单词 | den |
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音标 | [den] |
解释 | n.兽穴,窝 |
红宝书 | 【英】 n. 兽穴,窝(animal's hidden home);秘密相聚的地方(secr et meeting-place) 【例】 a den of thieves |
字源 | den (n.) Old English denn "wild animal's lair," from Proto-Germanic *danjan (cognates: Middle Low German denne "lowland, wooded vale, den," Old English denu "valley," Old Frisian dene "down," Old High German tenni, German tenne "threshing floor," from PIE *dan- "low ground"). Sense of "small room" is 1771, originally colloquial. |
不择手段背单词 | n. 兽穴; 贼窝(秘密相聚的地方); 私人的舒适的小书房 |
趣味全助记 | 【记】发音接近于“洞”;dent 凹,也象一个洞 |
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