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monkey

英 ['mʌŋkɪ] 美['mʌŋki]

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近义词mime actor

n. 猴子；顽童
vi. 胡闹；捣蛋
vt. 嘲弄

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词态变化

复数: monkeys;

中文词源

monkey 猴子

词源不详。可能来自人名昵称，-key,来自-kin,或-quin变体，monna,女人，缩写自madonna,夫人，女士。该词在古法语对应形式为Monequin,小Monna.如全世界最美女人英文名即为Monica Bellucci.

monkey ’s wedding 太阳雨

幽默用法，词源不详。更常见sunshower.

英英释意

1. any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians)

2. one who is playfully mischievous

英文词源

monkey: monkey: [16] No one is too sure where monkey came from. Spanish has mono ‘monkey’, and Old Italian had monno ‘monkey’, both probably borrowed from Arabic maimūn ‘monkey’, and it could be that an ancestor of these was borrowed into Low German and given the diminutive suffix -ke. This would account for monkey. No related Germanic form has been found to substantiate this, although the name Moneke does occur in Middle Low German.
monkey (n.): 1520s, likely from an unrecorded Middle Low German *moneke or Middle Dutch *monnekijn, a colloquial word for "monkey," originally a diminutive of some Romanic word, compare French monne (16c.); Middle Italian monnicchio, from Old Italian monna; Spanish mona "ape, monkey." In a 1498 Low German version of the popular medieval beast story Roman de Renart ("Reynard the Fox"), Moneke is the name given to the son of Martin the Ape; transmission of the word to English might have been via itinerant entertainers from the German states.

The Old French form of the name is Monequin (recorded as Monnekin in a 14c. version from Hainault), which could be a diminutive of some personal name, or it could be from the general Romanic word, which may be ultimately from Arabic maimun "monkey," literally "auspicious," a euphemistic usage because the sight of apes was held by the Arabs to be unlucky [Klein]. The word would have been influenced in Italian by folk etymology from monna "woman," a contraction of ma donna "my lady."

Monkey has been used affectionately for "child" since c. 1600. As a type of modern popular dance, it is attested from 1964. Monkey business attested from 1883. Monkey suit "fancy uniform" is from 1886. Monkey wrench is attested from 1858; its figurative sense of "something that obstructs operations" is from the notion of one getting jammed in the gears of machinery (compare spanner in the works). To make a monkey of someone is attested from 1900. To have a monkey on one's back "be addicted" is 1930s narcotics slang, though the same phrase in the 1860s meant "to be angry." There is a story in the Sinbad cycle about a tormenting ape-like creature that mounts a man's shoulders and won't get off, which may be the root of the term. In 1890s British slang, to have a monkey up the chimney meant "to have a mortgage on one's house." The three wise monkeys ("see no evil," etc.) are attested from 1926.
monkey (v.): 1859, "to mock, mimic," from monkey (n.). Meaning "play foolish tricks" is from 1881. Related: Monkeyed; monkeying.

考试真题

A team of researchers trained three rhesus monkeys to associate 26 clearly different symbols consisting of numbers and selective letters with 0-25 drops of water or juice as a reward.

After running hundreds of tests, the researchers noted that the monkeys would go for the higher values more than half the time, indicating that they were performing a calculation, not just memorizing the value of each combination.

Along the way are tales of kings and queens, hot air balloons...and monkeys in space.

Here's how Harvard Medical School scientist Margaret Livingstone, who led the team, described the experiment: in their cages the monkeys were provided with touch screens.

How did the monkeys get their reward in the experiment?

If the monkeys touched the left side of the screen they would be rewarded with seven drops of water or juice; if they went for the circle, they would be rewarded with the sum of the numbers—17 in this example.

I'm a scientist who studies animals such as apes and monkeys.

Little Tom sat amazed watching the monkey dancing in front of him.

Monkeys seem to have a way with numbers.

The researchers then tested how the monkeys combined—or added—the symbols to get the reward.

The under-estimation was systematic: when adding two numbers, the monkeys always paid attention to the larger of the two, and then added only a fraction of the smaller number to it.

词组搭配

as artful (或 clever) as a wagonload (或 cartload) o

(Brit. informal)extremely clever or mischievous

(英，非正式)十分机灵的；十分淘气的

make a monkey of (或 out of) someone

humiliate someone by making them appear ridiculous

使出丑，耍弄

a monkey on one's back

(informal)a burdensome problem

(非正式)沉重负担

not give a monkey's

(informal)be completely indifferent or unconcerned

(非正式)全不在乎，完全无所谓

he doesn't give a monkey's what we think about him.
他毫不在乎我们对他的看法。

实用场景例句

Come here, you cheeky little monkey!: 过来，你这没有教养的小捣蛋鬼！

She's such a little monkey.: 她真是一个小捣蛋鬼。

Since vaccinia may cure smallpox, then monkey?: 牛痘既然可以治愈天花, 那麽猴子呢 ?

Have you ever slept in the same bed with a monkey?: 你跟猴子同床共枕过吧 ?

He's as mischievous as a monkey!: 他像猴子那麽顽皮!

He was a dapper little Irishman, very vain, homely as a monkey.: 他是个短小精干的爱尔兰人, 非常自负, 丑得象只猴子.

He made a monkey of me on the tennis court.: 他在网球场上使我大出洋相.

He was afraid his past would always be a monkey on his back.: 他怕他过去的问题将会永远成为他的包袱.

The monkey is eating a banana.: 这只猴子正在吃一根香蕉.

Sometimes a angry monkey may nip (? ) humam beings.: 一只发怒的猴子有时会咬人.

This an advancement year for you Monkey.: 对于属猴的人来说,这将是奋进的一年.

A monkey has a prehensile tail.: 猴子有能盘卷住东西的尾巴.

The monkey made some antics.: 这猴子做出几种滑稽动作.

A monkey is very alert in its movements.: 猴子的动作很敏捷.

The monkey made a long arm for the peach.: 猴子伸臂去摘桃子.

The monkey was swinging in the tree.: 猴子在树上荡来荡去.

The monkey is hopping on the trees.: 这只猴子在树上跳着.

The film tells the improbable story of a monkey that becomes a politician.: 这部影片讲述了一个不可能发生的故事:一只猴子变成了一名政治家.

The monkey leaps from branch to branch.: 那猴子在树枝间跳来跳去.

Man and the monkey have many things in common.: 人和猿有许多共同之处.

He was the cat they captured to frighten the monkey.: 他们抓住他是为了吓唬别人.

The monkey was up the tree, flinging nuts to the ground.: 这只猴子爬到树上往地面扔坚果.

The monkey performed several tricks.: 猴子耍了几招把戏.

There's been some monkey business going on here!: 有人在这里搞鬼!

He had mocked the laws and made a monkey out of the lawmen.: 他藐视法律,戏弄执法人员.

Come on boys , let's cut out the monkey business and get down to work.: 各位, 别胡闹了,快办正事.

Come here, you cheeky little monkey!: 过来，你这没有教养的小捣蛋鬼！

Their delegation threw a giant monkey wrench into the process this week by raising all sorts of petty objections.: 他们的代表团本周提出了各种细枝末节的反对意见，极在地阻挠了进程。

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as artful (或 clever) as a wagonload (或 cartload) o

make a monkey of (或 out of) someone

a monkey on one's back

not give a monkey's

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