prance

英 [prɑ?ns] 美[pr?ns]
  • n. 昂首闊步；（馬）后足立地騰躍
  • vi. 騰躍；昂首闊步；歡躍
  • vt. 使騰躍
  • n. (Prance)人名；(英)普蘭斯
GRE暢通詞匯

詞態(tài)變化

第三人稱單數(shù):?prances;過去式:?pranced;過去分詞:?pranced;現(xiàn)在分詞:?prancing;

助記提示

1. par- "intensify prefix" + avance (Old French formation of advance which is from ad- + ante "before, in front of") => paravance => prance.
2. 表示一種加強(qiáng)了含義的向前走、向前進(jìn)。

中文詞源

prance 闊步行走

來自中古英語pranken,昂首闊步走，詞源同prank.

英文詞源

prance (v.)
late 14c., originally of horses, of unknown origin, perhaps related to Middle English pranken "to show off," from Middle Dutch pronken "to strut, parade" (see prank); or perhaps from Danish dialectal prandse "to go in a stately manner." Klein suggests Old French paravancier. Related: Pranced; prancing. As a noun from 1751, from the verb.

雙語例句

1. Aunt Jennifer's tigers prance across a screen.
珍妮弗阿姨的老虎們騰躍屏風(fēng).

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2. So the horse, rather shabby, stood in an arrested prance in the boy's bedroom.
因此,這一破舊不堪的木馬, 以固定的騰躍姿態(tài)立在保羅的臥室里.

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3. A real man didn't prance around and yap at the mouth and preen for the camera.
顯然生活中的人不會在攝影機(jī)前躍馬而起,厲聲喝斥,刻意打扮.

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4. But when I'm thinking about war, I don't want to prance around the Maypole.
但是當(dāng)我想到戰(zhàn)爭時, 我可不想圍繞著五朔節(jié)花柱扎扎跳.

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5. Whether may or not to use prance the message TT browser browse QQ space?
可不可以用騰訊的TT瀏覽器瀏覽QQ空間?

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