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twain

英语

发音

  • IPA(帮助)/tweɪn/, [tʰw̥eɪn]
  • 韵部:-eɪn

词源1

源自中古英语 tweyne, tweien, twaine ← 古英语 twēġen m () ← 原始日耳曼语 *twai ← 原始印欧语 *dwóh₁。与萨特弗里斯兰语 twäin, 低地德语 twene, 德语 zween, 瑞典语 tvenne同源。参见two

本词起源自中古英语词性失去时期,作为two的形式之一,尤用于名词后。现代用法留存于钦定版圣经、婚礼词、诗歌(作韵尾)。

数词

twain

  1. But the warm twilight round us twain will never rise again.
    (请为本使用例添加中文翻译)
    Bring me these twain cups of wine and water, and let us drink from the one we feel more befitting of this day.
    (请为本使用例添加中文翻译)
    • Template:RQ:Shakespeare Merchant
    • 1866, Algernon Swinburne, Before Parting, lines 1-2
      A month or twain to live on honeycomb
      Is pleasant;
    • 1889, Rudyard Kipling, The Ballad of East and West, line 1
      Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.
    • 1900, Ernest Dowson, Amor Profanus, lines 26-28
      [] all too soon we twain shall tread
      The bitter pastures of the dead:
      Estranged, sad spectres of the night.
派生词
  • in twain
  • never the twain shall meet
  • twain cloud

形容词

twain(无比较级

  1. 〉 两倍的

名词

twain(复数 twains

词源2

源自中古英语 twaynen ← twayne ()

动词

twain(第三人称单数简单现在时 twains,现在分词 twaining,一般过去时及过去分词 twained

  1. 及物分割成两部分

参见

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异序词

  • Antwi, Wiant, waint, witan