meadow
英['med??]
美['m?do]
- n. 草地；牧場
- n. (Meadow)人名；(英)梅多
詞態變化
復數:?meadows;
助記提示
諧音“麥豆”。
中文詞源
meadow 草地
來自古英語maedwe,來自Proto-Germanic*medwo,來自PIE*metwa,割過的草地，來自*me,割草，割谷子，可能來自擬聲詞。最后詞義演變成草地本身。比較pork,farrow,furrow.
英文詞源
- meadow
- meadow: [OE] Etymologically, meadow means ‘mowed land’. It goes back ultimately to an Indo-European *mētwá, a derivative of the base *mē- ‘mow’ (source of English mow [OE]). In prehistoric Germanic this became *m?dwō (whence German matte ‘meadow’), which passed into Old English as m?d. The modern English descendant of this, mead, now survives only as an archaism, but its inflected form, m?dwe, has become modern English meadow.
=> mow - meadow (n.)
- Old English m?dwe "meadow, pasture," originally "land covered in grass which is mown for hay;" oblique case of m?d (see mead (n.2)).
雙語例句
- 1. In the spring, the meadow is a mass of daffodils.
- 春天，草地上開滿了黃水仙。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. We punted up towards Grantchester and had a picnic in a meadow.
- 我們乘坐平底長船溯河而上到格蘭切斯特，在草地上舉行野餐。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. lambs gambolling in the meadow
- 在草地上蹦蹦跳跳的小羊羔
來自《權威詞典》
- 4. The seeds of dandelion were carried to the meadow by the wind.
- 風把蒲公英的種子吹到草地上.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 5. The children ran free across the meadow.
- 孩子們在草地里自由地奔跑.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》