animal

英 ['?n?m(?)l] 美['?n?ml]

CET4TEM4考研CET6中高頻詞基本詞匯

animal 動物

來自詞根anim, 呼吸，風，靈魂，有生命。

animal: animal: [14] Etymologically, an animal is a being which breathes (compare DEER). Its immediate source was the Latin adjective animālis ‘having a soul’, a derivative of the noun anima ‘breath, soul’ (which also gave English the verb and adjective animate [15]). Anima is a member of a set of related words in which the notions of ‘breath, wind’ and ‘spirit, life’ are intimately connected: for instance, Greek ánemos ‘wind’ (possible source of English anemone), Latin animus ‘spirit, mind, courage, anger’ (source of English animosity [15] and animus [19]), Sanskrit ániti ‘breathe’, Old English ōthian ‘breathe’, Swedish anda ‘breath, spirit’, and Gothic usanan ‘breathe out’.

The ‘breath’ sense is presumably primary, the ‘spirit, life’ sense a metaphorical extension of it.
=> anemone, animate, animosity, animus
animal (n.): early 14c. (but rare before c. 1600, and not in KJV, 1611), "any living creature" (including humans), from Latin animale "living being, being which breathes," neuter of animalis "animate, living; of the air," from anima "breath, soul; a current of air" (see animus, and compare deer). Drove out the older beast in common usage. Used of brutish humans from 1580s.
animal (adj.): late 14c., from animal (n.). Animal rights is attested from 1879; animal liberation from 1973. Animal magnetism originally (1784) referred to mesmerism.

1. There was no doubting the animal magnetism of the man.: 毫無疑問，這個男人身上透著一種野性魅力。

3. You're quite a party animal aren't you, out there every night.: 你就是為派對而生的，不是嗎，每天晚上你都去參加派對。

4. The hunter knelt beside the animal carcass and commenced to skin it.: 獵人跪在動物尸體旁邊，開始剝皮。

5. We were amused to see how assiduously the animal groomed its fur.: 看著這只動物如此認真地梳理自己的毛，我們被逗樂了。