muck
英[m?k]
美[m?k]
- n. 淤泥；垃圾；肥料；品質低劣的東西
- vt. 弄臟；施肥；清除…的污物
- vi. 閑逛；鬼混
- n. (Muck)人名；(德、匈、捷)穆克
助記提示
1. 諧音“茅坑”-----茅坑里的東西。
2. meek, midden => muck: 形容那種軟柔的污物、淤泥等這類比較骯臟的比較粘稠的東西。
中文詞源
muck 糞肥
來自古英語muk,牛糞，糞肥，來自PIE*smeug,meug,黏的，滑的，詞源同mucus,muggy.
英文詞源
- muck
- muck: [13] The original meaning of muck is ‘excrement’; the more general ‘dirt’ is a 14thcentury development. It goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *muk-, *meuk- ‘soft’. This was also the source of Danish m?g ‘dung’ (which provides the first syllable of midden [14], a borrowing from the ancestor of Danish m?dding, literally ‘dung-heap’). The same Germanic base lies behind English meek [12], whose immediate Old Norse antecedent mjúkr meant ‘soft, pliant’ – leading on in due course to English ‘submissive’.
=> meek, midden - muck (n.)
- mid-13c., "cow dung and vegetable matter spread as manure," from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse myki, mykr "cow dung," Danish m?g; from Proto-Germanic *muk-, *meuk- "soft." Meaning "unclean matter generally" is from c. 1300. Muck-sweat first attested 1690s.
- muck (v.)
- late 14c., "to dig in the ground," also "to remove manure," early 15c., "to spread manure, cover with muck," from muck (n.). Meaning "to make dirty" is from 1832; in the figurative sense, "to make a mess of," it is from 1886; to muck about "mess around" is from 1856. Related: Mucked; mucking.
雙語例句
- 1. The Prime Minister ac-cused opposition leaders of muck-raking.
- 首相指控反對黨領袖傳播丑聞。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. This congealed muck was interfering with the filter.
- 這團凝固的污物堵塞了過濾器。
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- 3. Here's how to muck out.
- 就這樣清掃。
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- 4. He could smell muck and clean fresh hay.
- 他能聞到糞臭和清新的干草味。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. He stamped off to muck out the pigsty.
- 他去打掃豬圈了。
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