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英式音标：mail怎么读

美式音标：mail怎么读

词汇归类： CET4,TEM4,考研,CET6,中频词,基本词汇

近义词： correspondence,post,dispatch

mail词义

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n. 邮件；邮政，邮递；盔甲vt. 邮寄；给…穿盔甲vi. 邮寄；寄出n. (Mail)人名；(法)马伊

词态变化

复数: mails;第三人称单数: mails;过去式: mailed;过去分词: mailed;现在分词: mailing;

中文词源

mail 邮件

来自Proto-Germanic*malho,来自PIE*molko,皮袋，袋子。后引申词义旅行袋，信件袋，邮袋，最终用于指邮件。

mail 锁子甲

来自古法语maille,铁丝网，锁子甲，来自拉丁语macula,斑点，网眼，词源同maculate,immaculate.因网眼形似一个个小斑点而引申该词义，最终用于指甲胄，即锁子甲。

mail 租金，合同

来自中古英语male,租金，贡金，来自古英语mal,合同，协议，交易，来自Proto-Germanic*mathla,会面，来自PIE*mod,会面，集会，开会，词源同meet,moot.由会面引申词义讨论，协商，交易，协议，最后用于指租金，贡金。该词义现仅见于blackmail.拼写比较nail,rail.

mail双语例句

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1. The Daily Mail has the headline "The Voice of Conscience": 《每日邮报》的头版标题为“良知的声音”。

2. Goods may be sent by surface mail or airmail.: 货物可通过平寄或空运发送。

3. An e-mail is already circulating amongst news staff calling for voluntary redundancies.: 在新闻部员工中已经在转发一封电子邮件,呼吁大家自愿裁汰.

4. Peter starts looking through the mail as soon as the door shuts.: 彼得一关上门就开始逐一查看起邮件来。

5. People had to renew their motor vehicle registrations through the mail.: 人们必须以书信方式重新登记机动车辆。

mail英文词源

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mail: mail: English has two extant words mail. The one meaning ‘post’ [13] goes back via Old French to Old High German malha, which meant ‘bag, pouch’. That indeed was what the word originally denoted in English (and modern French malle is still used for a ‘bag’). It was not until the 17th century that a specific application to a ‘bag for carrying letters’ emerged, and this was followed in the next century by the ‘letters, etc so carried’. Mail ‘chain-armour’ [14] comes via Old French maille ‘mesh’ from Latin macula, which originally meant ‘spot, stain’ (hence English immaculate [15], etymologically ‘spotless’), but was transferred to the ‘holes in a net’, from their appearance of being spots or marks.

The word maquis, made familiar in English during World War II as a term for the French resistance forces, means literally ‘scrub, undergrowth’ in French. It was borrowed from Italian macchia, a descendant of Latin macula, whose literal sense ‘spot’ was applied metaphorically to ‘bushes dotted over a hillside’. English once had a third word mail, meaning ‘payment, tax’ [12].

It was borrowed from Old Norse mál ‘speech, agreement’. It now survives only in blackmail [16].
=> immaculate, maquis
mail (n.1): "post, letters," c. 1200, "a traveling bag," from Old French male "wallet, bag, bundle," from Frankish *malha or some other Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *malho- (cognates: Old High German malaha "wallet, bag," Middle Dutch male "bag"), from PIE *molko- "skin, bag." Sense extension to "letters and parcels" (18c.) is via "bag full of letter" (1650s) or "person or vehicle who carries postal matter" (1650s). In 19c. England, mail was letters going abroad, while home dispatches were post. Sense of "personal batch of letters" is from 1844, originally American English.
mail (n.2): "metal ring armor," c. 1300, from Old French maille "link of mail, mesh of net," from Latin macula "mesh in a net," originally "spot, blemish," on notion that the gaps in a net or mesh looked like spots.
mail (v.): "send by post," 1828, American English, from mail (n.1). Related: Mailed; mailing; mailable. Mailing list attested from 1876.
mail (n.3): "rent, payment," from Old English mal (see blackmail (n.)).

mail实用场景例句

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a mail service/train/van: 邮政服务 / 列车 / 汽车

the Royal Mail: 皇家邮政

Your cheque is in the mail.: 你的支票在邮递途中。

We do our business by mail .: 我们通过邮递做生意。

There isn't much mail today.: 今天邮件不多。

I sat down to open the mail .: 我坐下来打开信件。

Is there a letter from them in the mail ?: 邮件里有他们来的信吗？

hate mail (= letters containing insults and threats): 恐吓侮辱信

Check regularly for new mail.: 定期查看新邮件。

the Mail on Sunday: 《星期日邮报》

a coat of mail: 一副锁子甲

Don't forget to mail that letter to your mother.: 别忘了把那封信给你妈寄去。

Don't forget to mail your mother that letter.: 别忘了把那封信给你妈寄去。

The company intends to mail 50 000 households in the area.: 公司计划给当地的5万个家庭寄信。

Please mail us at the following email address.: 请按下面的电邮地址发送给我们。

The virus mails itself forward to everyone in your address book.: 这种病毒通过电子邮件自动转发给通讯录中的每个人。

The brochures were mailed out last week.: 小册子已于上周一成批寄出去了。

Your check is in the mail...: 您的支票正在邮递中。

People had to renew their motor vehicle registrations through the mail...: 人们必须以书信方式重新登记机动车辆。

There was no mail except the usual junk addressed to the occupier...: 除了寄给业主的常见垃圾信件之外，再没有其他邮件了。

Nora looked through the mail.: 诺拉大致看了一下那封信。

Last year, he mailed the documents to French journalists...: 他去年把这些文件寄给了法国记者。

He mailed me the contract...: 他把合同邮寄给了我。

...if a report must be electronically mailed to an office by 9 am the next day.: 如果一份报告必须在次日早晨9时之前以电子邮件的形式发送至办公室

This piece of cloth has a new design.: 这块布图案新颖.

He has a large amount of mail to answer every day.: 他每天有大量的信件要回复.

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