英：['pɪsˌmaɪə]
美：['pɪsˌmaɪə]
pismire如何读
pismire是什么意思
- n.蚂蚁
pismire自然拼读
pis·mire
pIs maIr
pismire英英释义
- n.social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers
pismire词源中文解释
"蚂蚁"，14世纪晚期， pisse-mire（早在14世纪就作为姓氏， Henricus pessemere），来自 pyss “尿液”（据说是指蚂蚁丘的刺鼻气味）和 mire “蚂蚁”（13世纪中期，早在13世纪就作为姓氏），可能来自一个未经证实的古英语单词或来自古诺尔斯语 maurr “蚂蚁”（与瑞典语 myra，丹麦语 myre，中古荷兰语 miere，荷兰语 mier，克里米亚哥特语 miera “蚂蚁”同源），源自 PIE *morwi-（见 Formica（2））。比较 pissant，还有古弗里西亚语 pis-imme，挪威语 migemaur（第一个元素来自拉丁语 mingere）； 早期荷兰语 mierseycke（带有 seycke “尿液”），芬兰语 kusiainen（带有 kusi “尿液”）。
He is as angry as a pissemyre,
Though þat he haue al that he kan desire.
[Chaucer]
他像一只愤怒的蚂蚁，
尽管他拥有他所渴望的一切。
[乔叟]
从1560年代开始轻蔑地用于人。
pismire词源英文解释
Middle English pissemire, from pisse urine + mire ant, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse maurr ant; akin to Latin formica ant, Greek myrmēx
The first known use of pismire was in the 14th century
pismire 例句
1 A light dawned upon the intellect of that pismire.
2 But 'tis with a design only to gain What may their age with plenteous ease maintain; The prudent pismire does this lesson teach, And industry to lazy mankind preach.
3 For the pismires will suffer beasts to go and pasture amongst them, but no man in no wise.
4 I've got a thousand-legged worm at the head of a pismire flush, and it serves us right, for a lot of slovens.
5 Mark the vanity of the pismire on your left hand.
6 They were bitten by pismires an inch long, and by the unmerciful tzetze fly.
7 Celia: You would never be satisfied and you to see me working from dark to dark as hard as a pismire in the tufts.
8 And therefore when it is great heat, the pismires rest them in the earth, from prime of the day into noon.
9 Urad, perceiving that they were gone, wished herself into her original form, but alas! her wish was not granted, and the once beautiful Urad still continued an ugly pismire.
10 I dread your coming to the Abbey.—We that are here already, shall only, then, appear like pismires:—but let me caution my friend not to think his head will touch the clouds.
11 Then why do you squirm at the minute catastrophe of a few thousands or150 millions of pismires crushed under the wheels of evolution.
12 Mice, moles and pismires cause the jaundies in trees, known by the discolour of the leaves and buds.
13 He spoke of himself as a “shrimp of an author,” and expressed the fear that his works might be mistaken for those of “a pismire or a flea.”
14 Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourged with rods, Nettled, and stung with pismires, when I hear Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke.
15 Bravery and Cæsar were synonymous terms, and the little, mean, pismire ambitions of Roman politicians he despised, striding over their corrupt schemes for pelf and office like a winter whirlwind.
16 He was furious, and rising up in his place, declared: "I might as well move to lay the bill on the table and to write as its epitaph—'nibbled to death by pismires!'"
17 Must we unto the pismire go to school, To learn of her in summer to provide For winter next ensuing.
18 Give but my spirit its desired scope, - A giant in a pismire, I not grope; Deny it,—and an ant, with on my back A firmament, the skiey vault will crack.
19 We might as well apply the same code to the fierce Malay who runs amuck and to McAllister's fashionable pismires.
20 My persecuting enemies seem so many pismires; and as for my debts, which have occasioned me so many brooding moments, honour and infamy, credit and beggary, seem to me alike ridiculous.'