ant
英 [?nt]
美[?nt]
- n. 螞蟻
- n. (Ant)人名；(土、芬)安特
低頻詞CET4TEM4考研CET6核心詞匯昆蟲
詞態(tài)變化
復(fù)數(shù):?ants;
中文詞源
ant 螞蟻
來自古英語aemette,螞蟻，來自West Germanic*amaitjo,砍下，來自*ai,離開，去掉，*mai,砍， 切，詞源同maim.字面意思即砍下，切開，引申詞義分段，成段，用于指螞蟻。
英文詞源
- ant
- ant: [OE] The word ant appears to carry the etymological sense ‘creature that cuts off or bites off’. Its Old English form, ?mette, was derived from a hypothetical Germanic compound *aimaitjōn, formed from the prefix *ai- ‘off, away’ and the root *mait- ‘cut’ (modern German has the verb meissen ‘chisel, carve’): thus, ‘the biter’.
The Old English word later developed along two distinct strands: in one, it became emmet, which survived into the 20th century as a dialectal form; while in the other it progressed through amete and ampte to modern English ant. If the notion of ‘biting’ in the naming of the ant is restricted to the Germanic languages (German has ameise), the observation that it and its nest smell of urine has been brought into play far more widely.
The Indo-European root *meigh-, from which ultimately we get micturate ‘urinate’ [18], was also the source of several words for ‘a(chǎn)nt’, including Greek múrmēx (origin of English myrmecology ‘study of ants’, and also perhaps of myrmidon [14] ‘faithful follower’, from the Myrmidons, a legendary Greek people who loyally followed their king Achilles in the Trojan war, and who were said originally to have been created from ants), Latin formīca (hence English formic acid [18], produced by ants, and formaldehyde [19]), and Danish myre.
It also produced Middle English mire ‘a(chǎn)nt’, the underlying meaning of which was subsequently reinforced by the addition of piss to give pismire, which again survived dialectally into the 20th century. - ant (n.)
- c. 1500, from Middle English ampte (late 14c.), from Old English ?mette "ant," from West Germanic *amaitjo (cognates: Old High German ameiza, German Ameise) from a compound of bases *ai- "off, away" + *mai- "cut," from PIE *mai- "to cut" (cognates: maim). Thus the insect's name is, etymologically, "the biter off."
As tycke as ameten crepet in an amete hulle [chronicle of Robert of Gloucester, 1297]
Emmet survived into 20c. as an alternative form. White ant "termite" is from 1729. To have ants in one's pants "be nervous and fidgety" is from 1934, made current by a popular song; antsy embodies the same notion.
雙語例句
- 1. One ant - hole may cause the collapse of a thousand - li dyke.
- 千里長堤,潰于蟻穴.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 2. One ant hole may cause the collapse of a thousand - li dyke.
- 千里之堤,潰于蟻穴.
來自《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》
- 3. The ant is a social insect.
- 螞蟻是一種群居昆蟲.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 4. Ant a java project generation tool with a flexible, user - friendly advantages.
- 英文原版資料. ant 作為java項(xiàng)目生成工具,具有靈活 、 易用的優(yōu)點(diǎn).
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- 5. In this tutorial, you will learn the Ant Java tool for generating projects.
- 在本教程中, 您將學(xué)習(xí)Ant這個Java項(xiàng)目生成工具.
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