monocle
英 ['m?n?k(?)l]
美['mɑn?kl]
- n. 單片眼鏡；單眼繃帶
GRE
詞態(tài)變化
復(fù)數(shù):?monocles;
中文詞源
monocle 單片眼睛
mono-,單個(gè)的，-oc,眼睛，詞源同eye,ocular,binocular.
英文詞源
- monocle (n.)
- "single eyeglass," 1886, from French monocle, noun use of adjective monocle "one-eyed, blind in one eye" (13c.), from Late Latin monoculus "one-eyed," from Greek monos "single, alone" (see mono-) + Latin oculus "eye" (see eye (n.)).
That this, a hybrid, a Gallicism, and a word with no obvious meaning to the Englishman who hears it for the first time, should have ousted the entirely satisfactory eyeglass is a melancholy illustration of the popular taste in language. [Fowler]
雙語例句
- 1. The old lady could not read clearly without her monocle.
- 這位婆婆若不戴上她的單片眼鏡，便無法閱讀。
來自辭典例句
- 2. A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in mind's eye.
- 好挖苦人的人,是在心目中戴上單片眼鏡兒看世事的人.
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