• n. 學士；單身漢；（尚未交配的）小雄獸
• n. (Bachelor)人名；(英)巴徹勒

來自拉丁詞bacilum, 桿，棍。原指舊時騎士跟班，持一根木棍跟隨騎士學習。

bachelor

bachelor: [13] The ultimate origins of bachelor are obscure, but by the time it first turned up, in Old French bacheler (from a hypothetical Vulgar Latin *baccalāris), it meant ‘squire’ or ‘young knight in the service of an older knight’. This was the sense it had when borrowed into English, and it is preserved, in fossilized form, in knight bachelor. Subsequent semantic development was via ‘university graduate’ to, in the late 14th century, ‘unmarried man’.

A resemblance to Old Irish bachlach ‘shepherd, peasant’ (a derivative of Old Irish bachall ‘staff’, from Latin baculum, source of English bacillus and related to English bacteria) has led some to speculate that the two may be connected. English baccalaureate [17] comes via French baccalauréat or medieval Latin baccalaureātus from medieval Latin baccalaureus ‘bachelor’, which was an alteration of an earlier baccalārius, perhaps owing to an association with the ‘laurels’ awarded for academic success (Latin bacca lauri meant literally ‘laurel berry’).

bachelor (n.)

c. 1300, "young man;" also "youthful knight, novice in arms," from Old French bacheler, bachelor, bachelier (11c.) "knight bachelor," a young squire in training for knighthood, also "young man; unmarried man," and as a university title, of uncertain origin, perhaps from Medieval Latin baccalarius "vassal farmer, adult serf without a landholding," one who helps or tends a baccalaria "field or land in the lord's demesne" (according to old French sources, perhaps from an alteration of vacca "a cow" and originally "grazing land" [Kitchin]). Or from Latin baculum "a stick," because the squire would practice with a staff, not a sword. "Perhaps several independent words have become confused in form" [Century Dictionary]. Meaning in English expanded early 14c. to "young unmarried man," late 14c. to "one who has taken the lowest degree in a university." Bachelor party as a pre-wedding ritual is from 1882.

1. The flat contained the basic essentials for bachelor life.

那套公寓配有單身生活的基本必需品。

來自柯林斯例句

2. It wouldn't have occurred to me to get myself a bachelor pad.

否則我不會想到給自己找一套單身公寓。

來自柯林斯例句

3. I'm a confirmed bachelor.

我抱定了獨身的想法。

來自柯林斯例句

4. Distrusting women, he remained a bachelor all his life.

由于不信任女人, 他做了一輩子單身漢.

來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》

5. He's a confirmed bachelor.

他抱定主意一輩子獨身.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》