正面 | 621.less 英 [les]美 [lɛs] |
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背面 | 释义: Summer 【sun太阳+er名词后缀:夏天的特点主要就是阳光最足最热】 n夏天adv. 较少地;较小地;更小地adj. 较少的;较小的prep. 减去n. 较少;较小n. (Less)人名;(德、意、匈、芬)莱斯 例句: 1. The affixes " un - " and " - less " are often used make negative words, such as unhappy or careless.词缀un - 和 -less 常用来构成否定词, 如unhappy和careless. less 较少的来自Proto-Germanic*leis-izo,更小,*leis,小的,-izo,比较级后缀。用于little的比较级形式。 lessless: [OE] In origin, less is a comparative form. It goes back ultimately to Indo-European *loiso- ‘small’, which in prehistoric Germanic had the comparative suffix added to it to produce *laisiz – whence English less. It is not found in any of the other modern Germanic languages.=> leastlessOld English læs (adv.), læssa (adj.), comparative of læs "small;" from Proto-Germanic *lais-izo "smaller" (cognates: Old Saxon, Old Frisian les "less;" Middle Dutch lise "soft, gentle," German leise "soft"), from PIE root *leis- (2) "small" (cognates: Lithuanian liesas "thin"). Formerly also "younger," as a translation of Latin minor, a sense now obsolete except in James the Less. Used as a comparative of little, but not related to it. The noun is Old English læsse." |
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