hump
英 [h?mp]
美[h?mp]
- n. 駝峰；駝背；圓形隆起物
- vi. 隆起；弓起；努力；急速行進
- vt. 使隆起；使煩惱
IELTS常用詞匯TEM8TOEFL低頻詞
詞態變化
復數:?humps;第三人稱單數:?humps;過去式:?humped;過去分詞:?humped;現在分詞:?humping;
助記提示
1. -ump 表示“有突出感”.
2. lump: 腫塊，疙瘩.
3. plump: 豐滿的(漂亮的突出).
4. hump: 駝峰.
2. lump: 腫塊，疙瘩.
3. plump: 豐滿的(漂亮的突出).
4. hump: 駝峰.
中文詞源
hump 土墩，丘，駝峰，駝背
來自Proto-Germanic*hump,來自PIE*kemb,彎，轉，詞源同cubicle,hip.引申詞義連綿的山丘，土墩，后用于指駱駝的駝峰，人的駝背。
英文詞源
- hump
- hump: [18] Hump seems to have originated among the Low German dialects of North Germany and the Low Countries – Dutch, for instance, has the probably related homp ‘lump’. It first appeared in English towards the end of the 17th century in the compound hump-backed, but by the first decade of the 18th century it was being used on its own. (Another theory is that it arose from a blend of the now obsolete crumpbacked with hunchbacked [16], whose hunch- is of unknown origin.)
- hump (n.)
- 1680s (in hump-backed), from Dutch homp "lump," from Middle Low German hump "bump," from Proto-Germanic *hump-, from PIE *kemb- "to bend, turn, change, exchange." Replaced, or perhaps influenced by, crump, from Old English crump. A meaning attested from 1901 is "mound in a railway yard over which cars must be pushed," which may be behind the figurative sense of "critical point of an undertaking" (1914). Humpback whale is from 1725.
- hump (v.)
- "to do the sex act with," attested from 1785, but the source of this indicates it is an older word. Meaning "to raise into a hump" is from 1840. Related: Humped; humping.