英汉词典

milk 基本解释

• n. 牛奶；乳状物
• vt. 榨取；挤…的奶
• vi. 挤奶
• n. (Milk)人名；(英)米尔克

milk 词态变化

milk 中文词源

来自PIE*melg,挤奶，奶，词源同emulsion.可能来自PIE*mel,磨，磨软，软的，词源同mild,mill.由磨引申词义抚摸，刮，挤奶，奶。

milk 英文词源

milk

milk: [OE] Far back into prehistory, milk traces its ancestry to an Indo-European base *melg-, which denoted ‘wiping’ or ‘stroking’. The way of obtaining milk from animals is to pull one’s hand down their teats, and so *melg- came in due course to be used for ‘milk’. It passed into Germanic as *melk-, which formed the basis of the noun *meluks, and this over the centuries has become German milch, Dutch and Danish melk, Swedish mjölk, and English milk.

The now virtually obsolete adjective milch ‘giving milk’ [OE] (as in milch cow) goes back to a Germanic derivative of *meluks. Another derivative of Indo-European *melgwas the Latin verb mulgēre ‘milk’, which has given English emulsion and promulgate.
=> emulsion, promulgate

milk (n.)

Old English meoluc (West Saxon), milc (Anglian), from Proto-Germanic *meluks "milk" (cognates: Old Norse mjolk, Old Frisian melok, Old Saxon miluk, Dutch melk, Old High German miluh, German Milch, Gothic miluks), from *melk- "to milk," from PIE root *melg- "to wipe, to rub off," also "to stroke; to milk," in reference to the hand motion involved in milking an animal (cognates: Greek amelgein, Latin mulgere, Old Church Slavonic mlesti, Lithuanian melžu "to milk," Old Irish melg "milk," Sanskrit marjati "wipes off"). Old Church Slavonic noun meleko (Russian moloko, Czech mleko) is considered to be adopted from Germanic.

Of milk-like plant juices from late 14c. Milk chocolate is first recorded 1723; milk shake is first recorded 1889, for a variety of creations, but the modern version is only from the 1930s. Milk tooth (1727) uses the word in its figurative sense "period of infancy," attested from 17c. To cry over spilt milk is first attested 1836 in writing of Canadian humorist Thomas C. Haliburton. Milk and honey is from the Old Testament phrase describing the richness of the Promised Land (Num. xvi:13, Old English meolc and hunie). Milk of human kindness is from "Macbeth" (1605).

milk (v.)

Old English melcan, milcian, meolcian "to milk, give milk, suckle," from Proto-Germanic *melk- "to milk" (cognates: Dutch melken, Old High German melchan, German melken), from PIE root *melg- (see milk (n.)). Figurative sense of "exploit for profit" is first found 1520s. Related: Milked; milking.

milk 词组搭配

milk 英文释义

1. a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings

2. produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young

3. any of several nutritive milklike liquids

milk 双语例句

1. As the baby suckles, a further supply of milk is generated.

婴儿吮吸时，会有更多的奶水流出来。

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2. Usually a woman's breasts produce milk spontaneously after the birth.

女性的乳房通常在产后会自然泌乳。

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3. So many things are unsafe these days—milk, cranberry sauce, what have you.

现如今很多食品都不安全——牛奶、蓝莓酱等等。

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4. She finished putting the milk away and turned around.

她把牛奶收好后转过身来。

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5. Their aim will be to produce as much milk as possible.

他们的目标是尽可能提高牛奶产量。

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milk 实用场景例句

a pint/litre of milk

一品脱 / 一升奶

牛津词典

a bottle/carton of milk

一瓶 / 一纸盒奶

牛津词典

fresh/dried/powdered milk

鲜奶；奶粉

牛津词典

Do you take milk in your tea?

你茶里加奶吗？

牛津词典

milk products (= butter, cheese, etc.)

乳制品

牛津词典

breast milk

母乳

牛津词典

She's milked a small fortune from the company over the years.

许多年来她揩公司的油，发了一笔小财。

牛津词典

She's milked the company of a small fortune.

她揩公司的油，发了一笔小财。

牛津词典

I know he's had a hard time lately, but he's certainly milking it for all it's worth (= using it as an excuse to do things that people would normally object to) .

我知道他最近的日子不好过，但他却以此为借口为所欲为。

牛津词典

He popped out to buy a pint of milk.

他匆匆出门去买一品脱牛奶。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...basic foods such as meat, bread and milk.

诸如肉、面包和牛奶之类的主食

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Farm-workers milked cows by hand.

农场工人用手挤牛奶。

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Milk from the mother's breast is a perfect food for the human baby.

母乳是宝宝的最佳食品。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...sales of cleansing milks, creams and gels.

洗面奶、润肤膏和啫喱的销量

柯林斯高阶英语词典

A few people tried to milk the insurance companies...

一些人试图从保险公司敲一笔钱。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The callous couple milked money from a hospital charity to fund a lavish lifestyle.

为了过上奢靡的生活，这对冷漠无情的夫妇竟然贪污医院的慈善基金。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Fryer dismisses the report as 'milk and water'.

弗赖尔认为这篇报告里的观点不痛不痒，不值一读。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Add milk to produce a soft dropping consistency.

加牛奶至一种柔滑可滴的黏稠度.

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Pour milk out of the bottle into the glass.

把牛奶从瓶子里倒到玻璃杯里去.

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A skin has formed on the milk.

牛奶上面结了一层皮.

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The milk has curdled.

牛奶凝结了.

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She skimmed the milk of its cream.

她撇去牛奶上的奶油.

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I put the milk and meat in the fridge.

我把牛奶和肉放在冰箱里.

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Hot weather multiplied the bacteria in milk rapidly.

炎热的天气使牛奶中的细菌迅速繁殖.

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Lack of refrigeration turned the milk.

牛奶没有冷藏,变酸了.

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