词族 · steed
词形变化
中文词源
steed 坐骑
来自古英语 steda,种马，畜栏马，来自 Proto-Germanic*stodo,畜栏，来自 PIE*sta,站立，建立， 词源同 stand,stud.引申词义坐骑。
英语词源
- steed
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steed: see stud
- steed (n.)
- Old English steda "stallion, stud horse," from Proto-Germanic *stodjon (source also of Old Norse stoð), from the same Germanic root as Old English stod (see stud (n.2)). In Middle English, "a great horse" (as distinguished from a palfrey), "a spirited war horse." Obsolete from 16c. except in poetic, rhetorical, or jocular language.
权威例句
- 1. John Steed was an arrogant, swaggering young man.
- 约翰·斯蒂德是一个傲慢狂妄的年轻人。
- 2. Never is a steed pigsty - born ; nor an evergreen pine potbound.
- 猪圈岂生千里马,花盆难养万年松.
- 3. A knight rode on his richly caparisoned steed.
- 一个骑士骑在装饰华丽的马上.
- 4. An old steed in the stable still aspires to gallop a thousand li.
- 老骥伏枥,志在千里.
- 5. A fiery steed is not trained in a courtyard, nor does a pine grow sturdy in a greenhouse.
- 院子里练不出千里马, 温室里长不出万年松.