litter

英 ['l?t?] 美['l?t?]
  • n. 垃圾;轎,擔架;一窩(動物的幼崽);凌亂
  • vt. 亂丟;給…墊褥草;把…弄得亂七八糟
  • vi. 產仔;亂扔廢棄物
  • n. (Litter)人名;(匈、德)利特

CET6TEM4IELTSGRE考研TOEFL中低頻詞常用詞匯

詞態變化


復數:?litters;第三人稱單數:?litters;過去式:?littered;過去分詞:?littered;現在分詞:?littering;

中文詞源


litter 轎,擔架,雜物,垃圾,一窩幼崽

來自拉丁語lectus,床,沙發,來自PIE*legh,躺,詞源同lie.其原義為床,折疊床,擔架,轎子,后來指鋪床的草墊,草,貓窩,一窩貓崽,現在用于詞義雜草,雜物,垃圾。拼寫比較latte,lettuce.

英文詞源


litter
litter: [13] The word litter has come a long way semantically since it was born, from ‘bed’ to ‘rubbish scattered untidily’. It goes back ultimately to Latin lectus ‘bed’, a distant relative of English lie and source of French lit ‘bed’ (which forms the final syllable of English coverlet [13], etymologically ‘bed-cover’). From lectus was derived medieval Latin lectāria, which passed into English via Old French litiere and Anglo-Norman litere ‘bed’.

This original sense was soon extended in English to a ‘portable conveyance or stretcher’, which still survives, just, as an archaism, but the word’s main modern sense, which first emerged fully in the 18th century, derives from the notion of scattering straw over the floor for bedding.

=> coverlet
litter (n.)
c. 1300, "a bed," also "bed-like vehicle carried on men's shoulders" (early 14c.), from Anglo-French litere "portable bed," Old French litiere "litter, stretcher, bier; straw, bedding," from Medieval Latin lectaria "litter" (altered in French by influence of lit "bed"), from Latin lectus "bed, couch," from PIE *legh-to-, from root *legh- "to lie" (see lie (v.2)).

Meaning extended early 15c. to "straw used for bedding" (early 14c. in Anglo-French) and late 15c. to "offspring of an animal at one birth" (in one bed); sense of "scattered oddments, disorderly debris" is first attested 1730, probably from Middle English verb literen "provide with bedding" (late 14c.), with notion of strewing straw. Litter by 19c. had come to mean both the straw bedding and the animal waste in it after use.
litter (v.)
late 14c., "provide with bedding," from litter (n.). Meaning "to strew with objects" is from 1713. Transitive sense of "to scatter in a disorderly way" is from 1731. Related: Littered; littering.

雙語例句


1. On Wednesday we cleared a beach and woodland of litter.
星期三我們清理了一塊海濱林地的垃圾。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Animals reject the runt of the litter.
動物會丟棄最弱小的幼仔。

來自柯林斯例句

3. Wear rubber gloves when handling cat litter.
清理貓糞時要帶上橡膠手套。

來自柯林斯例句

4. There will be fines for people who drop litter .
亂扔垃圾的人將被罰款。

來自《權威詞典》

5. a litter of puppies
一窩小狗

來自《權威詞典》

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