rogue

rogue
noun
  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。
    ■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。
    ■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。
    ■a horse inclined to shirk on the racecourse or when hunting
    （赛马、打猎时）偷懒的马
    ■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
verb
  1. [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）
语源
  1. 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.)
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