| 正面 | 4117.stiff 英 [stɪf]美 [stɪf]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： 1. perhaps cognate with or related with steep, stub, stip- / stipul- "stalk, straw".2. PIE *stipos-, from root *steip- "press together, pack, cram" => stone, stipe, constipation, stevedore.3. => Latin stipare "pack down, press," stipes "post, tree trunk".4. stiffen => stiff.5. akin to stifle, steeve.6. 林正英的电影：《僵尸先生》：《Mr. Stiff Corpse》。7. 谐音“是呆夫、死敌缚”。8. 谐音“史蒂夫”-------史蒂夫·乔布斯性格强势、作风硬派，非常的坚强、强硬、顽固。并且现在他已经成为了一具死尸。adj. 呆板的；坚硬的；严厉的；拘谨的adv. 僵硬地；彻底地n. 死尸；令人讨厌者；流通票据；劳动者vt. 诈骗；失信 例句： 1. A stiff knee following surgery forced her to walk with a limp.手术后她的膝盖活动不便，走路时被迫跛行。 stiff 硬的，僵硬的，生硬的，艰难的来自古英语 stif,硬的，僵硬的，来自 Proto-Germanic*stifaz,僵硬的，无弹性的，来自 PIE*steip, 压紧，打包，塞满，可能来自 PIE*steu,推，挤，击打，词源同 steep,stoop,stuff. stiffstiff: [OE] Stiff goes back to prehistoric Germanic *stīfaz ‘inflexible’, source also of German steif, Dutch stiff, Swedish styf, and Danish stiv. This in turn was descended from an Indo-European *stīpos, a derivative of the same base as produced Latin stīpāre ‘press, pack’ (source of English constipate and stevedore), Latvian stipt ‘stiffen’, and Lithuanian stiprùs ‘strong’.=> constipation, stevedorestiff (adj.)Old English stif "rigid, inflexible," from Proto-Germanic *stifaz "inflexible" (cognates: Dutch stijf, Old High German stif, German steif "stiff;" Old Norse stifla "choke"), from PIE *stipos-, from root *steip- "press together, pack, cram" (cognates: Sanskrit styayate "coagulates," stima "slow;" Greek stia, stion "small stone," steibo "press together;" Latin stipare "pack down, press," stipes "post, tree trunk;" Lithuanian stipti "stiffen," stiprus "strong;" Old Church Slavonic stena "wall"). Of battles and competitions, from mid-13c.; of liquor, from 1813. To keep a stiff upper lip is attested from 1815. Related: Stiffly.stiff (v.)late 14c., "to make stiff," from stiff (adj.). Meaning "fail to tip" is from 1939, originally among restaurant and hotel workers, probably from stiff (n.), perhaps in slang sense of "corpse" (because dead men pay no tips), or from the "contemptible person" sense. Extended by 1950 to "cheat."stiff (n.)"corpse, dead body," 1859, slang, from stiff (adj.) which had been associated with notion of rigor mortis since c. 1200. Meaning "working man" first recorded 1930, from earlier genitive sense of "contemptible person," but sometimes merely "man, fellow" (1882). Slang meaning "something or someone bound to lose" is 1890 (originally of racehorses), from notion of "corpse."" |