earthling
英['ɜːθlɪŋ]
美['ɝθlɪŋ]
- n. 世人，俗人；凡人，居住在地球上的人
词态变化
复数: earthlings;
中文词源
earthling 地球人
earth, 地球，土地。-ling, 小，见underling.
英文词源
- earthling (n.)
- Old English yrþling "plowman" (see earth + -ling); the sense of "inhabitant of the earth" is from 1590s and might be a re-formation, as the word seems to be missing in Middle English. Compare earthman. Earlier in this sense was earthite (1825).
双语例句
- 1. Protecting the earth our homestead is an unshirkable duty for every earthling.
- 保护地球家园,是每一位在世者义不容辞的责任.
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- 2. He formed his own stylelish in his creation, leaving lots of elegant music to the earthling.
- 他在创作中形成了自己的风格, 给世人留下了许多优美的乐曲.
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