dabble的词源

英文词源

dabble (v.)

1550s, probably a frequentative of dab. Original meaning was "wet by splashing;" modern figurative sense of "do superficially" first recorded 1620s. Related: Dabbled; dabbling. An Ellen Dablewife is in the Lancashire Inquests from 1336.

中文词源

dabble：浅尝，涉足

dab, 轻拍。-le, 表反复。

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