fawn
英 [fɔːn]
美[fɔn]
- vi. 奉承
- n. 小鹿；浅黄褐色；小动物
- adj. 浅黄褐色的
- vt. 生（小鹿或小动物）
- n. (Fawn)人名；(英)福恩
词态变化
复数: fawns;第三人称单数: fawns;过去式: fawned;过去分词: fawned;现在分词: fawning;
助记提示
1. fetus => fawn.
2. fain => fawn.
3. 谐音“逢”----逢迎。
2. fain => fawn.
3. 谐音“逢”----逢迎。
中文词源
fawn 浅黄褐色的，幼鹿
来自拉丁语fetus, 生育，幼兽，字母t脱落，结尾鼻音化，用来指幼鹿及鹿的颜色。词义演变参照deer.
fawn 巴结词源同fain, 乐意的。词义贬义化。
英英释意
- 1. a color varying around light grayish brown;
- "she wore a dun raincoat"
- 2. young deer
英文词源
- fawn
- fawn: Fawn ‘young deer’ [14] and fawn ‘grovel’ [13] are two distinct words. The latter did not always have the negative associations of ‘servility’ which it usually carries today. Originally it simply referred to dogs showing they were happy – by wagging their tails, for instance. It was a derivative of Old English fægen ‘happy’, an adjective of Germanic origin which survives in the archaic fain ‘willingly’ (as in ‘I would fain go’). Fawn ‘young deer’ comes via Old French faon ‘young of an animal’ and Vulgar Latin *fētō from Latin fētus ‘giving birth, offspring’ (whence English foetus).
The general sense ‘young of an animal’ survived into the early 17th century in English (James I’s translation of the Psalms, for instance, in 1603, has ‘the fawn of unicorns’ in Psalm 29, where the Authorized Version simply refers to ‘a young unicorn’), but on the whole ‘young of the deer’ seems to have been the main sense of the word from the 15th century onwards.
Its use as a colour term, after the pale yellowish brown of a young deer’s coat, dates from the 19th century.
=> fain, foetus - fawn (n.)
- "young deer," mid-14c., from Anglo-French (late 13c.), Old French (12c.) faon, feon "young animal," especially "young deer," from Vulgar Latin *fetonem (nominative *feto), from Latin fetus "a bringing forth; an offspring" (see fetus). It was used of the young of any animal as recently as King James I's private translation of the Psalms, but the sense has been mainly of deer since 15c. Color use is by 1881.
- fawn (v.)
- Old English fægnian "rejoice, be glad, exult, applaud," from fægen "glad" (see fain); used in Middle English to refer to expressions of delight, especially a dog wagging its tail (early 13c.), hence "court favor, grovel, act slavishly" (early 14c.). Related: Fawned; fawning.
词组搭配
in fawn
(of a deer) pregnant
（鹿）怀孕的
实用场景例句
- a fawn coat
- 浅黄褐色外套
牛津词典
- ...a light fawn coat.
- 浅黄褐色大衣
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- The fawn ran to the top of the ridge.
- 小鹿跑上山脊。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- People fawn over you when you're famous...
- 你出了名，大家就会来讨好你。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Nauseatingly fawning journalism that's all it is.
- 那只不过是以令人作呕的溜须拍马为能事的新闻报道。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Unfortunately, one day the fawn who played hooky stepped in a snare and was trapped.
- 一天,这只逃学的小鹿不幸踩到一个陷井被困住了.
期刊摘选
- Underlings fawn on their bosses.
- 奴才巴结主子.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- A: He said you fawn on the manager in order to get a promotion.
- 他说你为了获得提拔,拍经理的马屁.
期刊摘选
- To behave in a servile way ; fawn .
- 一个为 不足道 的愿望所驱使的人.
期刊摘选
- He ordered fawn to look for the tortoise and ask why it was absent.
- 他命令小鹿去找乌龟,问它为什么缺席.
期刊摘选
- Still , that fawn looked right at me.
- 那头小鹿直视着我.
期刊摘选
- NIV Even the doe in the field deserts her newborn fawn because there is no grass.
- 5[和合]田野的母鹿,生下小鹿,就撇弃,因为无草.
期刊摘选
- Maintenance men there quickly produced rags to make a bed behind the boiler for the fawn.
- 那里的工作人员立即拿出碎布,在锅炉后面给小鹿铺了张床.
期刊摘选
- He can stoop to fawn.
- 他能够自贬身份,讨好拍马.
辞典例句
- The stubborn fawn who played hooky had been trapped and killed by a hunter.
- 那只不听话的小鹿掉进了陷井,被猎人杀死了.
期刊摘选
- But a scrawny fawn stood there on shaky legs, looking right at me.
- 然而它的旁边站了一只小羊,四条腿抖抖索索, 它直愣愣的看着我.
期刊摘选
- Cindy the abandoned fawn finds a new family with Giant Great Dane Rocky.
- 就像莫格利一样,被抛弃的小鹿Cindy和巨大的大丹犬Rocky组成了一个新家.
期刊摘选
- Since they speak straightforwardly and selflessly and never appear to grovel or fawn.
- 因为他们说话正直无私,容色也不阿谀谄媚.
期刊摘选
- He is upright and would never fawn on his boss deliberately.
- 他有狷介之气,绝对不会刻意讨好上司.
期刊摘选
- Because women fawn over them, they reason that any woman would be happy to have them.
- 因为是女人去讨好他们, 所以他们就推想任何女人拥有了他们都会感到快乐.
期刊摘选
- Others make brutes of them and they fawn and are faithful.
- 而另外一些人把他们当禽兽一般来对待,他们反倒对这些人谄媚和专一.
期刊摘选
- There was something of the fawn in her grace and startled eyes.
- 她那腼腆的温文神情和受惊的眼神里有一种媚态.
辞典例句
- Huddled beside the dead deer was a fawn with the umbilical cord still attached.
- 蜷缩在死鹿旁的是头脐带未断的初生幼鹿.
期刊摘选
- Fear the fearsome fury of the forest fawn!
- 森林小鹿的可怕愤怒,害怕吧!
期刊摘选
- You must guard against those who fawn upon you and bow obsequiously before you!
- 对阿谀奉承、点头哈腰的人要格外警惕!
《简明英汉词典》
- He spotted a fawn coming out of the forest.
- 他看到一头小鹿正从林子里走了出来.
期刊摘选
- Fawn blazes of fury from the Seventh Eye of God.
- 神第七只眼点燃地狱狂怒的业火.
期刊摘选
- Look, over there, a little fawn!
- 看, 就在那里, 一只小鹿!
期刊摘选
- At this moment a small fawn on came over, ask: Are you dry take boiled water?
- 这时一个小美媚过来了, 问: 你干嘛拿开水?
期刊摘选
- People fawn over you when you're famous.
- 你出了名，大家就会来讨好你。
辞典例句