词根:-rap-, -rav-, -rapt-
【词根含义】:抓
【词根来源】:来源于拉丁语动词rapio, rapere, rapui, raptus(抓)。
【同源单词】:rapacious, rapacity, rape, rapid, rapidity
词根:rap, rav(rep) = to take, to snatch(攫取)
来自拉丁语的rap,rav意为to take,to snatch。rap中元音弱化后变成rep。同义词根有来自拉丁语的prehend/prehens,pris,cap/capt/cept/ceiv(cip,cup,ceit),empt/em,sump/sumpt,lab/lep等。
(*拉丁文rapere(=to snatch,to seize,to grasp)——英文字根字典)
同源词:
1. surreptitious(向下抓住、采用的sur<sub(=under) + rep<rap(=take)
adj.秘密的;鬼鬼祟祟的
That handsome dude over there is stealing surreptitious glances at you.那边那个帅哥正在向你暗送秋波呢
2. ravage(被抢夺或被夺取的状态 rav(=take,seize)
n.破坏;荒废;(pl.)破坏后的残迹
vt.破坏,使荒废;(军队等)劫持
The lion ravaged the zebra until nothing was left but bones.狮子将一匹斑马吞食得只剩下骨头。
3. rape
n./v.抢夺;强奸
rapist n.强奸犯
4. rapaclous
adj.(尤其指对金钱)贪婪的,掠夺的
rapacity n.贪婪
5. rapid
adj.(速度)快的;陡峭的
n.(pl.)急流
rapidity n.迅速,急速
rapidly adv.快地,迅速地
6. rapine
n.抢夺,掠夺
7. rapt
adj.着迷的,埋头的
with rapt attention 全神贯注地
rapt in a book埋头读书的
8. rapture
n.狂喜,高兴;着迷
rapturous adj.狂喜的
go into raptures over着迷于...
9. enrapture
v.使狂喜 *en(=make)
10. raven
n.渡鸦(通常被看做不吉利的鸟)
adj.(毛发等)乌黑的
v.掠夺
raven locks 乌黑的头发
11. ravening
adj.空腹觅食的;狼吞虎咽的
ravening wolf 觅食的饿狼
12. ravenous
adj.狼吞虎咽的,非常饥饿的;贪婪的
ravenous appetite 极好的胃口
ravenous hunger 极度的饥饿
ravenous for power贪图权力的
13. ravine
n.峡谷
14. ravish
v.使狂喜;使陶醉;掠夺
ravishingly adv.狂喜地;陶醉地
ravishment n.陶醉;狂喜
ravishing view 令人陶醉的景色
ravished with her beauty 被她的美貌逮住
词根:rap, rapt, rav = snatch, 表示“捕, 夺”
rape v. 强奸;洗劫
rapacious a. 强夺的(rap+acious多…的→夺得多的→强夺的)
rapine n. 强夺,抢劫(rap+ine表名词)
rapt a. 着迷的(魂被夺走)
rapture n. 狂喜,着迷(rapt+ure)
enrapture v. 使狂喜(en使+rapture狂喜)
raptor n. 猛禽(rapt+or→掠夺之鸟→猛禽)
ravish v. 抢夺(rav+ish表动词)
ravage n. 破坏(rav+age状态→掠夺过的状态)
raven v. 捕食;狼吞虎咽(raven还有乌鸦之意)
ravenous a. 贪婪的;饿极的(raven捕食+ous→捕食的→贪婪的)
词根词缀:rab-, rag-, rav-
【来源及含义】Latin: madness, to be mad; to rave, to be furious
【相关词根词缀】 Cross references of word families that are related directly, or indirectly, to: "anger, angry; rage, wrath, fury; rave": fur-, furi-; ira-; lysso-; mania-.
【同源单词】enrage, enraged, enragement, enraging, rabid, rabidity
词根词缀:rap-, rav-
【来源及含义】Latin: tearing away, seizing, swift, rapid; snatch away, seize, carry off; from Latin rapere, "to seize by force and to carry off"
【同源单词】correption, enrapt, enrapture, enraptured, fluviraption, nonusurping