單詞
thwaite
- 開墾地
- 新開地
英文詞源
- thwaite (n.)
- "cleared land," 1620s, from Old Norse or Old Danish tveit "a clearing, meadow, paddock," literally "a cutting, cut-piece" (related to Old English twitan "to cut, cut off;" see whittle). Always a rare word and now obsolete, but frequently encountered in place names, but "It is unclear whether the base meaning was 'something cut off, detached piece of land,' or 'something cut down, felled tree' ..." [Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names].
雙語例句
- 1. Straddling this trio is the celebrated journalist himself, Marina's father, Murray Thwaite, the emperor.
- 橫跨在這三重唱之上的還是那位記者本人, 馬蓮娜的父親, 莫里斯維特, 書中的國(guó)王.
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