• n. 賊窩，私室；獸穴，窩巢；小房間
• vi. 藏到洞里；住在骯臟簡陋的小房間里
• vt. 把……趕進(jìn)洞穴
• n. (Den)人名；(日)傳 (名)；(俄)杰恩；(法)德恩

來自PIE*dan, 低地，詞源同Dane. 引申詞義獸穴。

den

den: [OE] Related forms such as German tenne ‘threshing floor’ and possibly Greek thenar ‘palm of the hand’ suggest that the underlying meaning of den may be ‘flat area’. Old English denn denoted ‘wild animal’s lair’, perhaps with reference to animals’ flattening an area of vegetation to form a sleeping place. Dean [OE], a word for ‘valley’ now surviving only in placenames, comes from the same source.

den (n.)

Old English denn "wild animal's lair," from Proto-Germanic *danjan (cognates: Middle Low German denne "lowland, wooded vale, den," Old English denu "valley," Old Frisian dene "down," Old High German tenni, German tenne "threshing floor," from PIE *dan- "low ground"). Sense of "small room" is 1771, originally colloquial.

1. The government is cynically running down Swe-den's welfare system.

瑞典政府正自私自利地削減本國的福利。

來自柯林斯例句

2. A disco isn't exactly a den of iniquity.

迪斯科舞廳并非藏污納垢之處。

來自柯林斯例句

3. There is a big fox den on the back hill.

后山有一個很大的狐貍窩.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. He finds himself in a den of ruffians.

他發(fā)現(xiàn)自己在流氓的巢穴中.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. The tiger retired to its den.

那只虎退回巢穴.

來自《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》