1
- a dishonest or unprincipled man无赖, 流氓, 恶棍:
you are a rogue and an embezzler.
你是个无赖和贪污分子。
1.1
- a person whose behaviour one disapproves of but who is nonetheless likeable or attractive (often used as a playful term of reproof)淘气鬼, 调皮鬼, 捣蛋鬼(常用作半真半假的责备之词):
Cenzo, you old rogue!
森佐, 你这个捣蛋鬼!
2
- usu. as modifier an elephant or other large wild animal driven away or living apart from the herd and having savage or destructive tendencies野生的离群兽; 野生的离群象:
a rogue elephant.
一只野生的离群象。
2.1
- a person or thing that behaves in an aberrant, faulty, or unpredictable way行为反常(或错误、无法预测)的人(或物):
he hacked into data and ran rogue programs.
他非法闯入数据库, 运行反常程序。
2.2
- a horse inclined to shirk on the racecourse or when hunting(赛马、打猎时)偷懒的马。
2.3
- an inferior or defective specimen among many satisfactory ones, especially a seedling or plant deviating from the standard variety(尤指苗木或植物的)劣种, 杂种。
with obj.
- remove inferior or defective plants or seedlings from (a crop)除去(劣种, 杂种); 为(田地)的作物去劣(或去杂)。
词源
mid 16th cent. (denoting an idle vagrant): probably from Latin rogare 'beg, ask', and related to obsolete slang roger 'vagrant beggar' (many such cant terms were introduced towards the middle of the 16th cent.).