toad
英[t??d]
美[tod]
- n. 蟾蜍；癩蛤蟆；討厭的家伙
詞態變化
復數:?toads;
中文詞源
toad 蟾蜍
來自中古英語 tode,蟾蜍，來自古英語 tadie,蟾蜍，詞源同 tadpole.
英文詞源
- toad
- toad: [OE] Toad is a mystery word, with no known relatives in any other Indo-European language. Of its derivatives, toady [19] is short for the earlier toad eater ‘sycophant’ [17]. This originated in the dubious selling methods of itinerant quack doctors. They employed an assistant who pretended to eat a toad (toads were thought to be poisonous), so that the quack could appear to effect a miraculous cure with his medicine.
The toad-eating assistant came to be a byword for ‘servility’ or ‘dependency’, and hence for ‘servile flattery’. Toadstools [14] were named for their stool-like shape, and also because of an association between poisonous fungi and the supposedly poisonous toad. - toad (n.)
- c. 1300, from late Old English tadige, tadie, of unknown origin and according to OED with no known cognates outside English. Applied to loathsome persons from 1560s. Toad-strangler "heavy rain" is from 1919, U.S. Southern dialectal.
雙語例句
- 1. He grabbed into the ooze and came up clutching a large toad.
- 他把手伸進淤泥里撈摸，結果抓上來一只巨大的蟾蜍。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. His eyes seemed to bulge like those of a toad.
- 他的眼睛鼓得像癩蛤蟆。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. Both the toad and frog are amphibian.
- 蟾蜍和青蛙都是兩棲動物.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 4. The toad had changed its colour to blend in with its new environment.
- 蟾蜍已經變色，和新的環境融為一體。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. The Toad saw at once how wrongly and foolishly he had acted.
- 癩哈蟆現在意識到,他的所作所為實在太荒唐,太愚蠢了.
來自辭典例句