mosquito

英[mɒ'skiːtəʊ] 美[mə'skito]
  • n. 蚊子

词态变化


复数: mosquitosmosquitoes;

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蚊子 mosquito 冒死去偷(吸人血)

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西班牙语单词“mosca”意为“蝇,苍蝇”,其指小词为“mosquito”,意为“蚊子”。1611年,“mosquito”一词被借用到法语中,写作“mousquite”。从词形上看,这两个词极为相似,其派生关系一目了然。

中文词源


mosquito 蚊子

来自西班牙语mosca,蚊子,-ito,小词后缀,来自拉丁语musca,蚊子,来自PIE*mu,蚊子,拟声词,模仿蚊子嗡嗡的声音,词源同moth,midge.

英文词源


mosquito
mosquito: [16] Mosquito comes ultimately from the Latin word for ‘fly’, musca (this went back to an Indo-European base *mu-, probably imitative of the sound of humming, which also produced English midge [OE], and hence its derivative midget [19] – originally a ‘tiny sand-fly’). Musca became Spanish mosca, whose diminutive form reached English as mosquito – etymologically a ‘small fly’. (The Italian descendant of musca, incidentally, is also mosca, and its diminutive, moschetto, was applied with black humour to the ‘bolt of a crossbow’. From it English gets musket [16].)
=> midge, midget, musket
mosquito (n.)
1580s, from Spanish mosquito "little gnat," diminutive of mosca "fly," from Latin musca "fly," from PIE root *mu- "gnat, fly," imitative of insect buzzing (compare Sanskrit maksa-, Greek myia, Old English mycg, Modern English midge, Old Church Slavonic mucha), perhaps imitative of the sound of humming insects.

双语例句


1. I threw aside my mosquito net and jumped out of bed.
我把蚊帐甩到一边,跳下床来。

来自柯林斯例句

2. Avoiding mosquito bites is easier said than done.
防蚊叮咬好说难做。

来自柯林斯例句

3. A mosquito had bitten her and her arm had swollen up.
蚊子叮了她,她的手臂肿起来了.

来自《简明英汉词典》

4. He started reading when he was knee - high to a mosquito.
他很小的时候就开始读书.

来自《简明英汉词典》

5. I slapped at the mosquito but missed.
我打蚊子,但没打中.

来自《简明英汉词典》