单词 | hale |
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音标 | [heil] |
解释 | a.健壮的,矍铄的 |
红宝书 | 【英】 adj. 健壮的,矍铄的(sound and healthy) 【考】 反义词:infirm(弱的 ); effete(疲惫的); blighted(毁灭的) 【记】 联系词根:hal(呼吸); hale(呼吸得很好的→ 精神矍铄的) |
字源 | hale (adj.) "healthy," Old English hal "healthy, entire, uninjured" (see health). The Scottish and northern English form of whole; it was given a literary sense of "free from infirmity" (1734). Related: Haleness. hale (v.) c.1200, "drag; summon," in Middle English used of arrows, bowstrings, reins, anchors, from Old French haler "to pull, haul" (12c.), from a Germanic source, perhaps Frankish *halon or Old Dutch halen; probably also from Old English geholian "obtain" (see haul). Figurative sense of "to draw (someone) from one condition to another" is late 14c. Related: Haled; haling. |
不择手段背单词 | adj. (老人)健壮的, 矍铄的 = sound = healthy 【记】hal呼吸e-呼吸得好-精神矍铄的 【反】infirm(adj 不坚固的; 柔弱的); effete(adj 已枯竭的; 衰老的); blighted(adj 毁灭的); anemic(adj 贫血的); wan(adj 苍白的) |
趣味全助记 | 【记】源自whole, 近于heal;音:好,好了;问:你(身体)好了吗?答:hale 好了,壮得和牛一样;hale呼吸,象呼吸声,有呼吸就是健康 【相关】另有一个意思,拉,来自于haul;inhale吸气,exhale呼气 |
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