snivel

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英语[编辑]

词源[编辑]

古英語 *snyflan,还有记载作snyflung (鼻涕,粘液)[1],源自snofl,最终源自snout的词根。

sniffsnuff有关。[2].

发音[编辑]

  • IPA(幫助)/ˈsnɪvəl/
  • 文檔
  • 韻部:-ɪvəl

动词[编辑]

snivel (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 snivels,現在分詞 (UK) snivelling (US) sniveling,一般過去時及過去分詞 (UK) snivelled (US) sniveled)

  1. (不及物)鼻涕
    近義詞: sniffle
    • 1611, Josuah Sylvester (translator), Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes, London, Book 4, Week 2, Day 4, p. 623,[1]
      [] a Hagg, a Fury by my side;
      With hollow, yellow teeth (or none perhaps)
      With stinking breath, swart-cheeks, and hanging chaps;
      With wrinkled neck; and stooping as she goes,
      With driveling mouth, and with a sniveling nose.
    • 1794, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia, London: J. Johnson, Volume 1, Section 16, Subsection 2, p. 149,[2]
      [] in severe frosty weather, snivelling and tears are produced by the coldness and dryness of the air.
    • 1937,w:J. R. R. Tolkien,章號9,出自 w:The Hobbit,New York:Random House,出版年份1982, 頁號187:
      [] he began to snivel, and wherever he tried to hide he was found out by the terrific explosions of his suppressed sneezes.
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  2. (貶義, 不及物) 啜泣呜咽哭哭啼啼哭诉
    近義詞: 參見Thesaurus:complain
    • 1660Roger L’Estrange,“No Fool to the Old Fool”,出自 A Short View of Some Remarkable Transactions[3],London:Henry Brome, 頁號95:
      Let things come to the Worst; when we have Overturned the Government;—Polluted the very Altar, with our MASTERS BLOOD—Cheated the Publick, &c. ’Tis but to Whine and Snivel to the People; tell them we were mis-led, by Cardinall Appetites;
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    • 1748,w:Tobias Smollett,章號61,出自 w:The Adventures of Roderick Random[4],卷號2,London:J. Osborn, 頁號267:
      [] after a good deal of sniveling and sobbing, she owned, that so far from being an heiress of a great fortune, she was no other than a common woman of the town, who had decoyed me into matrimony []
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    • 1868, Louisa May Alcott, 章號 15, 出自 Little Women[5]:
      I never snivel over trifles like that.
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    • 1957, Graham Greene, The Potting Shed[6], New York: Viking, act 1, scene 1,頁號 17:
      ANNE: Aunt Sara’s in the garden, snivelling in a deck chair.
      BASTON: What a hard child you are.
      ANNE: It’s no good being mushy, is it? It’s the truth that matters. and she is snivelling.
      BASTON: You could have said “crying.”
      ANNE: But crying’s quite a different thing.
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  3. (貶義, 及物) 哭哭啼啼地说,哭诉说

名词[编辑]

snivel (複數 snivels)

  1. 吸鼻涕;呜咽;哭哭啼啼
    • 1692, John Dennis, “The Triumvirate: or, The Battle”, 出自 Poems in Burlesque[8], London,頁號 2:
      So Parson Hugh, with Groan and Snivel
      Made half his Congregation drivel,
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    • 1792,w:Charles Dibdin,章號5,出自 Hannah Hewit: or, The Female Crusoe[9],卷號1,London, 頁號50:
      [] after a bit of a snivel, for you know I am a woman in these matters, I had her treated with all decency, and then committed her to Davy Jones’s locker; and for want of a chaplain, I said the burial service myself []
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    • Template:RQ:Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre
    • 1849 May – 1850 November,Charles Dickens,章號42,出自 The Personal History of David Copperfield,London:Bradbury & Evans, [],出版年份1850, OCLC 558196156:
      Uriah Heep gave a kind of snivel. I think to express sympathy.
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  2. 鼻涕
    • Template:RQ:Harvey Pierces Supererogation
    • 1653,w:Thomas Urquhart譯,, The First Book of the Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais[10],London:Richard Baddeley, Book 1, Chapter 11, p. 53:
      He did let his snot and snivel fall in his pottage []
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    • 1770, Thomas Bridges, A Burlesque Translation of Homer, London: S. Hooper, 3rd edition, Volume 2, Book 8, p. 44,[11]
      In streams the blood and snivel flows
      From many a Grecian’s snotty nose,
    • 1860,w:Ellis Wynne,w:George Borrow譯,, The Sleeping Bard; or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell[12],London:John Murray, 頁號86:
      On quitting this den of furious heat, I got a sight of a lair, exceeding all the rest I had seen in Hell, but one, in frightful stinking filthiness, where was a herd of accursed drunken swine, disgorging and swallowing, swallowing and disgorging, continually and without rest, the most loathsome snivel.
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    • 1952Flannery O’Connor,章號3,出自 w:Wise Blood[13],New York:Farrar, Straus and Giroux,出版年份1962, 頁號59:
      [] he ran his sleeve under his nose to stop the snivel.
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参考资料[编辑]

  1. snivel” in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.
  2. snivel” in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.

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