wag

英 [wæg] 美 [wæɡ]

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解释

vt. 摇摆；摇动；饶舌
vi. 摆动；喋喋不休；蹒跚而行
n. 摇摆；爱说笑打趣的人

※ 提供单词"wag"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

wag 摇摆

来自PIE*wegh,走，移动，词源同way,wagon。引申义摇摆。

英文词源

wag: wag: [13] Wag was derived from the Middle English descendant of Old English wagian ‘totter’, a word related to English wave of the sea. Waggle [15] was based on it. The noun wag ‘comical fellow’, first recorded in the 16th century, is generally taken to be short for waghalter, literally ‘someone who swings to and fro in a noose’, hence ‘someone destined for the gallows’.
=> waggle
wag (v.): early 13c. (intransitive), "waver, vacillate, lack steadfastness," probably from a Scandinavian source (compare Old Norse vagga "a cradle," Danish vugge "rock a cradle," Old Swedish wagga "fluctuate, rock" a cradle), and in part from Old English wagian "move backwards and forwards;" all from Proto-Germanic *wag- (cognates: Old High German weggen, Gothic wagjan "to wag"), probably from PIE root *wegh- "to move about" (see weigh).

Transitive meaning "move (something) back and forth or up and down" is from c. 1300; of dogs and their tails from mid-15c.: "and whanne they [hounds] see the hure maystre they wol make him cheere and wagge hur tayles upon him." [Edward, Duke of York, "The Master of Game," 1456]. Related: Wagged; wagging. Wag-at-the-wall (1825) was an old name for a hanging clock with pendulum and weights exposed.
wag (n.1): "person fond of making jokes," 1550s, perhaps a shortening of waghalter "gallows bird," person destined to swing in a noose or halter, applied humorously to mischievous children, from wag (v.) + halter. Or possibly directly from wag (v.); compare wagger "one who stirs up or agitates" (late 14c.).
wag (n.2): "act of wagging," 1580s, from wag (v.).

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例句和用法

1. He's a bit of a wag, his dad.: 他爸爸这个人说话相当风趣。

2. Dogs wag their tails when they are pleased.: 狗一高兴就摇尾巴.

3. The tail is too big to wag.: 尾大不掉.

4. I'll not wag an ace further.: 我一步也不再动啦.

5. WAG is a widely used method, its devise principle, scheme and shortage are introduced.: 针对广泛使用的水气交替注入(WAG)法, 介绍了设计原则、注入方案及存在的不足.