tall是什么意思_tall怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

tall: tall: [14] The ancestral meaning of tall is ‘quick’. It is a descendant of Old English getæl ‘quick, ready’, whose relatives included Old Frisian tel and Old High German gizal ‘quick’, and which may go back ultimately to the prehistoric Germanic base *tal- (source of English tale, talk, and tell). By the time of its re-emergence in Middle English it was being used for ‘brave, bold’, but the modern sense ‘of great height’ did not develop until the 16th century.
tall (adj.): "high in stature," 1520s, probably from Middle English tal "handsome, good-looking; valiant; lively in speech; large, big; humble, meek," from Old English getæl "prompt, active," from Germanic *(ge)-tala- (cognates: Old High German gi-zal "quick," Gothic un-tals "indocile"). Main modern sense "being of more than average height (and slim in proportion to height)" probably evolved out of earlier meanings "brave, valiant, seemly, proper" (c. 1400), "attractive, handsome" (late 14c.).

Sense evolution is "remarkable" [OED], but adjectives applied to persons can wander far in meaning (such as pretty, buxom, German klein "small, little," which in Middle High German meant the same as its English cognate clean (adj.)). Meaning "having a (defined) height," whether lofty or not is from 1580s. Meaning "exaggerated" (as in tall tale) is American English colloquial attested by 1846. Phrase tall, dark, and handsome is recorded from 1906. Related: Tallness.

词态变化

名词 tallness;

2. Lovett was a tall, commanding man with a waxed gray mustache.: 洛维特是个威严的高个男人，蓄着灰白的八字胡。

big

high

tall tale n. 吹牛大话

tall talk n. 大话

tall buttercup phr. 毛莨

tall growing 高棵生长，生长高大的

tall ship n. 高桅横帆船

tall mallow phr. 锦葵

tall crowfoot phr. 毛莨

tall growth 高生植物

tall copy 精装大版本（书页上下的空白特别宽大）

tall order n. 离谱的要求, 苛求

这些形容词均有“高的”之意。
high普通用词，指本身高出地面之上，与low相对，不用于人。也可指程度、地位、声音等的高，还可作引申用。
tall仅指人或物的高度，指物的“高”时，可与high换用。
lofty书面用词，指外观宏伟壮丽的高耸物；用于指思想或目的时，表示崇高。贬义指态高傲。

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