renegade
noun /ˈrenɪɡeɪd/
/ˈrenɪɡeɪd/
(formal, disapproving)- (often used as an adjective
) a person who leaves one political, religious, etc. group to join another that has very different views常用作形容词 变节者;叛徒;背叛者;叛教者 - a renegade priest
叛教的牧师 - There was no place for a communist renegade in the political climate of the time.
在当时的政治气候下,共产主义叛徒没有立足之地。
- a renegade priest
- a person who opposes and lives outside a group or society that they used to belong to
synonym outlaw叛逆者
词源late 15th cent.: from Spanish renegado, from medieval Latin renegatus ‘renounced’, past participle (used as a noun) of renegare, from re- (expressing intensive force) + Latin negare ‘deny’.