mustang

英 ['m?st??] 美['m?st??]

暢通詞匯哺乳動(dòng)物

復(fù)數(shù):?mustangs;

mustang 北美野馬

來自墨西哥西班牙語mestengo,走偏的動(dòng)物，來自西班牙語mesta,混雜，混合，來自拉丁語miscere,混合，混雜，詞源同mix,miscellany,mestizo.用于指美洲大草原上與家畜混在一起的北美野馬。

mustang: mustang: [19] Etymologically, a mustang is a ‘mixed’ animal. The word comes from Mexican Spanish mestengo, which originally in Spanish meant ‘stray’. This was derived from mesta ‘a(chǎn)nnual roundup of cattle, participated in by all the herdsmen, in which stray cattle were disposed of’, which in turn goes back to medieval Latin mixta. And mixta (literally ‘mixed’) was used for the wild or stray animals that got ‘mixed’ in with the graziers’ herds (it was a noun use of the feminine past participle of miscēre ‘mix’, source of English miscellaneous and mix).

The word passed early on from ‘stray cattle’ to ‘stray horses’.
=> miscellaneous, mix
mustang (n.): "small, half-wild horse of the American prairie," 1808, from Mexican Spanish mestengo "animal that strays" (16c.), from Spanish mestengo "wild, stray, ownerless," literally "belonging to the mesta," an association of cattle ranchers who divided stray or unclaimed animals that got "mixed" with the herds, from Latin mixta "mixed," fem. past participle of miscere "to mix" (see mix (v.)).

Said to be influenced by the Spanish word mostrenco "straying, wild," which is probably from mostrar, from Latin monstrare "to show."

2. Phrases such as " father of the Mustang " could no longer be used.: “ 野馬車之父 ” 這樣的提法就不能再使用了.

3. The Ford Mustang was a smash hit in the American car market.: 福特野馬曾經(jīng)是美國(guó)市場(chǎng)上最暢銷的車型.

5. Mustang II was very successful, although it wasn't quite the hit that the original had been.: 野馬二型很成功, 雖然沒有象原來的野馬那末盛極一時(shí).