meadow: [OE] Etymologically, meadow means ‘mowed land’. It goes back ultimately to an Indo-European *mētwá, a derivative of the base *mē- ‘mow’ (source of English mow [OE]). In prehistoric Germanic this became *mǣdwō (whence German matte ‘meadow’), which passed into Old English as mǣd. The modern English descendant of this, mead, now survives only as an archaism, but its inflected form, mǣdwe, has become modern English meadow. => mow
meadow (n.)
Old English mædwe "meadow, pasture," originally "land covered in grass which is mown for hay;" oblique case of mæd (see mead (n.2)).
双语例句
1. In the spring, the meadow is a mass of daffodils.
春天，草地上开满了黄水仙。
来自柯林斯例句
2. We punted up towards Grantchester and had a picnic in a meadow.
我们乘坐平底长船溯河而上到格兰切斯特，在草地上举行野餐。
来自柯林斯例句
3. lambs gambolling in the meadow
在草地上蹦蹦跳跳的小羊羔
来自《权威词典》
4. The seeds of dandelion were carried to the meadow by the wind.
