dirt: [13] Dirt was originally drit, and meant ‘excrement’ (it was borrowed from Old Norse drit, which goes back to a prehistoric Germanic base *drit- that also produced Dutch dreet ‘excrement’). The toned-down sense ‘soiling substance’ is of equal antiquity with ‘excrement’ in English, and the modern English form dirt first appeared in the 15th century, by a process known as metathesis in which two sounds are reversed.
dirt (n.)
15c. metathesis of Middle English drit, drytt "mud, dirt, dung" (c. 1300), from Old Norse drit, cognate with Old English dritan "to void excrement," from Proto-Germanic *dritan (cognates: Dutch drijten, Old High German trizan). Used abusively of persons from c. 1300. Meaning "gossip" first attested 1926 (in Hemingway); dirt bike is 1960s. Dirt-cheap is from 1821. Dirt road attested by 1852.
雙語例句
1. He claims Pasolini overtook and tackled him, pushing him into the dirt.
他聲稱帕索利尼追上去打他，把他推倒在爛泥里。
來自柯林斯例句
2. A group of riders came into view on the dirt road.
一群騎車的人出現(xiàn)在那條土路上。
來自柯林斯例句
3. They're always selling off stuff like that dirt cheap.
他們總是以非常便宜的價格把類似那樣的東西處理掉。
來自柯林斯例句
4. Most of the dirt was on the outside of the tinted glass.
大部分灰塵在有色玻璃的外部。
來自柯林斯例句
5. The rooster chased me across the dirt floor of the barn.