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Recorded Norse English Meaning Life Give Ups Downs

正面 84.want
英 [wɒnt]美 [wɑnt]

背面
释义:
vt. 需要;希望;应该;缺少n. 需要;缺乏;贫困;必需品vi. 需要;缺少
例句:
1. When life gets hard and you want to give up, remember that life is full of ups and downs, and without the downs, the ups would mean nothing.当生活很艰难,你想要放弃的时候,请记住,生活充满了起起落落,如果没有低谷,那站在高处也失去了意义。

1. wane, wanton => want.2. Etymologically, to want something is to 'lack' it (a sense still intact in the noun want); 'wishing to have' is a secondary extension of this.
want 想要来自Proto-Germanic*wano,缺乏,空无,词源同wane,waste,vanity。引申词义渴望,想要。
wantwant: [12] Etymologically, to want something is to ‘lack’ it (a sense still intact in the noun want); ‘wishing to have’ is a secondary extension of this. The word was borrowed from Old Norse vanta ‘be lacking’. This in turn was descended from a prehistoric Germanic *wanatōn, which was formed from the base *wan- ‘lacking’ (source also of English wane).=> wanewant (v.)c. 1200, "to be lacking," from Old Norse vanta "to lack, want," earlier *wanaton, from Proto-Germanic *wanen, from PIE *we-no-, from root *eue- "to leave, abandon, give out" (see vain). The meaning "desire, wish for, feel the need of" is recorded by 1706.want (n.)c. 1200, "deficiency, insufficiency, shortage," from want (v.) and from Old Norse vant, neuter of vanr "wanting, deficient;" related to Old English wanian "to diminish" (see wane). Meaning "state of destitution, poverty" is recorded from early 14c. Meaning "thing desired, that which is lacking but needed" is from 1560s. Phrase for want of is recorded from c. 1400. Newspaper want ad is recorded from 1897. Middle English had wantsum (c. 1200) "in want, deprived of," literally "want-some.""

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