单词 | swine |
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音标 | [swain] |
解释 | n.猪 |
红宝书 | 【英】 猪 (pig) 【记】 分割记忆:s+wine(酒 ),喝酒喝得像猪一样 →猪 |
字源 | swine (n.) Old English swin "pig, hog, wild boar," from Proto-Germanic *swinan (cognates: Old Saxon, Old Frisian Middle Low German, Old High German swin, Middle Dutch swijn, Dutch zwijn, German Schwein, Old Norse, Swedish, Danish svin), neuter adjective (with suffix *-ino-) from PIE *su- "pig" (see sow (n.)). The native word, largely ousted by pig. Applied to persons from late 14c. Phrase pearls before swine (mid-14c.) is from Matt. vii:6; an early English formation of it was: Ne ge ne wurpen eowre meregrotu toforan eowrum swynon. [c.1000] The Latin word in the Gospel verse was confused in French with marguerite "daisy" (the "pearl" of the field), and in Dutch the expression became "roses before swine." Swine-flu attested from 1921. |
不择手段背单词 | n. 猪; 粗野或卑劣的人 【记】s死, wine(n 葡萄酒): 象猪一样喝死在葡萄酒里面. |
趣味全助记 | 【记】死 + wine 酒,吃酒喝得象死猪 |
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