mist

英 [mɪst] 美[mɪst]

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复数: mists;第三人称单数: mists;过去式: misted;过去分词: misted;现在分词: misting;

mist 【迷失的】雾

mist 薄雾，水气

来自古英语mist,薄雾，水气，来自Proto-Germanic*mikhstaz,可能来自PIE*meus,水气，湿的，词源同moss,moist.

mist: mist: [OE] Mist is a member of quite a widespread Indo-European family of ‘mist’-words. Dutch and Swedish share mist, and among the non- Germanic languages Greek has omíkhlē, Lithuanian and Latvia migla, Serbo-Croat màgla, Polish mgła, and Russian mgla, all meaning ‘mist’, besides Sanskrit mēghas ‘cloud’, which all point back to an Indo- European ancestor *migh-, *meigh-.
mist (n.): Old English mist "dimness (of eyesight), mist" (earliest in compounds, such as misthleoðu "misty cliffs," wælmist "mist of death"), from Proto-Germanic *mikhstaz (cognates: Middle Low German mist, Dutch mist, Icelandic mistur, Norwegian and Swedish mist), perhaps from PIE *meigh- "to urinate" (cognates: Greek omikhle, Old Church Slavonic migla, Sanskrit mih, megha "cloud, mist;" see micturition).
Sometimes distinguished from fog, either as being less opaque or as consisting of drops large enough to have a perceptible downward motion. [OED]
Also in Old English in sense of "dimness of the eyes, either by illness or tears," and in figurative sense of "things that obscure mental vision."
mist (v.): Old English mistian "to become misty, to be or grow misty;" see mist (n.). Meaning "To cover with mist" is early 15c. Related: Misted; misting.

1. I stepped outside and pulled up my collar against the cold mist.: 我走出门，竖起衣领抵御冷雾。

2. He recognized the coast of England through a veil of mist.: 透过薄雾他认出了那是英格兰的海岸线。

3. With a thick mist now blanketing the trees, I got thoroughly lost.: 此时浓雾笼罩着林木，我彻底迷路了。