mow怎么读?

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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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。

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.

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.

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》