animal
英 ['?n?m(?)l]
美['?n?ml]
- n. 動物
- 動物的
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中文詞源
animal 動物
來自詞根anim, 呼吸，風，靈魂，有生命。
英文詞源
- animal
- animal: [14] Etymologically, an animal is a being which breathes (compare DEER). Its immediate source was the Latin adjective animālis ‘having a soul’, a derivative of the noun anima ‘breath, soul’ (which also gave English the verb and adjective animate [15]). Anima is a member of a set of related words in which the notions of ‘breath, wind’ and ‘spirit, life’ are intimately connected: for instance, Greek ánemos ‘wind’ (possible source of English anemone), Latin animus ‘spirit, mind, courage, anger’ (source of English animosity [15] and animus [19]), Sanskrit ániti ‘breathe’, Old English ōthian ‘breathe’, Swedish anda ‘breath, spirit’, and Gothic usanan ‘breathe out’.
The ‘breath’ sense is presumably primary, the ‘spirit, life’ sense a metaphorical extension of it.
=> anemone, animate, animosity, animus - animal (n.)
- early 14c. (but rare before c. 1600, and not in KJV, 1611), "any living creature" (including humans), from Latin animale "living being, being which breathes," neuter of animalis "animate, living; of the air," from anima "breath, soul; a current of air" (see animus, and compare deer). Drove out the older beast in common usage. Used of brutish humans from 1580s.
- animal (adj.)
- late 14c., from animal (n.). Animal rights is attested from 1879; animal liberation from 1973. Animal magnetism originally (1784) referred to mesmerism.
雙語例句
- 1. There was no doubting the animal magnetism of the man.
- 毫無疑問，這個男人身上透著一種野性魅力。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. You feel an animal panic to run and hide.
- 你會感到一種本能的恐懼而想要去逃避。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. You're quite a party animal aren't you, out there every night.
- 你就是為派對而生的，不是嗎，每天晚上你都去參加派對。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. The hunter knelt beside the animal carcass and commenced to skin it.
- 獵人跪在動物尸體旁邊，開始剝皮。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. We were amused to see how assiduously the animal groomed its fur.
- 看著這只動物如此認真地梳理自己的毛，我們被逗樂了。
來自柯林斯例句