wasp

B2 FREQ #15525 ★☆☆☆☆

n. 黄蜂, 胡蜂, 易怒的人, 刻毒的人 [医] 胡蜂, 黄蜂

发音

UK /wɒsp/
US /wɑsp/
US /waps/
/wæsp/

词形变化

wasps 复数 wasped wasping wasps 三单 wasping 现在分词 wasped 过去式 wasped 过去分词

别名

waps

释义与例句

n. B2
  1. 1.

    Any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet.

    黄蜂

    胡蜂

    蚂蜂

  2. 2.

    Any of the members of suborder Apocrita, excepting the ants (family Formicidae) and bees (clade Anthophila).

    生物 动物学
  3. 3.

    Any of the members of suborder Apocrita, excepting the ants (family Formicidae) and bees (clade Anthophila).

    Any of the members of the family Vespidae.

    生物 动物学
  4. 4.

    A person who behaves in an angry or insolent way, hence waspishly.

  5. 1.

    Alternative letter-case form of WASP (“white Anglo-Saxon Protestant”).

v.
  1. 1.

    To move like a wasp; to buzz.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 7

white protestant caucasian hymenopter hymenopteran hymenopteron white person

下位词 4

gallfly gall wasp velvet ant vespid

相关短语

wasp spider wasp waist n. 蜂腰, 细腰 wasp waists wasp spiders wasp around wasp beetle wasp beetles wasp moth wasp moths scarlet-bodied wasp moth scarlet-bodied wasp moths polka-dot wasp moth polka-dot wasp moths sea wasp 海黄蜂（澳大利亚箱形水母的别称, 有剧毒） ichneumon wasp

词源

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- Proto-Indo-European *wóbʰseh₂ Proto-Germanic *wapsō Proto-West Germanic *wapsu Old English wæps Middle English wasp English wasp Inherited from Middle English wasp, waspe, waps, from Old English wæsp, wæps, from Proto-West Germanic *wapsu, from Proto-Germanic *wapsō, from Proto-Indo-European *wóbʰseh₂ (“wasp”), from *webʰ- (“to weave”), referring to the insect's woven nests. Compare Dutch wesp, German Wespe, Danish hveps. Metathesis of /s/ and /p/ was both a process of some generality within English (compare grasp from Middle English grapsen, and—affecting other plosives—ascian ~ acsian (“to ask”)) and common in the reflexes of *wóps-eh₂ (“wasp”) in particular, as the aforementioned Germanic cognates (and non-Germanic cognates like Latin vespa) evince.

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