lait

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n. 牛奶；白细胞黏附抑制试验

词形变化

laited laiting laits 三单 laits laiting 现在分词 laited 过去式 laited 过去分词

别名

late

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To seek; search for; inquire.

    英国 及物/不及物 方言 废旧

    By neeght, o' my bed, I laited him, at my sowl luvs : I laited him, but I dudn't find um.

    The other day I heard a girl hailing from the moorlands of Yorkshire remark that she had "laited a long time for the children, but could not find them," evidently meaning she had sought for them. Is this word common to Yorkshire?

相关短语

café au lait cafés au lait coffee au lait cafe au lait n. <法>牛奶咖啡，浅褐色

词源

From Middle English laiten, leiten, from Old Norse leita (“to seek, search, inquire”), from Proto-Germanic *wlaitōną (“to look out, see”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to see”). Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk leita (“to search”), Icelandic leita (“to search”), Swedish leta (“to search, hunt, forage”), Old English wlātian (“to gaze, observe, look upon, behold”).

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