graze
英[gre?z]
美[ɡrez]
- vt. 放牧；擦傷
- vi. 吃草；擦傷
- n. 放牧；輕擦
中文詞源
graze 放牧
來自grass, 草。字母s,z 音變。
英文詞源
- graze
- graze: [OE] There is no difficulty about the etymology of graze ‘feed on grass’: it was formed in Old English times as a derivative of the noun gr?s (modern English grass). But what about graze in the sense ‘scrape lightly’, first recorded in the 17th century? In the absence of any convincing alternative candidates, it is usually taken to be simply a special use of graze ‘feed on grass’, in the sense ‘remove grass close to the ground’, as some animals do in grazing – like a ‘close shave’, in fact.
=> grass - graze (v.1)
- "to feed on grass," Old English grasian, from gr?s "grass" (see grass). Compare Middle Dutch, Middle High German grasen, Dutch grazen, German grasen. Transitive sense from 1560s. Figurative use by 1570s. Related: Grazed; grazing.
- graze (v.2)
- "to touch lightly in passing," c. 1600, perhaps a transferred sense from graze (v.1) via a notion of cropping grass right down to the ground (compare German grasen "to feed on grass," used in military sense in reference to cannonballs that rebound off the ground). Related: Grazed; grazing. As a noun from 1690s, "an act of grazing."
雙語例句
- 1. Five cows graze serenely around a massive oak.
- 5頭奶牛在一棵大橡樹旁悠閑自在地啃著青草。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Nothing serious. Just a graze.
- 沒關系, 就破了一點皮.
來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》
- 3. There is good grassland here for your cattle and horses to graze on.
- 這里有很好的草地供你們放牧牛馬.
來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》
- 4. A bullet from one of the pistols had graze his hip.
- 有一枝手槍里發(fā)出的一顆子彈擦傷了他的臀部.
來自辭典例句
- 5. The sheep usually graze in the grass land.
- 羊通常在草地吃草.
來自辭典例句