wax
英 [wæks]
美 [wæks]
- n. 蜡；蜡状物
- vt. 给…上蜡
- vi. 月亮渐满；增大
- adj. 蜡制的；似蜡的
- n. (Wax)人名；(德、罗、匈、英)瓦克斯
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中文词源
wax 蜡
来自PIE*wokso,蜡。
wax 渐强来自PIE*weg,增加，来自PIE*aug的扩大格，增加，词源同augment,waist.
英语词源
- wax
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wax: Wax ‘soft oily substance’ [OE] and the now archaic wax ‘grow, become’ [OE] are distinct words. The former comes (together with German wachs, Dutch was, Swedish vax, and Danish vox) from a prehistoric Germanic *wakhsam. This in turn was descended from the Indo-European *weg- ‘weave’ (source also of English veil). Wax originally referred specifically to ‘bees-wax’, and the word’s underlying etymological reference is to the combs ‘woven’ from wax by bees.
Russian and Czech vosk ‘wax’ come from the same ultimate source. The verb wax goes back to the Indo- European base *woks-, a variant of which has given English auction and augment. Although it has largely died out in English, its relatives in the other Germanic languages (meaning ‘grow’) are still very much alive: German wachsen, Dutch wassen, Swedish vāxa, and Danish vokse.
=> veil; auction, augment - wax (n.)
- Old English weax "substance made by bees," from Proto-Germanic *wahsam (cognates: Old Saxon, Old High German wahs, Old Norse vax, Dutch was, German Wachs), from PIE root *wokso- "wax" (cognates: Old Church Slavonic voskŭ, Lithuanian vaškas, Polish wosk, Russian vosk "wax" (but these may be from Germanic). Used of other similar substances from 18c. Slang for "gramophone record" is from 1932, American English (until the early 1940s, most original records were made by needle-etching onto a waxy disk which was then metal-plated to make a master). Waxworks "exhibition of wax figures representing famous or notorious persons" first recorded 1796.
- wax (v.)
- "grow bigger or greater," Old English weaxan "to increase, grow" (class VII strong verb; past tense weox, past participle weaxen), from Proto-Germanic *wahsan (cognates: Old Saxon, Old High German wahsan, Old Norse vaxa, Old Frisian waxa, Dutch wassen, German wachsen, Gothic wahsjan "to grow, increase"), from PIE *weg- (cognates: Sanskrit vaksayati "cause to grow," Greek auxein "to increase"), extended form of root *aug- (1) "to increase" (see augment). Strong conjugation archaic after 14c. Related: Waxed; waxing.
权威例句
- 1. She loved the scent in the house of wax polish.
- 她喜欢房子里打过蜡的味道。
- 2. Hearing can be affected by ear wax blocking the ear canal.
- 耳垢堵塞耳道可能会影响听力。
- 3. Her skin is pale, the texture of fine wax.
- 她肤色苍白，肤质细腻如蜡。
- 4. I covered the scroll in sealing wax, and affixed a red ribbon.
- 我用封蜡将卷轴封好，并系上一根红丝带。
- 5. A thick layer of wax was spread over the surface.
- 表面涂上了厚厚的一层蜡。
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