单词 | oath |
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音标 | ['əuθ] |
解释 | n.誓言;咒骂 |
红宝书 | 无 |
字源 | oath (n.) Old English að "oath, judicial swearing, solemn appeal to deity in witness of truth or a promise," from Proto-Germanic *aithaz (cognates: Old Norse eiðr, Swedish ed, Old Saxon, Old Frisian eth, Middle Dutch eet, Dutch eed, German eid, Gothic aiþs "oath"), from PIE *oi-to- "an oath" (cognates: Old Irish oeth "oath"). Common to Celtic and Germanic, possibly a loan-word from one to the other, but the history is obscure. In reference to careless invocations of divinity, from late 12c. |
不择手段背单词 | 无 |
趣味全助记 | 无 |
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