blate

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发音

其它 /bleɪt/

词形变化

blated blates 三单 blating blating 现在分词 blated 过去式 blated 过去分词 blater 比较级 blater blatest blatest 最高级

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    Archaic form of bleat.

    古体
adj.
  1. 1.

    Bashful, sheepish.

    苏格兰
  2. 2.

    Dull, stupid.

    苏格兰

词汇关系

动词

同义词 3

baa bleat blat

上位词 4

utter emit let out let loose
形容词

同义词 1

bashful

近义相关 1

backward

词源

Borrowed from Scots blate (“timid, sheepish”), apparently a conflation of: * Northern Middle English *blate, *blait (“pale, ghastly, terrified”), from Old English blāt (“pale, livid, ghastly”), from Proto-West Germanic *blait (“pale, discoloured”), from Proto-Germanic *blaitaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyd- (“pale, pallid”); * Middle English bleth, bleath (“timid, soft”), from Old English blēaþ (“gentle, shy, cowardly, timid; slothful, inactive, effeminate”), from Proto-Germanic *blauþuz (“weak, timid, void, naked”). Cognate with German blassen (“to make pale”), bleich (“pale, pallid”). More at bleak, bleach.

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