mortify怎么读
音标：英 ['mɔːtɪfaɪ]
美['mɔrtɪfaɪ]
mortify是什么意思
- vt. 抑制；苦修；使…感屈辱
- vi. 禁欲；苦行；约束
mortify的词态变化
第三人称单数: mortifies;过去式: mortified;过去分词: mortified;现在分词: mortifying;名词: mortification;形容词: mortifying;
中文词源
mortify 使羞愧
来自拉丁语mors,死亡，死的，词源同mortal,murder,-fy,使。即使死亡，使感觉要死的，比引申词义使羞愧。
英文词源
- mortify (v.)
- late 14c., "to kill," from Old French mortefiier "destroy, overwhelm, punish," from Late Latin mortificare "cause death, kill, put to death," literally "make dead," from mortificus "producing death," from Latin mors (genitive mortis) "death" (see mortal (adj.)) + root of facere "to make" (see factitious). Religious sense of "to subdue the flesh by abstinence and discipline" first attested early 15c. Sense of "humiliate" first recorded 1690s (compare mortification). Related: Mortified; mortifying.
mortify的双语例句
- 1. The first Sunday , in particular , their behaviours served to mortify me.
- 到了这里第一个星期, 她们的行为几乎把我气死.
来自辞典例句
- 2. To cause to feel chagrin ; mortify or discomfit.
- 使懊恼,使受屈辱,使窘迫.
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