• n. 薄霧；視線模糊不清；模糊不清之物
• vi. 下霧；變模糊
• vt. 使模糊；使蒙上薄霧

來自古英語mist,薄霧，水氣，來自Proto-Germanic*mikhstaz,可能來自PIE*meus,水氣，濕的，詞源同moss,moist.

mist

mist: [OE] Mist is a member of quite a widespread Indo-European family of ‘mist’-words. Dutch and Swedish share mist, and among the non- Germanic languages Greek has omíkhlē, Lithuanian and Latvia migla, Serbo-Croat màgla, Polish mg?a, and Russian mgla, all meaning ‘mist’, besides Sanskrit mēghas ‘cloud’, which all point back to an Indo- European ancestor *migh-, *meigh-.

mist (n.)

Old English mist "dimness (of eyesight), mist" (earliest in compounds, such as misthleoeu "misty cliffs," w?lmist "mist of death"), from Proto-Germanic *mikhstaz (cognates: Middle Low German mist, Dutch mist, Icelandic mistur, Norwegian and Swedish mist), perhaps from PIE *meigh- "to urinate" (cognates: Greek omikhle, Old Church Slavonic migla, Sanskrit mih, megha "cloud, mist;" see micturition).

Sometimes distinguished from fog, either as being less opaque or as consisting of drops large enough to have a perceptible downward motion. [OED]

Also in Old English in sense of "dimness of the eyes, either by illness or tears," and in figurative sense of "things that obscure mental vision."

mist (v.)

Old English mistian "to become misty, to be or grow misty;" see mist (n.). Meaning "To cover with mist" is early 15c. Related: Misted; misting.

1. I stepped outside and pulled up my collar against the cold mist.

我走出門，豎起衣領抵御冷霧。

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2. He recognized the coast of England through a veil of mist.

透過薄霧他認出了那是英格蘭的海岸線。

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3. With a thick mist now blanketing the trees, I got thoroughly lost.

此時濃霧籠罩著林木，我徹底迷路了。

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4. Mist shrouded the outline of Buckingham Palace.

霧靄蒙蒙，白金漢宮若隱若現。

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5. Amid the trees the sea mist was dripping.

林子里彌漫著濕漉漉的海霧。

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