maggot
英 ['mægət]
美 ['mægət]
助記提示
1. 諧音“茅坑的”---蛆不就是主要生存自茅坑裏嗎？
2. Figurative use "whim, fancy, crotchet" is 1620s, from the notion of a maggot in the brain.
3. The use of maggot to mean a fanciful or whimsical thing derives from the folk belief that a whimsical or crotchety person had maggots in his or her brain.
中文詞源
maggot 蛆，發瘋的來自中古英語magot,改編自maddock,蟲，蛆，來自Proto-Germanic*mathon,來自PIE*math,蟲，蛆蟲，詞源同moth,mawkish.-ock,小詞後綴，詞源同hillock.詞義發瘋的來自民間傳說，認為腦子裏麵進蟲或蛆或導致人發瘋或反之亦然。
英文詞源
- maggot
- maggot: see mawkish
- maggot (n.)
- late 15c., probably an unexplained variant of Middle English maðek, from Old English maða "maggot, grub," from Proto-Germanic *mathon (cognates: Old Norse maðkr, Old Saxon matho, Middle Dutch, Dutch made, Old High German mado, German Made, Gothic maþa "maggot"). Figurative use "whim, fancy, crotchet" is 1620s, from the notion of a maggot in the brain.
雙語例句
- 1. The rattailed maggot, for example, possesses a'snorklelike " telescopic air tube.
- 例如長尾蛆就有一個 “ 通氣管 ” 似的伸縮吸氣管.
來自辭典例句
- 2. He's got some maggot in his head.
- 他在想入非非.
來自辭典例句
- 3. I never use a single worm on the hook , preferring a cocktail of worm and maggot.
- 我從不單用一隻蟲作釣餌, 而喜歡用蟲和蛆的混合物.
來自辭典例句
- 4. You've been into Farmer Maggot's crop!
- 你們又來農夫馬嗄的田裏偷東西了!
來自電影對白
- 5. When the maggot bites, he will go fishing in the rain.
- 他有時心血來潮, 會冒著雨走去釣魚.
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