drip
英 [dr?p]
美 [dr?p]
- vi. 滴下；充滿；漏下
- n. 水滴，滴水聲；靜脈滴注；使人厭煩的人
- vt. 使滴下；溢出，發出
助記提示
1. PIE root *dhreu- "fall, drip, droop" => Old English dreosan (past participle droren) "fall" => Middle English dresen "fall".
2. PIE root *dhreu- "fall, drip, droop" => Proto-Germanic *drup- "fall, drop".
3. 由此推出同源詞：drown; dreary; drizzle, drowsy; drip, drop, droop.
4. drip-drop?滴水聲
中文詞源
drip 滴落來自PIE*dhreu, 滴，詞源同drop.
英文詞源
- drip
- drip: see drop
- drip (n.)
- mid-15c., from drip (v.). The slang meaning "stupid, feeble, or dull person" is first recorded 1932, perhaps from earlier American English slang sense "nonsense" (1919).
- drip (v.)
- c. 1300, perhaps from Middle Danish drippe, from Proto-Germanic *drup- (cognates: Dutch druipen, German triefen), from PIE root *dhreu-. Related to droop and drop. Old English had cognate drypan "to let drop," dropian "fall in drops," and dreopan "to drop." Related: Dripped; dripping.
雙語例句
- 1. He is on a saline drip.
- 他正在輸鹽水.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 2. The faucet has developed a drip.
- 那個水龍頭已經開始滴水了.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 3. Everything he said drip ped acid.
- 他的話里字字句句都帶著刺.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》
- 4. I hate this sort of drip.
- 我討厭這種無聊的閑話.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》
- 5. I had a bad attack of pneumonia and spent two days in hospital on a drip.
- 我得了嚴重的肺炎，在醫院輸了兩天液。
來自柯林斯例句