acrobat
英 ['?kr?b?t]
美['?kr?b?t]
- n. 雜技演員，特技演員；隨機應變者；翻云覆雨者，善變者
TEM4GRE考研常用詞匯
詞態變化
復數:?acrobats;
中文詞源
acrobat 雜技演員
來自詞根acer, 尖的，高的。-bat, 走，同vent,走，見advent,來臨。-t,過去分詞格。指走高空鋼絲的雜技演員，后統指雜技演員。
英文詞源
- acrobat
- acrobat: [19] The Greek adjective ákros meant ‘topmost, at the tip or extremity’ (it derives ultimately from the Indo-European base *akmeaning ‘be pointed or sharp’, which also gave rise to acid, acute, oxygen, and edge). It crops up in acrophobia ‘fear of heights’; in acropolis ‘citadel’, literally ‘upper city’; in acromegaly ‘unnaturally enlarged condition of the hands, feet, and face’, literally ‘large extremities’; and in acronym, literally ‘word formed from the tips of words’. Acrobat itself means literally ‘walking on tiptoe’.
The -bat morpheme comes from Greek baínein ‘walk’, which is closely related to basis and base, and is also connected with come. Akrobátēs existed as a term in Greek, and reached English via French acrobate.
=> acid, acute, edge, oxygen - acrobat (n.)
- 1825, from French acrobate (14c.), "tightrope-walker," and directly from Greek akrobates "rope dancer, gymnastic performer," which is related to akrobatos "going on tip-toe, climbing up high," from akros "topmost, at the point end" (see acrid) + stem of bainein "walk, go" (see come).
雙語例句
- 1. The acrobat balanced a long pole on his left shoulder.
- 雜技演員讓一根長桿在他的左肩上保持平衡.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 2. The acrobat could bend himself into a hoop.
- 這個雜技演員可以把身體蜷曲成圓形.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 3. An acrobat has to be agile.
- 雜技演員必須身手敏捷.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 4. The acrobat bounced high from the ground.
- 那個雜技演員從地面上一下子彈跳得老高.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 5. The acrobat's feat took the audience's breath away.
- 雜技演員的驚險動作使觀眾為之咋舌.
來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》