gnarled是什么意思

gnarled

英 [nɑ?ld] 美

gnarled 音“那藕的”→像那藕的→多節的

gnarled 多疙瘩的

來自輔音叢gn, 節，塊，疙瘩，詞源同knot, knoll.

gnarled: gnarled: [17] Gnarled is essentially a 19thcentury word. It is recorded once before then, in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure 1603 (‘Thy sharp and sulphurous bolt splits the unwedgable and gnarled oak’), but its modern currency is due to its adoption by early 19th-century romantic writers. It is probably a variant of knurled [17], itself a derivative of knur or knor ‘rough misshapen lump, as on a tree trunk’ [14], which is related to German knorren ‘knot, gnarled branch or trunk’.
=> knurled
gnarled (adj.): c. 1600, probably a variant of knurled, from Middle English knar "knob, knot in wood" (late 14c.), earlier "a crag, twisted rock" (early 13c.), from a general group of Germanic words that includes English knob, knock, knuckle, knoll, knurl. Gnarl (v.) "make knotty," gnarl (n.) "a knotty growth on wood," and gnarly (adj.) all seem to owe their existence in modern English to Shakespeare's use of gnarled in 1603:
Thy sharpe and sulpherous bolt Splits the vn-wedgable and gnarled Oke. ["Measure for Measure," II.ii.116]
"(Gnarled) occurs in one passage of Shakes. (for which the sole authority is the folio of 1623), whence it came into general use in the nineteenth century" [OED].

1. The tree has gnarled red branches and deep green leaves.: 這棵樹的樹枝扭曲多瘤且呈紅色，樹葉則是深綠色。

3. The fingers were gnarled, lumpy, with long, curving nails suggestive of animal claws.: 手指粗糙，關節突出，指甲又長又彎，讓人想起動物的爪子。

5. Sailor as he was, it was easy enough for him to clamber up the gnarled trunk.: 他雖說是個水手,攀上這扭曲的樹干, 倒還容易.