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词汇 Jack the Lad
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Definition of Jack the Lad in English:

Jack the Lad

noun
British informal
  • A brash, cocky young man.

    〈非正式〉傲慢无礼的年轻人

    a cocky Jack the Lad who neglected academic study
    as modifier a Jack the Lad sex symbol
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Monogamy has never meant much to Jack the Lad, who admits he repeatedly lied to Anjelica during their 17-year relationship.
    • These men were violent, but there has always been a tendency to give them the folk-hero treatment, as if they were typical Jack the Lads and brightly representative of a certain working-class resourcefulness in the face of Britain's postwar austerity.
    • I learnt to get on with them, I just wanted to be something I wasn't, a bit of a Jack the Lad and it was the start of a rocky ride really.
    • Good old Les, a bit of a rogue, a bit of a Jack the Lad, but basically, as Eamonn says ‘a good man’…
    • Your other brother, Abbas, nails a great job in Brussels after a fun-filled adolescence as Jack the Lad.

Origin

Nickname of Jack Sheppard, an 18th-century thief.

Definition of Jack the Lad in US English:

Jack the Lad

noun
British informal
  • A brash, cocky young man.

    〈非正式〉傲慢无礼的年轻人

    a cocky Jack the Lad who neglected academic study
    as modifier a Jack the Lad sex symbol
    Example sentencesExamples
    • These men were violent, but there has always been a tendency to give them the folk-hero treatment, as if they were typical Jack the Lads and brightly representative of a certain working-class resourcefulness in the face of Britain's postwar austerity.
    • Your other brother, Abbas, nails a great job in Brussels after a fun-filled adolescence as Jack the Lad.
    • Good old Les, a bit of a rogue, a bit of a Jack the Lad, but basically, as Eamonn says ‘a good man’…
    • I learnt to get on with them, I just wanted to be something I wasn't, a bit of a Jack the Lad and it was the start of a rocky ride really.
    • Monogamy has never meant much to Jack the Lad, who admits he repeatedly lied to Anjelica during their 17-year relationship.

Origin

Nickname of Jack Sheppard, an 18th-century thief.

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