mare
mare 英 [meə(r)] 美 [mer]
n. 母马；母驴；月球表面阴暗部
名词复数:mares
- A mare is an adult female horse. If your new horse is a filly, a female baby horse, she'll grow up to be a mare.
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- n. 母马；母驴；月球表面阴暗部
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1. A mare with brown spots.
和褐色地的一只母马.
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2. The stupidest questions of all were asked by Mollie, the white mare.
白母驴莫丽的问题无疑是所有问题当中最愚蠢的。
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3. At the last moment Mollie, the foolish, pretty white mare who drew Mr Jones’s trap, came mincing daintily in, chewing at a lump of sugar.
然后那头给琼斯先生拉车的傻乎乎的白色母驴莫丽以一种自以为很美妙的姿态走进来，嘴里还不忘嚼一块糖。
- mare (n.1) "female horse," Old English mere (Mercian), myre (West Saxon), fem. of mearh "horse," from Proto-Germanic *markhjon- (source also of Old Saxon meriha, Old Norse merr, Old Frisian merrie, Dutch merrie, Old High German meriha, German Mähre "mare"), said to be of Gaulish origin (compare Irish and Gaelic marc, Welsh march, Breton marh "horse"). No known cognates beyond Germanic and Celtic. As the name of a throw in wrestling, it is attested from c. 1600. Mare's nest "illusory discovery, excitement over something which does not exist" is from 1610s.
- mare (n.2) "broad, dark areas of the moon," 1765, from Latin mare "sea" (from PIE root *mori- "body of water"); applied to lunar features by Galileo and used thus in 17c. Latin works. They originally were thought to be actual seas.
- mare (n.3) "night-goblin, incubus," Old English mare "incubus, nightmare, monster," from mera, mære, from Proto-Germanic *maron "goblin" (source also of Middle Low German mar, Middle Dutch mare, Old High German mara, German Mahr "incubus," Old Norse mara "nightmare, incubus"), from PIE *mora- "incubus" (source also of first element in Old Irish Morrigain "demoness of the corpses," literally "queen of the nightmare," also Bulgarian, Serbian mora, Czech mura, Polish zmora "incubus;" French cauchemar, with first element from Old French caucher "to trample"), from root *mer- "to rub away, harm" (also "to die" and forming words referring to death and to beings subject to death).
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