victuals
['vitlz]
- n. 食物，食品；給養(yǎng)
英文詞源
- victuals
- victuals: [14] Victuals are etymologically something you eat to stay ‘a(chǎn)live’. The word came from late Latin vīctūālia ‘provisions’, a noun use of the plural of vīctūālis ‘of nourishment’. This in turn was derived from vīctus ‘livelihood’, which was formed from the same base as vivere ‘live’ (source of English convivial, revive, survive, viper, vivacious, vivid, etc, as well as of a range of words descended from its derivative vīta ‘life’, such as vital and vitamin).
The pronunciation of the word, /vit?lz/, reflects the form in which it was originally acquired, via Old French vitaille, but its spelling represents a return to its Latin original.
=> convivial, revive, survive, viper, vivacious, vivid - victuals (n.)
- c. 1300, vitaylle (singular), from Anglo-French and Old French vitaille "food, nourishment, provisions," from Late Latin victualia "provisions," noun use of plural of victualis "of nourishment," from victus "livelihood, food, sustenance, that which sustains life," from past participle stem of vivere "to live" (see vital). Spelling altered early 16c. to conform with Latin, but pronunciation remains "vittles."
雙語例句
- 1. A plateful of coarse broken victuals was set before him.
- 一盤粗劣的剩余飯食放到了他的面前.
來自辭典例句
- 2. There are no more victuals for the pig.
- 豬沒有吃的啦.
來自辭典例句
- 3. I warned them to sell none of victuals.
- 為了他們在這天買賣應(yīng)用品,我曾警戒了他們.
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- 4. A supplier of victuals ; a sutler.
- 你和哪一家 供應(yīng)商 交易?
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- 5. They are a light victuals.
- 這是一種清淡食物.
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