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英 [ænt] 美[ænt]

释义

n. 蚂蚁

n. (Ant)人名；(土、芬)安特

词态变化

复数: ants;

中文词源

ant 蚂蚁

来自古英语aemette,蚂蚁，来自West Germanic*amaitjo,砍下，来自*ai,离开，去掉，*mai,砍，切，词源同maim.字面意思即砍下，切开，引申词义分段，成段，用于指蚂蚁。

英文词源

ant: ant: [OE] The word ant appears to carry the etymological sense ‘creature that cuts off or bites off’. Its Old English form, æmette, was derived from a hypothetical Germanic compound *aimaitjōn, formed from the prefix *ai- ‘off, away’ and the root *mait- ‘cut’ (modern German has the verb meissen ‘chisel, carve’): thus, ‘the biter’.

The Old English word later developed along two distinct strands: in one, it became emmet, which survived into the 20th century as a dialectal form; while in the other it progressed through amete and ampte to modern English ant. If the notion of ‘biting’ in the naming of the ant is restricted to the Germanic languages (German has ameise), the observation that it and its nest smell of urine has been brought into play far more widely.

The Indo-European root *meigh-, from which ultimately we get micturate ‘urinate’ [18], was also the source of several words for ‘ant’, including Greek múrmēx (origin of English myrmecology ‘study of ants’, and also perhaps of myrmidon [14] ‘faithful follower’, from the Myrmidons, a legendary Greek people who loyally followed their king Achilles in the Trojan war, and who were said originally to have been created from ants), Latin formīca (hence English formic acid [18], produced by ants, and formaldehyde [19]), and Danish myre.

It also produced Middle English mire ‘ant’, the underlying meaning of which was subsequently reinforced by the addition of piss to give pismire, which again survived dialectally into the 20th century.
ant (n.): c. 1500, from Middle English ampte (late 14c.), from Old English æmette "ant," from West Germanic *amaitjo (cognates: Old High German ameiza, German Ameise) from a compound of bases *ai- "off, away" + *mai- "cut," from PIE *mai- "to cut" (cognates: maim). Thus the insect's name is, etymologically, "the biter off."
As þycke as ameten crepeþ in an amete hulle [chronicle of Robert of Gloucester, 1297]
Emmet survived into 20c. as an alternative form. White ant "termite" is from 1729. To have ants in one's pants "be nervous and fidgety" is from 1934, made current by a popular song; antsy embodies the same notion.

双语例句

1. One ant - hole may cause the collapse of a thousand - li dyke.: 千里长堤,溃于蚁穴.

2. One ant hole may cause the collapse of a thousand - li dyke.: 千里之堤,溃于蚁穴.

3. The ant is a social insect.: 蚂蚁是一种群居昆虫.

4. Ant a java project generation tool with a flexible, user - friendly advantages.: 英文原版资料. ant 作为java项目生成工具,具有灵活、易用的优点.

5. In this tutorial, you will learn the Ant Java tool for generating projects.: 在本教程中, 您将学习Ant这个Java项目生成工具.

英英释意

1. social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers

实用场景例句

an ants' nest: 蚁窝

an ant colony: 蚁群

Ants swarmed up out of the ground and covered her shoes and legs.: 蚂蚁从地下成群地钻出来，爬满了她的鞋子和双腿。

Ant societies are rigidly stratified and usually ruled by queens.: 蚂蚁社会是等级森严的,且通常由母蚁王统治.

Why mosquito, does ant always bite me? A in one's heart is on the body everyday!: 为什么蚊子, 蚂蚁总咬我呢 ?每天身上都是疙瘩!

Each ant has two antennas extending from its head.: 每只蚂蚁头上都长着两个触角.

In this algorithm , a multicast tree's forest is formed during the ant movement progress.: 在蚂蚁行动过程中形成组播树的森林.

Pincers poised and eyes gleaming , a bulldog ant surveys its surroundings.: 钳子平衡、眼睛雪亮, 一只“斗牛犬”蚁正在侦查环境.

The ant colony algorithm is a novel simulated evolutionary algorithm which shows many good properties.: 蚁群算法是一种模拟进化算法,初步的研究表明该算法具有许多优良的性质.

Ant algorithms are a type of Lamarckian search.: 蚂蚁算法是拉马克检索的一种形式.

Go to the ant , you sluggard; watch its ways , and be wise.: 箴言 6:6-11 )懒惰人哪, 你去察看蚂蚁的动作就可得智慧.

Better work as hard as an ant than lead a parasitic life as a sparrow.: 宁做蚂蚁腿,不做麻雀嘴.

Jesse : Oh ! Look at the ant! It � � s there!: 噢! 看那只蚂蚁! 它在那里!

Ant colony algorithm is a new heuristic optimization method and it has many merits.: 蚁群算法是一种新型启发式优化算法,具有较多优点.

The animal with the largest brainproportion to its body size is the ant.: 动物中与身体相比头部最大的是蚂蚁.

Ant algorithm, a new combinatorial optimization algorithm, has made effect in solving a lot of question.: 蚂蚁算法是一种比较新的组合优化算法, 在很多问题的求解中取得了成效.

God is a mean kid with a magnifying glass , and I'm the ant.: 我不是!我是个牺牲品!

Jobs disappear in both colonies and ant nests and fiscal deficits soar, especially in colonies.: 蚱蜢窝和蚁巢两边的工作岗位消失,财政赤字飙升, 尤其是在蚱蜢窝.

So, lei gong to split ant hot, spicy ants hurried into the earth go into hiding.: 于是, 雷公要劈辣蚂蚁, 辣蚂蚁慌忙钻进土里去躲藏起来.

Ant is the most popular animal in the world.: 蚂蚁是世界上分布最广、数量最多的生物之一.

The paper presents an ant colony clustering algorithm based on directional similarity: ACCADS.: 提出了一种基于方向相似性度量的蚁群聚类算法.

The ant is the most industrious animal; however, it is the most taciturn one.: 没有任何动物比蚂蚁更勤奋, 然而它却最沉默寡言.

An ant probably thinks the beach ball he's walking on is fl at, too.: 在沙滩足球上爬行的蚂蚁可能也会认为该足球是平的.

This then the fable has fully manifested the ant team's strength.: 这则寓言充分体现了蚂蚁团队的力量.

The ant is a social insect.: 蚂蚁是一种群居昆虫.

His industry and persistence suggest that he was an ant in a previous incarnation.: 他的勤奋与坚持表明他前世是只蚂蚁。

The mild winter has created the ideal conditions for an ant population explosion.: 暖冬为蚁群数量激增创造了理想的条件。

考试真题

For instance, the letter A was ant or apple or ax.

The Nature Conservancy has declared war on a multitude of invasive species here, from sheep to plants to the aggressive Argentine ant.

Ants can use pheromones for communication.

Each individual (个体的) ant hardly weighs anything, but put together they weigh roughly the same as all of mankind.

For animals their size, ants have been astonishingly successful, largely due to their wonderful social behavior.

In fact, when it comes to the art of war, ants have no equal.

Such is their devotion to the common good of the colony that not only soldier ants but also worker ants will sacrifice their lives to help defeat an enemy.

There are an extremely large number of ants worldwide.

We can learn from the passage that ants are not found around the poles.

When an ant finds food, it produces a pheromone that will lead others straight to where the food is.

When an individual ant comes under attack or is dying, it sends out an alarm pheromone to warn the colony to prepare for a conflict as a defense unit.

Where we use sound and sight to communicate, ants depend primarily on pheromone, chemicals sent out by individuals and smelled or tasted by fellow members of their colony.

词组搭配

have ants in one's pants

(informal)be fidgety or restless

(非正式)坐立不安

ants in (one's) pants&I{【俚语】}

A state of restless impatience

焦躁不安

“She's got ants in her pants”(&b{Bobbie Ann Mason})
“她焦躁不安”(&b{鲍比·安·梅森})