wasp

1、wasp 可能是"编织工"（来自 PIE*webh「编织」，和 web、weave 同出一根）：许多蜂类会咬出纸一样的巢，编出来的家。记这个词就记"会编巢的虫"。
2、同一根的兄弟是 web(网)、weave(织)；德语 Wespe、拉丁 vespa 同出一祖，中间只是 p、s 换了位置——即"字母 p、s 置换"。
3、喻义照画面记：wasp 指一碰就扑上来的人，形容词 waspish 脾气冲、说话带刺。读音短音 /wɒsp/，拼写别写成 *waps。

wasp 黄蜂

来自PIE*wopsa,编织，构造，来自PIE*webh,编织，纺织，词源同web,weave.字母p,s置换。用于指黄蜂。

wasp

wasp: [OE] Etymologically, the wasp may be the ‘weaver’. The word comes ultimately from Indo- European *wobhes- or *wops-, which was probably derived from the base *webh-, *wobh- ‘weave’ (source of English weave, web, etc); the allusion is presumably to the papery nest which many species construct. West Germanic took this over as *wabis- or *waps-, and the process of metathesis (reversal of sounds) produced English wasp and German wespe. From the same Indo-European ancestor come Latin vespa (source of French guêpe, Italian vespa, and Spanish avispa) and Russian osa.
=> weave, web

wasp (n.)

Old English wæps, wæsp "wasp," altered (probably by influence of Latin vespa) from Proto-Germanic *wabis- (cognates: Old Saxon waspa, Middle Dutch wespe, Dutch wesp, Old High German wafsa, German Wespe, Danish hveps), from PIE *wopsa-/*wospa- "wasp" (cognates: Latin vespa, Lithuanian vapsa, Old Church Slavonic vosa "wasp," Old Irish foich "drone"), perhaps from *webh- "weave" (see weave (v.)). If that is the correct derivation, the insect would be so called for the shape of its nest. Of persons with wasp-like tendencies, from c. 1500. Wasp-waist in reference to women's figures is recorded from 1870 (wasp-waisted is from 1775).

WASP (n.)

acronym for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, by 1955.

1. The dress exaggerates her wasp waist and enlarges her bosom.

那件连衣裙凸显了她的蜂腰，也让她的胸部看起来更丰满。

2. A wasp flew in the open window.

一只黄蜂飞进了开着的窗子。

3. I was stung on the arm by a wasp.

我的胳膊给黄蜂蜇了一下。

4. a privileged Wasp background

享有特权的盎格鲁&dash1;撒克逊裔白人新教徒出身

5. The dog went berserk when a wasp stung him.

狗给黃蜂咬了,变得狂暴.