badger

• n. 獾；獾皮；（大寫）獾州人（美國威斯康星州人的別稱）；毛鼻袋熊
• vt. 糾纏不休；吵著要；煩擾
• n. (Badger)人名；(英)巴傑

同badge, 徽章，形容該動物前額上的長條白斑。騷擾義來自舊時一種殘忍的縱狗鬥獾遊戲。

badger

badger: [16] The Old English term for a ‘badger’ was brock, a word of Celtic origin, and badger does not begin to appear, somewhat mysteriously, until the early 16th century. The name has never been satisfactorily explained, but perhaps the least implausible explanation is from the word badge, in reference to the white stripes on the animal’s forehead, as if it were wearing a badge (a term originally applied to a distinctive device worn by a knight for purposes of recognition); the early spelling bageard suggests that it may have been formed with the suffix -ard, as in dullard and sluggard. (Badge itself is of even more obscure origin; it first turns up in Middle English, in the mid 14th century.) Other early terms for the badger were bauson (14th– 18th centuries), from Old French bausen, and grey (15th–17th centuries).

badger (n.)

1520s, perhaps from bage "badge" (see badge) + -ard "one who carries some action or possesses some quality," suffix related to Middle High German -hart "bold" (see -ard). If so, the central notion is the badge-like white blaze on the animal's forehead (as in French blaireau "badger," from Old French blarel, from bler "marked with a white spot;" also obsolete Middle English bauson "badger," from Old French bauzan, literally "black-and-white spotted"). But blaze (n.2) was the usual word for this.

An Old English name for the creature was the Celtic borrowing brock; also græg (Middle English grei, grey). In American English, the nickname of inhabitants or natives of Wisconsin (1833).

badger (v.)

1790, from badger (n.), based on the behavior of the dogs in the medieval sport of badger-baiting, still practiced in 18c. England. Related: Badgered; badgering.

1. Fox, badger, weasel and stoat are regularly seen here.

狐狸、獾、黃鼠狼和白鼬在這裏很常見。

來自柯林斯例句

2. The sharp sound of a twig snapping scared the badger away.

細枝突然折斷的刺耳聲把獾驚跑了.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. The badger and the snake had a ferocious battle in the woods.

獾和蛇在樹林裏進行了一場惡鬥.

來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》

4. The badger sett had twelve entrances to what must have been a labyrinth of tunnels.

這個獾穴有12個入口,下麵必定有一套錯綜複雜的地道.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. I want an end of being drawn like a badger.

我不想象一頭畜生那樣被人擺弄.

來自辭典例句