tit
n. 乳头；山雀；各种小鸟；小马；少妇；轻打
n. (Tit)人名；(柬)迪；(俄)季特
n.
[鸟]山雀；小马；小丫头；奶头
变形
复数：tits
英英释义
tit[ tit ]
n.
either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman
同义词：breastbosomknockerboobtitty
the small projection of a mammary gland
同义词：nipplemammillamamillapapteat
small insectivorous birds
同义词：titmouse
词组短语
tit for tat以牙还牙，针锋相对
双语例句
用作名词(n.)
A long-tailed tit alighted on the branch.
一只长尾山雀飞落在树枝上。
权威例句
Tit for tat in heterogeneous populationsTIT FOR TAT in sticklebacks and the evolution of cooperation
Tit for Tat? The Spiraling Effect of Incivility in the Workplace
Territory and Breeding Density in the Great Tit, Parus Major L.
An Inexpensive Tit ration Method for the Determination of Organic Carbon in Recent Sediments
Territorial defence in the great tit (Parus major): Do residents always win?
Population Fluctuations and Clutch-Size in the Great Tit, Parus major L.
A strategy of win-stay, lose-shift that outperforms tit-for-tat in the Prisoner's Dilemma game.
Local specialization and maladaptation in the Mediterranean blue tit (Parus caeruleus)
Extra-pair paternity results from female preference for high-quality malesin the blue tit
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tit: English has three separate words tit. The oldest, ‘breast’ [OE], belongs to a West Germanic family of terms for ‘breast’ or ‘nipple’ that also includes German zitze and Dutch tit: it presumably originated in imitation of a baby’s sucking sounds. From Germanic it was borrowed into the Romance languages, giving Italian tetta, Spanish teta, Romanian tata, and French tette.The Old French ancestor of this, tete, gave English teat [13], which gradually replaced tit as the ‘polite’ term. (Titillate [17] may be ultimately related). Tit the bird [18] is short for titmouse [14]. This in turn was formed from an earlier and now defunct tit, used in compounds denoting ‘small things’ and probably borrowed from a Scandinavian language, and Middle English mose ‘titmouse’, which came from a prehistoric Germanic *maisōn (source also of German meise and Dutch mees ‘tit’).And the tit [16] of tit for tat (which produced British rhyming slang titfer ‘hat’ [20]) originally denoted a ‘light blow, tap’, and was presumably of onomatopoeic origin. (The tit- of titbit [17], incidentally, is probably a different word. It was originally tid- – as it still is in American English – and it may go back ultimately to Old English tiddre ‘frail’.)=> teat, titillate; titmouse
tit (n.1)
"breast," Old English titt "teat, nipple, breast" (a variant of teat). But the modern slang tits (plural), attested from 1928, seems to be a recent reinvention, used without awareness of the original form, from teat or from dialectal and nursery diminutive variant titties (pl.).
tit (n.2)
1540s, a word used for any small animal or object (as in compound forms such as titmouse, tomtit, etc.); also used of small horses. Similar words in related senses are found in Scandinavian (Icelandic tittr, Norwegian tita "a little bird"), but the connection and origin are obscure; perhaps, as OED suggests, the word is merely suggestive of something small. Used figuratively of persons after 1734, but earlier for "a girl or young woman" (1590s), often in deprecatory sense of "a hussy, minx."
1. Though his background was modest, it was in no sense deprived.
尽管他家境一般，但也并不算贫穷。
来自柯林斯例句
2. The wine towns encountered are, on the whole, quiet and modest.
所到的酒镇总的来说都是宁静祥和的。
来自柯林斯例句
3. The result reflects a modest rightward shift in opinion.
结果显示舆论出现一定程度的右倾。
来自柯林斯例句
4. Swiss unemployment rose to the still modest rate of 0.7%.
瑞士的失业率上升到了0.7%，这个百分比仍然不算太高。
来自柯林斯例句
5. There has been a modest upturn in most parts of the industry.
该行业的绝大部分领域都出现了一定程度的好转。
来自柯林斯例句
[ modest 造句 ]
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