swarthy
英['swɔːðɪ]
美['swɔrði]
- adj. 黝黑的；黑皮肤的
助记提示
1. PIE root *sword- "dirty, dark, black" => swart, swarth, sordid.
2. swart, swarth => swarty, swarthy.
中文词源
swarthy 皮肤黑的
来自 swart,黑黝黝的，-y,形容词后缀。用以形容皮肤黑的。
英文词源
- swarthy
- swarthy: [16] Old English sweart meant ‘black’. It came from a prehistoric Germanic *swartaz, which also produced German schwarz, Dutch zwart, Swedish svart, and Danish sort, and may go back ultimately to the same Indo-European base as gave Latin sordidus ‘dirty’ (source of English sordid [16]). It survives, just, in modern English as swart ‘dark, black’. From this in the 16th century was derived the now defunct swarty, of which swarthy is an unexplained variant.
=> sordid - swarthy (adj.)
- "dark-colored," especially of skin, 1580s, unexplained alteration of swarty (1570s), from swart + -y (2). Related: Swarthiness.
双语例句
- 1. Our driver strolled up, huge and swarthy.
- 我们的司机悠闲地走了过来，他身材高大，肤色黝黑。
来自辞典例句
- 2. He had a broad swarthy face.
- 他有一张黝黑的大脸。
来自辞典例句
- 3. The sailor was swarthy from the sun of the tropics.
- 水手被热带的太阳晒得黑黝黝的.
来自辞典例句
- 4. A Colonel Azizov, a swarthy, sardonic, pipe - smoking Tartar, awaited Levchenko.
- 一个叫阿基佐夫的上校, 在等着列夫钦科. 他皮肤黝黑, 面带讥讽表情, 嘴里叼着烟斗, 是个鞑靼人.
来自辞典例句
- 5. She was tall , slim, rather swarthy, with large saucy eyes.
- 她瘦高个, 皮肤黝黑, 有一双漂亮的大眼睛.
来自辞典例句