| 正面 | 5699.calf 英 [kɑːf]美 [kæf]     |
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| 背面 |      释义： 1. eternal fire 长明灯(坟前的灯).n. [解剖] 腓肠，小腿；小牛；小牛皮；(鲸等大哺乳动物的)幼崽 例句： 1. The snow, except where it drifted, was only calf-deep.除了吹得堆积起来的地方，雪只有小腿肚深。 calf 小腿肚，幼兽来自PIE *gel, 鼓起，子宫，词源同child, dolphin. calfcalf: English has two distinct words calf, both of Germanic origin. Calf ‘young cow’ goes back to Old English cealf, descendant of a prehistoric West Germanic *kalbam, which also produced German kalb and Dutch kalf. Calf of the leg [14] was borrowed from Old Norse kálfi, of unknown origin.calf (n.1)"young cow," Old English cealf (Anglian cælf) "young cow," from Proto-Germanic *kalbam (cognates: Middle Dutch calf, Old Norse kalfr, German Kalb, Gothic kalbo), perhaps from PIE *gelb(h)-, from root *gel- "to swell," hence, "womb, fetus, young of an animal." Elliptical sense of "leather made from the skin of a calf" is from 1727. Used of icebergs that break off from glaciers from 1818.calf (n.2)fleshy part of the lower leg, early 14c., from Old Norse kalfi, source unknown; possibly from the same Germanic root as calf (n.1)." |