mow
英 [m??]
美 [mo]
- n. 草堆；皺眉；谷堆
- vt. 割草；收割莊稼
- vi. 割草；收割莊稼
- n. (Mow)人名；(英)莫
助記提示
1. math, aftermath, mead, meadow => mow.
2. mow => mead, meadow "mowed land".
3. mow => aftermath "grass grows secondly after first mowed".
4. 諧音“茅”----茅草、茅草堆。
5. 諧音“茅”----茅刀----割茅草的刀。
中文詞源
mow 割草來(lái)自古英語(yǔ)mmawan,割，來(lái)自PIE*me,割，割草，割谷，可能是擬聲詞，詞源同meadow.
英文詞源
- mow (v.)
- Old English mawan "to mow" (class VII strong verb; past tense meow, past participle mawen), from Proto-Germanic *m?anan (cognates: Middle Low German maeyen, Dutch maaien, Old High German maen, German m?hen "to mow," Old English m?d "meadow"), from PIE root *me- (4) "to mow, to cut grass or grain" (cognates: poetic Greek amao, Latin metere "to reap, mow, crop," Italian mietere, Old Irish meithleorai "reapers," Welsh medi). Related: Mowed; mown; mowing.
- mow (n.)
- "stack of hay," Old English muga, muwa "a heap, swath of corn, crowd of people," earlier muha, from Proto-Germanic *mugon (cognates: Old Norse mugr "a heap," mostr "crowd"), of uncertain origin.
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. He continued to mow the lawn and do other routine chores.
- 他繼續(xù)剪草坪，并做些其他日常雜務(wù)。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 2. In summer we have to mow the lawn twice a week.
- 夏天我們每周得修剪草坪兩次。
來(lái)自《權(quán)威詞典》
- 3. I mow the lawn every week in summer.
- 夏天我每周都要修剪草坪。
來(lái)自《權(quán)威詞典》
- 4. The proposed amalgamation of the two institutes has mow fallen through.
- 這兩個(gè)研究所打算合并的事現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)落空了.
來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》
- 5. He hired a man to mow the lawn.
- 他雇人割草.
來(lái)自《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》