單詞
titmouse
英 ['t?tma?s]
美
基本信息
- n. 山雀
詞態(tài)變化
復(fù)數(shù):?titmice;
中文詞源
titmouse 山雀
來自中古英語 titmose,山雀，來自 tit,表小的動(dòng)物或物體，古英語 mase,山雀，拼寫受 mouse 影響俗化。
英文詞源
- titmouse
- titmouse: see tit
- titmouse (n.)
- small, active bird, early 14c., titmose, from tit (n.2), expressing something small, + Old English mase "titmouse," from Proto-Germanic *maison (cognates: Dutch mees, German meise), from adj. *maisa- "little, tiny." Spelling influenced 16c. by unrelated mouse, "when mose had long been obsolete as an independent word" [OED]. The proper plural is titmouses.
雙語例句
- 1. He took the titmouse home and raised it in a bamboo cage.
- 楊寶跑過去,拾起山雀,撣去螞蟻.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
- 2. Yang Pao ran over and picked the titmouse up, brushing away the ants.
- 山雀先被貓頭鷹的利爪所傷, 又從空中跌下,因此已經(jīng)動(dòng)彈不得.
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