thigh

英 [θa?] 美[θa?]

CET6TEM4IELTS考研TOEFL中低頻詞常用詞匯

復數(shù):?thighs;

1. t (teacher) + high => 我們的美女老師很高，因為她是一個長腿(高腿)美女。

thigh 大腿

來自古英語 theoh,大腿，來自 Proto-Germanic*theuham,大腿，腿部多肉部分，來自 PIE*teuk, 來自 PIE*teue,鼓起，膨脹，詞源同 thumb,tumid.

thigh: thigh: [OE] The thigh is etymologically the ‘plump’ part of the leg. Together with Dutch dij, it evolved from a prehistoric Germanic *theukham. This went back to Indo-European *teuk-, *tauk-, *tuk-, which also produced Lithuanian táukas ‘fat’. And these in turn were extensions of the base *tu- ‘swell’, source of English thousand, thumb, tumour, etc.
=> thousand, thumb, tumour
thigh (n.): Old English teoh, teh, from Proto-Germanic *theuham (cognates: Old Frisian thiach, Old Dutch thio, Dutch dij, Old Norse tjo, Old High German dioh), probably literally "the thick or fat part of the leg," from PIE *teuk- from root *teue- (2) "to swell" (cognates: Lithuanian taukas, Old Church Slavonic tuku, Russian tuku "fat of animals;" Lithuanian tukti "to become fat;" Avestan tuma "fat;" Greek tylos "callus, lump," tymbos "burial mound, grave, tomb;" Old Irish ton "rump;" Latin tumere "to swell," tumulus "raised heap of earth," tumidus "swollen;"tumor "a swelling;" Middle Irish tomm "a small hill," Welsh tom "mound").

1. The vowel in words like "my" and "thigh" is not very difficult.: 單詞my和thigh中的元音并不難發(fā)。

3. The bullet lodged in the sergeant's leg, shattering his thigh bone.: 子彈嵌進了中士的腿里，使其股骨碎裂。

4. He fell back, blood welling from a gash in his thigh.: 他向后倒去，鮮血從他大腿上的一個口子里涌了出來。

5. Hamstrings are supporting muscles at the back of the thigh.: 腿筋是位于大腿后側起支撐作用的肌肉。