dew: [OE] Dew is an ancient word, which can be traced back to the Indo-European base *dheu-; this also produced Greek thein ‘run’ and Sanskrit dhāv ‘flow, wash’ (whence, via Hindi, English dhobi ‘Indian washerman’ [19]) and dhaūtís ‘brook’. Its Germanic descendant was *dauwaz, which produced (besides English dew) German tau, Dutch dauw, and Swedish dagg. => dhobi
dew (n.)
Old English deaw, from Proto-Germanic *dawwaz (cognates: Old Saxon dau, Old Frisian daw, Middle Dutch dau, Old High German tau, German Tau, Old Norse d?gg "dew"), from PIE root *dheu- (2) "to flow" (cognates: Sanskrit dhavate "flows, runs").
雙語例句
1. The grass was wet with early morning dew.
清晨的露水使得青草濕漉漉的。
來自《權(quán)威詞典》
2. Moisture in the atmosphere condensed into dew during the night.
大氣中的水汽在夜間凝結(jié)成了露珠.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
3. The green boughs glittered with all their pearls of dew.
綠枝上閃爍著露珠的光彩.
來自《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》
4. The dew on the branches drizzled our hair and shoulders.