barrow
英 ['bærəʊ]
美 ['bæro]
- n. 搬運架，手推車；棄礦；古墳
- n. (Barrow)人名；(英、西)巴羅
助記提示
1. 形近詞：marrow, barrow, harrow, farrow, narrow.
2. harrow => h-: harvest, harry.
3. farrow => f-: pork.
4. barrow => b-: bear.
5. 這契合了馬秉義提出的首輔音表詞類含義的理論，其後的元音及輔音的音變、變化導致含義的分化、細化。
6. 第二層含義：*berg- (source of English barrow 'mound' and German berg 'mountain, hill') => barrow.
7. 諧音“搬嘍、搬了，搬挪”
中文詞源
barrow 小推車，古墳1.小推車，詞源同bear, 承載，承擔。
2.古墳，詞源同berg，山，山丘。指古墳形如小山。
英文詞源
- barrow
- barrow: [OE] Barrow for carrying things and barrow the burial mound are two distinct words in English. The barrow of wheelbarrow is related to bear ‘carry’. The Old English word, bearwe, came from the same Germanic base, *ber- or *bar-, as produced bear, and also bier. Barrow the burial mound, as erected by ancient peoples over a grave site, is related to German berg ‘mountain, hill’. The Old English word, beorg, came from prehistoric Germanic *bergaz.
=> bear, bier - barrow (n.1)
- "vehicle for carrying a load," c. 1300, barewe, probably from an unrecorded Old English *bearwe "basket, barrow," from beran "to bear, to carry" (see bear (v.)). The original had no wheel and required two persons to carry it.
- barrow (n.2)
- "mound," Old English beorg (West Saxon), berg (Anglian) "barrow, mountain, hill, mound," from Proto-Germanic *bergaz (cognates: Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Old High German berg "mountain," Old North bjarg "rock"), from PIE root *bhergh- (2) "high, elevated" (cognates: Old Church Slavonic bregu "mountain, height;" Old Irish brigh "mountain;" Welsh bera "stack, pyramid;" Sanskrit b'rhant "high," brmhati "strengthens, elevates;" Avestan brzant- "high," Old Persian bard- "be high;" Greek Pergamos, name of the citadel of Troy). Obsolete except in place-names and southwest England dialect by 1400; revived by modern archaeology.
In place-names used of small continuously curving hills, smaller than a dun, with the summit typically occupied by a single farmstead or by a village church with the village beside the hill, and also of burial mounds. [Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names]
Meaning "mound erected over a grave" was a specific sense in late Old English. Barrow-wight first recorded 1869 in Eirikr Magnusson and William Morris's translation of the Icelandic saga of Grettir the Strong.
雙語例句
- 1. The old man lifted the barrow and trundled it away.
- 那個老頭提起手推車，慢慢推走了。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Barrow had an inquisitive nature.
- 巴羅天生就愛打聽別人隱私。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. Pomeroy was a cockney barrow-boy at heart.
- 波默羅伊本質上就是個倫敦街頭小販。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. I usually dig in a small barrow load of compost in late summer.
- 夏末時節，我通常會把一小車堆肥施到土裏。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. A young man was bending low to push a heavily loaded barrow up a slope.
- 一個年輕人正弓著背把一輛重載的小車推上斜坡.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》