gable

英 ['geɪb(ə)l] 美 ['gebl]

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解释

n. 山形墙；三角形饰物
vt. 在…上砌三角墙；在…安装三角形饰物
vi. 形成三角墙；形成三角形饰物
n. (Gable)人名；(英)盖布尔；(法)加布勒

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中文词源

gable 三角墙，山墙

来自PIE*ghebh, 叉子，词源同javelin. 因形似叉子而得名。

英文词源

gable: gable: [14] The notion underlying gable is probably of ‘topping’ or ‘surmounting’, for it has been traced back by some to prehistoric Indo-European *ghebhalā, which also produced Greek kephalé ‘head’. Its immediate source was Old Norse gafl, which gave English the form gavel, subsequently remodelled on the basis of Old French gable (itself probably borrowed originally from the Old Norse word).
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gable (n.): "end of a ridged roof cut off in a vertical plane, together with the wall from the level of the eaves to the apex," mid-14c., "a gable of a building; a facade," from Old French gable "facade, front, gable," from Old Norse gafl "gable, gable-end" (in north of England, the word probably is directly from Norse), according to Watkins, probably from Proto-Germanic *gablaz "top of a pitched roof" (cognates: Middle Dutch ghevel, Dutch gevel, Old High German gibil, German Giebel, Gothic gibla "gable"). This is traced to a PIE *ghebh-el- "head," which seems to have yielded words meaning both "fork" (such as Old English gafol, geafel, Old Saxon gafala, Dutch gaffel, Old High German gabala "pitchfork," German Gabel "fork;" Old Irish gabul "forked twig") and "head" (such as Old High German gibilla, Old Saxon gibillia "skull").
Possibly the primitive meaning of the words may have been 'top', 'vertex'; this may have given rise to the sense of 'gable', and this latter to the sense of 'fork', a gable being originally formed by two pieces of timber crossed at the top supporting the end of the roof-tree." [OED]
Related: Gabled; gables; gable-end.

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例句和用法

1. It has a dormer roof joining both gable ends.: 带天窗的斜屋顶连接着两边的山墙。

2. I don't like the ugly look of that hole in the gable.: 我不喜欢山墙上的那个难看的窟窿.

3. I am a Clark Gable nut : I have seen all his films.: 我是克拉克·盖博的影迷,我看过他演的所有影片.

4. His first job in Hollywood was as a double for Clark Gable.: 他在好莱坞的第一份工作是作为克拉克盖保的替身演员.

5. Several paintings are hanging on the gable walls of his house.: 他家的房山上挂着几幅画.