meadow: [OE] Etymologically, meadow means ‘mowed land’. It goes back ultimately to an Indo-European *mētwá, a derivative of the base *mē- ‘mow’ (source of English mow [OE]). In prehistoric Germanic this became *m?dwō (whence German matte ‘meadow’), which passed into Old English as m?d. The modern English descendant of this, mead, now survives only as an archaism, but its inflected form, m?dwe, has become modern English meadow. => mow
meadow (n.)
Old English m?dwe "meadow, pasture," originally "land covered in grass which is mown for hay;" oblique case of m?d (see mead (n.2)).
雙語例句
1. In the spring, the meadow is a mass of daffodils.
春天，草地上開滿了黃水仙。
來自柯林斯例句
2. We punted up towards Grantchester and had a picnic in a meadow.
我們乘坐平底長船溯河而上到格蘭切斯特，在草地上舉行野餐。
來自柯林斯例句
3. lambs gambolling in the meadow
在草地上蹦蹦跳跳的小羊羔
來自《權(quán)威詞典》
4. The seeds of dandelion were carried to the meadow by the wind.