英语词典 · 单词释义
earth
英 [ɜːθ] 美 [ɝθ]
这里集中整理“earth”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. 地球；地表，陆地；土地，土壤；尘事，俗事；兽穴
- vt. 把（电线）[电] 接地；盖（土）；追赶入洞穴
- vi. 躲进地洞
延伸内容
词源 · 例句 · 用法词态变化
复数: earths;第三人称单数: earths;过去式: earthed;过去分词: earthed;现在分词: earthing;
中文词源
earth 地球，土地
来自PIE*er, 土地，地面，词源同ore.
英文词源
- earth
- earth: [OE] Earth comes ultimately from an Indo- European base *er-. This produced the prehistoric Germanic noun *erthō, ancestor of German erde, Dutch aarde (whence, via early Afrikaans, English aardvark [19], literally ‘earth-pig’), Swedish and Danish jord, and English earth. Related forms outside Germanic include Greek eraze ‘on the ground’ and Welsh erw ‘field’. The word’s basic range of modern senses, ‘ground’, ‘world’, and ‘soil’, all date back to the Old English period.
=> aardvark - earth (n.)
- Old English eorþe "ground, soil, dirt, dry land; country, district," also used (along with middangeard) for "the (material) world, the abode of man" (as opposed to the heavens or the underworld), from Proto-Germanic *ertho (cognates: Old Frisian erthe "earth," Old Saxon ertha, Old Norse jörð, Middle Dutch eerde, Dutch aarde, Old High German erda, German Erde, Gothic airþa), from extended form of PIE root *er- (2) "earth, ground" (cognates: Middle Irish -ert "earth"). The earth considered as a planet was so called from c. 1400. Use in old chemistry is from 1728. Earth-mover "large digging machine" is from 1940.
- earth (v.)
- "to commit (a corpse) to earth," late 14c., from earth (n.). Related: Earthed; earthing.
双语例句
- 1. I was shocked, brought down to earth by this revelation.
- 真相的披露让我深感震惊，我被带回了现实。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. They would move heaven and earth to stop me if they could.
- 可能的话，他们会千方百计地阻止我。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. Weather satellites have observed a ring of volcanic ash girdling the earth.
- 气象卫星观测到一个环绕地球的火山灰带。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. The space shuttle Atlantis returned safely to earth today.
- “亚特兰蒂斯”号航天飞机今天安全返回地球。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. The earth shook and the walls of neighbouring houses fell around them.
- 地面摇晃，周围房屋的墙体在他们身边倒塌。
来自柯林斯例句
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