英汉词典

hair 基本解释

• n. 头发；毛发；些微
• vt. 除去…的毛发
• vi. 生长毛发；形成毛状纤维
• adj. 毛发的；护理毛发的；用毛发制成的

hair 词态变化

hair 中文词源

来自PIE*ghers,挺直，硬毛，词源同horror,hirsute.引申词义毛发，头发。

比喻用法。

hair 英文词源

hair

hair: [OE] No general Indo-European term for ‘hair’ has come down to us. All the ‘hair’-words in modern European languages are descended from terms for particular types of hair – hair on the head, hair on other parts of the body, animal hair – or for single hairs or hair collectively, and indeed many retain these specialized meanings: French cheveu, for instance, means ‘hair of the head’, whereas poil denotes ‘body hair’ or ‘animal hair’.

In the case of English hair, unfortunately, it is not clear which of these categories originally applied, although some have suggested a connection with Lithuanian serys ‘brush’, which might indicate that the prehistoric ancestor of hair was a ‘bristly’ word. The furthest back in time we can trace it is to West and North Germanic *khǣram, source also of German, Dutch, and Danish haar and Swedish hår.

The slang use of hairy for ‘difficult’ is first recorded in the mid 19th century, in an erudite context that suggests that it may have been inspired by Latin horridus (source of English horrid), which originally meant (of hair) ‘standing on end’. Its current use, in which ‘difficult’ passes into ‘dangerous’, seems to have emerged in the 1960s, and was presumably based on hair-raising, which dates from around 1900.

It is fascinatingly foreshadowed by harsh, which is a derivative of hair and originally meant ‘hairy’.

hair (n.)

Old English hær "hair, a hair," from Proto-Germanic *khæran (cognates: Old Saxon, Old Norse, Old High German har, Old Frisian her, Dutch and German haar "hair"), perhaps from PIE *ghers- "to stand out, to bristle, rise to a point" (cognates: Lithuanian serys "bristle;" see horror).

Spelling influenced by Old Norse har and Old English haire "haircloth," from Old French haire, from Frankish *harja or some other Germanic source (see above). Hair-dye is from 1803. To let one's hair down "become familiar" is first recorded 1850. Homeopathic phrase hair of the dog (that bit you), remedy from the same thing that caused the malady, especially a drink on the morning after a debauch, 1540s in English, is in Pliny.

hair 词组搭配

hair 英文释义

1. dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head); helps prevent heat loss;

"he combed his hair"

2. a very small distance or space;

"they escaped by a hair's-breadth"

"they lost the election by a whisker"

3. filamentous hairlike growth on a plant;

"peach fuzz"

4. any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal;

"there is a hair in my soup"

5. cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments

6. a filamentous projection or process on an organism

hair 双语例句

1. She walked forward and embraced him and stroked his tousled white hair.

她走上前拥抱他并轻抚他凌乱的白发。

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2. Applying the dye can be messy, particularly on long hair.

涂抹染发剂可能会搞得一团糟，特别是长发。

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3. His long, uncovered hair flew back in the wind.

他那露在外面的长发随风向后飞舞。

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4. He was a tall, thin man with grey hair.

他是个瘦高个，头发灰白。

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5. He had long unkempt hair and a stubbly chin.

他的头发又长又乱，脸上胡子拉碴。

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hair 实用场景例句

long-haired

长发的

牛津词典

a chilling tale that will make your hair stand on end

令人毛骨悚然的故事

牛津词典

dark-haired

黑发的

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straight/curly/wavy hair

直 / 鬈 / 波浪发

牛津词典

to comb/brush your hair

梳头

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fair/dark hair

浅色头发；黑发

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The rug was covered with cat hairs.

地毯上净是猫毛。

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There's a hair in my soup.

我的汤里有根毛。

牛津词典

body/facial/pubic hair

体 / 脸 / 阴毛

牛津词典

I'm having my hair cut this afternoon.

我今天下午要去理发。

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(informal)I'll be down in a minute. I'm doing (= brushing, arranging, etc.) my hair .

我马上就下来。我在梳头呢。

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Don't split hairs. You know what I'm getting at.

别钻牛角尖了。你知道我指什么。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

No one seems to turn a hair at the thought of the divorced Princess marrying.

似乎没有人对离异的公主再婚感到丝毫地吃惊。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

She had a lot of make-up on and not a hair out of place.

她化了浓妆，精致得让人挑不出一丝瑕疵。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

This was the kind of smile that made your hair stand on end.

这是那种让人不寒而栗的微笑。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...the world-famous Oktoberfest, a time when everyone in Munich really lets their hair down.

全球闻名的啤酒节，一个让所有身在慕尼黑的人都尽情放松的节日

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The stinging nettle has a square stem and little hairs.

荨麻长有四方茎和细小茸毛。

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...dog hairs on the carpet.

地毯上的狗毛

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I am allergic to cat hair.

我对猫毛过敏。

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It tickled the hairs on the back of my neck.

它挠得我后脖梗儿的绒毛直痒痒。

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The majority of men have hair on their chest...

大多数男子长有胸毛。

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He has black hair.

他一头乌发。

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I wash my hair every night...

我每晚都洗头。

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