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FREQ #12197

abbr. 惯性导航与制导（Inertial Navigation and Guidance）；强中子发生器（Intense Neutron Generator）

发音

US /ɪŋ/
UK /ɪŋ/

词形变化

ings 复数

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A meadow, especially a low meadow near a river; water meadow.

    Ings, glens, and fens of the Highlands.

    [There] lay an extent of meadow grounds, in ings, to afford a supply of hay.

  2. 1.

    The letter for the ng sound /ŋ/ in Pitman shorthand.

相关短语

Eur Ing European Engineer

词源

From Middle English ing, ynge, enge, from Old English ing, *eng (“a meadow; ing”), from Proto-Germanic *angijō (“meadow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énkos (“a bend; curve; bowl; hollow; dell; glen”), from *h₂enk- (“to bend; curve; bow”). Cognate with Scots eng (“ing; meadow”), Dutch eng (“pasture; farmland”), Danish eng (“meadow”), Swedish äng (“meadow; field”), Norwegian eng (“meadow”), Faroese ong (“grassland; meadow; pasture”), Icelandic eng (“a meadow”), Icelandic engi (“a meadow; meadowland”).

来源：wiktionary