记忆方法
1、anima 在拉丁语里是「气息、灵魂」：会喘气的活物就叫 animal。早期英语里这个词连人也算(一切生物)，后来才专指兽类。
2、同根：animation 动画、animate 使有生命。
3、anim 这一族另有 animus(心气)：animosity 敌意、magnanimous 宽宏大量。
2、同根：animation 动画、animate 使有生命。
3、anim 这一族另有 animus(心气)：animosity 敌意、magnanimous 宽宏大量。
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词族 · animal
词形变化
中文词源
animal 动物
来自词根anim, 呼吸，风，灵魂，有生命。
英语词源
- animal
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animal: [14] Etymologically, an animal is a being which breathes (compare DEER). Its immediate source was the Latin adjective animālis ‘having a soul’, a derivative of the noun anima ‘breath, soul’ (which also gave English the verb and adjective animate [15]). Anima is a member of a set of related words in which the notions of ‘breath, wind’ and ‘spirit, life’ are intimately connected: for instance, Greek ánemos ‘wind’ (possible source of English anemone), Latin animus ‘spirit, mind, courage, anger’ (source of English animosity [15] and animus [19]), Sanskrit ániti ‘breathe’, Old English ōthian ‘breathe’, Swedish anda ‘breath, spirit’, and Gothic usanan ‘breathe out’.
The ‘breath’ sense is presumably primary, the ‘spirit, life’ sense a metaphorical extension of it.
=> anemone, animate, animosity, animus - animal (n.)
- early 14c. (but rare before c. 1600, and not in KJV, 1611), "any living creature" (including humans), from Latin animale "living being, being which breathes," neuter of animalis "animate, living; of the air," from anima "breath, soul; a current of air" (see animus, and compare deer). Drove out the older beast in common usage. Used of brutish humans from 1580s.
- animal (adj.)
- late 14c., from animal (n.). Animal rights is attested from 1879; animal liberation from 1973. Animal magnetism originally (1784) referred to mesmerism.
权威例句
- 1. There was no doubting the animal magnetism of the man.
- 毫无疑问，这个男人身上透着一种野性魅力。
- 2. You feel an animal panic to run and hide.
- 你会感到一种本能的恐惧而想要去逃避。
- 3. You're quite a party animal aren't you, out there every night.
- 你就是为派对而生的，不是吗，每天晚上你都去参加派对。
- 4. The hunter knelt beside the animal carcass and commenced to skin it.
- 猎人跪在动物尸体旁边，开始剥皮。
- 5. We were amused to see how assiduously the animal groomed its fur.
- 看着这只动物如此认真地梳理自己的毛，我们被逗乐了。
词语辨析
【beast, brute, creature, cattle, animal】
这组词都有“动物”的意思，其区别是：
beast: 指有别于爬行动物、昆虫等的较大的四脚兽类或牛、马等牲畜。
brute: 特指野兽。用于人时，突出其野蛮或残忍。
creature: 通常指生物或动物，与非生动相对。指人时，则含怜悯或轻蔑的意味。
cattle: 指大牲畜，尤其指牛。
animal: 普通用词，指区别于植物和矿物而言的动物的总称。
这组词都有“动物”的意思，其区别是：
beast: 指有别于爬行动物、昆虫等的较大的四脚兽类或牛、马等牲畜。
brute: 特指野兽。用于人时，突出其野蛮或残忍。
creature: 通常指生物或动物，与非生动相对。指人时，则含怜悯或轻蔑的意味。
cattle: 指大牲畜，尤其指牛。
animal: 普通用词，指区别于植物和矿物而言的动物的总称。