beam

英 [biːm] 美 [bim]

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解释

n. 横梁；光线；电波；船宽；[计量] 秤杆
vt. 发送；以梁支撑；用…照射；流露
vi. 照射；堆满笑容
n. (Beam)人名；(阿拉伯)贝亚姆；(英)比姆

※ 提供单词"beam"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

beam 柱子，笑容满面

词源同be, 生长，存在，此处指长成柱子。笑容来自柱子的比喻义，笑容如明亮的光线束。

英文词源

beam: beam: [OE] In Old English times the word bēam (like modern German baum) meant ‘tree’ – a signification preserved in tree-names such as hornbeam and whitebeam. But already before the year 1000 the extended meanings we are familiar with today – ‘piece of timber’ and ‘ray of light’ – had started to develop. Related forms in other Germanic languages (which include, as well as German baum, Dutch boom, from which English gets boom ‘spar’ [16]) suggest a West Germanic ancestor *bauma, but beyond that all is obscure.
=> boom
beam (n.): Old English beam originally "living tree," but by late 10c. also "rafter, post, ship's timber," from Proto-Germanic *baumaz (cognates: Old Norse baðmr, Old Frisian bam "tree, gallows, beam," Middle Dutch boom, Old High German boum, German Baum "tree," Gothic bagms), perhaps from PIE verb root *bheue- "to grow" (see be). The shift from *-au- to -ea- is regular in Old English.

Meaning "ray of light" developed in Old English, probably because it was used by Bede to render Latin columna lucis, the Biblical "pillar of fire." Nautical sense of "one of the horizontal transverse timbers holding a ship together" is from early 13c., hence "greatest breadth of a ship," and slang broad in the beam "wide-hipped" (of persons). To be on the beam (1941) was originally an aviator's term for "to follow the course indicated by a radio beam."
beam (v.): "emit rays of light," early 15c., from beam (n.) in the "ray of light" sense. Sense of "to smile radiantly" is from 1804; that of "to direct radio transmissions" is from 1927. Related: Beamed; beaming.

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例句和用法

1. The lighthouse beam was quite distinct in the gathering dusk.: 灯塔的光束在渐浓的暮色中清晰可见。

2. He directed the tiny beam of light at the roof.: 他把那一小束光对准了屋顶。

3. She froze when the beam of the flashlight struck her.: 当手电筒的光照到她身上时她僵住了。

4. Fix the beam with the brackets and screws.: 把横梁用托架和螺丝固定。

5. Everything she says is a little off beam.: 她的话全都不大靠谱。