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Graze Feed German V Foragers V.1 Grass Middle

单词 graze
音标 [greiz]
解释 v.(动物)吃(地上长的)草;放牧
红宝书 【英】 v. (动物)吃(地上长的) 草(to feed on growing grass);放牧(to put livestock to feed on [growing grass, herbage, etc.])
【考】 grazing : foragers / stalking : hunters(放牧者放牧/猎人打 猎)
【记】 来自 grass(草),和 glaze(装玻璃,上釉 彩)一起记
【例】 Sheep graze in the pasture.
字源 graze (v.1)
"to feed," Old English grasian "to feed on grass," from græs "grass" (see grass). Compare Middle Dutch, Middle High German grasen, Dutch grazen, German grasen. Figurative use by 1570s. Related: Grazed; grazing.
graze (v.2)
"to touch," c.1600, perhaps a transferred sense from graze (v.1) via a notion of cropping grass right down to the ground (compare German grasen "to feed on grass," used in military sense in reference to cannonballs that rebound off the ground). Related: Grazed; grazing. As a noun from 1690s.
不择手段背单词 v. (动物)吃草; 放牧
【记】源于: grass(n 草); raze(v 夷为平地)羊graze就会raze
【区】glaze(v 装玻璃; 上釉彩)源于glass
【类】grazing: foragers = stalking: hunters 放牧者放牧 = 猎人追踪
趣味全助记 【记】源自grass

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