首页英语词典boyboy的意思

boy

英 [bɒɪ] 美[bɔɪ]

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近义词buddy fellow male lad youth

反义词

n. 男孩；男人
n. (Boy)人名；(英、德、西、意、刚(金)、印尼、瑞典)博伊；(法)布瓦

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复数: boys;

中文词源

boy 男孩

词源不详。

英英释意

1. a youthful male person;: "the baby was a boy"; "she made the boy brush his teeth every night"; "most soldiers are only boys in uniform"

2. a friendly informal reference to a grown man;: "he likes to play golf with the boys"

3. a male human offspring;: "their son became a famous judge"; "his boy is taller than he is"

4. (ethnic slur) offensive term for Black man;: "get out of my way, boy"

英文词源

boy: boy: [13] The etymology of boy has long been problematical, but the now most generally accepted view is that it is probably a reduced form of an unrecorded Anglo-Norman *abuie or *embuie ‘fettered’, from the Old French verb embuier ‘fetter’. This came from Vulgar Latin *imboiāre, a compound verb based on Latin boiae ‘leather collar, fetter’, which was adapted from Greek boeiai doraí ‘ox-hides’ (hence ‘oxleather thongs’), from bous ‘ox’ (related to English bovine and cow).

The apparently implausible semantic connection is elucidated by the early meaning of boy in English, which was ‘male servant’; according to this view, a boy was etymologically someone kept in leather fetters, and hence a ‘slave’ or ‘servant’. The current main sense, ‘young male’, developed in the 14th century.
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boy (n.): mid-13c., boie "servant, commoner, knave, boy," of unknown origin. Possibly from Old French embuie "one fettered," from Vulgar Latin *imboiare, from Latin boia "leg iron, yoke, leather collar," from Greek boeiai dorai "ox hides." (Words for "boy" double as "servant, attendant" across the Indo-European map -- compare Italian ragazzo, French garçon, Greek pais, Middle English knave, Old Church Slavonic otroku -- and often it is difficult to say which meaning came first.)

But it also appears to be identical with East Frisian boi "young gentleman," and perhaps with Dutch boef "knave," from Middle Dutch boeve, perhaps from Middle Low German buobe. This suggests a gradational relationship to babe. For a different conjecture:
In Old English, only the proper name Boia has been recorded. ME boi meant 'churl, servant' and (rarely) 'devil.' In texts, the meaning 'male child' does not antedate 1400. ModE boy looks like a semantic blend of an onomatopoeic word for an evil spirit (*boi) and a baby word for 'brother' (*bo). [Liberman]

A noticable number of the modern words for 'boy', 'girl', and 'child' were originally colloquial nicknames, derogatory or whimsical, in part endearing, and finally commonplace. These, as is natural, are of the most diverse, and in part obscure, origin. [Buck]
Used slightingly of young men in Middle English; meaning "male negro slave or Asian personal servant of any age" attested from c. 1600. Exclamation oh, boy attested from 1892.

考试真题

The little boy walked out of the school with his head and shoulders hanging down.

A nine-year-old central California boy braved strong currents and cold water to swim from San Francisco to Alcatraz Island and back.

At 8 years old, he worked as a kitchen boy for a restaurant in Paris in exchange for room and board.

He was saving the life of a 9-month-old boy who was blown into the path of an oncoming subway train by a high wind.

In my dreams I would have twins, a boy and a girl.

Indeed, Google, for which Leslie expresses admiration, is also his frequent whipping boy.

The TV station reported that by completing the swim the fourth-grade student from Los Banos broke a record previously held by a ten-year-old boy.

One boy said, I'd rather be concentrating on artistic efforts than saving the world or something.

For example, only one boy said he would like to be president when he grows up.

Children also learn to behave as boys or girls through observation and imitation.

I happened to meet with a youngish-looking man with a 3-year-old boy around his shoulders.

The youngish-looking man takes his little boy to the hermitage frequently so that when he grows up he will know what is essential

Most young boys are trained to believe that men should be strong, tough, cool, and detached.

Most young boys have been trained to believe that men who show tender feelings are considered to be feminine and weak

They encounter boys all the time socially out of school, and through debating societies and things like that, some school activities as well.

Baby boys do not react at all to the difference and the size of the cube.

Perhaps it is early nerve development that makes some infant girls show more intelligence than infant boys

Baby girls usually talk at an earlier age than boys do.

Boys enjoy playing with cubes more than girls

Girls tend to get excited more easily than boys.

Girls seem to start reasoning earlier than boys

Boys pay more attention to moving objects than girls.

A boy on a bike caught my attention.

A school boy or girl is unpunctual because he or she does not have the necessary human virtue of self-discipline.

After all, a dollar was a tidy sum for an 11-year-old boy in 1961.

Boy, news travels fast around here! I only got the orders a couple of hours ago.

Finally, when we came to the next stop, the boy ran up to the door of the bus.

He asked Benjamin's parents if he might take the boy to Philadelphia for a visit.

Instead of seeing my boys as losers, I pushed and encouraged them.

It was a rainy morning and the children, mainly boys with various learning difficulties, refused to settle for the start of the lesson.

Much to the family's surprise, Dennis stuck to his promise! He turned up at the hospital bearing gifts for the new mother lindsey and her baby boy.

Natalie posted introduction about a boy named Patrick, who lost his baseball card collecting when his house burned down.

Once I had a boy who worked experimentally with tinkertoys in his free time.

Samuel, the tallest boy in our class, can easily reach the books on the top shelf.

Several boys were crowding around chad, who declared with a proud smile that he sold six dozen the day before.

She pushed her way to the driver and took the suitcase thankfully, everyone on the bus began talking about what the boy had done, and the crowd of strangers suddenly became friendly to one another.

That dog was my dog, and I was the little boy in the book.

The boy began a landscape 风景 painting.

The last confirmed wild pigeon in the United States was shot by a boy in pike county, Ohio, in 1900.

The letter ended with a personal request: "Boy, on my next birthday, just tell me to wake up and get going, because I will have one less year to do things and there are ten million things waiting to be done."

The link between what the men had done as boys and how they turned out as adults was surprisingly sharp.

The little boy had been running up and down the street, but there were still twenty papers left.

The nine-year-old boy decided then that he would be an artist.

The researchers also found that IQ and family social and economic class made no real difference in how the boys turned out.

The study showed that those who had worked as boys enjoyed happier and more productive lives than those who had not.

These are the findings of a 40-year study that followed the lives of 456 teenage boys from Boston.

Welch examined a sick boy, Billy, and knew he had diphtheria, a deadly infectious disease mainly affecting children.

When he was running after his brother, the boy lost his balance and had a bad fall.

You begin to realize that your boy, in your footsteps, could probably accomplish what you hoped for.

The family’s increasing poverty forced Dickens out of school at age 12 to work in Warren’s Blacking Warehouse, a shoe-polish factory, where the other working boys mocked him as "the young gentleman."

Soon after his father’s release from prison, Dickens got a better job as errand boy in law offices.

Plays aiming at literary distinction were written for school or court, or for the choir boys of St.

Court, school organizations of amateurs, and the traveling actors were all rivals in supplying a widespread desire for dramatic entertainment; and no boy who went a grammar school could be ignorant that the drama was a form of literature which gave glory to Greece and Rome and might yet bring honor to England.

Soon after his father's release from prison, Dickens got a better job as errand boy in law offices.

词组搭配

boys in blue

(informal)policemen; the police

(非正式)警察

boys will be boys

used to express the view that mischievous or childish behaviour is typical of boys or young men and should not cause surprise when it occurs

孩子总是孩子嘛！（意为男孩子难免要淘气，不足为怪）

the big boys

men or organizations considered to be the most powerful and successful

大人物（或大机构）

实用场景例句

They have two boys and a girl.: 他们有两个儿子和一个女儿。

Her eldest boy is at college.: 她的长子在上大学。

a delivery boy: 报童

He's a local boy .: 他是本地人。

a city/country boy: 城里 / 乡下来的人

a night out with the boys: 和弟兄们一同消遣的一夜

Boy, it sure is hot!: 嗬，真够辣的！

Oh boy! That's great!: 哇！真了不起！

Now she's a teenager, she's starting to be interested in boys.: 她现在已经是个十几岁的姑娘了，开始对男孩子感兴趣。

a little/small/young boy: 小男孩；小伙子

I used to play here as a boy.: 我小时候常在这里玩。

The older boys at school used to tease him.: 学校里大一些的男生过去常常取笑他。

'Come on boys', he shouted to the sailors.: “加把劲儿，伙计们”，他向船员们喊道。

Down, boy, down!: 趴下，小家伙，趴下！

Oh Boy! Just think what I could tell him.: 哇，好家伙！想想看我会告诉他什么。

He wants to be accepted as one of the boys.: 他想被人看作一个男子汉。

...the local boy who made President...: 当上总统的本地小伙子

I have two boys.: 我有两个儿子。

Eric was my cousin Edward's boy...: 埃里克是我表兄爱德华的儿子。

I knew him when he was a little boy...: 他还是个小男孩的时候我就认识他了。

He was still just a boy.: 他还只是个孩子。

...the age when girls get interested in boys.: 姑娘开始对小伙子感兴趣的年龄

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