yarn
英 [jɑ?n]
美[jɑn]
- n. 紗線；奇談，故事
- vt. 用紗線纏
- vi. 講故事
常用詞匯低頻詞TOEFLGREIELTSTEM4CET6+
詞態變化
復數:?yarns;
中文詞源
yarn 紗線
來自PIE*ghere,腸，腸線，詞源同chord,cord,hernia.引申詞義紗線。比較catgut.
英文詞源
- yarn
- yarn: [OE] Yarn comes from prehistoric Germanic *garn-, which also produced German, Swedish, and Danish garn and Dutch garen. This in turn went back to an Indo-European base whose other descendants include Greek khordé ‘string’ (source of English chord, cord). The sailors’ expression spin a yarn ‘tell a story’ led in the 19th century to the use of yarn for ‘story, tale’.
=> chord, cord - yarn (n.)
- Old English gearn "spun fiber, spun wool," from Proto-Germanic *garnan (cognates: Old Norse, Old High German, German garn, Middle Dutch gaern, Dutch garen "yarn"), from PIE root *ghere- "intestine, gut, entrail" (cognates: Old Norse gorn "gut," Sanskrit hira "vein; entrails," Latin hernia "rupture," Greek khorde "intestine, gut-string," Lithuanian zarna "gut"). The phrase to spin a yarn "to tell a story" is first attested 1812, from a sailors' expression, on notion of telling stories while engaged in sedentary work such as yarn-twisting.
雙語例句
- 1. Craft Resources also sells yarn and embroidery floss.
- 工藝人員服務公司也售賣紗線和繡花絲線。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. His grandmother spun him a yarn at the fire.
- 他奶奶在火爐邊給他講故事.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 3. Don't give me some cooked - up yarn!
- 不要講編造的故事給我聽!
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》
- 4. I stopped to have a yarn with him.
- 我停下來跟他聊天.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》
- 5. Men yarn of the harbour's famous pilots.
- 人們常講該港口的一些著名領港員的故事.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》