callow
英 ['kæləʊ]
美['kælo]
- adj. 年轻而无经验的；羽毛未丰的
- n. (Callow)人名；(英)卡洛
助记提示
1. 与cub, calf同源，符合首辅音表词类含义的规则，由此引申出该词的含义。
2. 形近词：wallow, tallow, swallow, shallow, sallow, hallow, callow, fallow.
3. call + low, 叫声低的小鸟 > 未生羽毛的
4. Calvin (卡尔文、加尔文) => Latin calvus "bald" => callow.
5. From young birds with no feathers, meaning extended to any young inexperienced thing or creature.
2. 形近词：wallow, tallow, swallow, shallow, sallow, hallow, callow, fallow.
3. call + low, 叫声低的小鸟 > 未生羽毛的
4. Calvin (卡尔文、加尔文) => Latin calvus "bald" => callow.
5. From young birds with no feathers, meaning extended to any young inexperienced thing or creature.
中文词源
callow 幼稚的
来自PIE *gal, 秃头，参照Calvinism, chauvinism, 进一步来自PIE*ghel, 发光的，词源同glass, gleam。指刚出生的，没长毛的。
英英释意
- 1. lacking experience of life;
- "a callow youth of seventeen"
英文词源
- callow
- callow: [OE] Old English calu meant ‘bald’. Eventually, the word came to be applied to young birds which as yet had no feathers, and by the late 16th century it had been extended metaphorically to any young inexperienced person or creature. It probably came, via West Germanic *kalwaz, from Latin calvus ‘bald’.
=> calvary - callow (adj.)
- Old English calu "bare, bald," from Proto-Germanic *kalwa- (cognates: Middle Dutch calu, Dutch kaal, Old High German kalo, German Kahl), from PIE root *gal- (1) "bald, naked" (cognates: Russian golyi "smooth, bald"). From young birds with no feathers, meaning extended to any young inexperienced thing or creature (1570s). Apparently not related to Latin calvus "bald."
实用场景例句
- a callow youth
- 乳臭未干的年轻人
牛津词典
- ...a callow youth.
- 涉世不深的毛头小子
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- He was a callow youth when he joined the newspaper.
- 他进报社时还是个乳臭未干的小子.
《简明英汉词典》
- He was only a callow youth.
- 他只是个无经验的年轻人.
期刊摘选
- I believed a lot of things in my callow youth that I do not believe now.
- 在我年轻尚无经验时相信的许多事情,现在我不相信了.
期刊摘选
- Like callow birds left desert to the skies.
- 你的庇护,它们就要战栗--就象/那羽翼未丰的小鸟给撇下在天空里.
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