culprit
culprit
noun
noun
- a person who is responsible for a crime or other misdeed
罪犯，犯人；导致过错的人
■the cause of a problem or defect
导致问题的原因；产生不良后果的事物
low-level ozone pollution is the real culprit.
低层臭氧污染是真正的根源。
- late 17th cent. (originally in the formula Culprit, how will you be tried?, said by the Clerk of the Crown to a prisoner pleading not guilty): perhaps from a misinterpretation of the written abbreviation cul. prist, for Anglo-Norman French Culpable: prest d'averrer notre bille ('You are) guilty: (We are) ready to prove our indictment'; in later use influenced by Latin culpa 'fault, blame'
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