记忆方法
1、sheep 单复数同形：一只羊是 sheep，一百只还是 sheep——这个复数并进单数的习惯非常古老，后面加 s 写成 sheeps 是错写法。
2、它自古就是比喻：羊群温顺胆小，所以直接指"胆小的、盲从的人"；sheepish（羞怯的、心虚的）就是从"像羊的"加 -ish 长出来的；习语 wolf in sheep's clothing 披着羊皮的狼。
3、读音硬伤：sheep /ʃiːp/ 是长音，ship（船）/ʃɪp/ 是短音——羊长船短，听不出区别就会拼错，ee 就是长音记号。另有一说它本义是"被造出来的生灵"，和 shape（塑造）沾亲。
2、它自古就是比喻：羊群温顺胆小，所以直接指"胆小的、盲从的人"；sheepish（羞怯的、心虚的）就是从"像羊的"加 -ish 长出来的；习语 wolf in sheep's clothing 披着羊皮的狼。
3、读音硬伤：sheep /ʃiːp/ 是长音，ship（船）/ʃɪp/ 是短音——羊长船短，听不出区别就会拼错，ee 就是长音记号。另有一说它本义是"被造出来的生灵"，和 shape（塑造）沾亲。
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词族 · sheep
词形变化
中文词源
sheep 羊，绵羊
来自古英语 sceap,羊，绵羊，来自 West Germanic*skaepan,羊，绵羊，进一步词源不详。
英语词源
- sheep
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sheep: [OE] Sheep is a West Germanic word, with relatives in German schaf and Dutch schaap. It is not known where it came from, although it has been speculated that it may be related to German schaffen ‘make, create’ (and hence to English shape), and that its underlying meaning is hence ‘creature’. The derivative sheepish [12] originally meant simply ‘sheeplike’. It had a variety of metaphorical applications in Middle English, including ‘silly’ and ‘fearful’, but the modern ‘shy’ did not emerge until the late 17th century. Shepherd is of course based on sheep.
- sheep (n.)
- ruminant mammal, Old English sceap, scep, from West Germanic *skæpan (cognates: Old Saxon scap, Old Frisian skep, Middle Low German schap, Middle Dutch scaep, Dutch schaap, Old High German scaf, German Schaf), of unknown origin. Not found in Scandinavian (Danish has faar for "sheep") or Gothic (which uses lamb), and with no known cognates outside Germanic. The more usual Indo-European word for the animal is represented in English by ewe.
The plural form was leveled with the singular in Old English, but Old Northumbrian had a plural scipo. Used since Old English as a type of timidity and figuratively of those under the guidance of God. The meaning "stupid, timid person" is attested from 1540s. The image of the wolf in sheep's clothing was in Old English (from Matt. vii:15); that of separating the sheep from the goats is from Matt. xxv:33. To count sheep in a bid to induce sleep is recorded from 1854 but seems not to have been commonly written about until 1870s. It might simply be a type of a tedious activity, but an account of shepherd life from Australia from 1849 ["Sidney's Emigrant's Journal"] describes the night-shepherd ("hut-keeper") taking a count of the sheep regularly at the end of his shift to protect against being answerable for any animals later lost or killed.
Sheep's eyes "loving looks" is attested from 1520s (compare West Frisian skiepseach, Dutch schaapsoog, German Schafsauge). A sheep-biter was "a dog that worries sheep" (1540s); "a mutton-monger" (1590s); and "a whore-monger" (1610s, i.e. one who "chases mutton"); hence Shakespeare's sheep-biting "thieving, sneaky."
权威例句
- 1. She mispronounced ship as sheep.
- 她把ship念成sheep了.
- 2. 'ship " doesn't rhyme with'sheep ".
- Ship 和 sheep 不押韵.
- 3. The first task was to fence the wood to exclude sheep.
- 第一项任务就是把树林围起来不让羊进去。
- 4. Every summer the shepherds drive the sheep up to pasture.
- 每年夏天牧羊人都将羊群赶到牧场去。
- 5. Sheep's milk is produced in much the same way as goat's milk.
- 绵羊奶和山羊奶的生产过程差不多。