dishevelled: [15] Semantically, dishevelled ‘with untidy hair’ and unkempt ‘with uncombed hair’ are closely parallel formations. Dishevelled originated as an adaptation of deschevele, the past participle of Old French descheveler ‘disarrange the hair’. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix dis- ‘apart’ and chevel ‘hair’, a descendant of Latin capillus ‘hair’ (from which English got capillary [17]).
In Middle English its meaning was extended to ‘without a head-dress’, and even to ‘undressed’, but its modern metaphorical application is the more general ‘untidy’. (The verb dishevel was a late 16th-century back-formation from dishevelled.) => capillary
双语例句
1. She arrived flushed and dishevelled.
她到的时候满脸通红，衣衫不整。
来自柯林斯例句
2. He looked tired and dishevelled.
他衣冠不整，显得很疲倦。
来自《权威词典》
3. Aziz was sitting up in bed, looking dishevelled and sad.
阿济兹在床上坐了起来, 头发蓬松,衣衫零乱,样子很难过.
来自辞典例句
4. She slopped about her room, unkempt and dishevelled, in her tawdry dressing - gown.
