bill

英 [bɪl] 美 [bɪl]

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解释

n. [法] 法案；广告；账单；[金融] 票据；钞票；清单
vt. 宣布；开账单；用海报宣传

※ 提供单词"bill"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

bill 帐单，法案，鸟喙

1.法案，词源同ball, 球，此处指小蜡球。指旧时官方文件通常用封蜡封印，代指官方文件。

2.鸟喙，来自PIE *bheie, 砍，劈，可能同bite, boat.

英文词源

bill: bill: There are three distinct words bill in English (not counting the proper name), and of them all, the most recent is the commonest. Bill ‘note of charges’ [14] comes from Anglo-Latin billa, which is probably a variant of Latin bulla ‘_document, seal’ (as in ‘papal bull’). English billet [15], as in ‘billeting soldiers on a house’, was originally a diminutive form of billa (French billet ‘letter’ comes from the same source). Bill ‘hook-bladed weapon’ [OE], now found mainly in billhook, comes from a prehistoric West Germanic *bilja, which may be based ultimately on Indo-European *bhid-, source of English bite. Bill ‘beak’ [OE] may be related to bill ‘weapon’, but this is not clear.

The verbal sense ‘caress’, as in ‘bill and coo’, is 16th-century; it arose from the courting behaviour of doves stroking each other’s beaks.
=> billet
bill (n.1): "written statement," mid-14c., from Anglo-French bille, Anglo-Latin billa "list," from Medieval Latin bulla "decree, seal, sealed document," in classical Latin "bubble, boss, stud, amulet for the neck" (hence "seal;" see bull (n.2)). Sense of "account, invoice" first recorded c. 1400; that of "order to pay" (technically bill of exchange) is from 1570s; that of "paper money" is from 1660s. Meaning "draft of an act of Parliament" is from 1510s.
bill (n.2): "bird's beak," Old English bill "bill, bird's beak," related to bill, a poetic word for a kind of sword (especially one with a hooked blade), from a common Germanic word for cutting or chopping weapons (compare Old High German bihal, Old Norse bilda "hatchet," Old Saxon bil "sword"), from PIE root *bheie- "to cut, to strike" (cognates: Armenian bir "cudgel," Greek phitos "block of wood," Old Church Slavonic biti "to strike," Old Irish biail "ax"). Used also in Middle English of beak-like projections of land (such as Portland Bill).
bill (v.): "to send someone a bill of charge," 1864, from bill (n.1). Related: Billed; billing.
bill (n.3): ancient weapon, Old English bill "sword (especially one with a hooked blade), chopping tool," common Germanic (compare Old Saxon bil "sword," Middle Dutch bile, Dutch bijl, Old High German bihal, German Beil, Old Norse bilda "hatchet." See bill (n.2).

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例句和用法

1. You have to pay your outstanding bill before joining the scheme.: 在参加该项目之前必须结清余账。

2. The waiter returned with their order and Graham signed the bill.: 侍者把他们点的餐端了过来，格雷厄姆签了单。

3. The administration has now endorsed the bill and can't turn back.: 政府部门如今已经签署了那项法案，没有挽回的余地。

4. It's been 200 years since the passage of the Bill of Rights.: 《人权法案》通过已经200年了。

5. Come on, Bill. Send Tom a card and make his day.: 来吧，比尔。给汤姆寄张卡片让他高兴高兴吧。