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wild是什么意思

wild

英 [wa?ld] 美 [wa?ld]

adj. 野生的；野蠻的；狂熱的；荒涼的
n. 荒野
adv. 瘋狂地；胡亂地
n. (Wild)人名；(英)懷爾德；(法、德、葡、捷、匈)維爾德

中文詞源

wild 野的

來自PIE*welt,林地，野地，野外，詞源同wold,vole.

英文詞源

wild: wild: [OE] Wild is a general Germanic word, shared by German and Dutch (wild) and Swedish and Danish (vild). All go back to a prehistoric ancestor *wilthijaz, which in turn was probably descended from Indo-European *ghwelt- (source of Welsh gwyllt ‘wild’). The derivative wilderness [OE] etymologically denotes the ‘condition of being a wild animal’.

It originated as an abstract noun formed from Old English wild dēor ‘wild animal’. But by the time it appears in texts, the modern sense ‘wild land’ is complete. The noun is thought to have been the source of the now defunct verb wilder, which probably served as the basis of bewilder [17]. Wildebeest [19] was acquired from Afrikaans.
=> bewilder, wilderness
wild (n.): "uncultivated or desolate region," 1590s, in the wilds. From wild (adj.). Earlier it meant "wild animal" (c. 1200).
wild (adj.): Old English wilde "in the natural state, uncultivated, untamed, undomesticated, uncontrolled," from Proto-Germanic *wilthja- (cognates: Old Saxon wildi, Old Norse villr, Old Frisian wilde, Dutch wild, Old High German wildi, German wild, Gothic wilteis "wild," German Wild (n.) "game"), from PIE root *welt- "woodlands; wild" (see wold).
Ursula ... hath bin at all the Salsbury rasis, dancing like wild with Mr Clarks. [letter, 1674]
Meaning "sexually dissolute, loose" is attested from mid-13c. Meaning "distracted with excitement or emotion, crazy" is from 1590s. U.S. slang sense of "exciting, excellent" is recorded from 1955. As an adverb from 1540s. Baseball wild pitch is recorded from 1867. Wildest dreams attested from 1717. Wild West in a U.S. context recorded by 1826. Wild Turkey brand of whiskey (Austin Nichols Co.) in use from 1942.
wild (v.): "to run wild, refuse to be tamed," Old English awildian (see wild (adj.)). Wilding (n.) in the teen gang sense first recorded 1989. Earlier it meant "plant that grows without cultivation" (1520s).

雙語例句

1. There he stood: hair in wild tangles, dark stubble shadowing his chin.: 他站在那兒，頭發(fā)亂成一團，下巴上一片黑胡茬。

2. We disturbed a wild boar that had been foraging by the roadside.: 我們驚動了一只一直在路邊覓食的野豬。

3. When angry or excited, however, he could be wild, profane, and terrifying.: 但憤怒或激動的時候，他也會發(fā)狂、會罵人、令人生畏。

4. From the slope below, the wild goats bleated faintly.: 山坡下面，野山羊咩咩地輕聲叫著。

5. Benedict had been a wild boy and a quarrelsome young man.: 貝內(nèi)迪克特小時候野性難馴，年輕時又愛與人爭吵。

wild是什么意思

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