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maggot

英 ['mægət] 美 ['mægət]

解释

n. [无脊椎] 蛆；空想，狂想

※ 提供单词"maggot"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

maggot 蛆，发疯的

来自中古英语magot,改编自maddock,虫，蛆，来自Proto-Germanic*mathon,来自PIE*math,虫，蛆虫，词源同moth,mawkish.-ock,小词后缀，词源同hillock.词义发疯的来自民间传说，认为脑子里面进虫或蛆或导致人发疯或反之亦然。

英文词源

maggot: maggot: see mawkish
maggot (n.): late 15c., probably an unexplained variant of Middle English maðek, from Old English maða "maggot, grub," from Proto-Germanic *mathon (cognates: Old Norse maðkr, Old Saxon matho, Middle Dutch, Dutch made, Old High German mado, German Made, Gothic maþa "maggot"). Figurative use "whim, fancy, crotchet" is 1620s, from the notion of a maggot in the brain.

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例句和用法

1. The rattailed maggot, for example, possesses a'snorklelike " telescopic air tube.: 例如长尾蛆就有一个 “ 通气管 ” 似的伸缩吸气管.

2. He's got some maggot in his head.: 他在想入非非.

3. I never use a single worm on the hook , preferring a cocktail of worm and maggot.: 我从不单用一只虫作钓饵, 而喜欢用虫和蛆的混合物.

4. You've been into Farmer Maggot's crop!: 你们又来农夫马嗄的田里偷东西了!

5. When the maggot bites, he will go fishing in the rain.: 他有时心血来潮, 会冒着雨走去钓鱼.