swot

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /swɒt/    美 /swɑt/|/swɔt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who swots; a boffin, nerd, or smart aleck. UK,countable,slang,uncountable
    — He liked Tom all right... Sampson and Bullock he could do without, however. Especially Sampson, who was too much of a grammar-school-type swot ever to be quite the thing.
  2. Work. UK,countable,slang,uncountable
    — All I want is — guerre fini, soldat fini; and to go home without burden of any thought save music, and hard swot for a time.
  3. Vigorous study at an educational institution. UK,countable,slang,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To study with effort or determination. Commonwealth,Ireland,UK,intransitive,slang
    — Are you going to swot at it all the evening?

词形变化

swots present,singular,third-person swotting participle,present swotted participle,past swotted past swat alternative swots plural swat alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
swotty

词源

词源 1
From a dialectal English word, from Middle English swot, swat, from Old English swāt (“perspiration; sweat”), from Proto-Germanic *swaitą (“sweat”). More at sweat.
词源 2
From a dialectal English word, from Middle English swot, swat, from Old English swāt (“perspiration; sweat”), from Proto-Germanic *swaitą (“sweat”). More at sweat.
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