meadow

英 ['medəʊ]美 ['mɛdo]
  • n. 草地；牧场
  • n. (Meadow)人名；(英)梅多
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助记提示

谐音“麦豆”。

中文词源

meadow 草地

来自古英语maedwe,来自Proto-Germanic*medwo,来自PIE*metwa,割过的草地，来自*me,割草，割谷子，可能来自拟声词。最后词义演变成草地本身。比较pork,farrow,furrow.

英文词源

meadow
meadow: [OE] Etymologically, meadow means ‘mowed land’. It goes back ultimately to an Indo-European *mētwá, a derivative of the base *mē- ‘mow’ (source of English mow [OE]). In prehistoric Germanic this became *mǣdwō (whence German matte ‘meadow’), which passed into Old English as mǣd. The modern English descendant of this, mead, now survives only as an archaism, but its inflected form, mǣdwe, has become modern English meadow.
=> mow
meadow (n.)
Old English mædwe "meadow, pasture," originally "land covered in grass which is mown for hay;" oblique case of mæd (see mead (n.2)).

双语例句

1. In the spring, the meadow is a mass of daffodils.
春天，草地上开满了黄水仙。
来自柯林斯例句
2. We punted up towards Grantchester and had a picnic in a meadow.
我们乘坐平底长船溯河而上到格兰切斯特，在草地上举行野餐。
来自柯林斯例句
3. lambs gambolling in the meadow
在草地上蹦蹦跳跳的小羊羔
来自《权威词典》
4. The seeds of dandelion were carried to the meadow by the wind.
风把蒲公英的种子吹到草地上.
来自《简明英汉词典》
5. The children ran free across the meadow.
孩子们在草地里自由地奔跑.
来自《简明英汉词典》