mate
mate 英 [meɪt] 美 [met]
n. 朋友，伙伴；配偶 v. 交配
进行时:mating 过去式:mated 过去分词:mated 第三人称单数:mates 名词复数:mates
- Someone's mate is their spouse, partner, boyfriend, or girlfriend. Your grandmother's long-term sweetheart is her mate. Awwww.
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- n. 朋友，伙伴；配偶
- v. 交配
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1. They've been best mates since school.
他们从上学时期以来就是最要好的朋友。
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2. Sorry mate, you'll have to wait.
对不起，伙计，你得等着。
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3. All right, mate?
行吗，哥儿们？
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4. A donkey mate with a mare.
驴和母马交配。
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5. workmates，teammates，playmates，classmates
工友；队友；游戏伙伴；同学
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6. my room-mate，my flatmate
我的室友；和我同住一套公寓的人
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7. A male bird sings to attract a mate.
雄鸟鸣唱以吸引雌鸟。
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8. plumber's mate
水管工的助手
- mate (n.1) "associate, fellow, comrade," mid-14c., also "companion" (late 14c.), from Middle Low German mate, gemate "one eating at the same table, messmate," from Proto-Germanic *ga-maton "having food (*matiz) together (*ga-)," which is etymologically identical with companion. Cognate with Danish and Swedish mat, German Maat "mate," Dutch maat, from German. Meaning "one of a wedded pair" is attested from 1540s. Used as a form of address by sailors, laborers, etc., at least since mid-15c. Meaning "officer on a merchant vessel is from late 15c.
- mate (n.2) in chess, "a condition of checkmate," c. 1300, mat, from Middle French mat, from Old French mater (see mate (v.2)).
- mate (v.1) c. 1500, "to equal, rival," 1590s as "to match, couple, marry, join in marriage," from mate (n.1). Also, of animals, "to pair for the purpose of breeding." Related: Mated; mating.
- mate (v.2) "checkmate," c. 1300, from Old French mater "to checkmate, defeat, overcome," from mat "checkmated" (see checkmate (v.)).
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