oak
英 [əʊk]
美 [ok]
- n. 橡樹；橡木色；橡木家具
- adj. 櫟樹的；櫟木製的
- n. (Oak)人名；(英)奧克
助記提示
1. soak => oak => 濕透的橡樹，因為下了一整天的雨，整個橡樹林就浸泡在雨水中。
2. 橡樹，（又稱櫟樹或柞樹），殼鬥科植物的泛稱。
3. 奧克蘭：奧克蘭（Oakland），位於美國西海岸的加利福尼亞州，是州內第四大城市，地處舊金山海灣地區中心，也是全美第六大都市區“舊金山—奧克蘭”地區的心髒。西臨舊金山灣，與舊金山市隔海相望。興建於1936年的“奧克蘭海灣大橋”（亦稱跨灣大橋）連接著兩市。“奧克蘭”一詞是英文“橡樹之地”（Oakland）的音譯。這裏原是舊金山灣東部沿岸的一片美麗的橡樹林，城市由此而得名，連市徽都是一棵橡樹。
4. 大名鼎鼎的java語言在誕生初期叫做oak，後來才更名為Java，是一種可以撰寫跨平台應用軟件的麵向對象的程序設計語言。取名也許源於橡木廣泛用於裝潢用材和製作家具，在於其優良的材質性能。
5. 奧克蘭國際機場：Oakland International Airport（美國）
6. 橡樹資本（Oaktree Capital）
7. 橡樹嶺（Oak Ridge）：一譯“奧克裏季”。美國田納西州東部坎伯蘭山區新興城市。第二次世界大戰中在此修建了最早的鈾分離工廠及有關科研、實驗機構。美國投到日本廣島、長崎的原子彈即在此研製。橡樹嶺國家實驗室（Oak Ridge National Laboratory）是美國能源部所屬的一個大型國家實驗室，成立於1943年，最初是作為美國曼哈頓計劃的一部分，以生產和分離鈾和鈈為主要目的建造的，原稱克林頓實驗室。
中文詞源
英文詞源
- oak
- oak: [OE] Oak is an ancient Germanic tree-name, shared by German (eiche), Dutch (eik), Swedish (ek), and Danish (eg). These point back to a common Germanic ancestor *aiks. There is no conclusive evidence of any related forms outside Germanic, however, although similarities have been noted with Greek aigílops, a term for a sort of oak tree, and Latin aesculus ‘oak sacred to Jupiter’.
Despite its passing similarity, acorn is not etymologically related. The oak was one of the commonest trees in the ancient European forests, and many terms that started out as names for it became generalized to simply ‘tree’: English tree, for instance, comes from an Indo-European ancestor that probably originally meant ‘oak’.
- oak (n.)
- Old English ac "oak tree," from Proto-Germanic *aiks (cognates: Old Norse eik, Old Saxon and Old Frisian ek, Middle Dutch eike, Dutch eik, Old High German eih, German Eiche), of uncertain origin with no certain cognates outside Germanic.
The usual Indo-European base for "oak" (*deru-) has become Modern English tree (n.); likewise in Greek and Celtic words for "oak" are from the Indo-European root for "tree," probably reflecting the importance of the oak to ancient Indo-Europeans. The Old Norse form was eik, but as there were no oaks in Iceland the word came to be used there for "tree" in general. Used in Biblical translations to render Hebrew elah (probably usually "terebinth tree") and four other words.
雙語例句
- 1. The wind was bouncing the branches of the big oak trees.
- 一棵棵高大橡樹的枝條隨風搖擺。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. He was a huge man, built like an oak tree.
- 他是個大塊頭，結實得像棵橡樹。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. Cartons of Chinese food were arrayed on a large oak table.
- 在一張寬大的橡樹桌上擺放著一盒盒中式食品。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. The rooms have a baronial feel, with oak paneling and leather sofas.
- 橡木製鑲板和皮沙發使房間看起來既豪華氣派又古色古香。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. Five cows graze serenely around a massive oak.
- 5頭奶牛在一棵大橡樹旁悠閑自在地啃著青草。
來自柯林斯例句