mow

英 [məʊ] 美[mo]
  • n. 草堆;皱眉;谷堆
  • vt. 割草;收割庄稼
  • vi. 割草;收割庄稼
  • n. (Mow)人名;(英)莫

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中文词源


mow 割草

来自古英语mmawan,割,来自PIE*me,割,割草,割谷,可能是拟声词,词源同meadow.

词态变化


第三人称单数: mows;过去式: mowed;过去分词: mowed mown;现在分词: mowing;

助记提示


1. math, aftermath, mead, meadow => mow.
2. mow => mead, meadow "mowed land".
3. mow => aftermath "grass grows secondly after first mowed".
4. 谐音“茅”----茅草、茅草堆。
5. 谐音“茅”----茅刀----割茅草的刀。

双语例句


1. He continued to mow the lawn and do other routine chores.
他继续剪草坪,并做些其他日常杂务。

来自柯林斯例句

2. In summer we have to mow the lawn twice a week.
夏天我们每周得修剪草坪两次。

来自《权威词典》

3. I mow the lawn every week in summer.
夏天我每周都要修剪草坪。

来自《权威词典》

4. The proposed amalgamation of the two institutes has mow fallen through.
这两个研究所打算合并的事现在已经落空了.

来自《简明英汉词典》

5. He hired a man to mow the lawn.
他雇人割草.

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

英文词源


mow (v.)
Old English mawan "to mow" (class VII strong verb; past tense meow, past participle mawen), from Proto-Germanic *mæanan (cognates: Middle Low German maeyen, Dutch maaien, Old High German maen, German mähen "to mow," Old English mæd "meadow"), from PIE root *me- (4) "to mow, to cut grass or grain" (cognates: poetic Greek amao, Latin metere "to reap, mow, crop," Italian mietere, Old Irish meithleorai "reapers," Welsh medi). Related: Mowed; mown; mowing.
mow (n.)
"stack of hay," Old English muga, muwa "a heap, swath of corn, crowd of people," earlier muha, from Proto-Germanic *mugon (cognates: Old Norse mugr "a heap," mostr "crowd"), of uncertain origin.