lame
英[leɪm]
美[lem]
- adj. 跛足的；僵痛的；不完全的；无说服力的；差劲的，蹩脚的
- vi. 变跛
- vt. 使跛；使成残废
词态变化
比较级: lamer;最高级: lamest;名词: lameness;
助记提示
1. lame=累母，瘸子一辈子连累母亲。
中文词源
lame 跛的
来自PIE*lem,击，打，词源同lam,lambaste.引申词义打跛，跛的。
lame 金银锦缎来自拉丁语lamina,层，薄片，词源同laminate,omelet.用于指金银锦缎织物。
英文词源
- lame
- lame: [OE] Prehistoric Germanic had an adjective *lamon which meant ‘weak-limbed’, and seems to have originated in a base which meant something like ‘break by hitting’ (English lam ‘hit’ [16], as in ‘lam into someone’, and its derivative lambaste [17] probably come from the same source). In the modern Germanic languages it has diversified into two strands of meaning: Dutch, Swedish, and Danish lam denote mainly ‘paralysed’, a sense also present in German lahm, while English lame has taken the path of ‘limping, crippled’.
=> lam, lambaste - lame (n.)
- "silk interwoven with metallic threads," 1922, from French lame, earlier "thin metal plate (especially in armor), gold wire; blade; wave (of the sea)," from Middle French lame, from Latin lamina, lamna "thin piece or flake of metal."
- lame (adj.)
- Old English lama "crippled, lame; paralytic, weak," from Proto-Germanic *lamon (cognates: Old Norse lami, Dutch and Old Frisian lam, German lahm "lame"), "weak-limbed," literally "broken," from PIE root *lem- "to break; broken," with derivatives meaning "crippled" (cognates: Old Church Slavonic lomiti "to break," Lithuanian luomas "lame"). In Middle English, "crippled in the feet," but also "crippled in the hands; disabled by disease; maimed." Sense of "socially awkward" is attested from 1942. Noun meaning "crippled persons collectively" is in late Old English.
- lame (v.)
- "to make lame," c. 1300, from lame (adj.). Related: Lamed; laming.
双语例句
- 1. He mumbled some lame excuse about having gone to sleep.
- 他含含糊糊地找了个蹩脚的借口，想要解释自己为什么睡着了。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. Scott's muscle atrophied, his leg became stunted, and he was left lame.
- 斯科特的肌肉萎缩，一条腿发育不完全，成了个瘸子。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. Look, I'm not one of your lame ducks.
- 听着，我可不像你手下的那些废物。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. All our theories sound pretty lame.
- 我们的理论似乎全都站不住脚。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. He tried to justify his absence with lame excuses.
- 他想用站不住脚的借口为自己的缺席辩解.
来自《简明英汉词典》