murk
英 [m??k]
美[m?k]
- n. 黑暗；陰沉，陰郁
- adj. 陰郁的；黑暗的
- n. (Murk)人名；(德)穆?tīng)柨?/li>
中文詞源
murk 陰暗，昏暗
來(lái)自PIE*mer,閃光，閃爍，詞源同morning,morrow.引申詞義昏暗，黑暗。
英文詞源
- murk (n)
- c. 1300, myrke, from Old Norse myrkr "darkness," from Proto-Germanic *merkwjo- (cognates: Old English mirce "murky, black, dark; murkiness, darkness," Danish m?rk "darkness," Old Saxon mirki "dark"); cognate with Old Church Slavonic mraku, Serbo-Croatian mrak, Russian mrak "darkness;" Lithuanian merkti "shut the eyes, blink," from PIE *mer- "to flicker" (see morn). Murk Monday was long the name in Scotland for the great solar eclipse of March 29, 1652 (April 8, New Style).
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. All of a sudden a tall old man in a black cloak loomed out of the murk.
- 一位身著黑斗篷的高個(gè)兒老者突然從暗處閃了出來(lái)。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 2. Longing for full knowledge, one must chart route through the murk of unknowing.
- 有時(shí)由于渴望取得全面了解, 還必須在一片無(wú)知的混沌之中開(kāi)出一條路子來(lái).
來(lái)自辭典例句