narrow

英 ['nærəʊ] 美 ['næro]

解释

※ 提供单词"narrow"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。

narrow 狭窄的

来自古英语nearu,狭窄的，压抑的，来自PIE*sner,弯，转，扭曲。引申词义狭窄的。

narrow: narrow: [OE] Narrow comes from a prehistoric Germanic *narwaz, whose only other modern representative is Dutch naar ‘unpleasant, sad’ (although it also occurs in Norva-sund, the Old Norse term for the ‘Straits of Gibraltar’). It is not known for certain where it comes from, but a connection has been suggested with Latin nervus ‘sinew, bowstring’ (source of English nerve) and Old High German snuor ‘string’, which might point back to an ancestral sense ‘tying together tightly’.
narrow (adj.): Old English nearu "narrow, constricted, limited; petty; causing difficulty, oppressive; strict, severe," from West Germanic *narwaz "narrowness" (cognates: Frisian nar, Old Saxon naru, Middle Dutch nare, Dutch naar); not found in other Germanic languages and of unknown origin. The narrow seas (c. 1400) were the waters between Great Britain and the continent and Ireland. Related: Narrowness.
narrow (n.): c. 1200, nearewe "narrow part, place, or thing," from narrow (adj.). Old English nearu (n.) meant "danger, distress, difficulty," also "prison, hiding place."
narrow (v.): Old English nearwian "to force in, cramp, confine; become smaller, shrink;" see narrow (adj.). Related: Narrowed; narrowing.

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3. He was criticised for being boring, strait-laced and narrow-minded.: 他被指无趣乏味，古板守旧，心胸狭窄。