ferret

英 ['ferɪt] 美 ['fɛrɪt]

解释

※ 提供单词"ferret"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。

ferret 雪貂，搜寻

来自拉丁语fur,贼，词源同furtive. 因这种动物轻快的速度而得名。参照电视剧《天龙八部》。

ferret: ferret: [14] A ferret is, from an etymological point of view, a ‘thieving animal’. The word comes via Old French fuiret or furet from Vulgar Latin *fūrittus, literally ‘little thief’. This was a derivative of Latin fūr ‘thief’, which is related to English furtive. The verbal senses ‘search about’ and ‘search out’ developed in the 16th century.
=> furtive
ferret (v.): early 15c., "hunt with a ferret," from ferret (n.) or from Old French verb fureter, in reference to the use of half-tame ferrets to kill rats and flush rabbits from burrows. The extended sense of "search out, discover," especially by perseverence and cunning, usually with out (adv.), is from 1570s. Related: Ferreted; ferreting.
ferret (n.): late 14c., from Old French furet "ferret," diminutive of fuiron "weasel, ferret," literally "thief" (in allusion to the animal's slyness and craftiness), probably from Late Latin furionem (related to furonem "cat," which also meant "robber"), from Latin fur (genitive furis) "thief," probably from PIE *bhor- (which likely also is the source of furtive), from root *bher- (1) "to carry" (see infer). Also from the French word are Dutch fret, German Frett. Ferret-faced is from 1837 (to have ferret-eyes is from 1580s).

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5. She nonetheless continued to ferret about for possible jobs.: 但她还是继续寻找可能的工作。