waist
英 [we?st]
美[west]
- n. 腰，腰部
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詞態(tài)變化
復(fù)數(shù):?waists;
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諧音“圍死她”
中文詞源
waist 腰
來自PIE*wegs,增加，來自PIE*aug的擴(kuò)大形式，詞源同augment,wax。引申詞義腰。
英文詞源
- waist
- waist: [14] Waist is something of a mystery word, but it is generally taken to denote etymologically ‘girth to which one has grown’. It is probably descended from an unrecorded Old English *w?st, which would have gone back to prehistoric Germanic *wakhs- ‘grow’, source of English wax ‘grow’ (as in wax and wane). Related forms which support this hypothesis include Icelandic v?xstr and Gothic wahstus, which mean ‘growth, size’.
- waist (n.)
- late 14c., "middle part of the body," also "part of a garment fitted for the waist, portion of a garment that covers the waist" (but, due to fashion styles, often above or below it), probably from Old English *w?st "growth," hence, "where the body grows," from Proto-Germanic *wahs-tu- (cognates: Old English w?stm, Old Norse v?xtr, Swedish v?xt, Old High German wahst "growth, increase," Gothic wahstus "stature," Old English weaxan "to grow" see wax (v.)), from PIE *wegs-, extended form of root *aug- (1) "to increase" (see augment).
雙語例句
- 1. The dress exaggerates her wasp waist and enlarges her bosom.
- 那件連衣裙凸顯了她的蜂腰，也讓她的胸部看起來更豐滿。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. One of them unwound a length of rope from around his waist.
- 其中一人把綁在腰間的一條繩子解下來。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. She had made Helen a dress which showed off her tiny waist.
- 她給海倫做了件很顯她纖細(xì)腰身的連衣裙。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. From her tiny waist a crinolined skirt cascaded in three deep tiers.
- 裙架撐起的三層大裥裙從她的纖腰上款款垂下。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. She wore a brown suede jacket, belted at the waist.
- 她穿著一件帶束腰的棕色絨面革夾克。
來自柯林斯例句