dirt
英 [d??t]
美[d?t]
- n. 污垢，泥土；灰尘，尘土；下流话
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词态变化
复数:?dirts;
中文词源
dirt 粪便，污物，烂泥
来自古英语drit, 粪便，来自PIE*dhreyd, 腹泄。引申义污物，烂泥。其日耳曼同源词词义集中在粪便，鸟粪，屎等。
英文词源
- dirt
- dirt: [13] Dirt was originally drit, and meant ‘excrement’ (it was borrowed from Old Norse drit, which goes back to a prehistoric Germanic base *drit- that also produced Dutch dreet ‘excrement’). The toned-down sense ‘soiling substance’ is of equal antiquity with ‘excrement’ in English, and the modern English form dirt first appeared in the 15th century, by a process known as metathesis in which two sounds are reversed.
- dirt (n.)
- 15c. metathesis of Middle English drit, drytt "mud, dirt, dung" (c. 1300), from Old Norse drit, cognate with Old English dritan "to void excrement," from Proto-Germanic *dritan (cognates: Dutch drijten, Old High German trizan). Used abusively of persons from c. 1300. Meaning "gossip" first attested 1926 (in Hemingway); dirt bike is 1960s. Dirt-cheap is from 1821. Dirt road attested by 1852.
双语例句
- 1. He claims Pasolini overtook and tackled him, pushing him into the dirt.
- 他声称帕索利尼追上去打他，把他推倒在烂泥里。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. A group of riders came into view on the dirt road.
- 一群骑车的人出现在那条土路上。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. They're always selling off stuff like that dirt cheap.
- 他们总是以非常便宜的价格把类似那样的东西处理掉。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. Most of the dirt was on the outside of the tinted glass.
- 大部分灰尘在有色玻璃的外部。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. The rooster chased me across the dirt floor of the barn.
- 公鸡追着我跑过谷仓的泥土地面。
来自柯林斯例句