
den基本信息
读法:英 [den] 美 [dɛn]
释义:
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星级词汇:★★★
英英释义
Noun:
中英词源
den 兽穴
来自PIE*dan, 低地,词源同Dane. 引申词义兽穴。
- den
- den: [OE] Related forms such as German tenne ‘threshing floor’ and possibly Greek thenar ‘palm of the hand’ suggest that the underlying meaning of den may be ‘flat area’. Old English denn denoted ‘wild animal’s lair’, perhaps with reference to animals’ flattening an area of vegetation to form a sleeping place. Dean [OE], a word for ‘valley’ now surviving only in placenames, comes from the same source.
- den (n.)
- Old English denn "wild animal"s lair," from Proto-Germanic *danjan (cognates: Middle Low German denne "lowland, wooded vale, den," Old English denu "valley," Old Frisian dene "down," Old High German tenni, German tenne "threshing floor," from PIE *dan- "low ground"). Sense of "small room" is 1771, originally colloquial.
词态变化
复数 dens;
权威造句
- 1. The government is cynically running down Swe-den"s welfare system.
- 瑞典政府正自私自利地削减本国的福利。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. A disco isn"t exactly a den of iniquity.
- 迪斯科舞厅并非藏污纳垢之处。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. There is a big fox den on the back hill.
- 后山有一个很大的狐狸窝.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 4. He finds himself in a den of ruffians.
- 他发现自己在流氓的巢穴中.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 5. The tiger retired to its den.
- 那只虎退回巢穴.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
近反义词
相似短语
单词分析
暂无,等待补充.
记忆方法
“洞”穴
2. Den:等。猎人等待的地方----兽穴,窝;人们偷偷等的地方----秘密相聚的地方。
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