mice

FREQ #6639

pl. 老鼠

发音

其它 /maɪs/

词形变化

meeces mices 三单 micin micing 现在分词 miced 过去式 miced 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    plural of mouse

v.
  1. 1.

    To be distracted or inattentive (possibly alluding to a cat being distracted by a mouse).

相关短语

when the cat's away the mice will play 山中无老虎，猴子称大王 the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry the best laid plans of mice and men go oft astray when the cat's away the mice play wood mice house mice sugar mice flying mice yellow-necked mice kangaroo mice field mice dust mice water mice Count Branicki's mice a cat in gloves catches no mice

词源

From Middle English mys, mice, muis, mise, mis, from Old English mȳs (“mice”), from an umlauted form of Proto-Germanic *mūsiz (“mice”), nominative and vocative plural of Proto-Germanic *mūs (“mouse”). Compare Scots mice, mise, myse, myce (“mice”), West Frisian mûzen (“mice”), Dutch muizen (“mice”), German Mäuse (“mice”), Swedish möss (“mice”), Faroese mýs (“mice”), Icelandic mýs (“mice”). More at mouse.

来源：wiktionary