单词
steady
英 ['sted?]
美['st?di]
基本信息
- adj. 稳定的；不变的；沉着的
- vi. 稳固
- vt. 使稳定；稳固；使坚定
- adv. 稳定地；稳固地
- n. 关系固定的情侣；固定支架
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词态变化
第三人称单数:?steadies;过去式:?steadied;过去分词:?steadied;现在分词:?steadying;比较级:?steadier;最高级:?steadiest;副词:?steadily;名词:?steadiness;
中文词源
steady 稳定的，稳固的
stead,位置，地方，-y,形容词后缀。
英文词源
- steady
- steady: [16] Steady was derived from stead ‘place’, probably on the model of Middle Low German stēdig ‘stable’. This in turn went back to a prehistoric Germanic *stadigaz, a product of the same base as produced English stead. Its etymological meaning is ‘fixed in one place’.
=> stead - steady (adj.)
- 1520s, "firmly fixed in place or station" (replacing earlier steadfast), from stead + adjectival suffix -y (2), perhaps on model of Middle Dutch, Middle Low German stadig. Old English had st?eeig "grave, serious," and stedig "barren," but neither seems to be the direct source of the modern word. Old Norse cognate stoeugr "steady, stable" was closer in sense. As an adverb from c. 1600.
Originally of things; of persons or minds from c. 1600. Meaning "working at an even rate" is first recorded in 1540s. Steady progress is etymologically a contradiction in terms. Steady state first attested 1885; as a cosmological theory (propounded by Bondi, Gold, and Hoyle), it is attested from 1948. Related: Steadily. - steady (v.)
- 1520s, transitive and intransitive, from steady (adj.). Related: Steadied; steadying.
- steady (n.)
- 1792, "a steady thing or place," from steady (adj.). From 1885 as "something that holds another object steady." Meaning "one's boyfriend or girlfriend" is from 1897; to go steady is 1905 in teenager slang.
双语例句
- 1. Gail was silent for a moment, regarding Harry with his steady gaze.
- 盖尔镇定地注视着哈里，沉默了片刻。
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- 2. She felt increasingly uncomfortable under the woman's steady gaze.
- 那个女人一直盯着她看，让她觉得愈发不自在了。
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- 3. He was firm and steady unlike other men she knew.
- 他坚定可靠，和她认识的其他男人不一样。
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- 4. It's been hard to get a steady fix on what's going on.
- 要对正在发生的事情保持持续的关注和了解并不容易。
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- 5. He reached for a cigarette and lit it, fingers rock steady.
- 他伸手拿了一支烟点着，手指纹丝不动。
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