plume

英 [plu?m] 美[plum]

英英釋義實用場景例句

近義詞feather

CET6+TEM4IELTSGRE低頻詞常用詞匯

復數:?plumes;

音：撲了毛
1. 諧音“破鷺毛，拋鷺毛、白鷺毛”-----破舊的白鷺的羽毛。
2. plumage => plume.
3. 同源詞：plume, plumage, fleece.

plume 羽毛，翎

來自拉丁語pluma,羽毛，絨毛，來自PIE*pleus,拔，拉，羽毛，可能來自PIE*pil,拔，毛發，詞源同pile,pluck,fleece.

plume: plume: [14] Latin plūma originally denoted ‘down, feathers’ (it is probably related to English fleece). Eventually, though, it came to signify a ‘single feather’, and evolved in this sense to Italian piuma, Spanish pluma, and French plume – source of English plume. The derivative plumage [15] originated in Old French.
=> fleece, plumage
plume (n.): late 14c., "a feather" (especially a large and conspicuous one), from Old French plume "soft feather, down; feather bed," and directly from Latin pluma "a feather, down; the first beard," from PIE root *pleus- "to pluck; a feather, fleece" (source of Old English fleos "fleece"). Meaning "a long streamer of smoke, etc." is first attested 1878.
plume (v.): late 14c., "to pluck, strip," from plume (n.). From mid-15c. as "to adorn with plumes." Meaning "to dress the feathers" is from 1702. Related: Plumed; pluming.

2. The rising plume of black smoke could be seen all over Kabul.: 整個喀布爾都能看到騰起的黑煙.

5. The inferno spewed a deadly plume of radioactive isotopes into the atmosphere.: 這個象煉獄般的地方將一縷致死的放射性同位素噴入大氣層.