单词 | molt |
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音标 | [məult] |
解释 | v.换羽,脱毛;n.换羽(期),脱毛(期) |
红宝书 | 【英】 换羽,脱毛(lose most of its feathers, hair, or fur at the season when a new covering for the body grows)换羽(期),脱毛(期)(t he time of molting) 【考】 molt : bird / slough : snake(鸟脱羽/蛇脱皮)molt : feathers / shed : hair(脱羽是脱去羽毛/脱 发是脱去头发)反义词:fledge(长羽 毛) 【例】 molt one's old notions(去掉旧观念) |
字源 | molt (v.) also moult, mid-14c., mouten, of feathers, "to be shed," from Old English *mutian "to change" (in bemutian "to exchange"), from Latin mutare "to change" (see mutable). Transitive sense, of birds, "to shed feathers" is first attested 1520s. With parasitic -l-, late 16c., on model of fault, etc. Related: Molted, moulted; molting, moulting. As a noun from 1815. |
不择手段背单词 | v. /n. 换羽, 脱毛, 蜕皮 【记】读: 摸他, 总是摸他的头就会变成秃子-脱发 【类】molt: bird = slough: snake鸟脱羽 = 蛇脱皮molt: feathers = shed: hair脱羽是脱去羽毛 = 假发是脱去头发 【反】fledge(v 长羽毛) |
趣味全助记 | 【记】音:毛脱;音:模特,模特总是不停地换衣服 |
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