barrow

英 ['bærəʊ] 美 ['bæro]

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解释

n. 搬运架，手推车；弃矿；古坟
n. (Barrow)人名；(英、西)巴罗

※ 提供单词"barrow"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

中文词源

barrow 小推车，古坟

1.小推车，词源同bear, 承载，承担。

2.古坟，词源同berg，山，山丘。指古坟形如小山。

英文词源

barrow: barrow: [OE] Barrow for carrying things and barrow the burial mound are two distinct words in English. The barrow of wheelbarrow is related to bear ‘carry’. The Old English word, bearwe, came from the same Germanic base, *ber- or *bar-, as produced bear, and also bier. Barrow the burial mound, as erected by ancient peoples over a grave site, is related to German berg ‘mountain, hill’. The Old English word, beorg, came from prehistoric Germanic *bergaz.
=> bear, bier
barrow (n.1): "vehicle for carrying a load," c. 1300, barewe, probably from an unrecorded Old English *bearwe "basket, barrow," from beran "to bear, to carry" (see bear (v.)). The original had no wheel and required two persons to carry it.
barrow (n.2): "mound," Old English beorg (West Saxon), berg (Anglian) "barrow, mountain, hill, mound," from Proto-Germanic *bergaz (cognates: Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Old High German berg "mountain," Old North bjarg "rock"), from PIE root *bhergh- (2) "high, elevated" (cognates: Old Church Slavonic bregu "mountain, height;" Old Irish brigh "mountain;" Welsh bera "stack, pyramid;" Sanskrit b'rhant "high," brmhati "strengthens, elevates;" Avestan brzant- "high," Old Persian bard- "be high;" Greek Pergamos, name of the citadel of Troy). Obsolete except in place-names and southwest England dialect by 1400; revived by modern archaeology.
In place-names used of small continuously curving hills, smaller than a dun, with the summit typically occupied by a single farmstead or by a village church with the village beside the hill, and also of burial mounds. [Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names]
Meaning "mound erected over a grave" was a specific sense in late Old English. Barrow-wight first recorded 1869 in Eirikr Magnusson and William Morris's translation of the Icelandic saga of Grettir the Strong.

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例句和用法

1. The old man lifted the barrow and trundled it away.: 那个老头提起手推车，慢慢推走了。

2. Barrow had an inquisitive nature.: 巴罗天生就爱打听别人隐私。

3. Pomeroy was a cockney barrow-boy at heart.: 波默罗伊本质上就是个伦敦街头小贩。

4. I usually dig in a small barrow load of compost in late summer.: 夏末时节，我通常会把一小车堆肥施到土里。

5. A young man was bending low to push a heavily loaded barrow up a slope.: 一个年轻人正弓着背把一辆重载的小车推上斜坡.