英语单词

maggot是什么意思

maggot

英 ['mægət] 美 ['mægət]
  • n. [无脊椎] 蛆;空想,狂想

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1. 谐音“茅坑的”---蛆不就是主要生存自茅坑里吗?
2. Figurative use "whim, fancy, crotchet" is 1620s, from the notion of a maggot in the brain.
3. The use of maggot to mean a fanciful or whimsical thing derives from the folk belief that a whimsical or crotchety person had maggots in his or her brain.

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.

双语例句


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.

来自辞典例句

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

来自辞典例句

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.

来自辞典例句

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

来自电影对白

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.

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