welsh
英 [wel?]
美[w?l?]
- vi. 賴帳，賴賭債逃走；逃避責(zé)任
- vt. 逃避責(zé)任；對(duì)…不守諾言
GRE常用詞匯
詞態(tài)變化
第三人稱單數(shù):?welshes;過(guò)去式:?welshed;過(guò)去分詞:?welshed;現(xiàn)在分詞:?welshing;
助記提示
1. racing slang, "to refuse or avoid payment of money laid as a bet," probably a disparaging use of the national name Welsh.
中文詞源
Welsh 威爾士
來(lái)自Proto-Germanic*walhaz,凱爾特部落名，凱爾特人，后詞義通用化，用于指外國(guó)人，不固定的羅馬人，高盧人，不列顛人等非日耳曼人，直至后來(lái)指現(xiàn)代意義上的威爾士人。大部分現(xiàn)代凱爾特語(yǔ)學(xué)者認(rèn)為該詞原義為獵鷹，詞源同falcon, 也有學(xué)者偏向于詞義為狼，詞源同wolf. 詞義演變比較frank.
welsh 賴帳來(lái)自Welsh,威爾干人。賴帳義可能來(lái)自英國(guó)人的對(duì)威爾士的調(diào)侃或開(kāi)涮。比較Dutch courage,French letter.
英文詞源
- Welsh (adj.)
- Old English Wielisc, Wylisc (West Saxon), Welisc, W?lisc (Anglian and Kentish) "foreign; British (not Anglo-Saxon), Welsh; not free, servile," from Wealh, Walh "Celt, Briton, Welshman, non-Germanic foreigner;" in Tolkien's definition, "common Gmc. name for a man of what we should call Celtic speech," but also applied in Germanic languages to speakers of Latin, hence Old High German Walh, Walah "Celt, Roman, Gaulish," and Old Norse Val-land "France," Valir "Gauls, non-Germanic inhabitants of France" (Danish v?lsk "Italian, French, southern"); from Proto-Germanic *Walkhiskaz, from a Celtic tribal name represented by Latin Volc? (Caesar) "ancient Celtic tribe in southern Gaul."
As a noun, "the Britons," also "the Welsh language," both from Old English. The word survives in Wales, Cornwall, Walloon, walnut, and in surnames Walsh and Wallace. Borrowed in Old Church Slavonic as vlachu, and applied to the Rumanians, hence Wallachia. Among the English, Welsh was used disparagingly of inferior or substitute things (such as Welsh cricket "louse" (1590s); Welsh comb "thumb and four fingers" (1796), and compare welch (v.)). Welsh rabbit is from 1725, also perverted by folk-etymology as Welsh rarebit (1785).
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. The western-most part of north Wales is a stronghold of Welsh-speakers.
- 北威爾士最西部是說(shuō)威爾士語(yǔ)人的聚居區(qū)。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 2. Welsh international Matthew Postle was third fastest at the halfway point.
- 到半程時(shí)，威爾士的世界級(jí)選手馬修·波斯特爾位居第三。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 3. Since the Sixties, afforestation has changed the Welsh countryside.
- 60年代以來(lái)，植樹(shù)造林已經(jīng)改變了威爾士的鄉(xiāng)村面貌。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 4. He wants actors who can speak Welsh. Obviously I've had it.
- 他要的是會(huì)說(shuō)威爾士語(yǔ)的演員。明擺著，我是沒(méi)指望了。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 5. Stephen ventured a few more sentences in halting Welsh.
- 在阻止韋爾什時(shí)，斯蒂芬壯著膽子多說(shuō)了幾句。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句