daft基本信息
读法：英 [dɑːft] 美 [dæft]
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英英释义
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中英词源
daft 愚蠢的
来自PIE*dhabh, 匹配，组装，词源同fabric. 原义为温和的，举止得体的，词源同deft. 后词义由温和的讽刺的过渡到笨拙的，愚蠢的。
- daft
- daft: [13] Daft was not always a term of reproach. It originally meant ‘mild, gentle’, and only in late Middle English slid to ‘stupid’ (in a semantic decline perhaps paralleling that of silly, which started off as ‘happy, blessed’). Middle English dafte corresponds directly to an Old English gedæfte, whose underlying sense seems to have been ‘fit, suitable’ (the sense connection was apparently that mild unassuming people were considered as behaving suitably).
There is no direct evidence of its use with this meaning, but Old English had a verb gedæftan ‘make fit or ready, prepare’ which, together with the Gothic verb gedaban ‘be suitable’, points to its origin in a Germanic base *dab- ‘fit, suitable’. This ties in with the semantic development of deft, a variant of daft, which has moved from a prehistoric ‘fit, suitable’ to ‘skilful’.
=> deft - daft (adj.)
- Old English gedæfte "gentle, becoming," from Proto-Germanic *gadaftjaz (cognates: Old English daeftan "to put in order, arrange," gedafen "suitable;" Gothic gadaban "to be fit"), from PIE *dhabh- "to fit together" (see fabric). Sense of "mild, well-mannered" (c. 1200) led to that of "dull, awkward" (c. 1300). Further evolution to "foolish" (mid-15c.), "crazy" (1530s) probably was influenced by analogy with daffe "halfwit" (see daffy); the whole group probably has a common origin.
词态变化
比较级 dafter;
最高级 daftest;
名词 daftness;
权威造句
- 1. I can lose a few pounds without resorting to daft diets.
- 我不用疯狂地节食也能减轻几磅。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. "I found a mermaid."— "Don"t be daft. There"s no such thing."
- “我发现了一条美人鱼。”——“别说傻话了。哪有那种东西。”
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. Don"tbe daft!
- 别傻了！
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. "Aren"t we daft?" she smiled.
- 她微笑着问：“我们不是很傻吗？”
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. Don"t be so daft!
- 别那么犯傻了！
来自《权威词典》
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单词分析
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记忆方法
1. 谐音“打发他、打发的”----愚蠢的人是最好打发的。
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