animal是什么意思_animal怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

marked by the appetites and passions of the body;"animal instincts"
"carnal knowledge"
"fleshly desire"
"a sensual delight in eating"
"music is the only sensual pleasure without vice"

中英词源

animal 动物

来自词根anim, 呼吸，风，灵魂，有生命。

animal: animal: [14] Etymologically, an animal is a being which breathes (compare DEER). Its immediate source was the Latin adjective animālis ‘having a soul’, a derivative of the noun anima ‘breath, soul’ (which also gave English the verb and adjective animate [15]). Anima is a member of a set of related words in which the notions of ‘breath, wind’ and ‘spirit, life’ are intimately connected: for instance, Greek ánemos ‘wind’ (possible source of English anemone), Latin animus ‘spirit, mind, courage, anger’ (source of English animosity [15] and animus [19]), Sanskrit ániti ‘breathe’, Old English ōthian ‘breathe’, Swedish anda ‘breath, spirit’, and Gothic usanan ‘breathe out’.

The ‘breath’ sense is presumably primary, the ‘spirit, life’ sense a metaphorical extension of it.
=> anemone, animate, animosity, animus
animal (n.): early 14c. (but rare before c. 1600, and not in KJV, 1611), "any living creature" (including humans), from Latin animale "living being, being which breathes," neuter of animalis "animate, living; of the air," from anima "breath, soul; a current of air" (see animus, and compare deer). Drove out the older beast in common usage. Used of brutish humans from 1580s.
animal (adj.): late 14c., from animal (n.). Animal rights is attested from 1879; animal liberation from 1973. Animal magnetism originally (1784) referred to mesmerism.

词态变化

复数 animals;

权威造句

1. There was no doubting the animal magnetism of the man.: 毫无疑问，这个男人身上透着一种野性魅力。

2. You feel an animal panic to run and hide.: 你会感到一种本能的恐惧而想要去逃避。

3. You"re quite a party animal aren"t you, out there every night.: 你就是为派对而生的，不是吗，每天晚上你都去参加派对。

4. The hunter knelt beside the animal carcass and commenced to skin it.: 猎人跪在动物尸体旁边，开始剥皮。

5. We were amused to see how assiduously the animal groomed its fur.: 看着这只动物如此认真地梳理自己的毛，我们被逗乐了。

近反义词

beast

creature

adj.

bestial

bodily

brutish

fleshly

physical

wild

相似短语

draught animal 驮畜,挽畜

animal agriculture 畜牧业

animal black 骨黑

animal breeding 动物育种，家畜繁育

animal farm 畜牧场

animal fat 动物油脂

animal kingdom n.动物界

animal labor 畜力

animal pattern 模型动物

animal pigment 动物色素

单词分析

这些名词均含“动物”之意。
animal普通用词，指区别于植物和矿物而言的动物的总称。
beast指有别于爬行动物、昆虫等的较大的四脚兽类或牛、马等牲畜。
creature通常指生物或动物，与非生动相对。指人时，则含怜悯或轻蔑的意味。
brute特指野兽。用于人时，突出其野蛮或残忍。
cattle指大牲畜，尤其指牛。

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