chest-chief:虵(蛇)无头不行,鸟无翼不飏
【造词理据】源自PIE词根*kista(无纺布容器),K为C的同音通转,象形。C模仿容器的外形,喻指箱子,后指心脏的的容器(身体的颈部到膈肌),即由肋骨组成。
【例句】I remember you clutching at my shirt, bunching it up in handfuls around my chest.
我记得你抓住我的衬衫,向上拉扯著,挤压著我的胸膛。
【同根词】kist。
【造词理据】源自PIE词根PIE *gyeu-(咀嚼chew、下巴jaw),G为C的同源通转,象形,模仿脸颊(cheek)的外形。咀嚼主要特征就是下巴动起来。
【例句】But a large head would not be needed if it did not chew.
不过,如果一种动物无需咀嚼的话,那么它就不需要一个很大的头部了。
【同根词】chin、cheek、chew
【造词理据】拟声词,源自词根*keuk-(鸟叫声的回音),模仿小鸟的叫声的回音,借指小鸡、鸡。
【例句】Another one of my favorite dishes: General Tso's Chicken -- which, by the way,in the US Naval Academy is called Admiral Tso's Chicken.
接下来是我最喜欢的菜肴之一,左宗棠鸡。顺便提一下,在美国海军军官学校,它被叫做左司令鸡。
【同根词】cygnet(雄鸡一叫天下白,也许是这种视角)
【造词理据】源自PIE词根*kaput-(头head)。K为C的同音通转,象形。C形模仿头的外形,借指头,后喻指头部、头目、头领、酋长等。
【例句】Bree was the chief village of the Bree-land, a small inhabited region, like anisland in the empty lands round about.
布理是布理兰的中心村落,是一个小居住区,如小岛一般被空旷之地围绕。
【同根词】achieve; behead; biceps; cabbage; cabochon; caddie; cadet; cap; cap-a-pie; cape (n.1) "garment;" cape (n.2) "promontory;" capital (adj.); capital (n.3) "head of a column or pillar;" capitate; capitation; capitulate; capitulation; capitulum; capo (n.1) "leader of a Mafia family;" capo (n.2) "pitch-altering device for a stringed instrument;" caprice; capsize; captain; cattle; caudillo; chapter; chef; chief; chieftain; corporal (n.); decapitate; decapitation; forehead; head; hetman; kaput; kerchief; mischief; occipital; precipice; precipitate; precipitation; recapitulate; recapitulation; sinciput; triceps.
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