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正面 6047.mist
英 [mɪst]美 [mɪst]

背面
释义:
n. 薄雾;视线模糊不清;模糊不清之物vi. 下雾;变模糊vt. 使模糊;使蒙上薄雾
例句:
1. I stepped outside and pulled up my collar against the cold mist.我走出门,竖起衣领抵御冷雾。

mist 【迷失的】雾
mist 薄雾,水气来自古英语mist,薄雾,水气,来自Proto-Germanic*mikhstaz,可能来自PIE*meus,水气,湿的,词源同moss,moist.
mistmist: [OE] Mist is a member of quite a widespread Indo-European family of ‘mist’-words. Dutch and Swedish share mist, and among the non- Germanic languages Greek has omíkhlē, Lithuanian and Latvia migla, Serbo-Croat màgla, Polish mgła, and Russian mgla, all meaning ‘mist’, besides Sanskrit mēghas ‘cloud’, which all point back to an Indo- European ancestor *migh-, *meigh-.mist (n.)Old English mist "dimness (of eyesight), mist" (earliest in compounds, such as misthleoðu "misty cliffs," wælmist "mist of death"), from Proto-Germanic *mikhstaz (cognates: Middle Low German mist, Dutch mist, Icelandic mistur, Norwegian and Swedish mist), perhaps from PIE *meigh- "to urinate" (cognates: Greek omikhle, Old Church Slavonic migla, Sanskrit mih, megha "cloud, mist;" see micturition).Sometimes distinguished from fog, either as being less opaque or as consisting of drops large enough to have a perceptible downward motion. [OED]Also in Old English in sense of "dimness of the eyes, either by illness or tears," and in figurative sense of "things that obscure mental vision."mist (v.)Old English mistian "to become misty, to be or grow misty;" see mist (n.). Meaning "To cover with mist" is early 15c. Related: Misted; misting."

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