laugh
英 [lɑːf]***美 [læf]
- n. 笑；引人发笑的事或人
- vi. 笑
- vt. 以笑表示；使…笑得
中文词源
laugh 笑来自PIE*kleg,笑声，拟声词。
中文词源
- laugh
- laugh: [OE] The word laugh is ultimately onomatopoeic, imitative of the sound of laughter. It goes back to Indo-European *klak-, *klōk-, which also produced Greek klóssein, a verb denoting the clucking of hens, and Latin clangere ‘sound’ (source of English clangor [16]). Its Germanic descendants were *khlakh-, *khlōkh-, from which come German and Dutch lachen, Swedish and Danish le, and English laugh.
=> clangor - laugh (v.)
- late 14c., from Old English (Anglian) hlæhhan, earlier hlihhan, from Proto-Germanic *klakhjan (cognates: Old Norse hlæja, Danish le, Old Frisian hlakkia, Old Saxon hlahhian, Middle Dutch and Dutch lachen, Old High German hlahhan, German lachen, Gothic hlahjan), from PIE *kleg-, of imitative origin (compare Latin cachinnare "to laugh aloud," Sanskrit kakhati "laughs," Old Church Slavonic chochotati "laugh," Lithuanian klageti "to cackle," Greek kakhazein). Originally with a "hard" -gh- sound, as in Scottish loch; the spelling remained after the pronunciation shifted to "-f."
If I coveted nowe to avenge the injuries that you have done me, I myght laughe in my slyve. [John Daus, "Sleidanes Commentaries," 1560]
Related: Laughed; laughing. - laugh (n.)
- 1680s, from laugh (v.). Meaning "a cause of laughter" is from 1895; ironic use (as in that's a laugh) attested from 1930. Laugh track "canned laughter on a TV program" is from 1961.
双语例句
- 1. For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?
- 我们活着是为了什么？不就是给邻居当笑柄，再反过来笑他们。
来自《傲慢与偏见》
- 2. Do not hesitate to laugh at anything you find amusing.
- 只要觉得好笑就尽管笑。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. He was falsely jovial, with his booming, mirthless laugh.
- 他低声苦笑了几声，装出快乐的样子。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. They laugh so hard they double up with laughter.
- 他们捧腹大笑，直不起身来。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. The blunt comment made Richard laugh in spite of himself.
- 这番率直的话让理查德不由自主地大笑起来。
来自柯林斯例句
