单词
bite
英 [ba?t]
美[ba?t]
基本信息
- vt. 咬；刺痛
- n. 咬；一口；咬伤；刺痛
- vi. 咬；刺痛
- abbr. 机内测试设备（Built-In Test Equipment）
- n. (Bite)人名；(匈)比泰
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词态变化
复数:?bites;第三人称单数:?bites;过去式:?bit;过去分词:?bitten;现在分词:?biting;
中文词源
bite 咬
来自PIE *bheid, 咬，撕，词源同bit, boat.
英文词源
- bite
- bite: [OE] The Old English verb bītan came from prehistoric Germanic *bītan, which also produced German beissen and Dutch bijten. The short-vowel version of the base, *bit-, was the source of bit, beetle, and probably bitter, and is also represented in various non-Germanic forms, such as Latin fidere ‘split’ (from which English gets fission). Bait came via Old Norse from a causal usage, ‘cause to bite’, and passed via Old French into abet (the possible source of bet).
=> beetle, bit, bitter, fission - bite (v.)
- Old English bitan (class I strong verb; past tense bat, past participle biten), from Proto-Germanic *bitan (cognates: Old Saxon bitan, Old Norse and Old Frisian bita, Middle Dutch biten, Dutch bijten, German beissen, Gothic beitan "to bite"), from PIE root *bheid- "to split, crack" (see fissure).
To bite the bullet is said to be 1700s military slang, from old medical custom of having the patient bite a lead bullet during an operation to divert attention from pain and reduce screaming. Figurative use from 1891; the custom itself attested from 1840s. To bite (one's) tongue "refrain from speaking" is 1590s. To bite the dust "die" is 1750 (Latin had the same image; compare Virgil's procubuit moriens et humum semel ore momordit). To bite off more than one can chew (c. 1880) is U.S. slang, from plug tobacco. - bite (n.)
- c. 1200, from bite (v).
双语例句
- 1. Wendy popped in for a quick bite to eat on Monday night.
- 温迪周一晚上过来匆匆吃了点儿饭。
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- 2. I struck it away and got a bite on my forearm.
- 我把它打跑了，但小臂被咬了一口。
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- 3. Any dog bite, no matter how small, needs immediate medical attention.
- 被狗咬后，不管伤口多小，都必须立即就医。
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- 4. There was a bite in the air, a smell perhaps of snow.
- 空气非常寒冷，似乎有雪的味道。
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- 5. I had to bite back a yelp of surprise.
- 我只好强忍住，没惊叫出来。
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