| 正面 | 5059.thief 英 [θiːf]美 [θif]     |
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| 背面 |      释义： 1. 由dome联想到home => 古代home是圆屋顶(dome).2. home => dome.n. 小偷，贼 例句： 1. Ness chased the thief down and held him until police arrived.内斯追上小偷，按住他，一直等到警察赶到。 thief 小偷来自古英语 theof,小偷，来自 Proto-Germanic*theubaz,小偷。词义比较 proof,prove. thiefthief: [OE] Thief goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *theubaz, which also produced German dieb, Dutch dief, Swedish tjuf, and Danish tyv. It is not clear where this came from, although it might be related to Lithuanian tupeti ‘cower, squat’ and Latvian tupt ‘squat’, in which case it would denote etymologically ‘crouching, furtive person’. From *theubaz was derived *thiūbithō, ancestor of modern English theft.=> theftthief (n.)Old English þeof "thief, robber," from Proto-Germanic *theubaz (cognates: Old Frisian thiaf, Old Saxon thiof, Middle Dutch and Dutch dief, Old High German diob, German dieb, Old Norse þiofr, Gothic þiufs), of uncertain origin." |