Word of the Day : November 15, 2020
libertine
有自由思想的人
noun LIB-er-teen
Definition1 disparaging : a freethinker especially in religious matters
貶義的：自由思想者，特別是在宗教事務上
2 : a person who is unrestrained by convention or morality; specifically : one leading a dissolute life
不受慣例或道德約束的人；特別是：過著放縱的生活
Examples
"Thus am I crushed between the upper millstone of the Mr Redford, who thinks me a libertine, and the nether popular critic, who thinks me a prude." — George Bernard Shaw, Mrs Warren's Profession, 1902
Thus am I crushed between the upper millstone of the Mr Redford，他認為我是有思想的人，一個民間評論家，並且認為我很客氣。
"Surprisingly, Grey hated the portrait, which she felt was unflattering. One wonders how she would have felt about being paired with Pitt, who had a reputation for being a libertine and a cruel husband." — Steven Litt, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio), 30 Aug. 2020
令人驚訝的是，格雷討厭那幅肖像，她覺得這很不討人喜歡。一個人想知道她與 Pitt 結伴會如何，這個曾以放縱者和殘酷的丈夫而聞名的人。」
Did You Know?
"I only ask to be free," says Mr. Skimpole in Charles Dickens' Bleak House, and his words would undoubtedly have appealed to the world's first libertines. The word libertinus was used in early writings of Roman antiquity to describe a slave who had been set free (the Roman term for an emancipated slave was the Latin libertus). The "freedman" sense of libertine was extended to freethinkers, both religious and secular, and later came to imply that an individual was a little too unrestrained, especially in moral situations. The Latin root of libertine is liber, the ultimate source of our word liberty.
Skimpole先生在 Charles Dickens 的 Bleak House 中說：「我只要求自由。」毫無疑問，他的話無疑會吸引世界上最早的自由主義者[ libertines]。羅馬上古時期的早期著作中曾使用「 libertinus」一詞來描述一個被釋放的奴隸（羅馬解放後的奴隸是拉丁語的 libertus ）。自由主義者「libertine」的「自由人「the freeman」」意識擴展到自由思想者「extended to freethinker」，後來無論宗教還是世俗都暗示了一個人太不受約束，特別是在道德準則下。libertine 的拉丁語根源是liber，它是我們「自由「liberty」」一詞的最終來源。
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