greyhound 核心词议:
n. 灰狗;快速船
greyhound 基本解释
速记方法
速记技巧
词源记忆法
从结构来看,一般人都会认为该谢是个复合词,由grey(灰色的)和hound(猎狗)二词合成。greyhound是一种身体细长而善跑的狗,汉语作“灵”,但多数的毛色并不是灰的。该词第一成分grey-和颜色词grey无甚联系,它在古英语作grig-.源自古斯堪的纳维亚语grey,意思是bitch(母狗)。这种狗之所以称greyhound并非因为它的毛色是灰的,而是因为人们常把它作为育种母狗来饲养。
知识扩展
greyhound 变化形式
复数: greyhounds
易混淆的单词: Greyhound
中文词源:
greyhound 灵犭是,猎犬
来自古英语grighund.来自grig,母狗,拼写受grey 影响,-hund,狗,词源同hound.大多数这 种狗并非灰白色。
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精选例句
1、 Tormented by the wish to see his father and his fairy sister with azure hair,he raced like a greyhound.
他渴望看到自己的父亲和天蓝色头发的仙女姐姐,这让他很痛苦,他像灰狗一样狂奔。
常见考点例句:
- " Kathy , " I said as we boarded a greyhound in pittsburgh
- 在匹兹堡乘上灰狗长途,“凯茜,”我说,
- Today greyhound racing remains a very lucrative business .
- 今天的赛狗仍然是一个非常赚钱的生意。
- Its powerful thigh muscles allow its legs to pump more rapidly than the spindly greyhound 's can .
- 它们发达的大腿肌肉使它们能比瘦长的灵缇跑得更快。
- A man he met on the greyhound bus gave him a room until he found his feet .
- 他在灰狗巴士上结识了一个人,那人提供给他一个房间落脚。
- It was probably a greyhound bus ticket .
- 这可能是一个灰狗巴士车票。