Word of the Day : June 12, 2023
inchmeal
慢慢地
adverb /INCH-meel/
What It Means
Something done inchmeal is done gradually, or little by little.
Something done inchmeal 是指一点点地完成事情。
INCHMEAL in Context
“Dawn climbs inchmeal, the sky suffused with light so extravagant it seems stolen.” — Richard Bangs, HuffPost, 8 Aug. 2013
“黎明一点点爬起，天空泛着红光，奢侈极了像是偷来的。”
They worked on the study guide inchmeal up until the exam.
他们一直在研究学习指南，直到考试为止。
Did You Know?
“All the infections that the sun sucks up / From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall, and make him / By inch-meal a disease!” So goes one of the curses the hated and hateful Caliban hurls in the direction of Prospero in Shakespeare’s The Tempest. The origin of inchmeal is simple; the inch half is the familiar measurement, and the meal half, which means “by a (specified) portion or measure at a time,” is the suffix we know from inchmeal’s much more common synonym piecemeal. Students of German may be interested to know that -meal is related to the modern German word mal, meaning “time,” which features in the common term manchmal, meaning “sometimes.”
“All the infections that the sun sucks up / From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall, and make him / By inch-meal a disease!” 因此，在莎士比亚的《暴风雨》中，可恨可恶的 Caliban 向 Prospero 投了一个诅咒。 inchmeal 的起源很简单； inch half 是我们熟悉的尺寸，meal half，意思是“一（指定的）部分或一次测量”，我们是从比 inchmeal 更常见的同义词 piecemeal 中知道了后缀。 学习德语的学生可能有兴趣知道 -meal 与现代德语单词 mal 有关，意思是“time「时间」”，它在常用术语 manchmal 中有特征，意思是“sometimes「有时」”。
Test Your Vocabulary
What is the meaning of the British English adjective wholemeal?
wholemeal
