swine

FREQ #7266

n. 猪, 卑鄙的家伙

发音

US /swaɪn/

词形变化

swines 复数 swines

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A pig (the animal).

  2. 2.

    A pig (the animal). The Zimmerman farm introduced swine to their husbandry.

    The Zimmerman farm introduced swine to their husbandry.

  3. 3.

    A contemptible person (plural swine or swines).

    卑贱的人

    贬义
  4. 4.

    A police officer; a "pig".

    贬义 俚语
  5. 5.

    Something difficult or awkward; a pain.

    贬义 俚语

    That old car is a swine to manoeuvre.

  6. 6.

    plural of sow

    古体

词汇关系

名词

上位词 2

artiodactyl even-toed ungulate

下位词 10

pig hog boar sow warthog squealer babiroussa babirusa babirussa grunter

相关短语

swine fever [医] 猪霍乱 swine flu n. 猪流感 swine influenza [医] 猪流感 swine flesh Blind Swine Mate Blind swine mates cast pearls before swine 明珠暗投 pearls before swine casts pearls before swine Gadarene swine go the entire swine goes the entire swine going the entire swine

词源

From Middle English swyn, swin, from Old English swīn, from Proto-West Germanic *swīn, from Proto-Germanic *swīną, from an adjectival form of Proto-Indo-European *suH- (“pig”). Cognates Related to West Frisian swyn, Low German Swien, Dutch zwijn, German Schwein, Danish and Swedish svin, and more distantly to Polish świnia, Russian свинья́ (svinʹjá), Latin sūinus, Latin sūs, Ancient Greek ὗς (hûs), Persian خوک (xuk).

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