callow
英 ['k?l??]
美['k?lo]
- adj. 年輕而無經(jīng)驗的；羽毛未豐的
- n. (Callow)人名；(英)卡洛
TEM8GRE暢通詞匯
助記提示
1. 與cub, calf同源，符合首輔音表詞類含義的規(guī)則，由此引申出該詞的含義。
2. 形近詞：wallow, tallow, swallow, shallow, sallow, hallow, callow, fallow.
3. call + low, 叫聲低的小鳥 > 未生羽毛的
4. Calvin (卡爾文、加爾文) => Latin calvus "bald" => callow.
5. From young birds with no feathers, meaning extended to any young inexperienced thing or creature.
2. 形近詞：wallow, tallow, swallow, shallow, sallow, hallow, callow, fallow.
3. call + low, 叫聲低的小鳥 > 未生羽毛的
4. Calvin (卡爾文、加爾文) => Latin calvus "bald" => callow.
5. From young birds with no feathers, meaning extended to any young inexperienced thing or creature.
中文詞源
callow 幼稚的
來自PIE *gal, 禿頭，參照Calvinism, chauvinism, 進(jìn)一步來自PIE*ghel, 發(fā)光的，詞源同glass, gleam。指剛出生的，沒長毛的。
英英釋意
- 1. lacking experience of life;
- "a callow youth of seventeen"
英文詞源
- callow
- callow: [OE] Old English calu meant ‘bald’. Eventually, the word came to be applied to young birds which as yet had no feathers, and by the late 16th century it had been extended metaphorically to any young inexperienced person or creature. It probably came, via West Germanic *kalwaz, from Latin calvus ‘bald’.
=> calvary - callow (adj.)
- Old English calu "bare, bald," from Proto-Germanic *kalwa- (cognates: Middle Dutch calu, Dutch kaal, Old High German kalo, German Kahl), from PIE root *gal- (1) "bald, naked" (cognates: Russian golyi "smooth, bald"). From young birds with no feathers, meaning extended to any young inexperienced thing or creature (1570s). Apparently not related to Latin calvus "bald."
實(shí)用場景例句
- a callow youth
- 乳臭未干的年輕人
牛津詞典
- ...a callow youth.
- 涉世不深的毛頭小子
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- He was a callow youth when he joined the newspaper.
- 他進(jìn)報社時還是個乳臭未干的小子.
《簡明英漢詞典》
- He was only a callow youth.
- 他只是個無經(jīng)驗的年輕人.
期刊摘選
- I believed a lot of things in my callow youth that I do not believe now.
- 在我年輕尚無經(jīng)驗時相信的許多事情,現(xiàn)在我不相信了.
期刊摘選
- Like callow birds left desert to the skies.
- 你的庇護(hù),它們就要戰(zhàn)栗--就象/那羽翼未豐的小鳥給撇下在天空里.
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