解释
- adj. 休眠的；静止的；睡眠状态的；隐匿的
- n. (Dormant)人名；(法)多尔芒
※ 提供单词"dormant"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。
中文词源
dormant 蛰伏的
来自PIE*drem，睡觉，休息。引申词义蛰伏。
英文词源
- dormant
- dormant: [14] Like dormitory and dormer, dormant comes ultimately from Latin dormīre ‘sleep’, which is related to Sanskrit drā- ‘sleep’ and Russian dremat’ ‘doze’. Dormant was borrowed from French dormant, the present participle of dormir ‘sleep’, while dormitory [15] comes from Latin dormītōrium, a derivative of the past participle of dormīre. Dormer [16], from Old French dormeor, a derivative of dormir, originally signified a ‘dormitory window’. (It is not clear whether dormouse [15] is related, but if it is it would mean literally ‘sleeping mouse’, or conceivably even ‘sleeper’, from French dormeuse, the feminine of dormeur ‘sleeper’.)
=> dormer, dormitory - dormant (adj.)
- late 14c., "fixed in place," from Old French dormant (12c.), present participle of dormir "to sleep," from Latin dormire "to sleep," from PIE root *drem- "to sleep" (cognates: Old Church Slavonic dremati "to sleep, doze," Greek edrathon "I slept," Sanskrit drati "sleeps"). Meaning "in a resting situation" (in heraldry) is from c. 1500. Meaning "sleeping' is from 1620s.
例句和用法
- 1. The virus remains dormant in nerve tissue until activated.
- 病毒潜伏于神经组织里直到被激活。
- 2. During the winter the seeds lie dormant in the soil.
- 冬天种子在土壤中休眠。
- 3. Many animals are in a dormant state during winter.
- 在冬天许多动物都处于睡眠状态.
- 4. Many living things are dormant in winter.
- 很多生物到了冬季都休眠.
- 5. The dormant period is another stage in the life cycle of the plant.
- 休眠期是这种植物生活史中的另一个阶段。
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