"garments" (now surviving, if at all, in widow's weeds), plural of archaic weed, from Old English wæd, wæde "robe, dress, apparel, garment, clothing," from Proto-Germanic *wedo (cognates: Old Saxon wadi, Old Frisian wede "garment," Old Norse vað "cloth, texture," Old High German wat "garment"), probably from PIE *wedh-, extended form of root *au- (3) "to weave." Archaic since early 19c.
实用例句
1. With repeated applications of weedkiller, the weeds were overcome.
经过反复施用除草剂，杂草得以彻底根除。
来自柯林斯例句
2. We hurried on until we reached a courtyard overgrown with weeds.
我们匆匆往前走，来到一个野草丛生的院子。
来自柯林斯例句
3. Weeds are an index to the character of the soil.