mosquito
英 [mɒ'skiːtəʊ]
美 [mə'skito]
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蚊子 mosquito 冒死去偷(吸人血)
貌似黑頭
西班牙語單詞“mosca”意為“蠅，蒼蠅”，其指小詞為“mosquito”，意為“蚊子”。1611年，“mosquito”一詞被借用到法語中，寫作“mousquite”。從詞形上看，這兩個詞極為相似，其派生關係一目了然。
中文詞源
mosquito 蚊子來自西班牙語mosca,蚊子，-ito,小詞後綴，來自拉丁語musca,蚊子，來自PIE*mu,蚊子，擬聲詞，模仿蚊子嗡嗡的聲音，詞源同moth,midge.
英文詞源
- mosquito
- mosquito: [16] Mosquito comes ultimately from the Latin word for ‘fly’, musca (this went back to an Indo-European base *mu-, probably imitative of the sound of humming, which also produced English midge [OE], and hence its derivative midget [19] – originally a ‘tiny sand-fly’). Musca became Spanish mosca, whose diminutive form reached English as mosquito – etymologically a ‘small fly’. (The Italian descendant of musca, incidentally, is also mosca, and its diminutive, moschetto, was applied with black humour to the ‘bolt of a crossbow’. From it English gets musket [16].)
=> midge, midget, musket - mosquito (n.)
- 1580s, from Spanish mosquito "little gnat," diminutive of mosca "fly," from Latin musca "fly," from PIE root *mu- "gnat, fly," imitative of insect buzzing (compare Sanskrit maksa-, Greek myia, Old English mycg, Modern English midge, Old Church Slavonic mucha), perhaps imitative of the sound of humming insects.
雙語例句
- 1. I threw aside my mosquito net and jumped out of bed.
- 我把蚊帳甩到一邊，跳下床來。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Avoiding mosquito bites is easier said than done.
- 防蚊叮咬好說難做。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. A mosquito had bitten her and her arm had swollen up.
- 蚊子叮了她,她的手臂腫起來了.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 4. He started reading when he was knee - high to a mosquito.
- 他很小的時候就開始讀書.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 5. I slapped at the mosquito but missed.
- 我打蚊子,但沒打中.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》