tail
tail 英 [teɪl] 美 [tel]
n. 尾巴； adj. 尾部的
进行时:tailing 过去式:tailed 过去分词:tailed 第三人称单数:tails 名词复数:tails
- The part of a dog's body that wags enthusiastically when the dog is happy is the tail. In mammals, tails are actually an extension of the spinal column.
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- n. 尾巴；
- adj. 尾部的
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1. The male has beautiful tail feathers.
雄鸟有美丽的尾羽。
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2. a white-tailed eagle
白尾雕
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3. the tail of a kite
风筝的尾坠
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4. The police have put a tail on him.
警方已派人对他进行盯梢。
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5. The police tailed them.
警察跟踪他们。
- tail (n.1) "hindmost part of an animal," Old English tægl, tægel "a tail," from Proto-Germanic *tagla- (source also of Old High German zagal, German Zagel "tail," dialectal German Zagel "penis," Old Norse tagl "horse's tail," Gothic tagl "hair"), from PIE *doklos, from suffixed form of root *dek- (2) "something long and thin" (referring to such things as fringe, lock of hair, horsetail; source also of Old Irish dual "lock of hair," Sanskrit dasah "fringe, wick"). According to OED, the primary sense, at least in Germanic, seems to have been "hairy tail," or just "tuft of hair," but already in Old English the word was applied to the hairless "tails" of worms, bees, etc. But Buck writes that the common notion is of "long, slender shape." As an adjective from 1670s.
- tail (n.2) "limitation of ownership," a legal term, early 14c. in Anglo-French; late 13c. in Anglo-Latin, in most cases a shortened form of entail.
- tail (v.) 1520s, "attach to the tail," from tail (n.1). Meaning "move or extend in a way suggestive of a tail" is from 1781. Meaning "follow secretly" is U.S. colloquial, 1907, from earlier sense of "follow or drive cattle." Related: Tailed; tailing. Tail off "diminish" is attested from 1854.
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