| 正面 | 5627.damp 英 [dæmp]美 [dæmp]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： 1. 该词的尾部发音正好跟单词含义“尸、死”的发音相同。2. corpse 音“corp(身体) 死”→死的身体→尸体。vt. 使潮湿；使阻尼；使沮丧，抑制vi. 减幅，阻尼；变潮湿n. 潮湿，湿气adj. 潮湿的 例句： 1. They all walked barefoot across the damp sand to the water's edge.他们全都光着脚走过潮湿的沙地来到水边。 damp 潮湿的词源不详。 dampdamp: [14] The familiar adjectival use of damp as ‘slightly wet’ is a comparatively recent development, from the 18th century. When the word was first borrowed into English, from Middle Low German damp, it was a noun meaning ‘vapour’ (an application which survives in fire-damp). It comes ultimately from a Germanic base *thump-. The first line of semantic development taken by the word in English was of a ‘noxious exhalation’ (including gas or even smoke, not just vapour), and this is reflected in its earliest adjectival use, in the late 16th century, meaning ‘dazed’, as if affected by such harmful fumes; ‘with looks downcast and damp’, John Milton, Paradise Lost 1667.Another contemporary sense was ‘noxious’. But the 17th century saw the noun used more and more for specifically wet turbidity: ‘mist’, or simply ‘moisture’. And this formed the basis of the present-day adjectival sense.damp (n.)early 14c., "noxious vapor," perhaps in Old English but there is no record of it. If not, probably from Middle Low German damp; ultimately in either case from Proto-Germanic *dampaz (cognates: Old High German damph, German Dampf "vapor;" Old Norse dampi "dust"). Sense of "moisture, humidity" is first certainly attested 1706.damp (adj.)1580s, "dazed," from damp (n.). Meaning "slightly wet" is from 1706. Related: Dampness.damp (v.)late 14c., "to suffocate," from damp (n.). Figurative meaning "to deaden (the spirits, etc.)" attested by 1540s. Meaning "to moisten" is recorded from 1670s. Related: Damped; damping." |