-ish
短语suff. 像...似的; ...民族的; 有点儿...的; 大约...
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释义与例句
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1.
Typical of, similar to, being like.
Her face had a girlish charm.
[…] ; for she had recently developed a magpie[-]ish tendency to appropriate and conceal trifling matters; […]
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2.
Somewhat, rather.
Her face had a bluish tinge.
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3.
About, approximately.
We arrived at tennish. We arrived tennish.
I couldn't tell his precise age, but he looked fiftyish.
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4.
Of, belonging, or relating to (a nationality, place, language or similar association with something).
British, Cornish, Danish, English, Finnish, Irish, Jewish, Kentish, Polish, Scottish, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish etc.
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1.
An ending found on some verbs; see usage notes.
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词源
From Middle English -ish, -isch, from Old English -isċ (“-ish”, suffix), from Proto-West Germanic *-isk, from Proto-Germanic *-iskaz (“-ish”), from Proto-Indo-European *-iskos. Cognate with Dutch -s; German -isch (whence Dutch -isch); Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish -isk or -sk; Lithuanian -iškas; Russian -ский (-skij); and the Ancient Greek diminutive suffix -ίσκος (-ískos). Doublet of -esque and -ski.
来源：wiktionary