laugh

英 [lɑ?f] 美[l?f]

反義詞

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復數:?laughs;第三人稱單數:?laughs;過去式:?laughed;過去分詞:?laughed;現在分詞:?laughing;

laugh 笑

來自PIE*kleg,笑聲，擬聲詞。

laugh: laugh: [OE] The word laugh is ultimately onomatopoeic, imitative of the sound of laughter. It goes back to Indo-European *klak-, *klōk-, which also produced Greek klóssein, a verb denoting the clucking of hens, and Latin clangere ‘sound’ (source of English clangor [16]). Its Germanic descendants were *khlakh-, *khlōkh-, from which come German and Dutch lachen, Swedish and Danish le, and English laugh.
=> clangor
laugh (v.): late 14c., from Old English (Anglian) hl?hhan, earlier hlihhan, from Proto-Germanic *klakhjan (cognates: Old Norse hl?ja, Danish le, Old Frisian hlakkia, Old Saxon hlahhian, Middle Dutch and Dutch lachen, Old High German hlahhan, German lachen, Gothic hlahjan), from PIE *kleg-, of imitative origin (compare Latin cachinnare "to laugh aloud," Sanskrit kakhati "laughs," Old Church Slavonic chochotati "laugh," Lithuanian klageti "to cackle," Greek kakhazein). Originally with a "hard" -gh- sound, as in Scottish loch; the spelling remained after the pronunciation shifted to "-f."
If I coveted nowe to avenge the injuries that you have done me, I myght laughe in my slyve. [John Daus, "Sleidanes Commentaries," 1560]
Related: Laughed; laughing.
laugh (n.): 1680s, from laugh (v.). Meaning "a cause of laughter" is from 1895; ironic use (as in that's a laugh) attested from 1930. Laugh track "canned laughter on a TV program" is from 1961.

1. For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?: 我們活著是為了什么？不就是給鄰居當笑柄，再反過來笑他們。

3. He was falsely jovial, with his booming, mirthless laugh.: 他低聲苦笑了幾聲，裝出快樂的樣子。

5. The blunt comment made Richard laugh in spite of himself.: 這番率直的話讓理查德不由自主地大笑起來。