dirt

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復(fù)數(shù):?dirts;

dirt 糞便，污物，爛泥

來自古英語drit, 糞便，來自PIE*dhreyd, 腹泄。引申義污物，爛泥。其日耳曼同源詞詞義集中在糞便，鳥糞，屎等。

dirt: dirt: [13] Dirt was originally drit, and meant ‘excrement’ (it was borrowed from Old Norse drit, which goes back to a prehistoric Germanic base *drit- that also produced Dutch dreet ‘excrement’). The toned-down sense ‘soiling substance’ is of equal antiquity with ‘excrement’ in English, and the modern English form dirt first appeared in the 15th century, by a process known as metathesis in which two sounds are reversed.
dirt (n.): 15c. metathesis of Middle English drit, drytt "mud, dirt, dung" (c. 1300), from Old Norse drit, cognate with Old English dritan "to void excrement," from Proto-Germanic *dritan (cognates: Dutch drijten, Old High German trizan). Used abusively of persons from c. 1300. Meaning "gossip" first attested 1926 (in Hemingway); dirt bike is 1960s. Dirt-cheap is from 1821. Dirt road attested by 1852.

1. He claims Pasolini overtook and tackled him, pushing him into the dirt.: 他聲稱帕索利尼追上去打他，把他推倒在爛泥里。

2. A group of riders came into view on the dirt road.: 一群騎車的人出現(xiàn)在那條土路上。

3. They're always selling off stuff like that dirt cheap.: 他們總是以非常便宜的價格把類似那樣的東西處理掉。

5. The rooster chased me across the dirt floor of the barn.: 公雞追著我跑過谷倉的泥土地面。