burly

英 ['bɜːlɪ] 美 ['bɝli]

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※ 提供单词"burly"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。

burly 高大强壮的

词源不详。可能来自PIE *bhergh, 高，高山，同burg, 城堡。

burly: burly: [13] Burly has come down in the world over the centuries. Originally it meant ‘excellent, noble, stately’, and it appears to come from an unrecorded Old English adjective *būrlic, literally ‘bowerly’ – that is, ‘fit to frequent a lady’s apartment’. Gradually, connotations of ‘stoutness’ and ‘sturdiness’ began to take over, and by the 15th century the modern ‘heavily built’ had become well established.
=> boor, booth, bower
burly (adj.): c. 1300, perhaps from Old English burlic "noble, stately," literally "bowerly," fit to frequent a lady's apartment (see bower). Sense descended through "stout," and "sturdy" by 15c. to "heavily built." Another theory connects the Old English word to Old High German burlih "lofty, exalted," related to burjan "to raise, lift."

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2. The burly brute swaggered forward, towering over me, and shouted.: 五大三粗的恶汉趾高气扬地走过来，居高临下地对我咆哮着。

3. No one expects him to get involved in the hurly-burly of campaigning.: 谁也没有料到他会加入到乱哄哄的竞选活动。

5. He has remained largely aloof from the hurly - burly of parliamentary politics.: 他基本上一直对喧嚣的议会政治漠不关心.