honeymoon

B1 CET-4 大学 FREQ #3888 ★☆☆☆☆

n. 蜜月, 蜜月假期 vi. 渡蜜月

发音

US /ˈhʌn.iˌmuːn/

词形变化

honeymoons 复数 honeymoons honeymooned honeymooning honeymoons 三单 honeymooning 现在分词 honeymooned 过去式 honeymooned 过去分词

教材释义与例句

名词

蜜月；蜜月假期；（新生事物、新建关系等的）短暂的和谐时期

动词

度蜜月

释义与例句

n. B1
  1. 1.

    The period of time immediately following a marriage.

    蜜月

  2. 2.

    A trip taken by a newly married couple during this period.

    蜜月旅行

    We went to Greece for our honeymoon.

  3. 3.

    A period of goodwill at the beginning of a new term or relationship (e.g. towards a newly elected politician or in respect of a new business arrangement).

    引申义

    Now that the honeymoon is over, it’s time for us to get down to the business at hand.

    The honeymoon period came to a swift end when the legislation was introduced.

v.
  1. 1.

    To have a honeymoon (a trip taken by a couple after wedding).

    My parents honeymooned at Niagara falls.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 5

period vacation holiday period of time time period
动词

上位词 2

vacation holiday

相关短语

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词源

From earlier hony moone, originally denoting the period of time following a wedding, equivalent to honey + moon. The original reference was to affection waning like the moon, but later the sense became "the first month, or moon after marriage", which tends to be the sweetest. Compare Middle Low German suckermânt (“honeymoon”, literally “sugar-month”), German Low German Hönnigweken (“honeymoon”, literally “honey-weeks”). The German Honigmond (literally “honey-moon”) is a calque of French lune de miel, itself a calque of the English term.

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