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naked

英 ['neɪkɪd] 美 ['nekɪd]

adj. 裸体的；无装饰的；无证据的；直率的

中文词源

naked 裸体的

来自PIE*nogw,裸体的，词源同nude,gymnasium.

英文词源

naked: naked: [OE] Naked goes back ultimately to Indo- European *nogw- ‘unclothed’, which also produced Latin nūdus (source of English nude [16]) and Russian nagój ‘naked’. The past participial form derived from this, *nogwedhos, passed into prehistoric Germanic as *naquethaz, which has subsequently differentiated to German nackt, Dutch naakt, Swedish naken, Danish nøgen, and English naked.
=> nude
naked (adj.): Old English nacod "nude, bare; empty," also "not fully clothed," from Proto-Germanic *nakwadaz (cognates: Old Frisian nakad, Middle Dutch naket, Dutch naakt, Old High German nackot, German nackt, Old Norse nökkviðr, Old Swedish nakuþer, Gothic naqaþs "naked"), from PIE root *nogw- "naked" (cognates: Sanskrit nagna, Hittite nekumant-, Old Persian *nagna-, Greek gymnos, Latin nudus, Lithuanian nuogas, Old Church Slavonic nagu-, Russian nagoi, Old Irish nocht, Welsh noeth "bare, naked"). Related: Nakedly; nakedness. Applied to qualities, actions, etc., from late 14c. (first in "The Cloud of Unknowing"); phrase naked truth is from 1585, in Alexander Montgomerie's "The Cherry and the Slae":
Which thou must (though it grieve thee) grant
I trumped never a man.
But truely told the naked trueth,
To men that meld with mee,
For neither rigour, nor for rueth,
But onely loath to lie.
[Montgomerie, 1585]
Phrase naked as a jaybird (1943) was earlier naked as a robin (1879, in a Shropshire context); the earliest known comparative based on it was naked as a needle (late 14c.). Naked eye is from 1660s, unnecessary in the world before telescopes and microscopes.

双语例句

1. The worms cannot be seen by the naked eye.: 这些虫子用肉眼看不见。

2. The planet Mars will be visible to the naked eye all week.: 整周都可以用肉眼观察到火星。

3. Her naked body was found wrapped in a sheet in a field.: 在田里发现了她的尸体，全身赤裸，裹在一条床单里。

4. The water was heated by a naked gas flame.: 水是用燃气明火加热的。

5. The nest contained eight little mice that were naked and blind.: 窝里有8只还没长毛、眼睛尚未睁开的小老鼠。