词汇 | verbed |
词源 | verbed. Shakespeare often coined verbs as well as nouns. According to Ben Yagoda, author of If You Catch an Adjective, Kill It: The Parts of Speech, for Better and for Worse, a couple of Shakespeare-coined verbs included season (as in “season your imagination”), and dog (as in “dog them at the heels”). |
随便看 |
英语词源词典收录了13259条英语词源词条,基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的起源、历史,是研究英语词汇或通过词源学英语的必备工具。