nickname
英 ['n?kne?m]
美['n?k'nem]
- n. 綽號；昵稱
- vt. 給……取綽號；叫錯名字
CET6TEM4IELTS考研中低頻詞常用詞匯
詞態(tài)變化
復數:?nicknames;第三人稱單數:?nicknames;過去式:?nicknamed;過去分詞:?nicknamed;現在分詞:?nicknaming;
中文詞源
nickname 綽號，昵稱
錯分裂詞，來自an eke name,額外的名字，eke,增加，詞源同augment.
英文詞源
- nickname
- nickname: [14] A nickname is etymologically an ‘additional name’. The word was originally ekename, whose eke ‘addition’ was a derivative of the verb eke (as in ‘eke out’). But by the 15th century an ekename was becoming misinterpreted as a nekename – hence nickname (the same process produced newt [15] from ewt, ancestor of modern English eft ‘newt’, and the reverse happened to adder, apron, and umpire).
=> eke - nickname (n.)
- mid-15c., misdivision of ekename (c. 1300), an eke name, literally "an additional name," from Old English eaca "an increase," related to eacian "to increase" (cognate with Old Norse auknafn, Swedish ?knamn, Danish ?genavn; see eke; also see N). As a verb from 1530s. Related: Nicknamed; nicknaming.
雙語例句
- 1. The vital clue to the killer's identity was his nickname, Peanuts.
- 查明殺手身份的重要線索是他的外號叫“花生”.
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Andrew roared with delight when he heard Rachel's nickname for the baby.
- 安德魯聽到雷切爾給嬰兒起的綽號時，不禁高興得大笑起來。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. His family's Cantonese nickname for him translates as Never Sits Still.
- 家人為他起的廣東話綽號意思是NeverSitsStill（從來坐不住）。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. She professed to hate her nickname.
- 她自稱痛恨自己的外號。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. She delighted in the nickname, the "iron lady".
- 她喜愛這個昵稱——“鐵娘子”。
來自柯林斯例句