
mute基本信息
读法:英 [mjuːt] 美 [mjut]
释义:
使用频率:★★
星级词汇:★★★
英英释义
Noun:
"a silent curse"
"best grief is tongueless"
"the words stopped at her lips unsounded"
"unspoken grief"
"choking exasperation and wordless shame"
中英词源
mute 静音的,不作声的,哑的
来自拉丁语mutus,安静的,来自希腊语myein,合上,合嘴,来自PIE*meue,发嘘声,拟声词。引申词义静音的,不作声的,哑的等。
- mute (adj.)
- late 14c., mewet "silent," from Old French muet "dumb, mute" (12c.), diminutive of mut, mo, from Latin mutus "silent, speechless, dumb," probably from imitative base *meue- (cognates: Sanskrit mukah "dumb," Greek myein "to be shut," of the mouth). Form assimilated in 16c. to Latin mutus.
- mute (v.)
- "deaden the sound of," 1861, from mute (n.). Related: Muted; muting.
- mute (n.)
- 1570s, "stage actor in a dumb show;" 1610s as "person who does not speak," from mute (adj.). Musical sense first recorded 1811 of stringed instruments, 1841, of horns.
词态变化
复数 mutes;
第三人称单数 mutes;
过去式 muted;
过去分词 muted;
现在分词 muting;
权威造句
- 1. He sat mute, speechless with ecstasy, gazing into the sky.
- 他静静坐着,凝视天空,一言不发,心驰神往。
来自柯林斯例句wwW.wentiYI.cOM
- 2. I threw a mute look of appeal at Paula.
- 我默默地向葆拉投去恳求的目光。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. Marianna, the duke"s daughter, became mute after a shock.
- 公爵的女儿玛丽安娜在遭受了一次电击后失声了。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. He could watch her standing mute by the phone.
- 他能看到她一声不响地站在电话旁。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. a look of mute appeal
- 默默请求的表情
来自《权威词典》
近反义词
相似短语
单词分析
这两个形容词均有“哑的,不能说话的”之意。dumb可与mute换用,但dumb指根本没有说话能力或失去了说话能力。
mute多指因后天疾病而引起的聋哑,有时也指因故不说话。
记忆方法
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