mole
英 [m??l]
美[mol]
- n. 鼴鼠；痣；防波堤；胎塊；間諜
IELTS低頻詞常用詞匯哺乳動物
詞態變化
復數:?moles;
助記提示
1. 音譯“摩爾”，物質的量的單位。
2. molecule (指小詞, 指小詞綴：-cul-) <====> mole(摩爾)：也許最初好像是認為分子是最小的微粒，據此創造了此單詞吧。
3. 一摩爾的微粒是很微小的量 =》 微量，據此表示“微小的污跡，斑點”，進而引申為：痣、胎塊。
2. molecule (指小詞, 指小詞綴：-cul-) <====> mole(摩爾)：也許最初好像是認為分子是最小的微粒，據此創造了此單詞吧。
3. 一摩爾的微粒是很微小的量 =》 微量，據此表示“微小的污跡，斑點”，進而引申為：痣、胎塊。
中文詞源
mole 鼴鼠，內奸
縮寫自molewarp,歐洲鼴鼠。后用于鼴鼠通用名。引申俚語義內奸。
mole 防洪堤來自拉丁語moles,大塊，防洪堤，大工程，大建筑物，來自PIE*mo,努力，勞苦，詞源同demolish,molecule,molest.
mole 痣來自古英語mal,斑點，痣，來自Proto-Germanic*mailan,斑點，記號，來自PIE*mai,涂沫，弄臟，玷污，詞源同miasma.
mole 摩爾分子單位，縮寫自molecule.
mole 沙司來自西班牙語，來自南美土著語molli,沙司，調料，燉料，詞源同guacamole.
英文詞源
- mole
- mole: English has four distinct words mole. The oldest is ‘brown spot’ [OE]. It is the descendant of Old English māl, which meant broadly ‘discoloured mark’. This developed in Middle English to ‘spot on the skin’, but the specific sense ‘brown mark’ did not emerge until fairly recently. The word goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *mailam, a derivative of a base meaning ‘spot, mark’ which also produced German malen ‘paint’ and Dutch maalen ‘paint’ (source of English maulstick ‘stick used as a rest by painters’ [17]). Mole the animal [14] was borrowed from Middle Dutch mol.
No one knows for sure where this came from, but its similarity to the now obsolete mouldwarp ‘mole’ [14] (a compound noun whose etymological meaning is ‘earththrower’) suggests that it could represent a truncated version of mouldwarp’s prehistoric Germanic ancestor. The metaphorical application of the word to a ‘traitor working secretly’ has been traced back as far as the 17th century, but its modern currency is due to its use by the British espionage writer John le Carré. Mole ‘harbour wall’ [16] comes via French m?le and medieval Greek mólos from Latin mōlēs ‘mass, massive structure’.
The diminutive form of this, coined in modern times, is mōlēcula, from which, via French molécule, English gets molecule [18]. Other relatives are demolish and, possibly, molest [14], which comes ultimately from Latin molestus ‘troublesome’, connected by some scholars with mōlēs. And German mol, a convenient shortening of molekulargewicht ‘molecular weight’, has given English its fourth mole [20], used as the basic unit of measurement for the amount of a substance.
=> maulstick; molecule, molest - mole (n.1)
- spot on skin, Old English mal "spot, mark, blemish," especially on cloth or linen, from Proto-Germanic *mailan "spot, mark" (cognates: Old High German meil, German Mal, Gothic mail "wrinkle"), from PIE root *mai- "to stain, defile" (cognates: Greek miainein "to stain, defile," see miasma). Specifically of dark marks on human skin from late 14c.
- mole (n.2)
- type of small burrowing mammal (Talpa europea), mid-14c., probably from obsolete moldwarp, literally "earth-thrower." Spy sense first recorded 1974 in John le Carré (but suggested from early 20c.), from notion of "burrowing." Metaphoric use for "one who works in darkness" is from c. 1600.
- mole (n.3)
- "breakwater," 1540s, from Middle French m?le "breakwater" (16c.), ultimately from Latin moles "mass, massive structure, barrier," from PIE root *mo- "to exert oneself" (cognates: Greek molos "effort," molis "hardly, scarcely;" German mühen "to tire," müde "weary, tired;" Russian majat' "to fatigue, exhaust," maja "hard work").
- mole (n.4)
- unit of molecular quantity, 1902, from German Mol coined 1900 by German chemist Wilhelm Ostwald (1853-1912), short for Molekül (see molecule).
雙語例句
- 1. These reactive mole-cules are mopped up and made harmless by Vitamin E.
- 這些活性分子已被維生素E滅活，沒有害處了。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. A mole is a blemish on a person's skin.
- 黑痣在人的皮膚上是一個疵點.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》
- 3. The mole bored its way underground.
- 鼴鼠在地下挖掘路.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 4. A mole can undermine the strongest rampart.
- 一只田鼠能毀壞最堅固的堡壘.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 5. A mole mines its way.
- 鼴鼠挖坑道.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》