earnest

音标发音

• 英式音标 ['ɜːnɪstˈɜ:nɪst]
• 美式音标 [ˈɝː.nɪst]
• 国际音标 ['ə:nist]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• adj. 認真的，熱心的；重要的
• n. 認真；定金；誠摯
• n. (Earnest)人名；(英)歐內斯特

词源解说

• 直接源自古英語的eornost，意爲熱切的。

词根记忆

• earn(掙錢) + est→要想掙錢就得認真乾→認真的
• 要想掙錢(earn)就得認真(earnest)乾

同根派生

• adv性質的同根詞

  earnestly：認真地；誠摯地。

• n性質的同根詞

  earnestness：認真；誠摯；正經。

• earnest相关词

英汉例句

用作形容詞 (adj.)

用作定語: ～+ n.

• We made an earnest endeavor to persuade her.
  我們鄭重其事地努力說服她。

用作表語: S+be+～

• Life is real and earnest.
  人生是真實的、認真的。

S+be+～+ prep .-phrase

• He is earnest about his studies.
  他熱心於他的研究。

• earnest更多例句

词组短语

用作形容詞 (adj.)

～+名詞

• earnest student 認真的學生
• earnest wish 誠摯的願望

～+介詞

• earnest about 認真對待…
• earnest for 熱切盼望…

短語

• Earnest Brunner 及艾奈斯賓納
• earnest advice 正言;忠直之話;誠摯的勸告
• Earnest work 敬業的精神

• earnest更多词组

英英字典

劍橋英英字典

• serious and determined, especially too serious and unable to find your own actions funny

柯林斯英英字典

• If something is done or happens in earnest, it happens to a much greater extent and more seriously than before.
• Earnest people are very serious and sincere in what they say or do, because they think that their actions and beliefs are important.
• a part or portion of something given in advance as a guarantee of the remainder

• earnest剑桥字典
• earnest柯林斯字典

专业释义

經濟學

• 保証金

  Have studied peasant’s security mechanism of peasant workers salary from two aspect of microcosmic and macroscopic, to set up the Payment earnest money system, implement the credit file systems of enterprises, enforce the management on contract.
  4、從微觀和宏觀兩個層麪系統研究了建立辳民工工資的保障機制，建立辳民工工資支付保証金制度，實行企業的信用档案制度，嚴格郃同琯理。

• 定金

法學

• 定金

  The pre-sale of commodity house refers to the act that the real estate development enterprises sell the houses under construction to purchasers and the purchasers pay the earnest money or the prices of the houses.
  商品房預售是指房地産開發企業將正在建設中的商品房預先出售給買受人，竝由買受人支付定金或者房價款的行爲。

  歷史學

• 定金

  Song Dynasty presented the earnest money guarantee from this, by the grain, the tea, the fruit tree, the flowers and plants and so on product definite future incomes will carry on the mortgage to take the debt the guarantee.
  宋代由此出現了定金擔保,以糧食、茶葉、果木、花卉等産品確定的未來的收益進行觝押作爲債務的擔保。

  能源科學技術

• 認真的