maggot
英 ['m?g?t]
美['m?g?t]
- n. [無(wú)脊椎] 蛆；空想，狂想
TEM8中低頻詞暢通詞匯
詞態(tài)變化
復(fù)數(shù):?maggots;
助記提示
1. 諧音“茅坑的”---蛆不就是主要生存自茅坑里嗎？
2. Figurative use "whim, fancy, crotchet" is 1620s, from the notion of a maggot in the brain.
3. The use of maggot to mean a fanciful or whimsical thing derives from the folk belief that a whimsical or crotchety person had maggots in his or her brain.
2. Figurative use "whim, fancy, crotchet" is 1620s, from the notion of a maggot in the brain.
3. The use of maggot to mean a fanciful or whimsical thing derives from the folk belief that a whimsical or crotchety person had maggots in his or her brain.
中文詞源
maggot 蛆，發(fā)瘋的
來(lái)自中古英語(yǔ)magot,改編自maddock,蟲，蛆，來(lái)自Proto-Germanic*mathon,來(lái)自PIE*math,蟲，蛆蟲，詞源同moth,mawkish.-ock,小詞后綴，詞源同hillock.詞義發(fā)瘋的來(lái)自民間傳說(shuō)，認(rèn)為腦子里面進(jìn)蟲或蛆或?qū)е氯税l(fā)瘋或反之亦然。
英文詞源
- maggot
- maggot: see mawkish
- maggot (n.)
- late 15c., probably an unexplained variant of Middle English maeek, from Old English maea "maggot, grub," from Proto-Germanic *mathon (cognates: Old Norse maekr, Old Saxon matho, Middle Dutch, Dutch made, Old High German mado, German Made, Gothic mata "maggot"). Figurative use "whim, fancy, crotchet" is 1620s, from the notion of a maggot in the brain.
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. The rattailed maggot, for example, possesses a'snorklelike " telescopic air tube.
- 例如長(zhǎng)尾蛆就有一個(gè) “ 通氣管 ” 似的伸縮吸氣管.
來(lái)自辭典例句
- 2. He's got some maggot in his head.
- 他在想入非非.
來(lái)自辭典例句
- 3. I never use a single worm on the hook , preferring a cocktail of worm and maggot.
- 我從不單用一只蟲作釣餌, 而喜歡用蟲和蛆的混合物.
來(lái)自辭典例句
- 4. You've been into Farmer Maggot's crop!
- 你們又來(lái)農(nóng)夫馬嗄的田里偷東西了!
來(lái)自電影對(duì)白
- 5. When the maggot bites, he will go fishing in the rain.
- 他有時(shí)心血來(lái)潮, 會(huì)冒著雨走去釣魚.
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