utter

英 ['?t?] 美['?t?]

CET4TEM4GRE考研TOEFLCET6中低頻詞常用詞匯

第三人稱單數:?utters;過去式:?uttered;過去分詞:?uttered;現在分詞:?uttering;副詞:?utterly;

utter 完全的，絕對的，發(fā)出聲音

來自out的古英語書寫形式比較級，更外面的，完全的，絕對的，同時由形容詞作動詞使用，說出，發(fā)出聲音。

utter: utter: English has two distinct words utter, but they come from the same ultimate source – out. The older, ‘complete, thorough-going’ [OE] originated as a comparative form of out (or ūt, as it was in the Old English period), and so morphologically is the same word as outer. It did not begin to be used as an intensive adjective until the 15th century. Utter ‘express openly, say’ [14] was borrowed from Middle Dutch ūteren ‘drive out, announce, speak’, a derivative of Old Low German ūt ‘out’.
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utter (adj.): Old English utera, uterra, "outer, exterior, external," from Proto-Germanic *utizon (cognates: Old Norse utar, Old Frisian uttra, Middle Dutch utere, Dutch uiter-, Old High German uzar, German ?u?er "outer"), comparative adjective from ut (see out (adv.)). Meaning "complete, total" (i.e. "going to the utmost point") is from early 15c.
utter (v.): "speak, say," c. 1400, in part from Middle Dutch uteren or Middle Low German utern "to turn out, show, speak," from uter "outer," comparative adjective from ut "out" (see utter (adj.)); in part from Middle English verb outen "to disclose," from Old English utan "to put out," from ut (see out (v.)). Compare German ?ussern "to utter, express," from aus "out;" and colloquial phrase out with it "speak up!" Formerly also used as a commercial verb (as release is now). Related: Uttered; uttering.

1. Neil's ability to utter banalities never ceased to amaze me.: 每次我都很驚訝，尼爾怎么能講出這么索然無味的東西。

2. A look of utter confusion swept across his handsome face.: 他英俊的臉上掠過一絲大惑不解的神情。