解释
- n. [鱼] 鲦鱼（一种小淡水鱼）
※ 提供单词"minnow"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
minnow 米诺鱼，不起眼的小公司
来自古英语myne,可能来自PIE*men,小的，词源同minute,minimum.用于指一种小的淡水鱼，后引申词义不起眼的小公司。
minnow 米诺鱼，不起眼的小公司来自古英语myne,可能来自PIE*men,小的，词源同minute,minimum.用于指一种小的淡水鱼，后引申词义不起眼的小公司。
英文词源
- minnow (n.)
- small freshwater fish, early 15c., probably related to Old English myne, earlier *mynwe, a name for some kind of fish, from Proto-Germanic *muniwon (cognates: Middle Low German möne, Dutch meun, Old High German muniwa, German Münne), of unknown origin, perhaps from PIE *men- "small." Perhaps influenced in Middle English by French menu "small."
例句和用法
- 1. Throw out a minnow to catch a whale.
- 弃小引大.
- 2. Their total catch was one minnow.
- 他们的全部所获是一条小鱼。
- 3. To throw out a minnow to catch a whale.
- 抛砖引玉(抛小鱼想捉鲸鱼).
- 4. One must lose a minnow to catch a salmon.
- 失去小鲤鱼,抓住大马哈鱼.
- 5. Operationally, too, PetroChina a minnow beside its peers.
- 在运营方面, 中石油与其同行相比也只是小字辈.
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