sire
名词 n.
动词 v.
英文释义
名词 n.
- A lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively: formerly in speaking to elders and superiors, later only when addressing a sovereign.
- A male animal that has fathered a particular offspring (especially used of domestic animals and/or in biological research).
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A father; the head of a family; the husband.
— He but a Duke, would haue his Sonne a King, / And raiſe his iſſue like a louing Sire.
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A creator; a maker; an author; an originator.
— Most musical of mourners, weep again! / Lament anew, Urania!—He died, / Who was the sire of an immortal strain, […]
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The vampire who turned another person.
— There is a toxin in a vampire’s fangs that will infect its victim when the sire drinks deeply and fully of their blood.
动词 v.
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To father; to beget.
— In these travels, my father sired thirteen children in all, four boys and nine girls.
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To turn (another person) into a vampire.
— “Do you think they were wannabes, then? Groupies who found a willing vamp to sire them?”
词源
词源 1
From Middle English sire, from Old French sire, the nominative singular of seignor; from Latin senior, from senex. Doublet of seigneur, seignior, senhor, senior, señor, senyor, signore, and sir. Cognate with French monsieur.
词源 2
From Middle English sire, from Old French sire, the nominative singular of seignor; from Latin senior, from senex. Doublet of seigneur, seignior, senhor, senior, señor, senyor, signore, and sir. Cognate with French monsieur.
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