smoke out的词源

英文词源

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mud: [14] The Old English word for ‘mud’ was fen, which now survives only in the sense ‘swamp’. It was replaced in the Middle English period by mud, probably a borrowing from Middle Low German mudde. This goes back ultimately to a prehistoric base *meu-, *mu- that has produced a range of words in the Indo- European languages denoting ‘dirt’ or ‘wet’: Greek múdos ‘damp’, for instance, and Polish muł ‘slime’. Muddle [17] may come from Middle Dutch moddelen ‘make muddy’, a derivative of modde ‘mud’.

中文词源

smoke out：侦察出；找出

smoke (烟）在古英语里写成smoca，原意是慢慢地燃烧。由于烟会遮蔽视线使人看不见东西，因此又产生了 smokescreen (烟幕）或 smoke-filled room (烟雾弥漫的房间；密谈室）等词汇。

烟雾一大时，往往会呛得人睁不开眼睛来，因此，人 们常用烟熏钻进洞里的动物，逼它们爬出洞来，然后再轻而易举地抓住它们。于是，就产生了“用烟熏（蛇、鼠) 出洞”（smoke out)这个词汇，用来表示“査出”或“找 出”的意思。

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