more
英[m??]
美[m?r]
- adv. 更多；此外；更大程度地
- adj. 更多的；附加的
- pron. 更多的數量
- n. 更多
- n. (More)人名；(英、法)莫爾；(意、西、以)莫雷
中文詞源
more 更多
來自古英語mara,更大，更多，更強，更好，來自ma,多的，大的，來自Proto-Germanic*maizo,更加的，*izo,比較級后綴，-er的原型，可能來自PIE*mo,辛勞，勞作，詞源同mole,morale.
英文詞源
- more
- more: [OE] The Indo-European term for ‘more’ was *meis (it was formed from the same base as produced Latin magis ‘more’, source of Spanish mas ‘more’ and English master, and Latin magnus ‘large’, source of English magnitude). Its Germanic descendant was *maiz, which evolved into modern German mehr ‘more’, and also into Old English mā ‘more’, which survived dialectally until fairly recently as mo. From the adverb *maiz was derived the adjective *maizon, and it was this that has given English more. Most is, of course, closely related.
=> magnitude, master, most - more (adj.)
- Old English mara "greater, more, stronger, mightier," used as a comparative of micel "great" (see mickle), from Proto-Germanic *maizon- (cognates: Old Saxon mera, Old Norse meiri, Old Frisian mara, Middle Dutch mere, Old High German mero, German mehr), from PIE *meis- (cognates: Avestan mazja "greater," Old Irish mor "great," Welsh mawr "great," Greek -moros "great," Oscan mais "more"), from root *me- (3) "big." Sometimes used as an adverb in Old English ("in addition"), but Old English generally used related ma "more" as adverb and noun. This became Middle English mo, but more in this sense began to predominate in later Middle English.
"Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.
More or less "in a greater or lesser degree" is from early 13c.; appended to a statement to indicate approximation, from 1580s.
"I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take more."
"You mean you can't take less," said the Hatter: "it's very easy to take more than nothing."
雙語例句
- 1. I don't want any more of that heavy stuff.
- 我再也不想碰那種麻煩事了。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Things might have been different if I'd talked a bit more.
- 如果當時我再多說一點的話，結果或許會不一樣。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. If you build more plastics into cars, the car lasts longer.
- 如果汽車采用更多塑料元件，壽命會更長一些。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. They will not allow your more way-out ideas to pass unchallenged.
- 他們不會放過你這些古怪的念頭的。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. Recent, more dramatic use of CGI was seen in "Walking With Dinosaurs".
- 在紀錄片《與恐龍同行》中可以看到最新的、更加生動的電腦特效技術。
來自柯林斯例句