| 正面 | 12785.toad 英 [təʊd]美 [tod]     |
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| 背面 |      释义： 1. 对比：clam => clamp; cram => cramp, crimp, crampon.2. cram, which denoted 'compression' or 'bending'.3. grape, grapnel => cramp (nasalized version).4. 区别：cramp, clamp: cramp中间是字母r, 是“肉”的拼音首字母，因此它表示肌肉的夹紧、紧缩而导致的痉挛、抽筋。n. 蟾蜍；癞蛤蟆；讨厌的家伙 例句： 1. He grabbed into the ooze and came up clutching a large toad.他把手伸进淤泥里捞摸，结果抓上来一只巨大的蟾蜍。 toad 蟾蜍来自中古英语 tode,蟾蜍，来自古英语 tadie,蟾蜍，词源同 tadpole. toadtoad: [OE] Toad is a mystery word, with no known relatives in any other Indo-European language. Of its derivatives, toady [19] is short for the earlier toad eater ‘sycophant’ [17]. This originated in the dubious selling methods of itinerant quack doctors. They employed an assistant who pretended to eat a toad (toads were thought to be poisonous), so that the quack could appear to effect a miraculous cure with his medicine.The toad-eating assistant came to be a byword for ‘servility’ or ‘dependency’, and hence for ‘servile flattery’. Toadstools [14] were named for their stool-like shape, and also because of an association between poisonous fungi and the supposedly poisonous toad.toad (n.)c. 1300, from late Old English tadige, tadie, of unknown origin and according to OED with no known cognates outside English. Applied to loathsome persons from 1560s. Toad-strangler "heavy rain" is from 1919, U.S. Southern dialectal." |