badger

同badge, 徽章，形容该动物前额上的长条白斑。骚扰义来自旧时一种残忍的纵狗斗獾游戏。

badger

badger: [16] The Old English term for a ‘badger’ was brock, a word of Celtic origin, and badger does not begin to appear, somewhat mysteriously, until the early 16th century. The name has never been satisfactorily explained, but perhaps the least implausible explanation is from the word badge, in reference to the white stripes on the animal’s forehead, as if it were wearing a badge (a term originally applied to a distinctive device worn by a knight for purposes of recognition); the early spelling bageard suggests that it may have been formed with the suffix -ard, as in dullard and sluggard. (Badge itself is of even more obscure origin; it first turns up in Middle English, in the mid 14th century.) Other early terms for the badger were bauson (14th– 18th centuries), from Old French bausen, and grey (15th–17th centuries).

badger (n.)

1520s, perhaps from bage "badge" (see badge) + -ard "one who carries some action or possesses some quality," suffix related to Middle High German -hart "bold" (see -ard). If so, the central notion is the badge-like white blaze on the animal's forehead (as in French blaireau "badger," from Old French blarel, from bler "marked with a white spot;" also obsolete Middle English bauson "badger," from Old French bauzan, literally "black-and-white spotted"). But blaze (n.2) was the usual word for this.

An Old English name for the creature was the Celtic borrowing brock; also græg (Middle English grei, grey). In American English, the nickname of inhabitants or natives of Wisconsin (1833).

badger (v.)

1790, from badger (n.), based on the behavior of the dogs in the medieval sport of badger-baiting, still practiced in 18c. England. Related: Badgered; badgering.

1. Fox, badger, weasel and stoat are regularly seen here.

狐狸、獾、黄鼠狼和白鼬在这里很常见。

来自柯林斯例句

2. The sharp sound of a twig snapping scared the badger away.

细枝突然折断的刺耳声把獾惊跑了.

来自《简明英汉词典》

3. The badger and the snake had a ferocious battle in the woods.

獾和蛇在树林里进行了一场恶斗.

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

4. The badger sett had twelve entrances to what must have been a labyrinth of tunnels.

这个獾穴有12个入口,下面必定有一套错综复杂的地道.

来自《简明英汉词典》

5. I want an end of being drawn like a badger.

我不想象一头畜生那样被人摆弄.

来自辞典例句