cave
英 [keɪv]
美 [keɪv]
- vt. 使凹陷，使塌落；在…挖洞穴
- vi. 凹陷，塌落；投降
- n. 洞穴，窑洞
- n. (Cave)人名；(西)卡韦；(英)凯夫；(法)卡夫
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1. cage cave.
中文词源
cave 洞穴
来自PIE*keue, 膨胀，拱，堆积，词源同accumulate, cumulative.即拱起来的小空间，后指洞穴。
英语词源
- cave
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cave: There are two English words cave which, despite their apparent similarity, are probably unrelated. The earlier, ‘underground chamber’ [13], comes via Old French cave from Latin cavea, a nominal use of the adjective cavus ‘hollow’ (source also of cavern [14], via Old French caverne or Latin caverna, and of cavity [16], from the late Latin derivative cavitās).
The verb cave [18], however, as in ‘cave in’, seems to come from an earlier dialectal calve ‘collapse, fall in’, once widespread in the eastern counties of England; it has been speculated that this was borrowed from a Low German source, such as Flemish inkalven. It has subsequently, of course, been much influenced by the noun cave.
=> cavern, cavity, decoy - cave (n.)
- early 13c., from Old French cave "a cave, vault, cellar" (12c.), from Latin cavea "hollow" (place), noun use of neuter plural of adjective cavus "hollow," from PIE root *keue- "a swelling, arch, cavity" (see cumulus). Replaced Old English eorðscrafu. First record of cave man is 1865.
- cave (v.)
- early 15c., caven, "to hollow something out," from cave (n.). Modern sense "to collapse in or down" is 1707, American English, presumably from East Anglian dialectal calve "collapse, fall in," perhaps from Flemish; subsequently influenced by cave (n.). Transitive sense by 1762. Related: Caved; caving. Figurative sense of "yield to pressure" is from 1837.
权威例句
- 1. But in some respects cave dwellers were far cleverer than us.
- 但是在某些方面穴居人要比我们聪明得多。
- 2. Most of the mouth of the cave was submerged in the lake.
- 洞口大半都淹没在湖里。
- 3. The force of the water washed him back into the cave.
- 大水把他冲回到洞里。
- 4. They tried digging in a patch just below the cave.
- 他们试着在洞穴正下方的一块地上挖掘。
- 5. The entrance to the cave was infilled by the landowner.
- 山洞的入口被地产的主人给堵上了。
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