vixen

英 ['v?ks(?)n] 美['v?ksn]

近義詞cat fury

暢通詞匯

復(fù)數(shù):?vixens;

vixen 雌狐

來自fox的英語南方方言變體，狐貍，-en，古英語陰性詞后綴，現(xiàn)代英語惟一保留。

vixen: vixen: [15] The only Old English word on record for a ‘female fox’ is fyxe. Fixene first appears in the late Middle English period. It was formed using the suffix -en, denoting ‘female’. This was once quite common – Old English had biren ‘female bear’, for instance, and gyden ‘goddess’ – but it now survives only in vixen. (Its German counterpart, -in, is still a live suffix.) The initial v of vixen comes from southwestern England.
=> fox
vixen (n.): Old English *fyxen (implied in adjective fyxan), fem. of fox (see fox (n.) and cognate with Middle High German vühsinne, German füchsin). Solitary English survival of the Germanic feminine suffix -en, -in (also in Old English gyden "goddess;" mynecen "nun," from munuc "monk;" wlyfen "she-wolf," etc.). The figurative sense "ill-tempered woman" is attested from 1570s. The spelling shift from -f- to -v- began late 1500s (see V).

1. One morning when a vixen was taking her babies out of the lair, she saw a lioness and her cub.: 一天清早,雌狐貍帶著她的孩子走出巢穴, 看見了母獅子和她的孩子.

2. With an angelic face and a vixen body nobody can resist her.: 擁有天使般的面孔和悍婦般的身材沒有可以抵抗她.

3. Winner of G 4 Video Game Vixen for Dressed to Kill even though she hardly wears anything.: G4視頻游戲以穿著殺人的勝利者,即使她幾乎什么都沒穿.

4. Take a look back at the actress'big screen as a heat - packing vixen.: 讓我們來回顧一下她在大銀幕上的全副武裝的女槍手形象.