crane
英 [kreɪn]
美 [kren]
- n. 吊車，起重機；鶴
- vi. 伸著脖子看；遲疑，躊躇
- vt. 用起重機起吊；伸長脖子
- n. (Crane)人名；(意、葡)克拉內；(英、法、西)克蘭
助記提示
1、同源性：Old English cran "large wading bird." <=> Greek geranos "crane". <=> Latin gruem (nominative grus) "crane". => crane.
2. geranium (天竺葵，又名老鶴草) => crane.
3. 諧音“長類鳥”-----脖子伸得很長的那類鳥，就像長頸鹿一樣 => 鶴。
4. Yellow Crane Tower: 黃鶴樓。
5. 故人西辭黃鶴樓， 煙花三月下揚州。 孤帆遠影碧空盡， 唯見長江天際流。
6. 這可是江南三大名樓之一啊！江南三大名樓指的是：湖北武漢的黃鶴樓、江西南昌的滕王閣、湖南嶽陽的嶽陽樓。
7. 由於起重機長得很像鶴的長長的脖子，所以 crane 既表鶴又有起重機的意思。
中文詞源
crane 白鶴，起重機來自PIE*gere, 鳴叫，擬聲詞。比較crow, cock, raven.
英文詞源
- crane
- crane: [OE] Crane is a widespread Indo- European bird-name: related forms such as Latin grūs, Greek géranos (source of English geranium, also known as crane’s-bill, from the long pointed ‘beak’ of its fruit), and Welsh garan point to a prehistoric Indo-European base *ger-, possibly imitative of the bird’s raucous call. The resemblance of a crane lowering its long neck to feed or drink to the operation of a lifting apparatus with a long jib led to the application of crane to the latter in the 14th century (French grue and German kran show a similar semantic development). Cranberry [17] is a borrowing (originally American) of German cranbeere, literally ‘craneberry’, so named from the stamens, which supposedly resemble a beak.
=> cranberry, geranium, pedigree - crane (n.)
- Old English cran "large wading bird," common Germanic (cognates: Old Saxon krano, Old High German krano, German Kranich, and, with unexplained change of consonant, Old Norse trani), from PIE *gere-no-, suffixed form of root *gere- (2) "to cry hoarsely," also the name of the crane (cognates: Greek geranos, Latin grus, Welsh garan, Lithuanian garnys "heron, stork"). Thus the name is perhaps an echo of its cry in ancient ears. Metaphoric use for "machine with a long arm" is first attested late 13c. (a sense also in equivalent words in German and Greek).
- crane (v.)
- "to stretch (the neck)," 1799, from crane (n.). Related: Craned; craning.
雙語例句
- 1. Crane is a kind of bird with very long legs and neck.
- 鶴是一種腿和脖子都很長的鳥.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 2. We used a crane to lift the piano into the theatre.
- 我們使用起重機將鋼琴搬進劇場.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 3. Must we wait till the crane arrives before we start loading?
- 非要等起重機來了才能裝運 嗎 ?
來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》
- 4. They built a crane capable of lifting 150 tons.
- 他們造了一台能吊起150噸重量的吊車.
來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》
- 5. The crane uplifted the car and moved it to a safer place.
- 吊車吊起小汽車放到安全的地方.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》