straw

英 [str??] 美[str?]
  • n. 稻草;吸管;一文不值的東西
  • adj. 稻草的;無(wú)價(jià)值的
  • n. (Straw)人名;(英)斯特勞

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詞態(tài)變化


復(fù)數(shù):?straws;

中文詞源


straw 草,吸管

來(lái)自古英語(yǔ) streaw,草,來(lái)自 Proto-Germanic*strawa,草,來(lái)自 PIE*strew,展開,鋪開,擴(kuò)大形 式自*ster,展開,鋪開,詞源同 strew,structure.引申詞義吸管。

英文詞源


straw
straw: [OE] Straw is etymologically something ‘strewn’ on the floor. The word goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *strāwam (source also of German stroh, Dutch stroo, Swedish str?, and Danish straa). This was formed from the same base as produced strew [OE], and goes back ultimately to Indo-European *ster- ‘spread’, source also of Latin sternere ‘spread out’ (from which English gets prostrate, strata, etc). Dried grain stalks were commonly scattered over floors as an ancient form of temporary carpeting, and so they came to be termed straw.
=> strata, strew
straw (n.)
Old English streaw (rare) "stems or stalks of certain species of grains," apparently literally "that which is scattered or strewn," related to streowian (see strew), from Proto-Germanic *strawam "that which is scattered" (cognates: Old Norse stra, Danish straa, Swedish str?, Old Saxon stro, Old Frisian stre, Old Dutch, Old High German stro, Dutch stroo, German Stroh "straw"), from PIE *stere- "to spread" (see structure (n.)). The notion perhaps is of dried grain stalks strewn on a floor as carpeting or bedding.

As a type of what is trifling or unimportant, attested from late 13c. Meaning "hollow tube through which a drink is sucked" is recorded from 1851. To draw straws as a means of deciding something is recorded from 1779 (the custom probably is older). As an adjective, "made of straw," mid-15c.; hence "false, sham." Straw poll is from 1932; earlier straw vote (1866). Straw hat first attested mid-15c. To clutch (or grasp or catch) at straws (1748) is what a drowning man proverbially would do. The last straw (1836 apart from the full phrase) is from the proverbial image: "it is the last straw that breaks the camel's back" (or, less often, the mare's, the horse's, or the elephant's), an image in use in English by 1755.
Let it not, however, be inferred that taxation cannot be pushed too far : it is, as the Oriental proverb says, the last straw that overloads the camel ; a small addition, if ill-timed, may overturn the whole. ["The Scots Magazine," April 1799]

雙語(yǔ)例句


1. I stumbled through mud to a yard strewn with straw.
我跌跌撞撞地趟過泥地來(lái)到一個(gè)堆滿麥稈的場(chǎng)院。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

2. She nestled the eggs safely in the straw in Jim's basket.
她把雞蛋輕輕地放在吉姆籃子里的稻草上。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

3. The special cabinet committee comprises Mr Brown, Mr Mandelson, and Mr Straw.
特別內(nèi)閣委員會(huì)包括布朗先生、曼德爾森先生和斯特勞先生。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

4. Mr Straw issued a stern warning to those who persist in violence.
斯特勞先生向那些堅(jiān)持進(jìn)行暴力活動(dòng)的人發(fā)出了嚴(yán)正警告。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

5. I know that you'refloundering around, trying to grasp at any straw.
我知道你正不知所措,是在病急亂投醫(yī)。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

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