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.
双语例句
1. He disowned his reprobate son.
他声明与堕落的儿子脱离关系.
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2. He has always been a bit of a reprobate.
他一向不很规矩.
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3. 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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4. Don't reprobate a weak and foolish girl's ignorance.
还是不要谴责一个软弱而又愚蠢的姑娘的无知吧!
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5. The reprobate and Satan will suffer eternal punishment in hell.
