mead
mead 英 [mi:d] 美 [mid]
n. 蜂蜜酒；草地
名词复数:meads
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- n. 蜂蜜酒；草地
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1. The word "honeymoon" got its name from mead, an alcoholic beverage made from honey, which was given to the happy couple.
“蜜月”这个词因蜂蜜酒而得名，这种酒用蜂蜜做成，是情侣喝的一种酒精饮料。
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2. More recently, in what Sara mead, an education expert at the New America Foundation, calls a “man bites dog” sensation, public and parental concerns have shifted to boys.
更近的有，一种被新美国基金会的教育专家萨拉.米德称作“男人咬狗”的感觉以及公众和家长的忧虑已经转移到了男孩身上。
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3. In 2003, mead and his colleagues discovered a much more common variant of the prion gene that provides protection against prion diseases.
2003年，米德和他的同事发现了朊病毒基因更普遍的变体，可以抗御与朊病毒有关的疾病。
- mead (n.1) "fermented honey drink," Old English medu, from Proto-Germanic *meduz (source also of Old Norse mjöðr, Danish mjød, Old Frisian and Middle Dutch mede, Old High German metu, German Met "mead"), from PIE root *medhu- "honey, sweet drink" (source also of Sanskrit madhu "sweet, sweet drink, wine, honey," Greek methy "wine," Old Church Slavonic medu, Lithuanian medus "honey," Old Irish mid, Welsh medd, Breton mez "mead"). Synonymous but unrelated early Middle English meþeglin yielded Chaucer's meeth.
- mead (n.2) "meadow," Old English mæd, Anglian med "meadow, pasture," from Proto-Germanic *medwo (source also of Old Frisian mede, Dutch made, German Matte "meadow," Old English mæþ "harvest, crop"), from PIE *metwa- "a mown field," from root *me- (4) "to cut down grass or grain." Now only archaic or poetic.
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