drown
英 [draʊn]
美 [draʊn]
- vt. 淹沒；把…淹死
- vi. 淹死；溺死
- n. (Drown)人名；(英)德朗
助記提示
1. PIE root *dhreu- "fall, drip, droop" => Old English dreosan (past participle droren) "fall" => Middle English dresen "fall".
2. PIE root *dhreu- "fall, drip, droop" => Proto-Germanic *drup- "fall, drop".
3. 由此推出同源詞：drown; dreary; drizzle, drowsy; drip, drop, droop.
4. drink => drown.
5. drink => drench.
中文詞源
drown 淹死來自drench, 濕透，詞義進一步惡化，淹死。
英文詞源
- drown
- drown: [13] Drown is not found in texts until the end of the 13th century (when it began to replace the related drench in the sense ‘suffocate in water’) but an Old English verb *drūnian could well have existed. The earliest occurrences of the word are from the North of England and Scotland, which suggests a possible borrowing from, or influence of, Old Norse drukna ‘be drowned’; this came ultimately from Germanic *drungk-, a variant of the base which produced English drink.
=> drench, drink - drown (v.)
- c. 1300, transitive and intransitive, perhaps from an unrecorded derivative word of Old English druncnian (Middle English druncnen) "be swallowed up by water" (originally of ships as well as living things), probably from the base of drincan "to drink."
Modern form is from northern England dialect, probably influenced by Old Norse drukna "be drowned." Related: Drowned; drowning.
雙語例句
- 1. He tried to recollect things and drown himself in them.
- 他極力回想過去的事情而沉浸於回憶之中.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 2. It is cruel to drown the cat in the river.
- 把貓淹死在河裏是殘忍的.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 3. The loud cheers drown out his shouts.
- 歡呼聲蓋過了他的喊叫聲.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 4. Don't drown my whisky.
- 不要在我的威士忌酒裏加太多的水.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》
- 5. " No, " returned Minnie softly, and rattling the dishes to drown the conversation.
- “ 不, " 敏妮輕輕說道.她故意把碗碟弄出聲響來掩蓋她們的談話聲."他不會去的.
來自英漢文學 - 嘉莉妹妹