mouse

• n. 鼠標(biāo)；老鼠；膽小羞怯的人
• vt. 探出
• vi. 捕鼠；窺探

來自PIE*mus,老鼠，詞源同muscle,mussel.引申詞義鼠標(biāo)。

mouse

mouse: [OE] Mouse is an ancient word, with relatives today in all the Germanic and Slavic languages. Its Indo-European ancestor was *mūs-, which produced Greek mūs, Latin mūs (something of a dead end: the modern Romance languages have abandoned it), Sanskrit mūs (source, via a very circuitous route, of English musk), and prehistoric Germanic *mūs-.

This has evolved into German maus, Dutch muis, Swedish and Danish mus, and English mouse. And the Slavic branch of the ‘mouse’-family includes Russian mysh’, Polish mysz, and Serbo- Croat mish. English relatives of mouse include muscle and mussel (ultimately the same word) and marmot [17], which goes back to a Vulgar Latin accusative form *mūrem montis ‘mouse of the mountain’.
=> marmot, muscle, musk, mussel

mouse (n.)

Old English mus "small rodent," also "muscle of the arm," from Proto-Germanic *mus (cognates: Old Norse, Old Frisian, Middle Dutch, Danish, Swedish mus, Dutch muis, German Maus "mouse"), from PIE *mus- (cognates: Sanskrit mus "mouse, rat," Old Persian mush "mouse," Old Church Slavonic mysu, Latin mus, Lithuanian muse "mouse," Greek mys "mouse, muscle").

Plural form mice (Old English mys) shows effects of i-mutation. Contrasted with man (n.) from 1620s. Meaning "black eye" (or other discolored lump) is from 1842. Computer sense is from 1965, though applied to other things resembling a mouse in shape since 1750, mainly nautical.

Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus [Horace]

mouse (v.)

"to hunt mice," mid-13c., from mouse (n.). Related: Moused; mousing.

1. The noun " mouse " is the singular form of " mice " .

名詞mouse是 mice 的單數(shù)形式.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

2. Use your mouse to drag the pictures to their new size.

用鼠標(biāo)拖動圖片，將其調(diào)整為新的尺寸。

來自柯林斯例句

3. It's a cat-and-mouse game to him, and I'm the mouse.

在他看來，這是個貓捉老鼠的把戲，而我就是老鼠。

來自柯林斯例句

4. You can check your email with a click of your mouse.

鼠標(biāo)輕輕一點(diǎn)，即可查看電子郵件。

來自柯林斯例句

5. The whole thing is somehow a bit Mickey Mouse.

不知怎的，整件事情有點(diǎn)幼稚。

來自柯林斯例句