callow
英['k?l??]
美['k?lo]
- adj. 年輕而無經驗的；羽毛未豐的
- n. (Callow)人名；(英)卡洛
助記提示
1. 與cub, calf同源，符合首輔音表詞類含義的規則，由此引申出該詞的含義。
2. 形近詞：wallow, tallow, swallow, shallow, sallow, hallow, callow, fallow.
3. call + low, 叫聲低的小鳥 > 未生羽毛的
4. Calvin (卡爾文、加爾文) => Latin calvus "bald" => callow.
5. From young birds with no feathers, meaning extended to any young inexperienced thing or creature.
中文詞源
callow 幼稚的
來自PIE *gal, 禿頭，參照Calvinism, chauvinism, 進一步來自PIE*ghel, 發光的，詞源同glass, gleam。指剛出生的，沒長毛的。
英文詞源
- callow
- callow: [OE] Old English calu meant ‘bald’. Eventually, the word came to be applied to young birds which as yet had no feathers, and by the late 16th century it had been extended metaphorically to any young inexperienced person or creature. It probably came, via West Germanic *kalwaz, from Latin calvus ‘bald’.
=> calvary - callow (adj.)
- Old English calu "bare, bald," from Proto-Germanic *kalwa- (cognates: Middle Dutch calu, Dutch kaal, Old High German kalo, German Kahl), from PIE root *gal- (1) "bald, naked" (cognates: Russian golyi "smooth, bald"). From young birds with no feathers, meaning extended to any young inexperienced thing or creature (1570s). Apparently not related to Latin calvus "bald."
雙語例句
- 1. He was a callow youth when he joined the newspaper.
- 他進報社時還是個乳臭未干的小子.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 2. Like callow birds left desert to the skies.
- 你的庇護,它們就要戰栗--就象/那羽翼未豐的小鳥給撇下在天空里.
來自英漢 - 翻譯樣例 - 文學
- 3. He was only a callow youth.
- 他只是個無經驗的年輕人.
來自互聯網
- 4. Thin - walled cells of callow stirpe's cortex contain saliferous vacuoles, and pulp cells contain crystals. "
- 幼莖皮層薄壁細胞中含有含鹽液泡泡, 髓細胞中含有晶體.
來自互聯網
- 5. I believed a lot of things in my callow youth that I do not believe now.
- 在我年輕尚無經驗時相信的許多事情,現在我不相信了.
來自互聯網