busy:忙碌的小蜜蜂?
复合词,由in+come组成。in为副词,表示在里面,come中,C表骆驼,引申指行走,这里指进来,后指通过劳动或经商获得的收入。
例句:
All this in a nice, tidy package that's affordable to the masses and pays out afive-figure income!
所有这一切都在一个不错的,整洁的软件包的负担得起的群众并支付了5位数的收入!
源自原始印欧语词根 *bhedh-(挖掘) ,B表房屋,这里指在地上挖坑用来睡觉的屋子,后指床、河床、底座等。(助记,有老师觉得象形更好记忆,即b和d表床头床尾,e表床面。词源是不支持的,但画面感炒鸡强不是)。
例句:
Little Jack felt a bit sick , so his mother sent him to bed early.
小Jack有点不适,所以他母亲让他提早睡觉了。
-ing后缀。
例句:
The queen went into the bedrooms. She took all the bedding off the beds. Shelaid a pea on the bottom of each bed.
王后走到卧室。她把所有的床上用品收起来。她把豌豆放在床上。她拿来很多床垫。
复合词,由bed+room组成。
例句:
One evening, a few days befor John's seventh birthday, he was saying hisprayers in his bedroom befor he went to bed. "Please, God. "
一天晚上,几天之前,约翰七岁生日的时候,他正在祈祷在他的卧室里之前他上床了。
源自原始印欧语词根*bhei-(蜜蜂),B表房屋,这里指会自己造房子的昆虫,即蜜蜂。
例句:
A bee hovers over a flower to see if it has nectar to collect.
蜜蜂在花朵上盘旋,看看有没有花蜜可以采集。
复合词,由bee+hive组成。hive源自原始印欧语词根*keup-(圆形容器、碗),K为C的同音[k]通转,C形表圆形,这里指圆的容器,即蜂窝。至于H与K的关联,参见邓万勇的《英语子母学研究》吧,可能是发音上有某种关联,魔法师不太确定。
例句:
It was a beehive. Being a kind soul he picked it up to put it back in the tree.
好心的他拾起了蜂巢想放回树上。
-y为后缀,词根bus与bee同义,busy原指像蜜蜂一样忙碌的(人或物),即忙碌的。
例句:
Jennifer Aniston: No really, I haven't been busy aside from a little bit of acting and a few things I'm working on for Plan B.
安妮斯顿:不只如此,除此之外我还为另一些工作忙碌,包括为“PLANB”的一些事情忙碌。
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