| 正面 | 20198.preen 英 [priːn]美 [prin]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： 1. prune => preen.2. 靠在栏杆上，拿着花，眯着眼睛打扮.vt. 打扮；用嘴整理；赞扬vi. 洋洋自得；把（自己）打扮漂亮 例句： 1. Rare birds preen themselves right in front of your camera.很少有鸟类会在镜头面前梳理自己的羽毛。 preen 整理羽毛，打扮，修饰来自prune拼写变体，来自prune,使圆润，剪枝，修剪，用于指鸟整理羽毛，引申词义打扮，修饰。 preenpreen: [14] Preen is generally taken to be an alteration of prune ‘cut branches’, under the influence of another now obsolete verb preen ‘pierce’, a descendant of the Old English noun prēon ‘pin’ (the notion presumably being of a bird ‘piercing’ its feathers with its beak when cleaning them).=> prunepreen (v.)"to trim, to dress up," late 14c., perhaps a variation of Middle English proynen, proinen "trim the feather with the beak" (see prune (v.)); or perhaps from Old French poroindre "anoint before," and Old French proignier "round off, prune." Middle English prene (from Old English preon, a general Germanic word) meant "to pin," and probably influenced the form of this word. Watkins, however, connects it with Latin unguere "to smear, anoint." Because of the popularity of falconry, bird activities formerly were more closely observed and words for them were more precise in English than today.Youre hawke proynith and not pikith and she prenyth not bot whan she begynnyth at hir leggys, and fetcheth moystour like oyle at hir taill. ["Book of St. Albans," 1486]" |