man

英式音标：man怎么读

美式音标：man怎么读

词汇归类： CET4,TEM4,考研,CET6,高频词,基本词汇

近义词： individual,person,sapiens,soul,folk,being,human,Homo,society,mortal

反义词： beast,woman

man词义

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n. 人；男人；人类；丈夫；雇工vt. 操纵；给…配置人员；使增强勇气；在…就位n. (Man)人名；(俄)马恩；(英、葡、意、罗、捷、尼、老、缅、柬)曼；(日)万 (名)

词态变化

复数: men;第三人称单数: mans;过去式: manned;现在分词: manning;

中文词源

man 男子，人，人类

来自古英语man,人类，男人，女人，来自Proto-Germanic*manwaz,来自PIE*man,人，进一步来自PIE*men,思考，词源同mind,mania.后不再用于女人义。

man双语例句

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1. She ran away with a man called McTavish last year.: 去年，她和一个叫麦克塔维什的男人私奔了。

2. Nora was deflowered by a man who worked in a soda-water factory.: 在汽水厂工作的一个男子夺去了诺拉的童贞。

3. He could just about see the little man behind the counter.: 他勉强能看到柜台后面的小个子男人。

4. He then held the man in an armlock until police arrived.: 然后他反扭住那名男子的手臂让他动弹不得，直到警察赶到。

5. A young man plunged from a sheer rock face to his death.: 一名男青年从陡峭的岩壁上坠崖身亡。

man英文词源

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man: man: [OE] Man is a widespread Germanic word (with relatives in German mann ‘man’ and mensch ‘person’, Dutch and Swedish man ‘man’, Danish mand ‘man’, and Swedish menniska ‘person’), and connections have even been found outside Germanic (Sanskrit, for instance, had mánu- ‘man’). But no decisive evidence has been found for an ultimate Indo- European source.

Among the suggestions put forward have been links with a base *men- ‘think’ or ‘breathe’, or with Latin manus ‘hand’. The etymologically primary sense of the word is ‘human being, person’, and that is what it generally meant in Old English: the sexes were generally distinguished by wer ‘man’ (which survives probably in werewolf and is related to world) and wīf (source of modern English wife) or cwene ‘woman’.

But during the Middle English and early modern English periods ‘male person’ gradually came to the fore, and today ‘person’ is decidedly on the decline (helped on its way by those who feel that the usage discriminates against women). Woman originated in Old English as a compound of wīf ‘woman, female’ and man ‘person’. Manikin [17] was borrowed from Dutch manneken, a diminutive form of man ‘man’; and mannequin [18] is the same word acquired via French.
=> manikin, mannequin
man (n.): Old English man, mann "human being, person (male or female); brave man, hero; servant, vassal," from Proto-Germanic *manwaz (cognates: Old Saxon, Swedish, Dutch, Old High German man, German Mann, Old Norse maðr, Danish mand, Gothic manna "man"), from PIE root *man- (1) "man" (cognates: Sanskrit manuh, Avestan manu-, Old Church Slavonic mozi, Russian muzh "man, male").

Plural men (German Männer) shows effects of i-mutation. Sometimes connected to root *men- "to think" (see mind), which would make the ground sense of man "one who has intelligence," but not all linguists accept this. Liberman, for instance, writes, "Most probably man 'human being' is a secularized divine name" from Mannus [Tacitus, "Germania," chap. 2], "believed to be the progenitor of the human race."
So I am as he that seythe, `Come hyddr John, my man.' [1473]
Sense of "adult male" is late (c. 1000); Old English used wer and wif to distinguish the sexes, but wer began to disappear late 13c. and was replaced by man. Universal sense of the word remains in mankind and manslaughter. Similarly, Latin had homo "human being" and vir "adult male human being," but they merged in Vulgar Latin, with homo extended to both senses. A like evolution took place in Slavic languages, and in some of them the word has narrowed to mean "husband." PIE had two stems: *uiHro "freeman" (source of Sanskrit vira-, Lithuanian vyras, Latin vir, Old Irish fer, Gothic wair) and *hner "man," a title more of honor than *uiHro (source of Sanskrit nar-, Armenian ayr, Welsh ner, Greek aner).
MANTRAP, a woman's commodity. [Grose, "Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," London, 1785]
Man also was in Old English as an indefinite pronoun, "one, people, they." The chess pieces so called from c. 1400. As an interjection of surprise or emphasis, first recorded c. 1400, but especially popular from early 20c. Man-about-town is from 1734; the Man "the boss" is from 1918. To be man or mouse "be brave or be timid" is from 1540s. Men's Liberation first attested 1970.
At the kinges court, my brother, Ech man for himself. [Chaucer, "Knight's Tale," c. 1386]
man (v.): Old English mannian "to furnish (a fort, ship, etc.) with a company of men," from man (n.). Meaning "to take up a designated position on a ship" is first recorded 1690s. Meaning "behave like a man, act with courage" is from c. 1400. To man (something) out is from 1660s. Related: Manned; manning.

man实用场景例句

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He had not expected the young man to reappear before evening...: 他没想到这位年轻男子会在黄昏前再次出现。

I have always regarded him as a man of integrity.: 我一向认为他是个正直的人。

The chick initially has no fear of man...: 小鸡天生并不怕人。

Anxiety is modern man's natural state.: 焦虑是现代人的自然状态。

Are you a gambling man, Mr Graham?...: 格雷厄姆先生，你是好赌的人吗?

He is a keen outdoors man with a great interest in photography and walking.: 他非常喜欢户外运动，酷爱摄影和徒步旅行。

...as the Stockport man collected his winnings...: 在那名来自斯托克波特的人收拢他赢的钱的时候

Attlee was an Oxford man.: 艾德礼是名牛津学子。

...the Daily Telegraph's man in Abu Dhabi.: 《每日电讯报》驻阿布扎比的记者

...America's man at the United Nations.: 美国驻联合国人员

At the time he was said to be very much Rajiv Gandhi's man.: 据说他当时是拉吉夫·甘地的铁杆支持者。

...if they see your man cuddle you in the kitchen or living room.: 假如他们看见你的男朋友在厨房或起居室里搂着你的话

150 officers and men had to be taken straight to hospital.: 不得不将150名官兵直接送往了医院。

...a drill sergeant who would work with the men at least one hour every morning.: 每天早晨至少和士兵操练一小时的操练中士

The men voted by a four-to-one majority to accept the pay offer...: 男雇员以4比1的多数票接受了工资条件。

After the talks, the leader of the Workers' Council said his men would be going back down the mines.: 会谈之后，工人委员会的领袖说他手下的工人们会重回井下工作。

I told you, man! It'll be sometime after eight o'clock.: 老兄，我告诉过你了，时间是八点以后。

Hey wow, man! Where d'you get those boots?: 哎哟，老弟，哪里搞来的靴子？

French soldiers manned roadblocks in the capital city.: 法国士兵把守着首都的各路关卡。

...the person manning the phone at the complaints department...: 投诉部的接线生

I told him that he should be man enough to admit he had done wrong...: 我对他说，他应该勇于承认错误。

You can search me if you think you're man enough.: 有胆的话，你可以搜我的身。

'Get the guy in the purple shirt.' — 'All right, my man.': “把那个穿紫衬衫的家伙叫过来。”——“好的，老兄。”

My dear man, you are welcome to stay...: 我的老弟，欢迎你留下来。

It's not for you to say so, my man!: 你不该这么说，老弟！

Be your own man. Make up your own mind...: 要有主见，你自己做主吧。

He'll be his own man and won't be dictated to.: 他要自己做决定，不会被他人左右。

To a man, the surveyors blamed the government...: 调查员们无一例外地都指责政府。

They died, to a man, when they tried to break out...: 他们企图逃走的时候全都丢掉了性命。

He called me to his office for a man-to-man talk...: 他把我叫到他的办公室私下谈了谈。

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