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Sneak Root Glitter Proto Germanic Pie Ghel Shine Glow

正面 4600.sneak
英 [sniːk]美 [snik]

背面
释义:
vi. 溜;鬼鬼祟祟做事;向老师打小报告vt. 偷偷地做;偷偷取得n. 鬼鬼祟祟的人;偷偷摸摸的行为;告密者adj. 暗中进行的
例句:
1. Sometimes our expectations sneak up on us unawares.有些时候,我们期待的事情会不期而至。

1. PIE root *ghel- "shine, glitter, glow" => Proto-Germanic *glim- => gleam, glimmer, glimpse.2. glimmer is a frequentative from Proto-Germanic *glim-, originally "shine brightly," Sense shifted 15c. to "shine faintly".3. PIE root *ghel- "shine, glitter, glow" => glow, glitter, glister, glisten, glint, glad.
sneak 偷偷地走,溜走。可能来自中古英语 sniken,爬,蜷缩,来自 Proto-Germanic*snikana,爬,来自 PIE*sneg,爬,词 源同 snail,snake.引申词义偷偷地走,溜走。
sneak (v.)1550s (implied in sneakish), perhaps from some dialectal survival of Middle English sniken "to creep, crawl" (c. 1200), related to Old English snican "to sneak along, creep, crawl," from Proto-Germanic *sneikanan, which is related to the root of snake (n.). Of feelings, suspicions, etc., from 1748. Transitive sense, "to partake of surreptitiously" is from 1883. Related: Sneaking. Sneak-thief first recorded 1859; sneak-preview is from 1938.sneak (n.)"a sneaking person; mean, contemptible fellow," 1640s, from sneak (v.)."

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