maggot

英 [ˈmæɡ.ət] 美 [ˈmæɡ.ət]
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  • n. [无脊椎] 蛆;空想,狂想
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1. 谐音“茅坑的”---蛆不就是主要生存自茅坑里吗?
2. Figurative use "whim, fancy, crotchet" is 1620s, from the notion of a maggot in the brain.
3. The use of maggot to mean a fanciful or whimsical thing derives from the folk belief that a whimsical or crotchety person had maggots in his or her brain.
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中文词源

maggot 蛆,发疯的

来自中古英语magot,改编自maddock,虫,蛆,来自Proto-Germanic*mathon,来自PIE*math,虫,蛆虫,词源同moth,mawkish.-ock,小词后缀,词源同hillock.词义发疯的来自民间传说,认为脑子里面进虫或蛆或导致人发疯或反之亦然。

英语词源

maggot
maggot: see mawkish
maggot (n.)
late 15c., probably an unexplained variant of Middle English maðek, from Old English maða "maggot, grub," from Proto-Germanic *mathon (cognates: Old Norse maðkr, Old Saxon matho, Middle Dutch, Dutch made, Old High German mado, German Made, Gothic maþa "maggot"). Figurative use "whim, fancy, crotchet" is 1620s, from the notion of a maggot in the brain.

权威例句

1. The rattailed maggot, for example, possesses a'snorklelike " telescopic air tube.
例如长尾蛆就有一个 “ 通气管 ” 似的伸缩吸气管.
2. He's got some maggot in his head.
他在想入非非.
3. I never use a single worm on the hook , preferring a cocktail of worm and maggot.
我从不单用一只虫作钓饵, 而喜欢用虫和蛆的混合物.
4. You've been into Farmer Maggot's crop!
你们又来农夫马嗄的田里偷东西了!
5. When the maggot bites, he will go fishing in the rain.
他有时心血来潮, 会冒着雨走去钓鱼.

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