bald

英 [bɔːld] 美 [bɔld]

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解释

adj. 秃顶的；光秃的；单调的；无装饰的
vi. 变秃
n. (Bald)人名；(英)鲍尔德；(德、法、波)巴尔德

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中文词源

bald 秃头

来自PIE *bhel(1), 发光，词源同blank, blanch.

英文词源

bald: bald: [14] In Middle English times, bald was ballede, which suggests that it may have been a compound formed in Old English with the suffix -ede ‘characterized by, having’. It has been conjectured that the first element in the compound was Old English *ball-, meaning ‘white patch’ or ‘blaze’ on an animal’s head; this may be supported by isolated examples of the use of the adjective to mean (of a horse) ‘whitefaced’ from the 16th to the 18th centuries, and by the obsolete dialectal ball meaning both ‘white patch on the head’ and ‘white-faced horse’.

This would have produced the Old English adjective *bællede or *beallede, which, from ‘having a white blaze’, progressed naturally in meaning to ‘hairless’. The compounds piebald [16] and skewbald [17] are both based on bald: piebald means ‘having black and white patches like a magpie’, while skewbald may be based on Middle English skew ‘(cloudy) skies’ or on Old French escu ‘shield’.
=> piebald, skewbald
bald (adj.): c. 1300, ballede, probably, with Middle English -ede adjectival suffix + Celtic bal "white patch, blaze" especially on the head of a horse or other animal (from PIE root *bhel- (1) "to shine, flash, gleam;" see bleach (v.)). Compare, from the same root, Sanskrit bhalam "brightness, forehead," Greek phalos "white," Latin fulcia "coot" (so called for the white patch on its head), Albanian bale "forehead." But connection with ball (n.1), on notion of "smooth, round" also has been suggested. Bald eagle first attested 1680s; so called for its white head.

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例句和用法

1. He was short and bald and had a moustache.: 他个头不高，秃顶，留着八字胡。

2. The announcement came in a bald statement from the official news agency.: 官方通讯社发表了直截了当的声明。

3. The bald truth is he's just not happy.: 事实明摆着，他就是不开心。

4. His toupee dropped off, revealing his bald head.: 他的假发掉了，露出了光头。

5. I'm going bald.: 我开始秃头了。