meek

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发音

UK /miːk/
其它
US /mik/

词形变化

meeked meeking meeks 三单 meeks meeking 现在分词 meeked 过去式 meeked 过去分词 meeker 比较级 meeker meekest meekest 最高级

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To tame; to break (a horse)

    美国
adj.
  1. 1.

    Humble, non-boastful, modest, meager, or self-effacing.

  2. 2.

    Submissive, dispirited, cowed.

词汇关系

形容词

同义词 4

modest mild tame spiritless

近义相关 3

humble submissive docile

词源

From Middle English meek, meke, meoc, probably a borrowing from Old Norse mjúkr (“soft; meek”), from Proto-Germanic *meukaz, *mūkaz (“soft; supple”), from Proto-Indo-European *mewg-, *mewk- (“slick, slippery; to slip”); compare Old English smēag (“subtle, stealthy, etc.”) and smūgan. Cognate with Swedish and Norwegian Nynorsk mjuk (“soft”), Norwegian Bokmål myk (“soft”), and Danish myg (“supple”), Dutch muik (“soft, overripe”), dialectal German mauch (“dry and decayed, rotten”), Mauche (“malanders”). Compare as well Welsh mwyth (“soft, weak”), Latin ēmungō (“to blow one's nose”), Tocharian A muk- (“to let go, give up”), Lithuanian mùkti (“to slip away from”), Ancient Greek μύσσομαι (mússomai, “to blow the nose”), Sanskrit मु॒ञ्चति॑ (muñcáti, “to release, let loose”).

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