mew
- n. 海鷗;鷹籠;隱匿處;貓叫聲
- vi. 咪咪叫;換羽毛
- vt. 關(guān)進(jìn)籠子
- n. (Mew)人名;(英)繆
中文詞源
擬聲詞,模仿貓的叫聲。比較meow.
mew 籠子,鷹籠來(lái)自古法語(yǔ)mue,鷹籠,尤指獵鷹換羽毛的地方,來(lái)自muer,換羽,來(lái)自拉丁語(yǔ)mutare,改變,詞源同mutable,molt.
英文詞源
- mew (v.)
- "make a sound like a cat," early 14c., mewen, of imitative origin (compare German miauen, French miauler, Italian miagolare, Spanish maullar, and see meow). Related: Mewed; mewing. As a noun from 1590s.
- mew (n.1)
- "seagull," Old English m?w, from Proto-Germanic *maigwis (cognates: Old Saxon mew, Frisian meau, Middle Dutch and Middle Low German mewe, Dutch meeuw "gull"), imitative of its cry. Old French moue (Modern French mouette) and Lithuanian mevas are Germanic loan-words.
- mew (n.2)
- "cage," c. 1300, from Old French mue "cage for hawks, especially when molting," from muer "to molt," from Latin mutare "to change" (see mutable).
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. We heard the mew of a cat.
- 我們聽(tīng)到貓叫聲.
來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》
- 2. The tiny kitten approached the enormous bear and let out a purr and a mew.
- 那貓卻走近體大腰圓的灰熊,沖它“喵嗚“,“喵嗚“地叫著.
來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》
- 3. I hop you are all geared up for the mew sales campaign.
- 我希望你們都為新的銷售活動(dòng)做好準(zhǔn)備.
來(lái)自辭典例句
- 4. It is a mew invention which had its first practical workout in 1955.
- 這是一項(xiàng)新發(fā)明,它于1955年第一次得到實(shí)際應(yīng)用.
來(lái)自辭典例句
- 5. Just that I'm going to lose this mew job.
- 只不過(guò)我這份新工作要保不住了.
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