mew
英[mju?]
美[mju]
- n. 海鷗；鷹籠；隱匿處；貓叫聲
- vi. 咪咪叫；換羽毛
- vt. 關進籠子
- n. (Mew)人名；(英)繆
中文詞源
mew 貓叫聲
擬聲詞，模仿貓的叫聲。比較meow.
mew 籠子，鷹籠來自古法語mue,鷹籠，尤指獵鷹換羽毛的地方，來自muer,換羽，來自拉丁語mutare,改變，詞源同mutable,molt.
英文詞源
- mew (v.)
- "make a sound like a cat," early 14c., mewen, of imitative origin (compare German miauen, French miauler, Italian miagolare, Spanish maullar, and see meow). Related: Mewed; mewing. As a noun from 1590s.
- mew (n.1)
- "seagull," Old English m?w, from Proto-Germanic *maigwis (cognates: Old Saxon mew, Frisian meau, Middle Dutch and Middle Low German mewe, Dutch meeuw "gull"), imitative of its cry. Old French moue (Modern French mouette) and Lithuanian mevas are Germanic loan-words.
- mew (n.2)
- "cage," c. 1300, from Old French mue "cage for hawks, especially when molting," from muer "to molt," from Latin mutare "to change" (see mutable).
雙語例句
- 1. We heard the mew of a cat.
- 我們聽到貓叫聲.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 2. The tiny kitten approached the enormous bear and let out a purr and a mew.
- 那貓卻走近體大腰圓的灰熊,沖它“喵嗚“,“喵嗚“地叫著.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 3. I hop you are all geared up for the mew sales campaign.
- 我希望你們都為新的銷售活動做好準備.
來自辭典例句
- 4. It is a mew invention which had its first practical workout in 1955.
- 這是一項新發(fā)明,它于1955年第一次得到實際應用.
來自辭典例句
- 5. Just that I'm going to lose this mew job.
- 只不過我這份新工作要保不住了.
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