英语词典 · 单词释义
snake
英 [sneɪk] 美 [snek]
这里集中整理“snake”的音标、翻译、词源、例句和近反义词，方便快速确认词义并顺手做词汇积累。
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词义详解
翻译 · 词源 · 例句- n. 蛇；阴险的人
- vi. 迂回前进
- vt. 拉（木材等）；迂回前进
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词源 · 例句 · 用法词态变化
复数: snakes;第三人称单数: snakes;过去式: snaked;过去分词: snaked;现在分词: snaking;
中文词源
snake 蛇
来自古英语 snaca,蛇，来自 Proto-Germanic*snakon,蛇，来自 PIE*sneg,爬，蜷缩，词源同 snail,sneak.
英文词源
- snake
- snake: [OE] The snake, like the serpent (and indeed the snail) is etymologically the ‘crawling’ animal. Along with Swedish snok and Danish snog, it comes from a prehistoric Germanic base denoting ‘crawl’, which also produced English snail and German dialect schnaacken ‘crawl’.
=> snail - snake (n.)
- Old English snaca, from Proto-Germanic *snakon (cognates: Old Norse snakr "snake," Swedish snok, German Schnake "ring snake"), from PIE root *sneg- "to crawl, creeping thing" (cognates: Old Irish snaighim "to creep," Lithuanian snake "snail," Old High German snahhan "to creep"). In Modern English, gradually replacing serpent in popular use.
Traditionally applied to the British serpent, as distinguished from the poisonous adder. Meaning "treacherous person" first recorded 1580s (compare Old Church Slavonic gadu "reptile," gadinu "foul, hateful"). Applied from 17c. to various snake-like devices and appliances. Snakes! as an exclamation is from 1839.
Snake eyes in crap-shooting sense is from 1919. Snake-bitten "unlucky" is sports slang from 1957, from a literal sense, perhaps suggesting one doomed by being poisoned. The game of Snakes and Ladders is attested from 1907. Snake charmer is from 1813. Snake pit is from 1883, as a supposed primitive test of truth or courage; figurative sense is from 1941. Phrase snake in the grass is from Virgil's Latet anguis in herba [Ecl. III:93]. - snake (v.)
- 1650s, "to twist or wind (hair) into the form of a snake," from snake (n.). The intransitive sense of "to move like a snake" is attested from 1848; that of "to wind or twist like a snake" (of roads, etc.) is from 1875. Related: Snaked; snaking.
双语例句
- 1. The slow-worm is in fact not a snake but a legless lizard.
- 蛇蜥其实不是蛇，而是无脚的蜥蜴。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. I haven'tthe faintest idea how to care for a snake.
- 我对养蛇一无所知。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. The snake coiled up, ready to strike.
- 那条蛇盘绕起来准备攻击。
来自《权威词典》
- 4. a snake's poison glands
- 蛇的毒腺
来自《权威词典》
- 5. The snake slithered away as we approached.
- 我们一走近，蛇就爬走了。
来自《权威词典》
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