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Shear Cut Past Cognates Separate ʃiə V.剪(羊毛),剪发 英

单词 shear
音标 [ʃiə]
解释 v.剪(羊毛),剪发
红宝书 【英】 v.剪(羊毛),剪发(to cut off the hair from)
【记】 分割记忆:she+ear( 她的耳朵)→把耳朵边 上的头发剪掉→剪发
【同】 派生词: shears (n.大剪刀)
字源 shear (v.)
Old English sceran, scieran (class IV strong verb; past tense scear, past participle scoren) "to cleave, hew, cut with a sharp instrument; cut (hair); shear (sheep)," from Proto-Germanic *sker- "to cut" (cognates: Old Norse and Old Frisian skera, Dutch scheren, German scheren "to shear"), from PIE *(s)ker- (1) "to cut, to scrape, to hack" (cognates: Sanskrit krnati "hurts, wounds, kills," krntati "cuts;" Hittite karsh- "to cut off;" Greek keirein "to cut, shear;" Latin curtus "short;" Lithuanian skiriu "to separate;" Old Irish scaraim "I separate;" Welsh ysgar "to separate," ysgyr "fragment").
shear (n.)
"act of clipping," 1610s, also as a unit of measure of the age of a sheep, from shear (v.). Scientific and mechanical sense "type of strain" is from 1850.
不择手段背单词 v. 剪(羊毛); 剪发
【记】sh使, ear-使羊的耳朵边上的毛剪掉-剪羊毛(羊的耳边没毛)
【参】shears(n 大剪刀)
趣味全助记 【记】she ear 她的耳朵,她剪发总剪去耳朵边的鬓角

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