gable
英 ['geɪb(ə)l]
美 ['gebl]
- n. 山形牆；三角形飾物
- vt. 在…上砌三角牆；在…安裝三角形飾物
- vi. 形成三角牆；形成三角形飾物
- n. (Gable)人名；(英)蓋布爾；(法)加布勒
助記提示
1. cephalic => cephal- => gable.
2. The notion underlying gable is probably of 'topping' or 'surmounting'.
3. 由於以前房子頂部的側麵都呈三角形進而引伸出如今的含義。
4. 山牆呈一個三角形的形狀，似古體“山”字，故稱“山牆”。
5. Possibly the primitive meaning of the words may have been 'top', 'vertex'; this may have given rise to the sense of 'gable', and this latter to the sense of 'fork', a gable being originally formed by two pieces of timber crossed at the top supporting the end of the roof-tree".
6. Root cephal- "head," which seems to have yielded words meaning both "fork" and "head".
7. 著名小說：《綠山牆的安妮》又名《綠屋的安妮》：《Anne Of Green Gables》。
8. 諧音“蓋寶、蓋堡”----蓋寶塔、城堡，寶塔、城堡頂部呈山牆形。
中文詞源
gable 三角牆，山牆來自PIE*ghebh, 叉子，詞源同javelin. 因形似叉子而得名。
英文詞源
- gable
- gable: [14] The notion underlying gable is probably of ‘topping’ or ‘surmounting’, for it has been traced back by some to prehistoric Indo-European *ghebhalā, which also produced Greek kephalé ‘head’. Its immediate source was Old Norse gafl, which gave English the form gavel, subsequently remodelled on the basis of Old French gable (itself probably borrowed originally from the Old Norse word).
=> cephalic - gable (n.)
- "end of a ridged roof cut off in a vertical plane, together with the wall from the level of the eaves to the apex," mid-14c., "a gable of a building; a facade," from Old French gable "facade, front, gable," from Old Norse gafl "gable, gable-end" (in north of England, the word probably is directly from Norse), according to Watkins, probably from Proto-Germanic *gablaz "top of a pitched roof" (cognates: Middle Dutch ghevel, Dutch gevel, Old High German gibil, German Giebel, Gothic gibla "gable"). This is traced to a PIE *ghebh-el- "head," which seems to have yielded words meaning both "fork" (such as Old English gafol, geafel, Old Saxon gafala, Dutch gaffel, Old High German gabala "pitchfork," German Gabel "fork;" Old Irish gabul "forked twig") and "head" (such as Old High German gibilla, Old Saxon gibillia "skull").
Possibly the primitive meaning of the words may have been 'top', 'vertex'; this may have given rise to the sense of 'gable', and this latter to the sense of 'fork', a gable being originally formed by two pieces of timber crossed at the top supporting the end of the roof-tree." [OED]
Related: Gabled; gables; gable-end.
雙語例句
- 1. It has a dormer roof joining both gable ends.
- 帶天窗的斜屋頂連接著兩邊的山牆。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. I don't like the ugly look of that hole in the gable.
- 我不喜歡山牆上的那個難看的窟窿.
來自辭典例句
- 3. I am a Clark Gable nut : I have seen all his films.
- 我是 克拉克·蓋博 的影迷,我看過他演的所有影片.
來自互聯網
- 4. His first job in Hollywood was as a double for Clark Gable.
- 他在好萊塢的第一份工作是作為克拉克蓋保的替身演員.
來自互聯網
- 5. Several paintings are hanging on the gable walls of his house.
- 他家的房山上掛著幾幅畫.
來自互聯網