡劣的生活環境和執法機構對其的不公待遇而遭受永久性創傷。

   Poor children are often accused of having deplorable manners, when they are, in fact, simply responding to society in ways that mirror how society treats them.

   貧困兒童常被指責教養差，但其實他們只是以社會對待他們的方式回應社會而已。

   • Template:RQ:Tocqueville Democracy
2. 可悲的，令人同情的

   We were all saddened by the deplorable death of his son.

   我們都為他兒子的悲慘離世而深感痛心。

   • 1719, Daniel Defoe, The life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe

     There was a youth and his mother, and a maidservant on board, who were going passengers, and thinking the ship was ready to sail, unhappily came on board the evening before the hurricane began; and having no provisions of their own left, they were in a more deplorable condition than the rest.

   • Template:RQ:Tocqueville Democracy
   • 1840, Public Documents of the State of Maine, "Report Relating to the Insane Hospital", Committee on Public Buildings

     If, however, the early symptoms of insanity be neglected till the brain becomes accustomed to the irregular actions of disease, or till organic changes take place from the early violence of those actions, then the case becomes hopeless of cure. In this situation, in too many cases, the victim of this deplorable malady is cast off by his friends, thrust into a dungeon or in chains, there to remain till the shattered intellect shall exhaust all its remaining energies in perpetual raving and violence, till it sinks into hopeless and deplorable idiocy.

   • Template:RQ:Besant Ivory Gate

近義詞

• pathetic

名詞

deplorable (複數 deplorables)

1. 可悲的人或物
   • 1970, Esquire (volume 74)

     […] heralding, this season, an end of the most awful of all apparel abominations, that most despicable of all deplorables, the ankle sock.

2. (新詞，美國政治) 特朗普支持者

延伸閱讀

• OneLook 在線詞典 上有關 deplorable 的釋義
• 「deplorable」, The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, OCLC 867766587

中古法語

詞源

15世紀晚期，借自拉丁語 dēplōrābilis。

形容詞

deplorable m 或 f (複數 deplorables)

1. 可悲的

西班牙語

詞源

源自晚期拉丁語 dēplōrābilis，等價於deplorar +‎ -able。

形容詞

deplorable (複數 deplorables)

1. 可悲的

衍生詞彙

• deplorablemente

延伸閱讀

• 「deplorable」, Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición [西班牙皇家學院字典，第二十三版], 西班牙皇家學院, 2014