leather

英 ['leðə] 美 ['lɛðɚ]

解释

※ 提供单词"leather"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。

leather 皮革

来自PIE*letro,皮，皮鞋。可能进一步来自PIE*skel,切，撕，词源同scale,shell.比较corium,carnal.

leather: leather: [OE] The Indo-European ancestor of leather was *letrom. It has descendants in two branches of the Indo-European language family: in Celtic, Welsh lledr, Irish leathar, and Breton ler; and in Germanic, German leder, Dutch leer, Swedish läder, Danish læder, and English leather.
leather (n.): Old English leðer (in compounds only) "hide, skin, leather," from Proto-Germanic *lethran (cognates: Old Norse leðr, Old Frisian lether, Old Saxon lethar, Middle Dutch, Dutch leder, Old High German ledar, German leder), from PIE *letro- "leather" (cognates: Old Irish lethar, Welsh lledr, Breton lezr). As an adjective from early 14c.; it acquired a secondary sense of "sado-masochistic" 1980s, having achieved that status in homosexual jargon in the 1970s.

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1. Leather jeans that are too big will make you look larger.: 过于肥大的皮裤会让你看起来块头更大。

3. When selecting boots, fine, quality leather will be a wise investment.: 在挑选长筒靴的时候，购买上等的好皮靴将是明智的选择。

5. His captors had put a gag of thick leather in his mouth.: 劫持者用一块厚厚的皮革堵住了他的嘴。