waist

英 [we?st] 美[west]

CET4TEM4考研TOEFLCET6中低頻詞常用詞匯

復(fù)數(shù):?waists;

諧音“圍死她”

waist 腰

來(lái)自PIE*wegs,增加，來(lái)自PIE*aug的擴(kuò)大形式，詞源同augment,wax。引申詞義腰。

waist: waist: [14] Waist is something of a mystery word, but it is generally taken to denote etymologically ‘girth to which one has grown’. It is probably descended from an unrecorded Old English *w?st, which would have gone back to prehistoric Germanic *wakhs- ‘grow’, source of English wax ‘grow’ (as in wax and wane). Related forms which support this hypothesis include Icelandic v?xstr and Gothic wahstus, which mean ‘growth, size’.
waist (n.): late 14c., "middle part of the body," also "part of a garment fitted for the waist, portion of a garment that covers the waist" (but, due to fashion styles, often above or below it), probably from Old English *w?st "growth," hence, "where the body grows," from Proto-Germanic *wahs-tu- (cognates: Old English w?stm, Old Norse v?xtr, Swedish v?xt, Old High German wahst "growth, increase," Gothic wahstus "stature," Old English weaxan "to grow" see wax (v.)), from PIE *wegs-, extended form of root *aug- (1) "to increase" (see augment).

1. The dress exaggerates her wasp waist and enlarges her bosom.: 那件連衣裙凸顯了她的蜂腰，也讓她的胸部看起來(lái)更豐滿(mǎn)。

2. One of them unwound a length of rope from around his waist.: 其中一人把綁在腰間的一條繩子解下來(lái)。

3. She had made Helen a dress which showed off her tiny waist.: 她給海倫做了件很顯她纖細(xì)腰身的連衣裙。

4. From her tiny waist a crinolined skirt cascaded in three deep tiers.: 裙架撐起的三層大裥裙從她的纖腰上款款垂下。