grin
英 [grɪn]
美 [ɡrɪn]
- v. 露齒而笑，咧著嘴笑
- n. 露齒笑
- n. (Grin)人名；(法)格蘭；(俄、羅、英)格林
助記提示
1. grin <====> ring: 向心愛的MM求婚並給她戴上戒指後，MM露齒而笑。
2. groan => grin : 反義同源，一個是露齒呻吟、抱怨，一個事露齒微笑。
3. grin <====> ring: 下課鈴聲響了，同學們都露齒而笑、咧嘴而笑。
4. 音：格林，小孩兒看格林童話都會露齒微笑，因為對小孩兒來說這些故事都很有趣。
5. 諧音“故人”-----他鄉遇故知，老鄉見老鄉，兩眼淚汪汪，笑得合不攏嘴，喜極而泣。
中文詞源
grin 咧齒而笑來自PIE*ghrei, 開口，可能來自擬聲詞，模仿笑的聲音。比較grim.
英文詞源
- grin
- grin: [OE] Modern English grin and groan are scarcely semantic neighbours, but a possible common ancestor may provide the link: prehistoric Indo-European *ghrei-, which seems to have meant something like ‘be open’. It has been suggested as the source of a range of verbs which started off denoting simply ‘open the mouth’, but have since differentiated along the lines ‘make noise’ and ‘grimace’. Grin has taken the latter course, but close relatives, such as Old High German grennan ‘mutter’ and Old Norse grenja ‘howl’, show that the parting of the semantic ways was not so distant in time.
Old English grennian actually meant ‘draw back the lips and bare the teeth in pain or anger’. Traces of this survive in such distinctly unfunny expressions as ‘grinning skull’, but the modern sense ‘draw back the lips in amusement’ did not begin to emerge until the 15th century. Groan [OE], on the other hand, is firmly in the ‘make noise’ camp.
=> groan - grin (n.)
- 1630s, from grin (v.).
- grin (v.)
- Old English grennian "show the teeth" (in pain or anger), common Germanic (cognates: Old Norse grenja "to howl," grina "to grin;" Dutch grienen "to whine;" German greinen "to cry"), from PIE root *ghrei- "be open." Sense of "bare the teeth in a broad smile" is late 15c., perhaps via the notion of "forced or unnatural smile." Related: Grinned; grinning.
雙語例句
- 1. All at once, Mick's serious expression softened into a grin.
- 米克嚴肅的表情一下子變成了笑臉。
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- 2. He had a grin on his face like a Cheshire Cat.
- 他咧著嘴笑嗬嗬的。
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- 3. Bobby looked at her with a sheepish grin.
- 博比望著她靦腆地咧嘴一笑。
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- 4. His face broke into a wide grin.
- 他臉上綻放出燦爛的笑容。
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- 5. He always had this inane grin.
- 他總是這樣傻傻地咧嘴笑。
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