cover

英 ['kʌvə] 美 ['kʌvɚ]
  • vt. 包括;采访,报导;涉及
  • n. 封面,封皮;盖子;掩蔽物
  • vi. 覆盖;代替
  • n. (Cover)人名;(英)科弗;(意)科韦尔

助记提示


1、co- "intensive prefix" + oper- "close, cover" => cooper- => cover.
2. over 上面——cover盖上(在…上面盖上某东西)

中文词源


cover 覆盖

来自拉丁词cooperire, 覆盖,来自co-, 强调,ob-, 去,往,per, 同wer-, 覆盖,保护,词源同warn, warrant. 比较aperture, 开口,孔,来自ap-, 离开,per, 覆盖,保护。

英文词源


cover
cover: [13] Cover comes ultimately from Latin cooperīre, a compound verb formed from the intensive prefix com- ‘completely’ and operīre ‘cover’ (a relative of aperīre ‘open’, from which English gets aperient). It passed into English via Old French cuvrir or covrir. Derivatives include coverlet [13] (in which the final element represents not the diminutive suffix but French lit ‘bed’, the word being a borrowing from Anglo-Norman covrelit, literally ‘bed-cover’) and kerchief (literally ‘head-cover’), as in handkerchief.
=> aperient, discover
cover (v.)
mid-12c., from Old French covrir (12c., Modern French couvrir) "to cover, protect, conceal, dissemble," from Late Latin coperire, from Latin cooperire "to cover over, overwhelm, bury," from com-, intensive prefix (see com-), + operire "to close, cover" (see weir). Related: Covered; covering. Military sense is from 1680s; newspaper sense first recorded 1893; use in football dates from 1907. Betting sense is 1857. Of horses, as a euphemism for "copulate" it dates from 1530s. Covered wagon attested from 1745.
cover (n.)
early 13c., in compounds, from cover (v.). Meaning "recording of a song already recorded by another" is 1966. Cover girl is U.S. slang from 1915, shortening of magazine-cover girl.

双语例句


1. Just play it safe, cover your ass, keep your head down.
要谨慎行事,保护好自己并保持低调。

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2. Pack the fruits and nuts into the jars and cover with brandy.
把水果和坚果放进罐子里,用白兰地酒浸泡。

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3. I should point out that these estimates cover just the hospital expenditures.
我应该指出,这些估算仅包括医院的费用。

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4. The cashier dived for cover when a gunman opened fire.
出纳员在持枪歹徒开枪时冲向藏身处。

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5. A cheap table can be transformed by an interesting cover.
一块趣味盎然的桌布就能使一张廉价桌子面目一新。

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