queen
英 [kwiːn]
美[kwin]
- n. 女王，王后；（纸牌中的）皇后；（蜜蜂等的）蜂王
- vt. 使…成为女王或王后
- vi. 做女王
- n. (Queen)人名；(英)奎因
词态变化
复数: queens;第三人称单数: queenes;过去式: queened;过去分词: queened;现在分词: queening;
助记提示
1. 扑克牌中的Q就是queen的首字母缩略形式，代表王后。
中文词源
queen 王后，女王
来自古英语cwen,女人，妻子，王后，女王，来自PIE*gwen,女人，通常指比较高贵出身的 女人，词源同gynecology,gynarch.
英英释意
- 1. the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
- 2. a female sovereign ruler
- 3. the wife or widow of a king
- 4. something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind;
- "Paris is the queen of cities"
- "the queen of ocean liners"
- 5. a competitor who holds a preeminent position
- 6. offensive terms for an openly homosexual man
- 7. one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
- 8. (chess) the most powerful piece
- 9. especially large and only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring sired by only a few males
- 10. female cat
英文词源
- queen
- queen: [OE] Queen goes back ultimately to prehistoric Indo-European *gwen- ‘woman’, source also of Greek guné ‘woman’ (from which English gets gynaecology), Persian zan ‘woman’ (from which English gets zenana ‘harem’), Swedish kvinna ‘woman’, and the now obsolete English quean ‘woman’. In its very earliest use in Old English queen (or cwēn, as it then was) was used for a ‘wife’, but not just any wife: it denoted the wife of a man of particular distinction, and usually a king. It was not long before it became institutionalized as ‘king’s wife’, and hence ‘woman ruling in her own right’.
=> gynaecology, quean, zenana - queen (n.)
- Old English cwen "queen, female ruler of a state, woman, wife," from Proto-Germanic *kwoeniz (cognates: Old Saxon quan "wife," Old Norse kvaen, Gothic quens), ablaut variant of *kwenon (source of quean), from PIE *gwen- "woman, wife" supposedly originally "honored woman" (cognates: Greek gyné "a woman, a wife;" Gaelic bean "woman;" Sanskrit janis "a woman," gná "wife of a god, a goddess;" Avestan jainish "wife;" Armenian kin "woman;" Old Church Slavonic zena, Old Prussian genna "woman;" Gothic qino "a woman, wife; qéns "a queen").
The original sense seems to have been "wife," specialized by Old English to "wife of a king." In Old Norse, still mostly of a wife generally, as in kvan-fang "marriage, taking of a wife," kvanlauss "unmarried, widowed," kvan-riki "the domineering of a wife." English is one of the few Indo-European languages to have a word for "queen" that is not a feminine derivative of a word for "king." The others are Scandinavian: Old Norse drottning, Danish dronning, Swedish drottning "queen," in Old Norse also "mistress," but these also are held to be ultimately from male words, such as Old Norse drottinn "master."
Used of chess piece from mid-15c. (as a verb in chess, in reference to a pawn that has reached the last rank, from 1789), of playing card from 1570s. Of bees from c. 1600 (until late 17c., they generally were thought to be kings; as in "Henry V," I.ii); queen bee in a figurative sense is from 1807. Meaning "male homosexual" (especially a feminine and ostentatious one) first certainly recorded 1924; probably here an alteration of quean, which is earlier in this sense. Queen Anne first used 1878 for "style characteristic of the time of Queen Anne of Great Britain and Ireland," who reigned 1702-14. Cincinnati, Ohio, has been the Queen City (of the West) since 1835.
考试真题
- She recalls:One day a man I worked with, Ryan, who had his office next to mine, said, Leah, let's go look at this space on Queen Anne .
出自-2017年6月阅读原文
- Thousands of bees left a town after landing on the back of a car when their queen got stuck in its boot.
出自-2017年6月听力原文
- Along the way are tales of kings and queens, hot air balloons...and monkeys in space.
2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文
- Helen Mirren stars in the play by Peter Morgan, about queen Elizabeth II of the UK and her private meetings with twelve prime ministers in the course of sixty years.
2019年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读A 原文
- I was the queen of the playground.
2019年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
- Their cooperation quickly produced results, and a few years later at jamaica's olympic trials in early 2008, Shelly-Ann, who at that time only ranked number 70 in the world, beat jamaica's unchallenged queen of the sprint.
2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
- With 500 years of history, Hampton Court was once the home of four kings and one queen.
2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
- It is only the Queen who has preserved the monarchy’s reputation with her rather ordinary ( ' , if well-heeled) granny style.
出自-2015年考研阅读原文
- Even so, kings and queens undoubtedly have a downside.
出自-2015年考研阅读原文
- "The ancient Hawaiians were astronomers," wrote Queen Liliuokalani, Hawaii's last reigning monarch, in 1897.
出自-2017年考研阅读原文
- "The ancient Hawaiians were astronomers," wrote Queen liliuokalani, Hawaii's last reigning monarch, in 1897.
2017年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
- It is only the Queen who has preserved the monarchy's reputation with her rather ordinary granny style.
2015年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
词组搭配
queen it
To act like a queen; domineer
象王后般行事；统治
queens it over the whole family.
统治整个家庭
实用场景例句
- to be crowned queen
- 加冕为女王
牛津词典
- kings and queens
- 国王和女王
牛津词典
- the Queen of Norway
- 挪威女王
牛津词典
- Queen Victoria
- 维多利亚女王
牛津词典
- the queen of fashion
- 时装之最
牛津词典
- a movie queen
- 影后
牛津词典
- Venice, queen of the Adriatic
- 威尼斯，亚得里亚海的明珠
牛津词典
- a carnival queen
- 狂欢节小姐
牛津词典
- a May queen (= at a festival to celebrate the coming of spring)
- 五朔节王后
牛津词典
- a homecoming queen
- 返校节王后
牛津词典
- a queen bee
- 蜂王
牛津词典
- ...Queen Victoria...
- 维多利亚女王
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- She met the Queen last week.
- 上周她受到了女王的接见。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- The king and queen had fled.
- 国王和王后都逃之夭夭了。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- ...the queen of crime writing.
- 犯罪小说女王
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- ...the queen of spades.
- 黑桃王后
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- The Queen decorated the soldier.
- 女王授予士兵勋章.
《简明英汉词典》
- Are you all watching out? The Queen will come this way in a few minutes!
- 你们都注意警戒了 吗 ?过几分钟女王就要从这条路通过了!
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- They are the descendants of Queen Victoria.
- 他们是维多利亚女王的后裔.
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- He is a descendent of Queen Victoria.
- 他是维多利亚女王的后代.
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- The present Queen succeeded to the throne upon the death of her father.
- 当今的女王是在她父亲逝世时继位的.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- They saluted the Queen by firing 1000 guns.
- 他们鸣礼炮1000响欢迎女王.
《简明英汉词典》
- London is the queen of British cities.
- 伦敦位列英国各城市之首.
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- The band are playing this song by request of the Queen.
- 应女王的要求,乐队演奏了这首歌曲.
《简明英汉词典》
- Athens is often called the queen of the Aegean.
- 雅典时常被人称为爱琴海上的皇后.
《简明英汉词典》
- The Queen was feted everywhere she went.
- 女王无论走到哪里都受到隆重的欢迎.
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