emerald
英 ['em(ə)r(ə)ld]
美 ['ɛmərəld]
- n. 綠寶石；[寶] 祖母綠；翠綠色
- adj. 翠綠色的
- n. (Emerald)人名；(英)埃默拉爾德(女子教名)
助記提示
1. 在歐洲的西北部，有一個美麗的海島——愛爾蘭島。由於全島被一片蒼翠碧綠的林木所覆蓋，故有“綠寶石島(Emerald Isle)”的美稱。
2. 諧音“愛墨綠的，愛慕綠的”
中文詞源
英文詞源
- emerald
- emerald: [13] Emerald traces its history back to an ancient Semitic verb ‘shine’ – bāraq. From this there seems to have been formed a noun *bāraqt meaning ‘gem’. This was taken over into the ancient vernacular languages of India (main source of gems in early times) as maragada-. Greek acquired the word as máragdos ‘green gem’, which was soon superseded as the main form by a variant smáragdos.
Latin adopted this as smaragdus (which passed into English, probably via Old French, as smaragd, a term used for the ‘emerald’ from the 13th to the 18th century, and revived as an archaism in the 19th century). In post-classical times Latin smaragdus became *smaralda, and as this became disseminated through the Romance languages it acquired in many cases an additional syllable: Spanish esmeralda, for instance (source of the English forename) and Old French esmeraude, borrowed into Middle English as emeraud.
- emerald (n.)
- "bright green precious stone," c. 1300, emeraude, from Old French esmeraude (12c.), from Medieval Latin esmaraldus, from Latin smaragdus, from Greek smaragdos "green gem" (emerald or malachite), from Semitic baraq "shine" (compare Hebrew bareqeth "emerald," Arabic barq "lightning").
Sanskrit maragdam "emerald" is from the same source, as is Persian zumurrud, whence Turkish zümrüd, source of Russian izumrud "emerald." For the excrescent e-, see e-.In early examples the word, like most other names of precious stones, is of vague meaning; the mediæval references to the stone are often based upon the descriptions given by classical writers of the smaragdus, the identity of which with our emerald is doubtful. [OED]
Emerald Isle for "Ireland" is from 1795.
雙語例句
- 1. Emerald starlings are fairly small when compared with other such birds.
- 與同類的其他鳥相比，翠輝椋鳥要小很多。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Alice has an emerald necklace.
- 艾麗斯有一串綠寶石項鏈.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 3. That emerald curtain doesn't match the floor.
- 那翠綠色的窗簾和地板很不相配。
來自辭典例句
- 4. Her jaw line tightened to squareness and her eyes went emerald.
- 她的下顎緊得成了方形,她的眼睛變成翡翠的顏色.
來自飄（部分）
- 5. She is wearing a ring set with emerald.
- 她戴著一枚嵌有綠寶石的戒指.
來自辭典例句