lick
lick 英 [lɪk] 美 [lɪk]
vt. 舔；卷过；鞭打 vt. （非正式）战胜 vi. 舔；轻轻拍打
进行时:licking 过去式:licked 过去分词:licked 第三人称单数:licks 名词复数:licks
- To lick is to taste or touch with the tongue. When your dog licks you, he's saying hello. Humans should opt for waving hello over licking.
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- vt. 舔；卷过；鞭打
- vt. （非正式）战胜
- vi. 舔；轻轻拍打
- n. 舔；打；少许
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1. My dad could never lick your dad.
我的爸爸不可能打败你的爸爸！
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2. He gave the stamp a lick.
他把邮票舔了一下。
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3. lick my lips!
舔我的嘴唇！
- lick (n.) "an act of licking," c. 1600, from lick (v.1). The earlier noun was licking (late 14c.; Old English had liccungMeaning "small portion" is 1814, originally Scottish; hence U.S. colloquial sense. Sense of "place where an animal goes to lick salt" is from 1747. The jazz music sense of "short figure or solo" is by 1922, perhaps from an earlier colloquial sense "a spurt or brisk run in racing" (1809). Meaning "a smart blow" (1670s) is from lick (v.2).
- lick (v.1) Old English liccian "to pass the tongue over the surface, lap, lick up," from Proto-Germanic *likkon (source also of Old Saxon likkon, Dutch likken, Old High German lecchon, German lecken, Gothic bi-laigon), from PIE root *leigh- "to lick."
- lick (v.2) "to beat, surpass, overcome" 1535, perhaps from figurative use of lick (v.1) in the Coverdale bible that year in sense of "defeat, annihilate" (an enemy's forces) in Numbers xxii.4:
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