reprobate

• v. 非难；拒绝；斥责
• adj. 邪恶的；堕落的
• n. 恶棍，无赖

re-,相反，-probe,证实，证明，词源同 probate,probe,prove.比喻用法。

1. a person without moral scruples

reprobate

reprobate: [16] The Latin prefix re- usually denoted ‘return’ or ‘repetition’, but it was also used for ‘reversal of a previous condition’. This usage lies behind Latin reprobāre (source of English reprove [14]), a compound verb based on probāre ‘test, approve’ (source of English prove). It meant ‘disapprove’, and its past participle reprobātus was used in post-classical Latin to denote a person ‘disapproved or abandoned by God’ because of their wickedness.
=> probation, probe, prove, reprove

reprobate (adj.)

early 15c., "rejected as worthless," from Late Latin reprobatus, past participle of reprobare "disapprove, reject, condemn," from Latin re- "opposite of, reversal of previous condition" (see re-) + probare "prove to be worthy" (see probate (n.)). Earliest form of the word in English was a verb, meaning "to disapprove" (early 15c.).

reprobate (n.)

1540s, "one rejected by God," from reprobate (adj.). Sense of "abandoned or unprincipled person" is from 1590s.

He has always been a bit of a reprobate.

他一向不很规矩.

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He ventured to reprobate that common system.

他很大胆地摈弃了一般常用的那种方式.

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The reprobate and Satan will suffer eternal punishment in hell.

被弃绝的人和撒但会在地狱受到永恒的刑罚.

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You sinful old reprobate!

你这个作恶多端的无赖!

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You cannot approbate and reprobate the same instrument.

你不能既批准而又摈弃同一文件.

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