mint
英 [m?nt]
美[m?nt]
- n. 薄荷；[金融] 造幣廠，巨款
- vt. 鑄造，鑄幣
- n. (Mint)人名；(毛里塔)明特
CET6TEM4IELTSGRE中低頻詞常用詞匯
詞態變化
復數:?mints;第三人稱單數:?mints;過去式:?minted;過去分詞:?minted;現在分詞:?minting;
助記提示
1. monetary => mint.
中文詞源
mint 薄荷
來自拉丁文menta,薄荷，來自希臘語Minthe,薄荷仙子，在古希臘神話中，原為泉水仙子，因引誘冥王Hades,被冥后Persephone變成了薄荷樹。
mint 鑄造，鑄幣，創造來自拉丁文moneta,鑄幣，硬幣，詞源同money,monetary.引申詞義創造或發明。
英文詞源
- mint
- mint: [OE] English has two completely unconnected words mint. The ‘money factory’ comes ultimately from Latin monēta ‘mint, money’ (source also of English money). It was borrowed into prehistoric West Germanic as *munita, which in due course produced Old English mynet. This denoted ‘coin’ (as its modern German relative münze still does), and it was not until the 15th century that the modern sense ‘place where money is made’ emerged. Mint the plant originated in Greek mínthē, and reached English via Latin mentha (source of menthol [19], a German coinage) and prehistoric West Germanic *minta.
=> money; menthol - mint (n.1)
- aromatic herb, Old English minte (8c.), from West Germanic *minta (cognates: Old Saxon minta, Middle Dutch mente, Old High German minza, German Minze), a borrowing from Latin menta, mentha "mint," from Greek minthe, personified as a nymph transformed into an herb by Proserpine, probably a loan-word from a lost Mediterranean language.
- mint (n.2)
- place where money is coined, early 15c., from Old English mynet "coin, coinage, money" (8c.), from West Germanic *munita (cognates: Old Saxon munita, Old Frisian menote, Middle Dutch munte, Old High German munizza, German münze), from Latin moneta "mint" (see money). Earlier word for "place where money is coined" was minter (early 12c.). General sense of "a vast sum of money" is from 1650s.
- mint (v.)
- "to stamp metal to make coins," 1540s, from mint (n.2). Related: Minted; minting. Minter "one who stamps coins to create money" is from early 12c.
- mint (adj.)
- "perfect" (like a freshly minted coin), 1887 (in mint condition), from mint (n.2).
雙語例句
- 1. Combine the beans, chopped mint and olive oil in a large bowl.
- 將菜豆、切碎的薄荷和橄欖油放在大碗里攪拌。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. They were worth a mint.
- 它們價值不菲。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. Garnish with mint sprigs.
- 用薄荷枝裝點。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. I decorated the fruit salad with a sprig of mint.
- 我用小薄荷枝裝點水果色拉。
來自《權威詞典》
- 5. These pennies were coined at the mint in London.
- 這些便士錢幣是倫敦一家制幣廠鑄造的.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》