herring
英 ['her??]
美 ['h?r??]
- n. 鯡（又稱青魚）
- n. (Herring)人名；(英)赫林
助記提示
1. hare (grey animal): 取名自它的顏色，野兔皮毛基本上都是呈灰色、灰白色的。
2. herring (grey fish): 取名自它的顏色，鯡魚的顏色都是灰色、灰白色的。
3. hare, herring => hoar, hoary.
4. perhaps related to or influenced in form by Old English har "gray, hoar," from the color, or to Old High German heri "host, multitude" from its large schools.
5. 鯡魚戰役（Battle of Herrings），又稱鯡魚之戰是1429年2月12日發生在法國奧爾良北部的軍事行動，此時正奧爾良之圍期間。
中文詞源
herring 鯡魚來自古英語har,灰白色，詞源同hoar.因這種魚灰白色的顏色而得名。
英文詞源
- herring
- herring: [OE] Just as the hare is probably the ‘grey animal’, so the herring could well be the ‘grey fish’. Old English h?ring goes back to a prehistoric West Germanic *khēringgaz, in which the first syllable could represent the ancestor of English hoar ‘silvery-grey’ – the colour of the herring. French hareng comes from a variant of the West Germanic word.
=> hare, hoar - herring (n.)
- Old English hering (Anglian), h?ring (West Saxon), from West Germanic *heringgaz (cognates: Old Frisian hereng, Middle Dutch herinc, German Hering), of unknown origin, perhaps related to or influenced in form by Old English har "gray, hoar," from the color, or to Old High German heri "host, multitude" from its large schools.
French hareng, Italian aringa are from Germanic. The Battle of the Herrings (French bataille des harengs) is the popular name for the battle at Rouvrai, Feb. 12, 1492, fought in defense of a convoy of provisions, mostly herrings and other "lenten stuffe."
雙語例句
- 1. The young of some kinds of herring are canned as sardines.
- 有些種類的鯡魚幼魚可制成罐頭.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 2. Smoked herring is a local delicacy.
- 煙熏鯡魚是當地一種美味食品.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 3. Thousands of herring and crab are washed up on the beaches during every storm.
- 每次暴風雨過后海灘上都會留下數不盡的鯡魚和螃蟹。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. As Dr Smith left he said that the inquiry was something of a red herring.
- 史密斯博士離開時說這次調查只是為掩人耳目。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. The warden took us to a vantage point on the slopes where we saw herring gulls on the rocks below.
- 管理員把我們帶到斜坡上的一處有利位置，我們從那里看到了下面巖石上的銀鷗。
來自柯林斯例句