英：[pri:n]
美：[prin]
preen如何读
preen是什么意思
- v.整理羽毛；精心打扮；沾沾自喜
preen变形
第三人称单数:preens
现在分词:preening
过去式:preened
过去分词:preened
preen英英释义
verb (1)
transitive verb
of a bird to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland
to dress or smooth (oneself) up : primp
to pride or congratulate (oneself) on an achievement
intransitive verb
to make oneself sleek
to behave or speak with obvious pride or self-satisfaction
noun
dialectal, chiefly British pin
dialectal, chiefly British brooch
verb (2)
transitive verb
pin
preen词源中文解释
14世纪晚期，用于形容人的"修饰，打扮"，可能是中古英语 proynen， proinen 的变体，用于形容鸟"用喙修整羽毛"； 用于形容人"仔细打扮或梳理自己"（参见 prune (v.)）。中古英语中的 prene "用别针固定，刺穿，用别针固定"可能影响了这个词的形式。它源自古英语的 preon，是一个通用的日耳曼语词汇（比较荷兰语的 priemen，低地德语的 prünen，东弗里斯兰语的 prinen）。
在英语中，用于形容鸟"用喙修整羽毛"的用法始于15世纪晚期。由于中世纪晚期猎鹰的流行，人们更加仔细地观察了鸟类的活动，并且对它们的词汇比今天更精确。
Youre hawke proynith and not pikith and she prenyth not bot whan she begynnyth at hir leggys, and fetcheth moystour like oyle at hir taill. ["Book of St. Albans," 1486]
你的鹰在修整而不是啄食，她只有在从腿部开始时才开始修整，然后从尾部获取像油一样的湿润。["圣奥尔本书"，1486]
Preening 作为一个现在分词形容词，意思是"骄傲的，自信的"，始于1903年。
preen词源英文解释
Verb (1) Middle English prenen, alteration of proynen, prunen, from Anglo-French puroindre, proindre, from pur- thoroughly + uindre, oindre to anoint, rub, from Latin unguere — more at purchase >entry 1, ointment Noun Middle English prene, from Old English prēon; akin to Middle High German pfrieme awl
The first known use of preen was before the 12th century
preen儿童词典英英释义
preenverb
to groom with the bill
a bird preening its feathers
to make one's appearance neat and tidy
preened in front of the mirror
preenverb
to groom with the bill
a bird preening its feathers
to make one's appearance neat and tidy
preened in front of the mirror
preen 例句
1 Andeg preened his feathers, very glad to be so warm, bobbed his sleek head, and blinked his brilliant eyes.
2 She preened herself upon her beauty.
她为自已的美貌感到自满。
3 Tonight, you can watch the women figure skaters pout and preen their way to the medals.
今晚, 你们将看到女子花样滑冰选手把自己打扮得漂漂亮亮的,去争取金牌.
4 Together, the men preen, strut, shimmy, and shake their feathered costumes, mimicking the local birds of paradise.
人们梳妆打扮，昂首阔步，抖动着羽毛装束，模仿那里的天堂鸟的动作。
5 She stood preening in their midst, delighted with the attention...
她得意洋洋地站在他们中间，为受人瞩目而高兴。
6 Rare birds preen themselves right in front of your camera.
很少有鸟类会在镜头面前梳理自己的羽毛。
7 He never cared a preen for her.
他对她一点也不在乎.
8 "You going somewhere, or just wearing a hole in that carpet while you preen?"
9 Through the lens Axel watches the adult preen the baby, touching it with his beak.
10 The cinnamon teal waddled onto the bank and preened its feathers.
11 At her gentlest touch he will preen, stretch, and open his mouth.
12 I prance from rack to rack, I preen.
13 Billy Eugene Jones plays both Rev and Pap, and the two come across as different kinds of preening tyrant: one supercilious and the other more aggressive yet both pumped up with machismo.
14 He tries to ignore Henry a few feet to his left, currently getting a final preening from a royal stylist.
15 He preened, his left wing lightly touching my scarred cheek.
16 Two cockatoos began touching beaks and preening each other.
17 Let others be as butterflies who preen their wings yet depend on the charity of a flower for life.
让别人像蝴蝶那样精心装扮双翅，依赖花朵的施舍维持生命吧！
18 He preened, even as the rumbles of the Maafa smashing against the Golden Crescent shook the room.
19 A real man didn't prance around and yap at the mouth and preen for the camera.
显然生活中的人不会在摄影机前跃马而起,厉声喝斥,刻意打扮.
20 She was preening her now silver-gray, black, and white feathers.
preen 同义词
4 夸耀
tall parade splurge flaunt pretence glitter boast flourish brag vaunt flaunting epideictic display fanfare pageantry overcrow pique show-off
5 沾沾自喜
smug self-satisfied gloat ten feet tall self-congratulation complacent self-congratulatory complacency hug yourself
6 自负
self-affected flatuous secure vain strut pragmatic pretentious pompous ostentatious conceited boastful overconfident chesty flatulent overweening self-assertive priggish self-opinionated vapouring thrasonical vainly vauntingly priggism boast inflation ego vanity perch conceit sufficiency pragmatism pretension self-love flatulence overconfidence vainglory vaunt pomposity self-assertion self-conceit tympany self-pride self-glorification amour-propre priggery flatulency vainness egotize swell bloat blow swollen cranium
7 自满
self-contented cosy complacent self-satisfied pride self-esteem conceit sufficiency puffiness self-assurance self-satisfaction self-complacency self-content puff
8 精心打扮
12 洋洋得意
13 感到得意
14 得意
15 得意扬扬
16 打扮
toilet guise grooming toilette getup titivation adonize dress titivate prink primp deck trick array groom fig trig tog dight brush-up trap pink embellish bedeck trick out dressing tittivate pansy haberdash tire perk attire dike dink smarten make-up
18 用嘴理
19 装饰
fancy decorative cosmetic decoration flourish ornament trimming adornment garnishment titivate dress deck trick array bind trap pink trim grace decorate groom apparel illuminate enrich fret adorn drape attire garnish prank embellish emblazon gild filigree bedeck lace trick out
20 自鸣得意