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scoundrel，ruffian，hoodlum，evildoer，brigand ；

[例句] 他的车遭遇拦劫，随后他被4名持枪歹徒劫持。 His car was held up and he was abducted by four gunmen.

[例句] 经过10个小时的谈判，持枪歹徒终于投降了。 Finally, after ten hours of negotiations, the gunman gave himself up.

ruffian，thug，hoodlum，mobster，mob；

[例句] 一伙暴徒捣毁了警察设置的路障冲进法庭。 An unruly mob broke down police barricades and stormed the courtroom.

[例句] 暴徒用一堆堆燃烧的轮胎在大街上筑起了路障。 The rioters barricaded streets with piles of blazing tyres.

apprentice，trainee，[电影]The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz；

[例句] 其中一名学徒对着一名路过的警官说了一句侮辱他的话。 One of the apprentices made an insulting remark to a passing officer.

[例句] 我从学徒开始干起，逐步上升。 I started off as an ap-prentice and worked my way up.

traitor，renegade，turncoat，rebel，Judas ；

[例句] 她曾经是她的朋友，现在却叫她叛徒。 She was her friend and now calls her a betrayer.

[例句] 转眼间我被诬蔑为叛徒。 I was instantly branded as a rebel.

wine bibber，tippler，drinker，rumpot，toper；

[例句] “水手”是供台球玩家和酒徒消遣的酒吧。 The Seaman was a bar for pool players and hard drinkers.

[例句] 其他酒徒则对这位老伙计十分同情. The other drinkers take pity on the old fellow.

believer，disciple，follower，adherent，Christian；

[例句] 主教要求信徒们呆在家中。 The Bishop directed the faithful to stay at home.

[例句] 他最近才皈依天主教，是一名狂热的信徒。 He was a recent Catholic convert, and very zealous.

futile effort，fruitless labour，hold a candle to the sun，lost labour ；

[例句] 他在书桌前徒劳地坐了一上午之后便放弃了。 After a fruitless morning sitting at his desk he had given up.

[例句] 假装系统完美无疵是徒劳的。 It would be idle to pretend the system is perfect.

[宗教] disciple，apostle ；

[例句] 使徒彼得在此表达了他相信《圣经》是通过默感写成的. Here the apostle Peter affirms his belief that the Scriptures are'inspired '.

[例句] 我认为,倘若把你封为使徒也说得过去. I don't think there will ever be any problem about canonizing you.

convict，prisoner ；

[例句] 这个囚徒被投入监狱任凭他渐渐消瘦下去. The prisoner is left to rot in the jail.

[例句] “ 那是囚徒还是牢房的名字? 'Does it mean a captive , or a place of captivity?

disciple，follower，adherent，chela，protege；

[例句] 他认为从事祷告和门徒的工作是他的使命。 He saw his vocation as one of prayer and apostolic work.

[例句] 犹大是耶稣十二门徒之一. Judas was one of the twelve disciples of Jesus.

apprentice，disciple，pupil，prentice ；

[例句] 你的徒弟没能迎接你. Your disciple failed to welcome you.

[例句] 他是一位能工巧匠的徒弟. He was an apprentice to a master craftsman.

believer，disciple，devotee，a man of God，saint；

[例句] 圣女贞德终于在1920年由教皇本尼狄克十五世封为圣徒。 Joan of Arc was finally canonized by Pope Benedict XV in 1920.

[例句] 他荣升为圣徒是有充分理由的。 His elevation to sainthood is entirely justified.

heathen，heretic，gentile，goy，giaour；

[例句] 他们首先着手使异教徒皈依。 They first set out to convert the heathen.

[例句] 他们把我们都看成异教徒. They regard us all as pagans.

Buddhist ；

[例句] 在佛教徒的眼里, 人世上一切事情都是空的. In the eye of the Buddhist, every worldly affair is vain.

[例句] 她是坚定的马克思主义者 、 佛教徒等. She's a convinced Marxist, Buddhist, etc.

gambler，gamester，[电影]Bakuto；

[例句] 那个赌徒向坐在他旁边的人讨支烟抽. The gambler sponged a cigarette from the man sitting next to him.

[例句] 报纸指责当地警察在对付赌徒方面执法不严. The newspapers accused local police of laxity in dealing with gamblers.

believer [follower] of a religion ；

[例句] 和尚要剃度，克利须那派教徒也一样。 Monks shave their heads, as do devotees of the Hare Krishna movement.

[例句] 他们将孩子培养成了虔诚的基督教徒。 They brought up their children to be God-fearing Christians.

gangster，bandit，banditti，mobster，mosstrooper ；

Puritan ；

[例句] 贝科夫已经忘记了马利宁是个清教徒式的人物。 Bykov had forgotten that Malinin was something of a puritan.

[例句] 保罗身上无疑带有清教徒气质。 Paul was someone who certainly had a puritan streak in him.

afoot，pedestrian，peripatetic ；

[例句] 徒步的旅客更是如此. Much more was this the case with foot - passengers.

[例句] 徒步的人 、 驴 、 标准的轿车 、 货车 、 自行车 、 穿冰鞋人. People on foot, donkeys, the standard sedan, lorries, bicycles, people skates.

bravo，[电影]Wang ming tu；

[例句] “ 狼不是亡命徒, 而是恶棍! " The wolf is not a desperado, but a scoundrel. "

[例句] 山里面的亡命徒经常叫嚣着冲出山来洗劫这座小镇. Desperadoes from the hills regularly roared in to take over the town.