rogue

noun

/rəʊɡ/

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(humorous) a person who behaves badly, but despite this is quite attractive無賴；搗蛋鬼
- He's a bit of a rogue, but very charming.他好搗蛋，但卻很討人喜歡。
(old-fashioned) a man who is not honest or moral騙子；惡棍；流氓 synonym rascal
- a rogues’ gallery (= a collection of pictures of criminals)案犯相片集
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Word Originmid 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.).

rogue

adjective

/rəʊɡ/

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(of an animal動物) living apart from the main group, and possibly dangerous離群的
behaving in a different way from other similar people or things, often causing damage行爲失常的；暴戾的
- a rogue gene變異基因
- a rogue police officer暴戾的警察
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- Rogue cells may survive in the body to form a tumour.變異細胞可能在體内存活形成腫瘤。
- The bus shelter was demolished by a rogue driver.公共汽車候車亭被一個流氓司機拆除了。
- There is a need to protect patients from rogue doctors.有必要保護病人免受流氓醫生的傷害。
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Idioms

go rogue

(informal) to suddenly start doing something unexpected, especially something dangerous, wrong or against the rules流氓：突然開始做一些意想不到的事情，尤其是危險，錯誤或違反規則的事情
- Denzel Washington plays a CIA agent gone rogue.丹澤爾·華盛頓扮演一個變得無賴的中情局特工。
- One of his employees went rogue and started stealing money from the company.他的一名員工變得無賴，開始從公司偷錢。
- My phone has gone rogue on me—it keeps switching itself off.我的手機壞了，一直關機。
- My luggage went rogue (= got lost) at the airport and didn't make it onto the plane.我的行李在機場丢失了，沒能上飛機。