单词
mouse
英 [ma?s]
美[ma?s]
基本信息
- n. 鼠标；老鼠；胆小羞怯的人
- vt. 探出
- vi. 捕鼠；窥探
CET4TEM4考研CET6中低频词基本词汇哺乳动物
词态变化
复数:?mice;
助记提示
老鼠 mouse 猫死（老鼠希望猫死）
中文词源
mouse 老鼠，鼠标
来自PIE*mus,老鼠，词源同muscle,mussel.引申词义鼠标。
英文词源
- mouse
- mouse: [OE] Mouse is an ancient word, with relatives today in all the Germanic and Slavic languages. Its Indo-European ancestor was *mūs-, which produced Greek mūs, Latin mūs (something of a dead end: the modern Romance languages have abandoned it), Sanskrit mūs (source, via a very circuitous route, of English musk), and prehistoric Germanic *mūs-.
This has evolved into German maus, Dutch muis, Swedish and Danish mus, and English mouse. And the Slavic branch of the ‘mouse’-family includes Russian mysh’, Polish mysz, and Serbo- Croat mish. English relatives of mouse include muscle and mussel (ultimately the same word) and marmot [17], which goes back to a Vulgar Latin accusative form *mūrem montis ‘mouse of the mountain’.
=> marmot, muscle, musk, mussel - mouse (n.)
- Old English mus "small rodent," also "muscle of the arm," from Proto-Germanic *mus (cognates: Old Norse, Old Frisian, Middle Dutch, Danish, Swedish mus, Dutch muis, German Maus "mouse"), from PIE *mus- (cognates: Sanskrit mus "mouse, rat," Old Persian mush "mouse," Old Church Slavonic mysu, Latin mus, Lithuanian muse "mouse," Greek mys "mouse, muscle").
Plural form mice (Old English mys) shows effects of i-mutation. Contrasted with man (n.) from 1620s. Meaning "black eye" (or other discolored lump) is from 1842. Computer sense is from 1965, though applied to other things resembling a mouse in shape since 1750, mainly nautical.Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus [Horace]
- mouse (v.)
- "to hunt mice," mid-13c., from mouse (n.). Related: Moused; mousing.
双语例句
- 1. The noun " mouse " is the singular form of " mice " .
- 名词mouse是 mice 的单数形式.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 2. Use your mouse to drag the pictures to their new size.
- 用鼠标拖动图片，将其调整为新的尺寸。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. It's a cat-and-mouse game to him, and I'm the mouse.
- 在他看来，这是个猫捉老鼠的把戏，而我就是老鼠。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. You can check your email with a click of your mouse.
- 鼠标轻轻一点，即可查看电子邮件。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. The whole thing is somehow a bit Mickey Mouse.
- 不知怎的，整件事情有点幼稚。
来自柯林斯例句