gravel
英 ['græv(ə)l]
美 ['ɡrævl]
- n. 碎石；砂礫
- vt. 用碎石鋪；使船擱淺在沙灘上；使困惑
- n. (Gravel)人名；(英、法、西)格拉韋爾
助記提示
1. from Old French gravele "sand, gravel," diminutive of grave "sand, seashore" (Modern French grève).
2. grave 墳 + l 象把鐵鍬，挖墳時挖出的沙石；grave 雕刻 + l 象把刀，刻刀刻下的沙石。
3. grave（n 墓穴；墳墓），l：grave是用gravel堆積而成的。
4. -el 指小後綴，因此該詞表示：一些細碎的、小而碎的東西。
中文詞源
gravel 沙礫，礫石來自PIE*ghreu, 刮，磨，擦，詞源同chrism, great, grit. 即磨下來的小砂子。
英文詞源
- gravel
- gravel: [13] Gravel is of Celtic origin. It has been traced to a prehistoric Celtic *gravo- ‘gravel’, never actually recorded but deduced from Breton grouan and Cornish grow ‘soft granite’. French borrowed it as grave ‘gravel, pebbles’ (perhaps the source of the English verb grave ‘clean a ship’s bottom’ [15], now encountered virtually only in graving dock, from the notion of ships being hauled up on to the pebbles of the seashore for cleaning). The Old French diminutive of grave was gravelle – whence English gravel.
- gravel (n.)
- "stone in small, irregular fragments," early 13c., from Old French gravele "sand, gravel; sea-shore; sandy bed of a river," diminutive of grave "sand, seashore" (Modern French grève), possibly from Celtic *graw- (compare Welsh gro "coarse gravel," Breton grouan, Cornish grow "gravel"), perhaps ultimately from PIE *ghreu- "to rub, grind" (see grit (n.)). Gravel-crusher was World War I slang for "infantryman."
雙語例句
- 1. I signed in and crunched across the gravel to my room.
- 我簽到後嘎吱嘎吱走過石子路來到我的房間。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Two young men were racing motorcycles on the loose gravel.
- 兩個小夥子正在鬆散的礫石路麵上賽摩托車。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. She heard the crunch of tires on the gravel driveway.
- 她聽到輪胎軋過石子鋪成的車道，發出嘎吱聲。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. The water burbled over gravel.
- 水流過卵石，汩汩作響。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. Her feet scrunch on the gravel.
- 她的腳喀嚓喀嚓地踩在沙礫上。
來自柯林斯例句