squaw
英 [skwɔː]
美
- n. 女人；妻子（有贬义）
词态变化
复数: squaws;
中文词源
squaw 印第安女人
来自印第安土著语 squa,女人。含强烈的讽刺或调侃意味。
英文词源
- squaw (n.)
- "American Indian woman," 1630s, from Massachuset (Algonquian) squa "woman" (cognate with Narraganset squaws "woman"). "Over the years it has come to have a derogatory sense and is now considered offensive by many Native Americans" [Bright]. Widespread in U.S. place names, sometimes as a translation of a local native word for "woman."
双语例句
- 1. The Comanches called It'squaw's Head Rock.
- 科曼奇族印第安人称之为女人头石.
来自电影对白
- 2. Sell your soul for that, do , dyed rags pinned round a squaw.
- 为了那些用别针别在婆娘腰身上的染了色的节片,出卖你的灵魂吧.
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