记忆方法
将“lighter”联想为一个“light”的物体，它本身较轻（lighter），例如，想象一个蜡烛 lighter，它轻巧地被拿在手中。这样的形象可以帮助你记忆单词“lighter”作为“轻便的”或“打火机”的意思。
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词族 · lighter
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中文词源
lighter 打火机
来自light,发光，光线。
英语词源
- lighter (n.1)
- "barge," late 15c., agent noun from light (adj.1), with a sense of lightening a load, or else from Dutch lichter, from lichten "to lighten, unload," on the same notion. They are used in loading or unloading ships that cannot approach a wharf.
- lighter (n.2)
- "person who lights," 1550s, agent noun from light (v.2).
权威例句
- 1. A problem for manufacturers is that lighter cars tend to be noisy.
- 制造商们遇到的一个问题是，重量较轻的汽车往往噪音大。
- 2. Modern tennis rackets are now apparently 20 per cent lighter.
- 现代的网球拍据说比以前的轻20%。
- 3. Giving an arsonist a lighter is beyond a joke.
- 把打火机交给纵火犯简直是不可理喻。
- 4. It is one of his finest works in a lighter vein.
- 这是他行文风格轻松活泼的作品中最出色的作品之一。
- 5. The heavy dark table is inlaid with lighter wood.
- 笨重的深色桌子上嵌有颜色较浅的木头。