barrow
英['bærəʊ]
美['bæro]
- n. 搬运架，手推车；弃矿；古坟
- n. (Barrow)人名；(英、西)巴罗
词态变化
复数: barrows;
助记提示
1. 形近词：marrow, barrow, harrow, farrow, narrow.
2. harrow => h-: harvest, harry.
3. farrow => f-: pork.
4. barrow => b-: bear.
5. 这契合了马秉义提出的首辅音表词类含义的理论，其后的元音及辅音的音变、变化导致含义的分化、细化。
6. 第二层含义：*berg- (source of English barrow 'mound' and German berg 'mountain, hill') => barrow.
7. 谐音“搬喽、搬了，搬挪”
中文词源
barrow 小推车，古坟1.小推车，词源同bear, 承载，承担。
2.古坟，词源同berg，山，山丘。指古坟形如小山。
英文词源
- barrow
- barrow: [OE] Barrow for carrying things and barrow the burial mound are two distinct words in English. The barrow of wheelbarrow is related to bear ‘carry’. The Old English word, bearwe, came from the same Germanic base, *ber- or *bar-, as produced bear, and also bier. Barrow the burial mound, as erected by ancient peoples over a grave site, is related to German berg ‘mountain, hill’. The Old English word, beorg, came from prehistoric Germanic *bergaz.
=> bear, bier - barrow (n.1)
- "vehicle for carrying a load," c. 1300, barewe, probably from an unrecorded Old English *bearwe "basket, barrow," from beran "to bear, to carry" (see bear (v.)). The original had no wheel and required two persons to carry it.
- barrow (n.2)
- "mound," Old English beorg (West Saxon), berg (Anglian) "barrow, mountain, hill, mound," from Proto-Germanic *bergaz (cognates: Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Old High German berg "mountain," Old North bjarg "rock"), from PIE root *bhergh- (2) "high, elevated" (cognates: Old Church Slavonic bregu "mountain, height;" Old Irish brigh "mountain;" Welsh bera "stack, pyramid;" Sanskrit b'rhant "high," brmhati "strengthens, elevates;" Avestan brzant- "high," Old Persian bard- "be high;" Greek Pergamos, name of the citadel of Troy). Obsolete except in place-names and southwest England dialect by 1400; revived by modern archaeology.
In place-names used of small continuously curving hills, smaller than a dun, with the summit typically occupied by a single farmstead or by a village church with the village beside the hill, and also of burial mounds. [Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names]
Meaning "mound erected over a grave" was a specific sense in late Old English. Barrow-wight first recorded 1869 in Eirikr Magnusson and William Morris's translation of the Icelandic saga of Grettir the Strong.
双语例句
- 1. The old man lifted the barrow and trundled it away.
- 那个老头提起手推车，慢慢推走了。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. Barrow had an inquisitive nature.
- 巴罗天生就爱打听别人隐私。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. Pomeroy was a cockney barrow-boy at heart.
- 波默罗伊本质上就是个伦敦街头小贩。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. I usually dig in a small barrow load of compost in late summer.
- 夏末时节，我通常会把一小车堆肥施到土里。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. A young man was bending low to push a heavily loaded barrow up a slope.
- 一个年轻人正弓着背把一辆重载的小车推上斜坡.
来自《简明英汉词典》