manger: [14] Etymologically, a manger is an ‘eater’, or ‘feeding place’. It comes from Old French mangeoire, a descendant of Vulgar Latin *mandūcātōria. This was derived from Latin mandūcāre ‘chew’, which in modern French has become manger ‘eat’; the use of this as a noun, meaning ‘edible substance’, forms the ultimate basis of English blancmange, literally ‘white food’. From a parallel source comes the name of the skin disease mange [14], an allusion to its ‘eating’ or irritating the skin; mangy is a 16thcentury derivative. => blancmange, mange
manger (n.)
early 14c., from Old French mangeoire "crib, manger," from mangier "to eat" (see mange) + -oire, common suffix for implements and receptacles.
实用例句
1. The horses were crunching their straw at their manger.
这些马在嘎吱嘎吱地吃槽里的草.
来自《简明英汉词典》
2. The horse is tied up to the manger.
马被拴在马槽上.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
3. " But there's a way out: what is vulgarly known as'jumping the manger.'
-- “ 不过,有个办法: 粗话所谓 ‘ 跳槽 ’.
来自汉英文学 - 围城
4. The moment my back is turned everything goes to rack and manger.
