hare

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /hɛə/|/hɛː/|/hɛː/    美 /hɛɚ/|/heː/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of several plant-eating mammals of the genus Lepus, similar to a rabbit, but larger and with longer ears. countable
    — The hare has a reputation for exciting desire. Hare soup is credited with a particular aphrodisiac value.
  2. The meat from this animal. uncountable
    — Ashe bit absent-mindedly into a piece of hare and swore mildly when he burned his tongue.
  3. The player in a paperchase, or hare and hounds game, who leaves a trail of paper to be followed. countable
动词 v.
  1. To move swiftly. intransitive
    — But Wales somehow snaffled possession for fly-half Jones to send half-back partner Mike Phillips haring away with Stoddart in support.
  2. To excite; to tease, or worry; to harry. obsolete
    — To hare and rate them thus at every turn, is not to teach them, but to vex, and torment them to no purpoſe.
形容词 adj.
  1. Grey, hoary; grey-haired, venerable (of people). regional
    — a hare old man
  2. Cold, frosty (of weather). regional
    — a hare day

词形变化

hare plural hares plural hares present,singular,third-person haring participle,present hared participle,past hared past hares present,singular,third-person haring participle,present hared participle,past hared past harr alternative hoar alternative

词源

词源 1
From Middle English hare, from Old English hara (“hare”), from Proto-West Germanic *hasō ~ *haʀ-, from Proto-Germanic *hesô, from *haswaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₂s-én-.
Cognates
See also West Frisian hazze, Dutch haas, German Hase, Norwegian and Swedish hare, Icelandic heri), Old English hasu, Middle High German heswe (“pale, dull”); also Welsh cannu (“to whiten”), ceinach (“hare”), Latin cānus (“white”), cascus (“old”), Old Prussian sasnis (“hare”), Pashto سوی (soe, “hare”) and Sanskrit शश (śaśa, “hare”).
词源 2
From Middle English harren, harien (“to drag by force, ill-treat”), of uncertain origin. Compare harry, harass.
词源 3
From Middle English hore, from Old English hār (“hoar, hoary, grey, old”), from Proto-Germanic *hairaz (“grey”). Cognate with German hehr (“noble, sublime”).
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