英语词典 · 单词释义
burly
英 ['bɜːlɪ] 美 ['bɝli]
这里集中整理“burly”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。
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词义详解
翻译 · 词源 · 例句- adj. 结实的；率直的；粗鲁的
延伸内容
词源 · 例句 · 用法词态变化
比较级: burlier;最高级: burliest;
中文词源
burly 高大强壮的
词源不详。可能来自PIE *bhergh, 高，高山，同burg, 城堡。
英文词源
- burly
- burly: [13] Burly has come down in the world over the centuries. Originally it meant ‘excellent, noble, stately’, and it appears to come from an unrecorded Old English adjective *būrlic, literally ‘bowerly’ – that is, ‘fit to frequent a lady’s apartment’. Gradually, connotations of ‘stoutness’ and ‘sturdiness’ began to take over, and by the 15th century the modern ‘heavily built’ had become well established.
=> boor, booth, bower - burly (adj.)
- c. 1300, perhaps from Old English burlic "noble, stately," literally "bowerly," fit to frequent a lady's apartment (see bower). Sense descended through "stout," and "sturdy" by 15c. to "heavily built." Another theory connects the Old English word to Old High German burlih "lofty, exalted," related to burjan "to raise, lift."
双语例句
- 1. Three burly toughs elbowed their way to the front.
- 三个膀粗腰圆的恶汉挤到了前面。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. The burly brute swaggered forward, towering over me, and shouted.
- 五大三粗的恶汉趾高气扬地走过来，居高临下地对我咆哮着。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. No one expects him to get involved in the hurly-burly of campaigning.
- 谁也没有料到他会加入到乱哄哄的竞选活动。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. He was a big, burly man.
- 他高大魁梧。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. He has remained largely aloof from the hurly - burly of parliamentary politics.
- 他基本上一直对喧嚣的议会政治漠不关心.
来自《简明英汉词典》
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