• n. [解剖] 腓腸，小腿；小牛；小牛皮；(鯨等大哺乳動物的)幼崽

來自PIE *gel, 鼓起，子宮，詞源同child, dolphin.

calf

calf: English has two distinct words calf, both of Germanic origin. Calf ‘young cow’ goes back to Old English cealf, descendant of a prehistoric West Germanic *kalbam, which also produced German kalb and Dutch kalf. Calf of the leg [14] was borrowed from Old Norse kálfi, of unknown origin.

calf (n.1)

"young cow," Old English cealf (Anglian c?lf) "young cow," from Proto-Germanic *kalbam (cognates: Middle Dutch calf, Old Norse kalfr, German Kalb, Gothic kalbo), perhaps from PIE *gelb(h)-, from root *gel- "to swell," hence, "womb, fetus, young of an animal." Elliptical sense of "leather made from the skin of a calf" is from 1727. Used of icebergs that break off from glaciers from 1818.

calf (n.2)

fleshy part of the lower leg, early 14c., from Old Norse kalfi, source unknown; possibly from the same Germanic root as calf (n.1).

1. The snow, except where it drifted, was only calf-deep.

除了吹得堆積起來的地方，雪只有小腿肚深。

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2. I rubbed the velvety grooves inside the calf's ears.

我摩挲著小牛耳朵里面柔軟的凹槽。

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3. Hillsden was complain-ing of cramp in his calf muscles.

希爾斯登說他小腿抽筋。

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4. He suffered a pulled calf muscle.

他小腿肚肌肉拉傷。

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5. I've torn a calf muscle.

我拉傷了小腿肌肉。

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