单词 | mete |
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音标 | [mi:t] |
解释 | v.给予,分配;测量;n.边界 |
红宝书 | 无 |
字源 | mete (v.) "to allot," Old English metan "to measure, mete out; compare, estimate" (class V strong verb; past tense mæt, past participle meten), from Proto-Germanic *metan (cognates: Old Saxon metan, Old Frisian, Old Norse meta, Dutch meten, Old High German mezzan, German messen, Gothic mitan "to measure"), from PIE *med- "to take appropriate measures" (see medical). Used now only with out. Related: Meted; meting. mete (n.) "boundary," now only in phrase metes and bounds, late 15c., from Old French mete "limit, bounds, frontier," from Latin meta "goal, boundary, post, pillar." |
不择手段背单词 | 无 |
趣味全助记 | 无 |
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