lame
英 [le?m]
美[lem]
- adj. 跛足的；僵痛的；不完全的；無說服力的；差勁的，蹩腳的
- vi. 變跛
- vt. 使跛；使成殘廢
CET6TEM4CET4IELTS考研低頻詞常用詞匯
詞態變化
比較級:?lamer;最高級:?lamest;名詞:?lameness;
助記提示
1. lame=累母，瘸子一輩子連累母親。
中文詞源
lame 跛的
來自PIE*lem,擊，打，詞源同lam,lambaste.引申詞義打跛，跛的。
lame 金銀錦緞來自拉丁語lamina,層，薄片，詞源同laminate,omelet.用于指金銀錦緞織物。
英文詞源
- lame
- lame: [OE] Prehistoric Germanic had an adjective *lamon which meant ‘weak-limbed’, and seems to have originated in a base which meant something like ‘break by hitting’ (English lam ‘hit’ [16], as in ‘lam into someone’, and its derivative lambaste [17] probably come from the same source). In the modern Germanic languages it has diversified into two strands of meaning: Dutch, Swedish, and Danish lam denote mainly ‘paralysed’, a sense also present in German lahm, while English lame has taken the path of ‘limping, crippled’.
=> lam, lambaste - lame (n.)
- "silk interwoven with metallic threads," 1922, from French lame, earlier "thin metal plate (especially in armor), gold wire; blade; wave (of the sea)," from Middle French lame, from Latin lamina, lamna "thin piece or flake of metal."
- lame (adj.)
- Old English lama "crippled, lame; paralytic, weak," from Proto-Germanic *lamon (cognates: Old Norse lami, Dutch and Old Frisian lam, German lahm "lame"), "weak-limbed," literally "broken," from PIE root *lem- "to break; broken," with derivatives meaning "crippled" (cognates: Old Church Slavonic lomiti "to break," Lithuanian luomas "lame"). In Middle English, "crippled in the feet," but also "crippled in the hands; disabled by disease; maimed." Sense of "socially awkward" is attested from 1942. Noun meaning "crippled persons collectively" is in late Old English.
- lame (v.)
- "to make lame," c. 1300, from lame (adj.). Related: Lamed; laming.
雙語例句
- 1. He mumbled some lame excuse about having gone to sleep.
- 他含含糊糊地找了個蹩腳的借口，想要解釋自己為什么睡著了。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Scott's muscle atrophied, his leg became stunted, and he was left lame.
- 斯科特的肌肉萎縮，一條腿發育不完全，成了個瘸子。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. Look, I'm not one of your lame ducks.
- 聽著，我可不像你手下的那些廢物。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. All our theories sound pretty lame.
- 我們的理論似乎全都站不住腳。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. He tried to justify his absence with lame excuses.
- 他想用站不住腳的借口為自己的缺席辯解.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》