dormant

英 ['d??m(?)nt] 美['d?rm?nt]

反義詞

IELTSTOEFLTEM8GRE低頻詞擴(kuò)展詞匯

名詞:?dormancy;

dormant“冬眠的”
2. Dormant：倒悶頭。倒下悶頭就睡----冬眠的，靜止的。

dormant 蟄伏的

來(lái)自PIE*drem，睡覺(jué)，休息。引申詞義蟄伏。

dormant: dormant: [14] Like dormitory and dormer, dormant comes ultimately from Latin dormīre ‘sleep’, which is related to Sanskrit drā- ‘sleep’ and Russian dremat’ ‘doze’. Dormant was borrowed from French dormant, the present participle of dormir ‘sleep’, while dormitory [15] comes from Latin dormītōrium, a derivative of the past participle of dormīre. Dormer [16], from Old French dormeor, a derivative of dormir, originally signified a ‘dormitory window’. (It is not clear whether dormouse [15] is related, but if it is it would mean literally ‘sleeping mouse’, or conceivably even ‘sleeper’, from French dormeuse, the feminine of dormeur ‘sleeper’.)
=> dormer, dormitory
dormant (adj.): late 14c., "fixed in place," from Old French dormant (12c.), present participle of dormir "to sleep," from Latin dormire "to sleep," from PIE root *drem- "to sleep" (cognates: Old Church Slavonic dremati "to sleep, doze," Greek edrathon "I slept," Sanskrit drati "sleeps"). Meaning "in a resting situation" (in heraldry) is from c. 1500. Meaning "sleeping' is from 1620s.

1. The virus remains dormant in nerve tissue until activated.: 病毒潛伏于神經(jīng)組織里直到被激活。

3. Many animals are in a dormant state during winter.: 在冬天許多動(dòng)物都處于睡眠狀態(tài).

5. The dormant period is another stage in the life cycle of the plant.: 休眠期是這種植物生活史中的另一個(gè)階段。