pant: [15] It is the shock that makes you ‘gasp’ that lies behind the word pant. It is closely related to English fancy, fantasy, and phantom. It comes from Anglo-Norman *panter, a condensed version of Old French pantaisier ‘gasp’. This in turn went back to Vulgar Latin phantasiāre ‘gasp in horror, as if at a nightmare or ghost’, a derivative of Latin phantasia ‘apparition’ (source of English fancy and fantasy and first cousin to phantom). => fancy, fantasy, phantom
pant (v.)
mid-15c., perhaps a shortening of Old French pantaisier "gasp, puff, pant, be out of breath, be in distress" (12c.), probably from Vulgar Latin *pantasiare "be oppressed with a nightmare, struggle for breathing during a nightmare," literally "to have visions," from Greek phantasioun "have or form images, subject to hallucinations," from phantasia "appearance, image, fantasy" (see phantasm). Related: Panted; panting.
pant (n.)
"a gasping breath," c. 1500, from pant (v.).
雙語例句
1. You pant ( for breath ) after running hard for a time.
拼命跑一陣后便會覺得氣短.
來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》
2. When he bent over, he split his pant.
他一彎腰就把褲襠裂開了.
來自辭典例句
3. From my place of ambush, I could hear him pant aloud as he struck the blows.
我從藏身的地方可以聽到他捅刀子時的喘息聲.
來自英漢文學 - 金銀島
4. He was out of breath with whispering; I could hear him pant slightly.
他由于壓低了嗓子講話,變得透不過氣來了. 我可以聽到他在微微喘氣.
來自辭典例句
5. Why do the Taiwanese girls like to wear pant socks?