swine

• n. 猪；卑贱的人

来自古英语 swin,来自 Proto-Germanic*swinan,来自 PIE*su,猪，词源同 sow.

swine

swine: [OE] Swine is the ancestral English term for the ‘pig’, and it remained the main word until pig began to take over from it in the early modern English period. It came from a prehistoric Germanic *swīnam, which also produced German schwein, Dutch swijn, and Swedish and Danish svin. And this in turn went back to Indo-European *su-, source also of English hyena and sow.
=> hyena, sow

swine (n.)

Old English swin "pig, hog, wild boar," from Proto-Germanic *swinan (cognates: Old Saxon, Old Frisian Middle Low German, Old High German swin, Middle Dutch swijn, Dutch zwijn, German Schwein, Old Norse, Swedish, Danish svin), neuter adjective (with suffix *-ino-) from PIE *su- "pig" (see sow (n.)). The native word, largely ousted by pig. Applied to persons from late 14c. Phrase pearls before swine (mid-14c.) is from Matt. vii:6; an early English formation of it was:

Ne ge ne wurpen eowre meregrotu toforan eowrum swynon. [c. 1000]

The Latin word in the Gospel verse was confused in French with marguerite "daisy" (the "pearl" of the field), and in Dutch the expression became "roses before swine." Swine-flu attested from 1921.

来自柯林斯例句

2. He's an arrogant little swine!

他是个傲慢的小讨厌鬼！

来自《权威词典》

3. A swine over fat is the cause of his own bane.

猪死都因身过肥.

来自《简明英汉词典》

4. Draff is good enough for swine.

喂猪只需要用猪食(意为不作不必要的浪费).

来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

5. Circe metamorphosed men into swine.

女妖锡西把人变成了猪.

来自《现代英汉综合大词典》