thrush: Thrush the bird [OE] and thrush the disease [17] are presumably different words, although the origins of the latter are obscure. The bird-name goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *thruskjōn, and has relatives in Latin turdus ‘thrush’ (source of English sturdy), German drossel ‘thrush’, and the now archaic English throstle ‘thrush’. The first record we have of thrush the disease is in Samuel Pepys’s diary, for 17 June 1665: ‘He hath a fever, a thrush, and a hickup’. It may have been of Scandinavian origin (Danish has troske for a similar disease).
thrush (n.1)
type of songbird, Old English þræsce, variant of þrysce, from Proto-Germanic *thruskjon (cognates: Old Norse þröstr, Norwegian trost, Old High German drosca), from PIE *trozdo- (cognates: Latin turdus, Lithuainian strazdas "thrush," Middle Irish truid, Welsh drudwy "starling," Old Church Slavonic drozgu, Russian drozdu).
thrush (n.2)
throat disease, 1660s, probably from a Scandinavian source (such as Norwegian, Danish trøske, Swedish torsk), but its roots and original meaning are unclear.
雙語例句
1. A thrush alighted on a branch of the pine tree.
一隻鶇落在鬆樹的樹枝上。
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2. That's the wise thrush ; he sings each song twice over.
聰明的 鶇鳥 在那兒唱,把每隻歌都唱兩遍.
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3. Using a spacer will also help reduce the possibility of thrush.
利用儲藥罐也會減少發生鵝口瘡的可能.
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4. A condition in horses similar to but more advanced than thrush.
馬的疽瘍''.'症'. ''馬的類似於蹄間腐爛但較之更為嚴重的一種病況.
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5. The singing voice of Japanese Thrush was heard in the forest.