• n. 豬；卑賤的人

來自古英語 swin,來自 Proto-Germanic*swinan,來自 PIE*su,豬，詞源同 sow.

swine

swine: [OE] Swine is the ancestral English term for the ‘pig’, and it remained the main word until pig began to take over from it in the early modern English period. It came from a prehistoric Germanic *swīnam, which also produced German schwein, Dutch swijn, and Swedish and Danish svin. And this in turn went back to Indo-European *su-, source also of English hyena and sow.
=> hyena, sow

swine (n.)

Old English swin "pig, hog, wild boar," from Proto-Germanic *swinan (cognates: Old Saxon, Old Frisian Middle Low German, Old High German swin, Middle Dutch swijn, Dutch zwijn, German Schwein, Old Norse, Swedish, Danish svin), neuter adjective (with suffix *-ino-) from PIE *su- "pig" (see sow (n.)). The native word, largely ousted by pig. Applied to persons from late 14c. Phrase pearls before swine (mid-14c.) is from Matt. vii:6; an early English formation of it was:

Ne ge ne wurpen eowre meregrotu toforan eowrum swynon. [c. 1000]

The Latin word in the Gospel verse was confused in French with marguerite "daisy" (the "pearl" of the field), and in Dutch the expression became "roses before swine." Swine-flu attested from 1921.

1. You rotten swine! How dare you?

你這個討厭鬼！你竟敢這樣？

來自柯林斯例句

2. He's an arrogant little swine!

他是個傲慢的小討厭鬼！

來自《權威詞典》

3. A swine over fat is the cause of his own bane.

豬死都因身過肥.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. Draff is good enough for swine.

喂豬只需要用豬食(意為不作不必要的浪費).

來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》

5. Circe metamorphosed men into swine.

女妖錫西把人變成了豬.

來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》