loaf
英 [ləʊf]
美 [lof]
- n. 條，一條麵包；塊；遊蕩
- vt. 遊蕩；遊手好閑；虛度光陰
- vi. 遊蕩；遊手好閑；虛度光陰
助記提示
【記憶】諧音：漏富。遊手好閑是一種漏富的行為。
2. 諧音“no 父” --- 沒有父親 ---- 養不教父之過，一個沒有父親的人，就沒人管教他，於是就變成了一個遊手好閑的人。
3. leap => lope, elope, loaf.
4. 音：老夫，老夫已賦閑在家，無所事事，虛度光陰，生活上有條麵包足矣；
5. l 象一個人 + oaf 傻瓜，一個人象傻瓜一樣虛度光陰，無所事事
6. 羅浮麵包。
中文詞源
loaf 麵包來自古英語hlaf,一塊麵包，詞源同lady,lord.
英文詞源
- loaf
- loaf: English has two words loaf. By far the older is ‘portion of bread’ [OE], which goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *khlaibaz. This also produced German laib and Danish lev ‘loaf’, and was borrowed, originally into Gothic, from an Old Slavic chleb (source of modern Russian and Polish chleb ‘bread, loaf’). Heavily disguised, loaf forms part of both lady and lord (which etymologically mean respectively ‘loafkneader’ and ‘loaf-guardian’), and it also contributed the first syllable to Lammas [OE], literally ‘loaf-mass’.
The verb loaf ‘dawdle, mooch’ [19] seems to have been a back-formation from loafer, which was probably adapted in 19th-century American English from German landläufer ‘vagabond’, a compound of land ‘land’ and läufer ‘runner’ (to which English leap is related).
=> lady, lord; leap - loaf (n.)
- late 13c., from Old English hlaf "portion of bread baked in a mass of definite form," from Proto-Germanic *khlaibuz (cognates: Old Norse hleifr, Swedish lev, Old Frisian hlef, Old High German hleib, German Laib, Gothic hlaifs "bread, loaf"), of uncertain origin, perhaps connected to Old English hlifian "to raise higher, tower," on the notion of the bread rising as it bakes, but it is unclear whether "loaf" or "bread" is the original sense. Finnish leipä, Old Church Slavonic chlebu, Lithuanian klepas probably are Germanic loan words. Meaning "chopped meat shaped like a bread loaf" is attested from 1787.
- loaf (v.)
- 1835, American English, back-formation from loafer (1830). Related: Loafed; loafing.
The term "loafing" is, of course, very vague. Its meaning, like that of its opposite, "work," depends largely on the user. The highly successful quarterback with an E in Greek is a loafer in his professor's eyes, while the idea of the professor's working, in spite of his voluminous researches on Mycenean Table Manners, would excite hoots of derision from the laborer that lays the drains before his study window. [Yale Literary Magazine, May 1908]
雙語例句
- 1. The proposal could put 3p on a loaf of bread.
- 這項提議會使每個麵包的成本增加3便士。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. The cost of a loaf of bread has increased five-fold.
- 一條麵包的價錢增長了4倍。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. Pick up a quart of milk or a loaf of bread.
- 拿1誇脫牛奶或一條麵包。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. a loaf of bread
- 一條麵包
來自《權威詞典》
- 5. a loaf of sliced bread
- 一條切片麵包
來自《權威詞典》