knight errant的词源

英文词源

arrant

arrant: [16] Arrant is an alteration of errant, as in knight errant. This originally meant ‘roaming, wandering’, but its persistent application to nouns with negative connotations, such as rogue and thief, gradually drove its meaning downwards by association, to ‘notorious’.
=> errant

中文词源

knight errant：游侠骑士

knight,骑士，errant,游荡的。参照电影《指环王》。

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