hare
英 [heə]
美 [hɛr]
- n. 野兔
- n. (Hare)人名；(印)哈雷；(英)黑爾；(法)阿爾
助記提示
1. hare "野兔"，做動詞講是“飛跑”之意，因為野兔跑得很快，但是 hare (v.) 的古義並不是“飛跑”，而是“harry, harass, frighten”，這是源於 harry 或者與 harry 同源，因此可以說 hare (v.) 是先受 harry 的影響，後受到 hare (n.) 的影響，在這兩個單詞的影響下就變成了如今的含義，野兔在受到騷擾、驚嚇的情況下肯定會飛跑逃命的。
2. hare (v.) 今義“飛跑”=> 古義：harry, harass, frighten => har- "harry, harass, frighten": harry (雙寫r加-y), harass.
3. 因此 harry 與 harass 是同源近義詞，都表示騷擾、侵擾；使煩惱、苦惱。
hare 野兔——hair毛發，頭發
口訣：野兔在長毛。
中文詞源
hare 野兔可能來自PIE*kas,灰色，灰白色，詞源同hazy,hoar,canus(拉丁文，灰白的)。後指灰白色的野兔。
英文詞源
- hare
- hare: [OE] The hare seems originally to have been named from its colour. The word comes from prehistoric West and North Germanic *khason, which also produced German hase, Dutch haas, and Swedish and Danish hare, and if as has been suggested it is related to Old English hasu ‘grey’ and Latin cascus ‘old’, its underlying meaning would appear to be ‘grey animal’ (just as the bear and the beaver are etymologically the ‘brown animal’, and the herring may be the ‘grey fish’). Harrier ‘dog for hunting hares’ [16] was derived from hare on the model of Old French levrier (French lièvre means ‘hare’, and is related to English leveret ‘young hare’ [15]); it was originally harer, and the present-day form arose from confusion with harrier ‘falcon’ [16], a derivative of the verb harry.
=> harrier, herring, hoar - hare (n.)
- Old English hara "hare," from West Germanic *hasan- (cognates: Old Frisian hasa, Middle Dutch haese, Dutch haas, Old High German haso, German Hase), of uncertain origin; possibly the original sense was "gray" (compare Old English hasu, Old High German hasan "gray"), from PIE *kas- "gray" (cognates: Latin canus "white, gray, gray-haired"). Perhaps cognate with Sanskrit sasah, Afghan soe, Welsh ceinach "hare." Rabbits burrow in the ground; hares do not.
þou hast a crokyd tunge heldyng wyth hownd and wyth hare. ["Jacob's Well," c. 1440]
- hare (v.)
- "to harry, harass," 1520s; meaning "to frighten" is 1650s; of uncertain origin; connections have been suggested to harry (v.) and to hare (n.). Related: Hared; haring.
雙語例句
- 1. Monks shave their heads, as do devotees of the Hare Krishna movement.
- 和尚要剃度，克利須那派教徒也一樣。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. We can organise car rental from Chicago O'Hare Airport.
- 我們可以安排提供從芝加哥奧黑爾機場出發的租車服務。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. This isn't the first hare-brained scheme he's had.
- 這已經不是他製定的第一個愚蠢方案了。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. The tortoise wins the race while the hare is sleeping.
- 兔子正睡覺時,烏龜贏得了比賽.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 5. He is as swift of foot as a hare.
- 他跑得像兔子一樣快.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》