maggot

英 ['m?g?t] 美['m?g?t]
  • n. [無脊椎] 蛆;空想,狂想

TEM8中低頻詞暢通詞匯

詞態(tài)變化


復(fù)數(shù):?maggots;

助記提示


1. 諧音“茅坑的”---蛆不就是主要生存自茅坑里嗎?
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(fā)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,小詞后綴,詞源同hillock.詞義發(fā)瘋的來自民間傳說,認(rèn)為腦子里面進(jìn)蟲或蛆或?qū)е氯税l(fā)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 maeek, from Old English maea "maggot, grub," from Proto-Germanic *mathon (cognates: Old Norse maekr, Old Saxon matho, Middle Dutch, Dutch made, Old High German mado, German Made, Gothic mata "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(gè) “ 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.
我從不單用一只蟲作釣餌, 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(nóng)夫馬嗄的田里偷東西了!

來自電影對白

5. When the maggot bites, he will go fishing in the rain.
他有時(shí)心血來潮, 會冒著雨走去釣魚.

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