英：[sweɪn]
美：[swen]
swain如何读
swain是什么意思
n. (名词)
- 情人
- 求婚者，求爱者
- 乡村少年，乡下的年轻人，乡村青年
- <古>（乡下）情郎
- 崇拜者
- 斯温（音译名）
- 年轻男子，男孩
- 男性服务员
- 地位低的人
swain变形
复数:swains
swain英英释义
Noun
1. a man who is the lover of a girl or young woman;
"if I'd known he was her boyfriend I wouldn't have asked"
swain词源中文解释
12世纪中叶，“骑士的侍从年轻男子”，源自古诺尔斯语 sveinn “男孩，仆人，侍从”，源自原始日耳曼语 *swainaz “侍从，仆人”，本意为“自己的人”，源自原始印欧语 *swoi-no-, 源自词根 *s(w)e- “自己，独自，分开”（见 idiom）。同源于古英语 swan “牧羊人，猪倌”，古撒克逊语 swen，古高地德语 swein。意为“乡村或农场劳工”的含义始于1570年代； 在田园诗中指“情人，求爱者”的含义始于1580年代。
swain词源英文解释
Middle English swein boy, servant, from Old Norse sveinn; akin to Old English swān swain, Latin suus one's own — more at suicide
The first known use of swain was in the 14th century
swain儿童词典英英释义
swam
swallowtailnoun
a deeply forked and tapering tail (as of a swallow)
any of various usually large butterflies in which the hind wing is elongated into a process that resembles a tail
swallow1 of 3noun
any of a family of small birds that have long pointed wings and usually a deeply forked tail and that feed on insects caught while in flight
any of several birds that look like true swallows
swallow2 of 3verb
to take into the stomach through the mouth and throat
to perform the actions used in swallowing something
clear your throat and swallow before answering
to take in as if by swallowing : engulf
to accept or believe without question, protest, or anger
a hard story to swallow
to keep from expressing or showing : repress
swallowed my anger
swallow3 of 3noun
an act of swallowing
an amount that can be swallowed at one time
swallow1 of 3noun
any of a family of small birds that have long pointed wings and usually a deeply forked tail and that feed on insects caught while in flight
any of several birds that look like true swallows
swallow2 of 3verb
to take into the stomach through the mouth and throat
to perform the actions used in swallowing something
clear your throat and swallow before answering
to take in as if by swallowing : engulf
to accept or believe without question, protest, or anger
a hard story to swallow
to keep from expressing or showing : repress
swallowed my anger
swallow3 of 3noun
an act of swallowing
an amount that can be swallowed at one time
swallow1 of 3noun
any of a family of small birds that have long pointed wings and usually a deeply forked tail and that feed on insects caught while in flight
any of several birds that look like true swallows
swallow2 of 3verb
to take into the stomach through the mouth and throat
to perform the actions used in swallowing something
clear your throat and swallow before answering
to take in as if by swallowing : engulf
to accept or believe without question, protest, or anger
a hard story to swallow
to keep from expressing or showing : repress
swallowed my anger
swallow3 of 3noun
an act of swallowing
an amount that can be swallowed at one time
swallow1 of 3noun
any of a family of small birds that have long pointed wings and usually a deeply forked tail and that feed on insects caught while in flight
any of several birds that look like true swallows
swallow2 of 3verb
to take into the stomach through the mouth and throat
to perform the actions used in swallowing something
clear your throat and swallow before answering
to take in as if by swallowing : engulf
to accept or believe without question, protest, or anger
a hard story to swallow
to keep from expressing or showing : repress
swallowed my anger
swallow3 of 3noun
an act of swallowing
an amount that can be swallowed at one time
swainnoun
rustic entry 2especially: shepherd entry 1 sense 1
a male admirer or lover
swain 例句
1 The Sex Pistols’ songs are no more discordant than, say, ‘Lovely yet ungrateful swain’, a Vauxhall Gardens song of Johann Christian Bach.
2 While the dancers, barefoot, variously suggest pastoral nymphs and swains, friends of Acis and Galatea, they increasingly demonstrate central motifs of the musical drama.
3 One spurned swain moans: “I swear, disdain’s my curse!/My girl, who is a poem, is averse!”
4 To Sabina’s passionate virago — when he breaks off the affair, she stabs him in the face — he seems the callow swain, Jung at heart.
5 The story, in which five high-born suitors must attempt to retrieve impossible objects before Kaguya will even consider their proposals, is dark and involves the death of one of her swains.
6 The Comprehensible Output Hypothesis proposed by Swain (1985, 1995) claims that language output produced by L2 learners will help enhance the accuracy and fluency of their language use.
提出的可理解性输出假设明确地阐明了第二语言学习者的语言输出有助于促进他们流利和准确地使用语言。
7 Farewell, poor swain; thou art not for my bend.
8 Steven Carpenter is the greasy minion Lickcheese, fired by Sartorius but returning with a dark deal that could ruin or save everything, and Scott Harrison is the swain with liberal leanings whose naivete is shattered.
9 Smart's take on love past and present is a comme ci, comme ça affair mingling continental charms and genuine insights with familiar tropes used in recent chick flicks about clueless swains.
10 Luckily the jam roll trade was flourishing, and so it was seldom the youthful swain met his lady-love empty-handed.
11 Till Edwin came, the pride of swains, A soul devoid of art; And from whose eyes, serenely mild, Shone forth the feeling heart.
12 Presenting Richard with a file folder of chief technology officer offers, as only Jared can: “You’re the belle of the ball. And these are all your swains, hoping for a glimpse of ankle.”
13 This becomes an intriguing and even exciting first-person story, as the Malmö woman recalls escaping her abusive husband and running off with her Nazi swain, but it also proves anti-climactic.
14 Meanwhile she flirts with the daughter's high-school swain and makes a provocative trip to New York with him.
15 A crush on warfare was one, with Roosevelt the most besotted swain of all.
16 Now the harvest’s o’er, And the grain we store, And the stacks we pull, And the barn is full, The merry, merry reapers sing again, And jocund shouts the happy harvest swain, Hallo Large!
17 He could have begun Lycidas with this, with something like a description of the uncouth swain: "Oh, let me tell you about this uncouth swain."
他可以以类似于对粗鄙的年轻人的描写，来开始叙述：，“让我告诉你，那个粗鄙的年轻人吧。”
18 It is Elizabeth, not her equally eccentric and stubborn swain, who refuses to wed “because I can’t risk having my scientific contributions submerged beneath your name.”
19 The sun that was just dropped into the west or the uncouth swain?
是这个刚刚沉入海湾的太阳还是那个粗鄙的年轻人？
20 My wife had brought me here as her young swain one Sunday afternoon many years before.
swain 同义词
3 情人
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