cavalier

• n. 骑士；武士；对女人献殷勤
• adj. 傲慢的；漫不经心的；无忧无虑的
• n. (Cavalier)人名；(法)卡瓦利耶

来自拉丁词caballus, 马。即骑马的战士。

来自cavalier, 骑士。后用于贬义，自以人高人一等的。比较chivalrous, 彬彬有礼的。

1. a gallant or courtly gentleman

cavalier

cavalier: [16] Etymologically, a cavalier is a ‘horseman’. The word comes via French cavalier from Italian cavaliere, which was derived from Latin caballus ‘horse’, either directly or via late Latin caballārius ‘horseman, rider’. From the beginning in English its connotations were not those of any old horserider, but of a mounted soldier or even a knight, and before the end of the 16th century the more general meaning ‘courtly gentleman’ was establishing itself.

This led in the mid-17th century to its being applied on the one hand to the supporters of Charles I, and on the other as an adjective meaning ‘disdainful’. Italian cavaliere was also the source of cavalleria ‘body of horsesoldiers’, which was borrowed into English in the 16th century, via French cavallerie, as cavalry. (The parallel form routed directly through French rather than via Italian was chivalry.)
=> cavalry, chivalry

cavalier (n.)

1580s, from Italian cavalliere "mounted soldier, knight; gentleman serving as a lady's escort," from Late Latin caballarius "horseman," from Vulgar Latin caballus, the common Vulgar Latin word for "horse" (and source of Italian cavallo, French cheval, Spanish caballo, Irish capall, Welsh ceffyl), displacing Latin equus (see equine).

Sense advanced in 17c. to "knight," then "courtly gentleman" (but also, pejoratively, "swaggerer"), which led to the adjectival senses, especially "disdainful" (1650s). Meaning "Royalist adherent of Charles I" is from 1641. Meaning "one who devotes himself solely to attendance on a lady" is from 1817, roughly translating Italian cavaliere-servente. In classical Latin caballus was "work horse, pack horse," sometimes, disdainfully, "hack, nag." "Not a native Lat. word (as the second -a- would show), though the source of the borrowing is uncertain" [Tucker]. Perhaps from some Balkan or Anatolian language, and meaning, originally, "gelding." The same source is thought to have yielded Old Church Slavonic kobyla.

cavalier (adj.)

"disdainful," 1650s, from cavalier (n.). Earlier it meant "gallant" (1640s). Related: Cavalierly.

The government takes a cavalier attitude to the problems of prison overcrowding.

政府对监狱拥挤不堪的问题不闻不问。

牛津词典

The Editor takes a cavalier attitude to the concept of fact checking.

《编辑》杂志对于核对事实这一点采取无所谓的态度。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Nor was that wonderful, seeing how cavalier had been the captain's answer.

他的担心是不足为奇的,因为船长刚才的回答很不客气.

英汉文学 - 金银岛

C ++ programmers tend to be cavalier in their use of the term object.

程序员经常随意地使用术语对象.

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The cavalier perspective is thought to be the synonym of perspective in the traditional Chinese painting.

“散点透视”是中国画透视现象的代名词.

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Week of Cavalier: Double growth for Cavaliers and Paladins.

骑兵周: 骑士与圣骑产量加倍. (人的总称)

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Men said he was an English cavalier, and of no high extraction.

人家说他是英国骑士, 门弟并不高.

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He treated us in a cavalier fashion.

他待我们很不客气.

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Warrior, cavalier, knight, or swordsman.

战士 、 骑士 、 骑士或剑术家.

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He put on ice wearing the shoulder, he is proud of the last Cavalier.

他把冰雪披戴在在肩膀, 他是孤傲的末代王爵.

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We're annoyed at his cavalier treatment of his old friends.

他用这种傲慢的态度对待老朋友,我们都感到气愤.

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Moreover, she has a business plan, an accessory eschewed by cavalier counterparts.

此外, 她还有商业计划, 这是彬彬有礼的男设计师们回避的一点.

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But he is too defiant too cavalier!

但是他太目中无人了,太傲慢了!

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People were often irritated by his cavalier attitude toward them.

人们常常被他目空一切的态度弄得恼火.

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He had a cavalier attitude about her gender which Nora found distasteful.

对于她的性别--劳拉觉得很不没有品味--他有一种骑士的态度.

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I'm annoyed at your cavalier treatment of him.

你用这种傲慢的态度对待他,我感到气恼.

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Yet Russia's attitude to climate change to date has been cavalier, at best.

然而迄今为止,俄罗斯对待气候变暖的态度充其量说是利己的.

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The cavalier defeated all the antagonists.

那位骑士打败了所有的敌手。

辞典例句

The government takes a cavalier attitude to the problems of prison overcrowding.

政府对监狱拥挤不堪的问题不闻不问。

《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

The Editor takes a cavalier attitude to the concept of fact checking.

《编辑》杂志对于核对事实这一点采取无所谓的态度。

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