meed

n. 报酬, 奖赏

发音

US /miːd/
其它
UK /miːd/

词形变化

meeds 复数 meeds meeded meeding meeds 三单 meeding 现在分词 meeded 过去式 meeded 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A payment or recompense made for services rendered or in recognition of some achievement; reward; award.

    古体 文学

    1880, translation by Richard Francis Burton of Os Lusiadas, Canto IX, stanza 93 by Luís de Camões Better to merit and the meed to miss, than, lacking merit, every meed possess.

  2. 2.

    A gift; bribe.

  3. 3.

    Merit; worth.

    过时

    In any case, his life would be in ignominy and would be brief, and he would have lost irretrievably the meed of valour.

v.
  1. 1.

    To reward; bribe.

    及物
  2. 2.

    To deserve; merit.

    及物

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

reward

相关短语

sosh meed

词源

From Middle English meede, mede, from Old English mēd, meord, meard, meorþ (“meed, reward, pay, price, compensation, bribe”), from Proto-West Germanic *miʀdu, from Proto-Germanic *mizdō (“meed”), from Proto-Indo-European *misdʰéh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to exchange”). Cognate with obsolete Dutch miede (“wages”), Low German Meed (“rent”), German Miete (“rent”), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌶𐌳𐍉 (mizdō, “meed, reward, payment, recompense”); further Ancient Greek μισθός (misthós, “wage”), Old Church Slavonic мьзда (mĭzda, “reward”), Sanskrit मीळ्ह (mīḷhá), Sanskrit मीढ (mīḍhá), Avestan 𐬨𐬍𐬲𐬛𐬀 (mīžda).

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