Anthony
英['?nt?n?]
美['?nt?n?]
- n. 安東尼（人名）
英文詞源
- Anthony
- masc. proper name, from Latin Antonius, name of a Roman gens (with excrescent -h- probably suggested by many Greek loan words beginning anth-, such as anthros "flower," anthropos "man"); St. Anthony (4c.), Egyptian hermit, patron saint of swineherds, to whom one of each litter was usually vowed, hence Anthony for "smallest pig of the litter (1660s; in condensed form tantony pig from 1590s). St. Anthony's Fire (1520s), popular name for erysipelas, is said to be so called from the tradition that those who sought his intercession recovered from that distemper during a fatal epidemic in 1089.
雙語例句
- 1. Anthony sometimes felt that his mistress was his superior in will-power.
- 有時安東尼感覺他的情婦比他更有意志力。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Anthony picked himself up and set off along the track.
- 安東尼自己慢慢爬起來，又開始沿著跑道跑下去。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. His book about Afghanistan is reviewed here by Anthony Hyman.
- 安東尼·海曼在此就他那本關于阿富汗的書寫了書評。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. Sir Anthony was a keen fundraiser for the Liberal Democrats.
- 安東尼爵士是自由民主黨熱心的資金籌集者。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. Anthony was a dead cert for promotion.
- 安東尼肯定會得到提拔，那是板上釘釘的事兒。
來自柯林斯例句