單詞
jay
英 [d?e?]
美[d?e]
基本信息
- n. 鳥；松雞；喋喋不休的人
- n. (Jay)人名；(英)杰伊；(法)熱
擴(kuò)展詞匯低頻詞
詞態(tài)變化
復(fù)數(shù):?jays;
中文詞源
jay 松鴉，多嘴的人，粗魯無(wú)禮的人
來(lái)自古法語(yǔ)jai,喜鵲，松鴉，來(lái)自拉丁語(yǔ)gaius,松鴉，可能來(lái)自擬聲詞。引申詞義多嘴的人，粗魯無(wú)禮的人。
英文詞源
- jay
- jay: [13] Like the robin, the jay may have been christened originally with a human name; Latin Gaius. At all events, the term for it in postclassical Latin was gaius, which passed into English via Old French jay. The term jaywalker for ‘one who crosses the road illegally’ originated in the USA around the time of World War I; it was based on an American use of jay for a ‘fool’ or ‘simpleton’.
- jay (n.)
- c. 1300, common European bird (Garrulus glandarinus), from Old North French gai, Old French jai "magpie, jay," from Late Latin gaius "a jay," probably echoic and supposedly influenced by Latin Gaius, a common Roman proper name. For other bird names from proper names, compare martin and parrot. Applied to the North American blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata) from 1709. Applied to humans in sense of "impertinent chatterer, flashy dresser" from 1620s.
- jay (adj.)
- "fourth-rate, worthless" (as in a jay town), 1888, American English, apparently from some disparaging sense of jay (n.). Perhaps from a decaying or ironical use of jay "flashy dresser."
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. Jay had always tended to keep his girlfriends at a distance.
- 杰伊一貫和他的女朋友們保持距離。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 2. I thought at first that Jay had been stirring things up.
- 我起初認(rèn)為杰伊一直在挑起事端。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 3. Jay wanted to write.
- 杰伊想要寫作。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 4. Jay nodded, his smile fading.
- 杰伊點(diǎn)點(diǎn)頭，笑容慢慢隱去了。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 5. Jay reads poetry so beautifully.
- 杰伊朗讀詩(shī)歌很動(dòng)聽(tīng)。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句