词族 · mickle
词形变化
中文词源
mickle 许多的
much的古语。来自古英语micel,许多，大量，来自PIE*meg,巨大的，词源同magnate,much.
英语词源
- mickle (adj.)
- dialectal survival of Old English micel, mycel "great, intense, big, long, much, many," from Proto-Germanic *mekilaz (cognates: Old Saxon mikil, Old Norse mikill, Old High German mihhil, Gothic mikils), from PIE root *meg- "great, large" (cognates: Armenian mets "great;" Sanskrit mahat- "great, mazah- "greatness;" Avestan mazant- "great;" Hittite mekkish "great, large;" Greek megas "great, large;" Latin magnus "great, large, much, abundant," major "greater," maximus "greatest;" Middle Irish mag, maignech "great, large;" M.Welsh meith "long, great"). Its main modern form is much (q.v.). Related: Mickleness.
权威例句
- 1. Seek mickle, and get something; seek little, and get nothing.
- 寻找多一些,就得著一些. 寻找少一些, 就一无所得.
- 2. Many a little makes a mickle; many sands will sink a ship.
- 积少成多,集腋成裘; 积沙沉舟.
- 3. Mickle power makes many enemies.
- 势大树敌多.
- 4. Mickle ado, and little help.
- 小题大作, 没有用处.
- 5. However, many a mickle makes a muckle, and in total they add up to something significant.
- 但是积少成多, 所有的加在一起就会形成巨大的影响.