animal: [14] Etymologically, an animal is a being which breathes (compare DEER). Its immediate source was the Latin adjective animālis ‘having a soul’, a derivative of the noun anima ‘breath, soul’ (which also gave English the verb and adjective animate [15]). Anima is a member of a set of related words in which the notions of ‘breath, wind’ and ‘spirit, life’ are intimately connected: for instance, Greek ánemos ‘wind’ (possible source of English anemone), Latin animus ‘spirit, mind, courage, anger’ (source of English animosity [15] and animus [19]), Sanskrit ániti ‘breathe’, Old English ōthian ‘breathe’, Swedish anda ‘breath, spirit’, and Gothic usanan ‘breathe out’.
The ‘breath’ sense is presumably primary, the ‘spirit, life’ sense a metaphorical extension of it. => anemone, animate, animosity, animus
animal (n.)
early 14c. (but rare before c. 1600, and not in KJV, 1611), "any living creature" (including humans), from Latin animale "living being, being which breathes," neuter of animalis "animate, living; of the air," from anima "breath, soul; a current of air" (see animus, and compare deer). Drove out the older beast in common usage. Used of brutish humans from 1580s.
animal (adj.)
late 14c., from animal (n.). Animal rights is attested from 1879; animal liberation from 1973. Animal magnetism originally (1784) referred to mesmerism.
雙語例句
1. There was no doubting the animal magnetism of the man.
毫無疑問，這個(gè)男人身上透著一種野性魅力。
來自柯林斯例句
2. You feel an animal panic to run and hide.
你會(huì)感到一種本能的恐懼而想要去逃避。
來自柯林斯例句
3. You're quite a party animal aren't you, out there every night.
你就是為派對(duì)而生的，不是嗎，每天晚上你都去參加派對(duì)。
來自柯林斯例句
4. The hunter knelt beside the animal carcass and commenced to skin it.
獵人跪在動(dòng)物尸體旁邊，開始剝皮。
來自柯林斯例句
5. We were amused to see how assiduously the animal groomed its fur.