英：['beldəm]
美：['beldəm]
beldam如何读
beldam是什么意思
- n.老太婆；恶婆
- =beldame.
beldam英英释义
Noun
1. an ugly evil-looking old woman
2. a woman of advanced age
beldam词源中文解释
同样地， beldame，“年老的女人”，1570年代; 更早的“祖母”（15世纪中叶），源自 dame（见词条 dame），“母亲”的意思 + bel-，中古英语前缀，表达关系（如 belfader 、belsire 的“祖父”），来自古法语 bel 、belle，“美丽的，公正的，美好的”（见 belle）。在法语中， bel 的这种“直接关系”意义并不常见，但前缀用于构成姻亲之类的词汇。
beldam词源英文解释
Middle English beldam grandmother, from Anglo-French bel beautiful + Middle English dam
The first known use of beldam was in 1520
beldam儿童词典英英释义
bellyache1 of 2noun
pain in the abdomen and especially in the stomach : stomachache
bellyache2 of 2verb
to complain in a whining or irritable way
kept bellyaching about the wait
bellpullnoun
a cord or wire or a handle or knob attached to it that one pulls to ring a bell
bell-bottomsplural noun
pants with legs that widen out at the bottom
belittleverb
to make (a person or a thing) seem little or unimportant
belittle the success of a rival
Belgiannoun
a person born or living in Belgium
any of a Belgian breed of heavy usually roan or chestnut draft horses
beleaguerverb
to surround with an army so as to prevent escape : besiege sense 1
to subject to troublesome forces : harass
the pests that beleaguer farmers
beldamnoun
an old woman
beldamnoun
an old woman
beldam 例句
1 And on what," said the beldam, "after all does this mighty difference turn?
2 "Here, beldam—deyvil's kind," cried Hatteraick in his harshest voice, "have you brought me the brandy and news of my people?"
3 The beldam sat with her face towards Rodolph and the brigand.
4 The coyote knew every inch of the road to the beldams’ hut.
5 Noble poet, tell what chance Brought thee to this beldam's hut.
6 With yards akimbo, she says unto him scornfully, as the old beldam said to the little dwarf:—"Help yourself" And all this, and more than this, is a calm.
7 "This is a make-peace fashion of thine," said the beldam, relaxing into a smile.
8 So leaving the image on the table, he strode towards the opposite door, which he opened wide, followed by the beldam.
9 “Peradventure,” said a voice in the darkness, “if you could win your mamma and your papa back from the beldam, you could also win free our souls.”
10 Ill fits it warriors bold Like two testy beldams to squabble and to scold.
11 The old beldam had managed it in some way.
12 Suppose you hated me and I thought you a beldam!
13 Proofs, as many as you please," cried the beldam: "trinkets with arms on them, clothes she had on at the time, a mole on her right shoulder, which of course her mother must know best.
14 Hence, beldam, from my presence! all, fly hence; You are all murderers.
15 To mind his orders was all he knew; The gates swung open, and out they flew “Where are our broomsticks?” the beldams cried.
16 He had a certain amount of faith in the divinations of magic, and at least it could do no harm to see what the beldam would say.
17 Dietrich interrupted them, saying that it ill beseemed heroes to scold like ancient beldams, and forbade Hildebrand to say more.
18 Like an aged beldam she crouches in the heavens, ashes upon her head, weaving her ancient silver magic, spelling enchantment upon the nether Sea.
19 The old beldam called him, and thought him, the shrewdest boy that ever lived; but, in truth, she had left him no longer a boy, in aught but size and looks.
20 "This old beldam will bring the whole house about our ears," said Bourdin to Malicorne; "we've touched the blunt, our expenses and all, so I say 'Off' is a good word."