swarthy
英 ['swɔːðɪ]
美 ['swɔrði]
助記提示
1. PIE root *sword- "dirty, dark, black" => swart, swarth, sordid.
2. swart, swarth => swarty, swarthy.
中文詞源
swarthy 皮膚黑的來自 swart,黑黝黝的，-y,形容詞後綴。用以形容皮膚黑的。
英文詞源
- swarthy
- swarthy: [16] Old English sweart meant ‘black’. It came from a prehistoric Germanic *swartaz, which also produced German schwarz, Dutch zwart, Swedish svart, and Danish sort, and may go back ultimately to the same Indo-European base as gave Latin sordidus ‘dirty’ (source of English sordid [16]). It survives, just, in modern English as swart ‘dark, black’. From this in the 16th century was derived the now defunct swarty, of which swarthy is an unexplained variant.
=> sordid - swarthy (adj.)
- "dark-colored," especially of skin, 1580s, unexplained alteration of swarty (1570s), from swart + -y (2). Related: Swarthiness.
雙語例句
- 1. Our driver strolled up, huge and swarthy.
- 我們的司機悠閑地走了過來，他身材高大，膚色黝黑。
來自辭典例句
- 2. He had a broad swarthy face.
- 他有一張黝黑的大臉。
來自辭典例句
- 3. The sailor was swarthy from the sun of the tropics.
- 水手被熱帶的太陽曬得黑黝黝的.
來自辭典例句
- 4. A Colonel Azizov, a swarthy, sardonic, pipe - smoking Tartar, awaited Levchenko.
- 一個叫阿基佐夫的上校, 在等著列夫欽科. 他皮膚黝黑, 麵帶譏諷表情, 嘴裏叼著煙鬥, 是個韃靼人.
來自辭典例句
- 5. She was tall , slim, rather swarthy, with large saucy eyes.
- 她瘦高個, 皮膚黝黑, 有一雙漂亮的大眼睛.
來自辭典例句