vandal

• n. 文化艺术的破坏者；蓄意破坏者
• adj. 破坏文化艺术的

来自拉丁语Vandalus,日耳曼部落名，于公元455年将罗马洗劫一空，因而引申该词义。

1. someone who willfully destroys or defaces property

vandal

vandal: [17] The term vandal commemorates a Germanic tribe, the Vandals, who sacked Rome in 455 AD, and thereby earned themselves a reputation as destroyers of civilization. Their name for themselves was *Wandal-, which etymologically means ‘wanderer’.

vandal (n.)

1660s, "willful destroyer of what is beautiful or venerable," from Vandals, name of the Germanic tribe that sacked Rome in 455 under Genseric, from Latin Vandalus (plural Vandali), from the tribe's name for itself (Old English Wendlas), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *wandljaz "wanderer." The literal historical sense in English is recorded from 1550s.

There does not seem to be in the story of the capture of Rome by the Vandals any justification for the charge of willful and objectless destruction of public buildings which is implied in the word 'vandalism.' It is probable that this charge grew out of the fierce persecution which was carried on by [the Vandal king] Gaiseric and his son against the Catholic Christians, and which is the darkest stain on their characters. ["Encyclopaedia Britannica," 13th ed., 1926]

All information systems that have been fitted at Ashford station have now been destroyed by vandals.

安装在阿什福德车站的所有信息查询装置如今都被破坏分子毁坏了。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Vandal have pull the telephone out of the call boxes.

破坏公共财产者将电话机扯到电话亭外.

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Len was spitting feathers when he saw what some vandal had done to his new car.

莱恩看到他的新车遭到破坏时非常生气.

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A vandal with a chainsaw cut down a tree.

一个故意破坏公物的人用链锯伐倒了一棵树。

柯林斯例句

Bruce was no unthinking vandal.

布鲁斯决非蓄意搞破坏的莽汉。

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