loaf 基本解释
- n. 条，一条面包；块；游荡
- vt. 游荡；游手好闲；虚度光阴
- vi. 游荡；游手好闲；虚度光阴
loaf 词态变化
复数: loaves;第三人称单数: loafs;过去式: loafed;过去分词: loafed;现在分词: loafing;
loaf 中文词源
loaf 面包来自古英语hlaf,一块面包，词源同lady,lord.
loaf 英文词源
- loaf
- loaf: English has two words loaf. By far the older is ‘portion of bread’ [OE], which goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *khlaibaz. This also produced German laib and Danish lev ‘loaf’, and was borrowed, originally into Gothic, from an Old Slavic chleb (source of modern Russian and Polish chleb ‘bread, loaf’). Heavily disguised, loaf forms part of both lady and lord (which etymologically mean respectively ‘loafkneader’ and ‘loaf-guardian’), and it also contributed the first syllable to Lammas [OE], literally ‘loaf-mass’.
The verb loaf ‘dawdle, mooch’ [19] seems to have been a back-formation from loafer, which was probably adapted in 19th-century American English from German landläufer ‘vagabond’, a compound of land ‘land’ and läufer ‘runner’ (to which English leap is related).
=> lady, lord; leap - loaf (n.)
- late 13c., from Old English hlaf "portion of bread baked in a mass of definite form," from Proto-Germanic *khlaibuz (cognates: Old Norse hleifr, Swedish lev, Old Frisian hlef, Old High German hleib, German Laib, Gothic hlaifs "bread, loaf"), of uncertain origin, perhaps connected to Old English hlifian "to raise higher, tower," on the notion of the bread rising as it bakes, but it is unclear whether "loaf" or "bread" is the original sense. Finnish leipä, Old Church Slavonic chlebu, Lithuanian klepas probably are Germanic loan words. Meaning "chopped meat shaped like a bread loaf" is attested from 1787.
- loaf (v.)
- 1835, American English, back-formation from loafer (1830). Related: Loafed; loafing.
The term "loafing" is, of course, very vague. Its meaning, like that of its opposite, "work," depends largely on the user. The highly successful quarterback with an E in Greek is a loafer in his professor's eyes, while the idea of the professor's working, in spite of his voluminous researches on Mycenean Table Manners, would excite hoots of derision from the laborer that lays the drains before his study window. [Yale Literary Magazine, May 1908]
loaf 词组搭配
half a loaf is better than no bread
(proverb)it is better to accept less than one wants or expects than to have nothing at all
(谚)有总比没有好（或： 聊胜于无）
use one's loaf
(Brit. informal)use one's common sense
(英，非正式)动动脑
loaf 英文释义
- 1. a shaped mass of baked bread
loaf 双语例句
- 1. The proposal could put 3p on a loaf of bread.
- 这项提议会使每个面包的成本增加3便士。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. The cost of a loaf of bread has increased five-fold.
- 一条面包的价钱增长了4倍。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. Pick up a quart of milk or a loaf of bread.
- 拿1夸脱牛奶或一条面包。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. a loaf of bread
- 一条面包
来自《权威词典》
- 5. a loaf of sliced bread
- 一条切片面包
来自《权威词典》
loaf 实用场景例句
- a loaf of bread
- 一条面包
牛津词典
- Two white loaves, please.
- 请拿两条白面包。
牛津词典
- a sliced loaf
- 一条切片面包
牛津词典
- A group of kids were loafing around outside.
- 一群小孩在外面四处游荡。
牛津词典
- ...a loaf of crusty bread.
- 一条硬皮面包
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- ...freshly baked loaves.
- 新鲜出炉的面包
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Soldiers loafed at street corners.
- 士兵们在街角逛荡。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- That small loaf won't go far among this large family!
- 那一小条面包全家人吃不了多久的.
辞典例句
- Hunger goad him to steal a loaf of bread.
- 饥饿驱迫他偷一块面包.
期刊摘选
- Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.
- 分享你们的面包但不可只食用同一条面包.
期刊摘选
- Then, at least, argued some of the people, why don't cut the loaf into vertical slices?
- 然后, 至少, 辩论一些人们认为, 为什么不把面包分割成垂直的薄片?
期刊摘选
- Give another of your bread but not from the same loaf.
- 给对方自己的面包,却不是同一块.
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- He slices off a thick piece from the loaf.
- 他从面包上切下了厚厚的一片.
《简明英汉词典》
- Going to be a useful boy , so long as you use your loaf.
- 只要运用你的头脑,就会成为有用的年轻人.
《简明英汉词典》
- They had run away inflation and it cost $ 1 million for a loaf of bread.
- 他们已对通货膨胀失去了控制,一条面包花费一百万美元.
期刊摘选
- The figurine broke; The freshly baked loaf fell apart.
- 那个小 塑像 被打破了.
期刊摘选
- Or what man of you, if his son asks him for a loaf, will give him a stone?
- 再说,你们中间谁的儿子要个面包, 能给他一块石头 吗 ?
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- Don't loaf; please get the job done.
- 别磨磨蹭蹭, 请把工作做完.
辞典例句
- Make not quite from first look, excited unceasingly, gradually excessive to now faineant , loaf about everywhere.
- 从最初的眼不够使, 激动不已, 逐渐过度到现在的无所事事, 四处游荡.
期刊摘选
- Hunger goaded him to steal a loaf of bread.
- 饥饿驱使他偷了一只面包.
期刊摘选
- Is it right to loaf around when so much work needs to be done?
- 有这么多工作要干,游手好闲对 吗 ?
《简明英汉词典》
- All grocery shopping bags contain at least one loaf of French bread.
- 所有食品店的购物袋中都至少装了一条法式面包.
期刊摘选
- He likes to loaf about at weekends.
- 周末他爱闲逛.
期刊摘选
- Don't loaf about here any longer. Go to London and find a job.
- 不要再在这里闲逛了, 去伦敦找一个工作吧.
期刊摘选
- Spiced goose meat loaf?
- 五香鹅?夹肉面包?
期刊摘选
- Weigh that loaf of bread on the balance , please.
- 把那块面包放在秤上称一称.
《简明英汉词典》
- Ghostliness, of digital age ghostliness , loaf about in China.
- 一个幽灵, 数字时代的幽灵, 在中国游荡.
期刊摘选
- Don't loaf about while there's so much to be done.
- 还有这么多事情要干,别胡混了!
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- Don't loaf away your time.
- 不要浪费你的时间.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
