tail
英 [teɪl]
美 [teɪl]
- n. 尾巴；踪迹；辫子；燕尾服
- vt. 尾随；装上尾巴
- vi. 跟踪；变少或缩小
- adj. 从后面而来的；尾部的
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tale 故事，传说——tail尾巴
口诀：；老师讲了一个小壁虎断尾巴的故事。
口诀：；老师讲了一个小壁虎断尾巴的故事。
中文词源
tail 尾巴，尾部
来自古英语 taegl,尾巴，来自 Proto-Germanic*tagla,尾巴，尾毛，来自 PIE*dok,尾巴上的毛， 来自 PIE*dek,撕，扯，分开。
英语词源
- tail
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tail: [OE] Tail comes from a prehistoric Germanic *taglaz, whose other modern descendants include German zagel ‘penis’ and Swedish tagel ‘horsehair’. This in turn went back to an Indo- European *doklos, which had the general meaning ‘something long and thin’.
- tail (n.1)
- "hindmost part of an animal," Old English tægl, tægel "a tail," from Proto-Germanic *tagla- (cognates: Old High German zagal, German Zagel "tail," dialectal German Zagel "penis," Old Norse tagl "horse's tail," Gothic tagl "hair"), from PIE *doklos, from suffixed form of root *dek- (2) "something long and thin" (referring to such things as fringe, lock of hair, horsetail; cognates: Old Irish dual "lock of hair," Sanskrit dasah "fringe, wick"). According to OED, the primary sense, at least in Germanic, seems to have been "hairy tail," or just "tuft of hair," but already in Old English the word was applied to the hairless "tails" of worms, bees, etc. But Buck writes that the common notion is of "long, slender shape." As an adjective from 1670s.
Meaning "reverse side of a coin" (opposite the side with the head) is from 1680s; that of "backside of a person, buttocks" is recorded from c. 1300; slang sense of "pudenda" is from mid-14c.; that of "woman as sex object" is from 1933, earlier "act of copulation" with a prostitute (1846). Of descending strokes of letters, from 1590s.
Tails "coat with tails" is from 1857. The tail-race (1776) is the part of a mill race below the wheel. To turn tail "take flight" (1580s) originally was a term in falconry. The image of the tail wagging the dog is attested from 1907. Another Old English word for "tail" was steort (see stark). - tail (n.2)
- "limitation of ownership," a legal term, early 14c. in Anglo-French; late 13c. in Anglo-Latin, in most cases a shortened form of entail.
- tail (v.)
- 1520s, "attach to the tail," from tail (n.1). Meaning "move or extend in a way suggestive of a tail" is from 1781. Meaning "follow secretly" is U.S. colloquial, 1907, from earlier sense of "follow or drive cattle." Related: Tailed; tailing. Tail off "diminish" is attested from 1854.
权威例句
- 1. When in danger, the anteater lashes its tail round a branch.
- 遇有危险，食蚁兽会迅速用尾巴卷住树枝。
- 2. I couldn't make head nor tail of the damn film.
- 这部该死的影片我一点儿都看不懂。
- 3. She stood watching the car's tail-lights disappear down the drive.
- 她站在那儿，望着小汽车的尾灯消失在车道尽头。
- 4. The boys wore black tail coats in mourning for George III.
- 男孩身穿黑色燕尾服为乔治三世服丧。
- 5. It has a short stumpy tail covered with bristles.
- 它粗短的尾巴上鬃毛浓密。
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