mosquito
英[mɒ'skiːtəʊ]
美[mə'skito]
词态变化
复数: mosquitos; mosquitoes;
助记提示
蚊子 mosquito 冒死去偷(吸人血)
貌似黑头
西班牙语单词“mosca”意为“蝇，苍蝇”，其指小词为“mosquito”，意为“蚊子”。1611年，“mosquito”一词被借用到法语中，写作“mousquite”。从词形上看，这两个词极为相似，其派生关系一目了然。
中文词源
mosquito 蚊子来自西班牙语mosca,蚊子，-ito,小词后缀，来自拉丁语musca,蚊子，来自PIE*mu,蚊子，拟声词，模仿蚊子嗡嗡的声音，词源同moth,midge.
英文词源
- mosquito
- mosquito: [16] Mosquito comes ultimately from the Latin word for ‘fly’, musca (this went back to an Indo-European base *mu-, probably imitative of the sound of humming, which also produced English midge [OE], and hence its derivative midget [19] – originally a ‘tiny sand-fly’). Musca became Spanish mosca, whose diminutive form reached English as mosquito – etymologically a ‘small fly’. (The Italian descendant of musca, incidentally, is also mosca, and its diminutive, moschetto, was applied with black humour to the ‘bolt of a crossbow’. From it English gets musket [16].)
=> midge, midget, musket - mosquito (n.)
- 1580s, from Spanish mosquito "little gnat," diminutive of mosca "fly," from Latin musca "fly," from PIE root *mu- "gnat, fly," imitative of insect buzzing (compare Sanskrit maksa-, Greek myia, Old English mycg, Modern English midge, Old Church Slavonic mucha), perhaps imitative of the sound of humming insects.
双语例句
- 1. I threw aside my mosquito net and jumped out of bed.
- 我把蚊帐甩到一边，跳下床来。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. Avoiding mosquito bites is easier said than done.
- 防蚊叮咬好说难做。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. A mosquito had bitten her and her arm had swollen up.
- 蚊子叮了她,她的手臂肿起来了.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 4. He started reading when he was knee - high to a mosquito.
- 他很小的时候就开始读书.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 5. I slapped at the mosquito but missed.
- 我打蚊子,但没打中.
来自《简明英汉词典》