英语词典 · 单词释义
river
英 ['rɪvə] 美 ['rɪvɚ]
这里集中整理“river”的音标、翻译、词源、例句和近反义词，方便快速确认词义并顺手做词汇积累。
单词速览
词义详解
翻译 · 词源 · 例句- n. 河，江
- n. (River)人名；(英)里弗
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词源 · 例句 · 用法词态变化
复数: rivers;
助记提示
1. rive => river.
2. rip => riv- + -er => river.
3. 因为河流是由地表形成的裂缝，然后水流沿着地表裂缝川流不息地流动而形成的。
4. 或者直接说河流将陆地表面分割、割裂开了。
2. rip => riv- + -er => river.
3. 因为河流是由地表形成的裂缝，然后水流沿着地表裂缝川流不息地流动而形成的。
4. 或者直接说河流将陆地表面分割、割裂开了。
中文词源
river 河，江
来自古法语 riviere,河边，河岸，来自拉丁语 riparius,岩边的，来自 ripa,河岸，海滨，来自 PIE*rei, 撕开，劈，砍，词源同 rift,riven,riparian.后引申词义河流，江河。该词不与 rival 同源，但词 义相混淆。
英文词源
- river
- river: [13] Etymologically, the term river denotes the ‘banks’ of a river, rather than the water that flows between them. Its distant ancestor is Latin rīpa ‘bank’. From this was derived the adjective rīpārius (source of English riparian ‘of a riverbank’ [19]), whose feminine form came to be used in Vulgar Latin as a noun, *rīpāria, denoting ‘land by the water’s edge’.
From it evolved Italian riviera ‘bank’ (whence English Riviera [18]) and Old French riviere. This originally meant ‘river bank’, but this subsequently developed to ‘river’, the sense in which English adopted the word. A heavily disguised English relative is arrive, which etymologically denotes ‘come to the shore’.
=> arrive, riparian, riviera - river (n.)
- early 13c., from Anglo-French rivere, Old French riviere "river, riverside, river bank" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *riparia "riverbank, seashore, river" (source also of Spanish ribera, Italian riviera), noun use of fem. of Latin riparius "of a riverbank" (see riparian). Generalized sense of "a copious flow" of anything is from late 14c. The Old English word was ea "river," cognate with Gothic ahwa, Latin aqua (see aqua-). Romanic cognate words tend to retain the sense "river bank" as the main one, or else the secondary Latin sense "coast of the sea" (compare Riviera).
U.S. slang phrase up the river "in prison" (1891) is originally in reference to Sing Sing prison, which was literally "up the (Hudson) river" from New York City. Phrase down the river "done for, finished" perhaps echoes sense in sell down the river (1851), originally of troublesome slaves, to sell from the Upper South to the harsher cotton plantations of the Deep South.
双语例句
- 1. The river widens considerably as it begins to turn east.
- 河流转向东流时河道大幅度变宽。
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- 2. It's easy to get a tummy upset from river water.
- 喝河水很容易闹肚子。
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- 3. Across the river the railway track ran up to the pithead.
- 铁轨跨过这条河直达矿井口。
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- 4. Perhaps he'd followed her suggestion of a stroll to the river.
- 也许他已经听从了她的建议去河边散步了。
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- 5. At Dorset Wharf go left to rejoin the river.
- 在多塞特码头向左返回河道。
来自柯林斯例句
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