| 正面 | 13377.snake 英 [sneɪk]美 [snek]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： 1. 该词是拟声词，模拟被噎住、呛住、窒息时发出的声音。2. => choke, strangle.4. 嘴巴、喉咙被堵住、阻塞时发出的声音。5. 谐音“卡口、卡壳” ---- *kak- => gag.6. choke => gag.7. 象形：在两个字母g之间插入一个字母a将其堵住、塞住。在哥哥(gg)的嘴里塞一个(a)东西将他的嘴堵住。8. 模拟嘴巴被塞住后只能发出“嘎嘎、嘎嘎”的那种声音。9. gag: http://9gag.com/10. 由插入东西在嘴里，引申为插入一些笑料进来、穿插一些笑话进来等。11. 搞gag、烂gag、冷gag、gag man、gag woman，韩国综艺：《Gag Concert》。n. 蛇；阴险的人vi. 迂回前进vt. 拉（木材等）；迂回前进 例句： 1. The slow-worm is in fact not a snake but a legless lizard.蛇蜥其实不是蛇，而是无脚的蜥蜴。 snake 蛇来自古英语 snaca,蛇，来自 Proto-Germanic*snakon,蛇，来自 PIE*sneg,爬，蜷缩，词源同 snail,sneak. snakesnake: [OE] The snake, like the serpent (and indeed the snail) is etymologically the ‘crawling’ animal. Along with Swedish snok and Danish snog, it comes from a prehistoric Germanic base denoting ‘crawl’, which also produced English snail and German dialect schnaacken ‘crawl’.=> snailsnake (n.)Old English snaca, from Proto-Germanic *snakon (cognates: Old Norse snakr "snake," Swedish snok, German Schnake "ring snake"), from PIE root *sneg- "to crawl, creeping thing" (cognates: Old Irish snaighim "to creep," Lithuanian snake "snail," Old High German snahhan "to creep"). In Modern English, gradually replacing serpent in popular use. Traditionally applied to the British serpent, as distinguished from the poisonous adder. Meaning "treacherous person" first recorded 1580s (compare Old Church Slavonic gadu "reptile," gadinu "foul, hateful"). Applied from 17c. to various snake-like devices and appliances. Snakes! as an exclamation is from 1839. Snake eyes in crap-shooting sense is from 1919. Snake-bitten "unlucky" is sports slang from 1957, from a literal sense, perhaps suggesting one doomed by being poisoned. The game of Snakes and Ladders is attested from 1907. Snake charmer is from 1813. Snake pit is from 1883, as a supposed primitive test of truth or courage; figurative sense is from 1941. Phrase snake in the grass is from Virgil's Latet anguis in herba [Ecl. III:93].snake (v.)1650s, "to twist or wind (hair) into the form of a snake," from snake (n.). The intransitive sense of "to move like a snake" is attested from 1848; that of "to wind or twist like a snake" (of roads, etc.) is from 1875. Related: Snaked; snaking." |