词源

借自低地蘇格蘭語 ，受到了（沃尔特·司各特）的影响，取代了早期的，它也是本词的同源对似词。源自中古英語 (“强壮的，威猛的；勇敢的”)，源自古英語 (“状态好的，能使用的”)^[1]，可能源自 (“机构”)（最终源自原始印歐語 (“站”)）或者 (“地方；状态，条件”) + (表示“能够做...”的后缀)（可能最终源自原始印歐語 (“转”)）。

发音

• (標準英音) 國際音標^(幫助)：/ˈstɔːl.wət/, /ˈstɒl-/
• (通用美式) 國際音標^(幫助)：/ˈstɔl.wɚt/, /ˈstɑl-/

• （澳洲）音频：

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• 斷字：stal‧wart

形容词

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1. 结实的，健壮的
   • 1709, ], “How Wallace Came into Scotland Again at the Battel of Elchok-Park”, 出自 , Edinburgh: Printed by the heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson, printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, →OCLC, book XII，頁號 304:

     This true Man ſoon aſſembled him beforn: / Three Sons he had that ſtalwart were and bold, / And twenty Men of Kin in his Houſhold.

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   • 1849, , 章號 III, 出自 Life in the Far West (Plains and Rockies; 175), Edinburgh, London: , →OCLC，頁號 71:

     [A] stalwart leather-clad "boy," just returned from trapping on the waters of Grand River, on the western side the mountains, who interlards his mountain jargon with Spanish words picked up in Taos and California.

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   • 1912 August, , “”, 出自 , 卷 XXXIX, 號 4, [New York, N.Y.]: McClure Publications, →OCLC, chapter I，頁號 422:

     The driver was a stalwart woman who sat at ease in the front seat and drove her car bare-headed. She left a cloud of dust and a trail of gasoline behind her.

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   • 2002 11月 10, , “”, 出自 , 季数 5, 集数 1, 角色 Morbo, 經由 :

     Direct your attention now to the African turtles seen here migrating … Morbo wishes these stalwart nomads peace.

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2. 勇敢的

   近義詞：

   • 1832 October, “Art II.— History of the Italian Language and Dialects. Saggi di Prose e Poesie de’ più celebri Scrittori d’ogni Secolo. VI. vol. 8vo. (Selected by L. Nardini and S. Buonaiuti。) In Londra. 1798.”, 出自 , 卷 XXXV, 期 LXXVII, Boston, Mass.: Gray and Bowen, […], →OCLC，頁號s 301–302:

     Many other learned men of the age followed him [Romolo Amaseo] to the field, and contended with much zeal for the cause of the Latin; some even went so far as to wish the Italian completely banished entirely from the world. But stalwart champions were not wanting on the other side; and, to be brief, the impulse of public opinion soon swept away all opposition, and the popular cause was triumphant.

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   • 1842, , 章號 XXXI, 出自 Sir Henry Morgan, the Buccaneer, Paris: Baudry's European Library, […] and Stassin and Xavier, […], →OCLC，頁號 241:

     Now Tomlins always acted as Morgan's major domo in tent or quarters, and was also a stalwart hand either against ox, sheep, or enemy.

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3. 毅然的，可靠的

   近義詞： 、

名词

(複數)

1. 强壮的人
2. 坚定支持者，（理想、思想、理念等的）坚定追随者
   • 1920?, , “A Fight for Crumbs”, 出自 The Call to Young India, Madras, Tamil Nadu, India: S. Ganesan & Co., →OCLC，頁號s 68–69:

     Too much authority, blind authority, mere authority, whether that of the Prince or the priest, of the Raja or the Nabob, of the oligarch or the official, of the wealty and the prosperous is the bane of Indian life, yet these stalwarts of reform always take shelter behind big names.

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   • 1954 8月 17, , “Financial Statement”, 出自 New Zealand Parliamentary Debates: Fifth Session, Thirtieth Parliament: , 卷 304 (Comprising the Period from 6 August to 1 October 1954), Wellington, N.Z.: By authority; R. E. Owen, government printer, 出版於 1955, →OCLC，頁號 1200:

     But I am sure there must be a great many Socialists who would fairly turn in their graves if they knew how their successors in the Labour Party were "ratting" on the policy laid down by the old stalwarts.

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3. 可靠的人
   • 2017 10月 14, , “ yet to find attacking solution for stuttering Southampton: Nothing so far this season suggests the Argentinian will be more successful than in finding the answer to the club’s continuing lack of firepower”, 出自 ‎, London，於10 November 2017歸檔自原頁面:

     Other erstwhile stalwarts are also wavering. had two of the best full-backs in the league last season but has been below par this season and made an uncharacteristic lapse that led to 's winning goal in Southampton's last outing.

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   • 2021 12月 2, Margaret Fuhrer, “Mothers of Reinvention: The Lab Pivots as Studios Close”, 出自 The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     In August, the Los Angeles-area stalwart the Lab also closed its dance space, a 12,000-square-foot location in West Covina.

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参考资料

延伸阅读

• 在英語維基百科上的資料。維基百科 ^en

其他形式

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词源

源自中古英語 、，源自古英語 (“能够使用的”)。与英語 同源。

形容词

(比較級，最高級)

1. 强壮的，健壮的
2. 勇猛的