interloper: [16] An interloper is literally someone who ‘runs between’. The word was coined in English, but based on Dutch loper, a derivative of lopen ‘run’ (to which English leap is related). It originally denoted someone who engaged in trade without authorization, and only in the 17th century took on its present-day meaning ‘interfering outsider’. => leap
interloper (n.)
1590s, enterloper, "unauthorized trader trespassing on privileges of chartered companies," probably a hybrid from inter- "between" + -loper (from landloper "vagabond, adventurer," also, according to Johnson, "a term of reproach used by seamen of those who pass their lives on shore"); perhaps a dialectal form of leap, or from Middle Dutch loper "runner, rover," from lopen "to run," from Proto-Germanic *hlaupan "to leap" (see leap (v.)). General sense of "self-interested intruder" is from 1630s.
双语例句
1. She felt like an interloper in her own family.
她感到在自己家里像个外人。
来自辞典例句
2. In the constituencies of Great Britain she was still an interloper - cold, affected, and unacceptably right wing.
在大不列颠国内的各选区,人们仍然把她视为半路闯出来的陌生人 —— 一个冷漠, 矫揉造作的极右派.
来自辞典例句
3. Both creatures shrunk back into the rocks, even though Judith's attention was fixed on the interloper.
即使是现在茱蒂丝的注意力被入侵者完全吸引了,他俩还是不由自主地退回到了石堆里.
来自互联网
4. Pauline is conniving interloper, befriending the lonely wife while the husband is busy working.
