| 正面 | 13615.skirmish 英 ['skɜːmɪʃ]美 ['skɝmɪʃ] ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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| 背面 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 释义: 1. scrum => skirmish.2. scrum => scrummage.3. skirt mish(谐音“迷失”) 女学生的裙子被弄丢了,引起了争吵和小冲突。n. 小冲突,小规模战斗;小争论vi. 进行小规模战斗;发生小争论 例句: 1. There had been a skirmish in the half light of dawn.天朦朦亮的时候曾经有过一场小规模的战斗. skirmish 小冲突,小规模战斗拼 写 俗 化 自 古 法 语 escarmouche, 小 规 模 战 斗 , 来 自 意 大 利 语 scaramuccia, 来 自 Proto-Germanic*skerm,砍,劈,来自 PIE*sker,砍,劈,词源同 scar,shear.-ccia,小词后缀,含 讽刺义,词源同 capoccia,小头领。 skirmishskirmish: [14] English adapted skirmish from eskermiss-, the present stem of Old French eskermir ‘fight with a sword’. This in turn went back to a Frankish *skirmjan, a relative of modern German schirmen. A variant of skirmish arose with the i and r sounds reversed, giving scrimish, which is the source of modern English scrimmage [15] and also of scrummage [19] and its abbreviation scrum [19].=> scrimmage, scrummageskirmish (n.)late 14c., from Old French escarmouche "skirmish," from Italian scaramuccia, earlier schermugio, probably from a Germanic source (compare Old High German skirmen "to protect, defend"), with a diminutive or depreciatory suffix, from Proto-Germanic *skerm-, from PIE *(s)ker- (1) "to cut" (see shear (v.)). Influenced in Middle English by a separate verb skirmysshen "to brandish a weapon," from Old French eskirmiss-, stem of eskirmir "to fence," from Frankish *skirmjan, from the same Germanic source. Compare scrimmage. Other modern Germanic forms have an additional diminutive affix: German scharmützel, Dutch schermutseling, Danish skjærmydsel. Skirmish-line attested by 1864.skirmish (v.)c. 1200, from Old French escarmouchier, from Italian scaramucciare (see skirmish (n.)). Related: Skirmished; skirmishing." |
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