girdle

• n. 腰帶；圍繞物；婦女緊身褡
• vt. 圍繞；繞…而行；用帶子捆紮

來自gird, 圍，繞。

girdle

girdle: English has two words girdle. The more familiar, ‘belt’ [OE], goes back, together with its relatives garth, gird [OE], and girth [14], to a prehistoric Germanic *gurd-, *gard-, *gerdwhich denoted ‘surrounding’. From *gurdcame the verb *gurthjan, which produced both gird and girdle (as well as relatives in other Germanic languages, such as German gürtel, Dutch gordel, and Swedish gördel, all meaning ‘belt’), while *gerd- formed the basis of *gerdō, acquired by English via Old Norse gjorth as girth. Girdle ‘metal baking plate’ [15] (as in girdle cake) is a Scottish alteration of griddle (see GRID).
=> garth, gird, girth

girdle (n.)

Old English gyrdel "belt, sash, cord drawn about the waist and fastened," worn by both men and women, common Germanic (cognates: Old Norse gyrðill, Swedish gördel, Old Frisian gerdel, Dutch gordel, Old High German gurtil, German Gürtel "belt"), from the same source as Old English gyrdan "to gird" (see gird). Modern euphemistic sense of "elastic corset not extending above the waist" first recorded 1925. Originally a belt to secure the clothes, also for carrying a purse, a weapon, keys, etc.

girdle (v.)

"encircle with a girdle," 1580s, from girdle (n.). Meaning "to cut off a belt of bark around a trunk to kill a tree" is from 1660s, especially in North America. Related: Girdled; girdling.

1. carefully tended lawns set in a girdle of trees

樹木環繞、精心修整的草坪

來自《權威詞典》

2. All the keys hang not at one man's girdle.

鑰匙不一定都掛在一個人的腰帶上.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. A good name is better than a golden girdle.

美名勝過金腰帶.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. He walked among the displaced contours of her pectoral girdle.

他在她胸肢帶骨的變形周線間漫步.

來自英漢非文學 - 科幻

5. This tissue is found mainly about the shoulder girdle.

這種組織主要見於肩胛帶周圍.

來自辭典例句