venom: [13] Venom comes via Old French venim from Vulgar Latin *venīmen, an alteration of Latin venēnum ‘drug, poison’. It has been speculated that this was derived ultimately from venus ‘love’ (source of English venerate, venereal, etc), in which case its ancestral sense would presumably have been ‘love-potion’.
venom (n.)
mid-13c., venim, venym, "poison secreted by some animals and transferred by biting," from Anglo-French and Old French venim, venin "poison; malice," from Vulgar Latin *venimen (source also of Italian veleno, Spanish veneno), from Latin venenum "poison," earlier (pre-classical) "drug, medical potion," also "charm, seduction," probably originally "love potion," from PIE *wenes-no-, from root *wen- (1) "to strive after, wish, desire" (see Venus). Variously deformed in post-Latin languages, apparently by dissimilation. Modern spelling in English from late 14c. The meaning "bitter, virulent feeling or language" is first recorded c. 1300.
雙語例句
1. He felt as if a serpent had spat venom into his eyes.
他感覺就像有一條蛇朝自己的雙眼里噴射了毒液。
來自柯林斯例句
2. He reserved particular venom for critics of his foreign policy.
他對那些批評他外交政策的人格外心懷怨恨。
來自柯林斯例句
3. a look of pure venom
惡狠狠的樣子
來自《權威詞典》
4. She surveyed him coldly with eyes that spat venom.
她冷眼打量著他,眼睛冒出怨毒的兇光.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
5. The snake injects the venom immediately after biting its prey.