英语词源

• bluff 英文词源 bluff bluff: English has two words bluff , one or perhaps both of them of Dutch origin. The older, ‘hearty’ [17], originally referred to ships, and meant ‘having a flat vertical bow’. This nautical association suggests a Dutch provenance, though no thoroughly convincing source has been found. The sense ‘flat, vertical, (and broad)’ came to be applied to land features, such
• Bluetooth 英文词源 Bluetooth "A standard for the short-range wireless interconnection of mobile phones, computers, and other electronic devices", 1990s: said to be named after King Harald Bluetooth (910–85), credited with uniting Denmark and Norway, as Bluetooth technology unifies the telecommunications and computing industries. 中文词源 Bluetooth ：蓝牙 来自十世纪丹麦国王的别称Hara
• blue-on-blue 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random piston piston: [18] The Latin verb pinsere meant ‘beat, pound’. Its past participial stem pist - formed the basis for the noun pistillum ‘grinding stick, pestle’ (from which English gets pistil ‘female flower part’ [18], an allusion to its shape). This passed into Italian as pestello , from which English gets pestle
• blue law 英文词源 blue laws 1781, severe Puritanical code said to have been enacted 18c. in New Haven, Connecticut; of uncertain origin, perhaps from one of the ground senses behind blues, or from notion of coldness. Or perhaps connected to bluestocking in the sense of "puritanically plain or mean" (see bluestocking , which is a different application of the same term; the parliament of 1653 was derisiv
• blue-chip 英文词源 blue-chip "Denoting companies or their shares considered to be a reliable investment, though less secure than gilt-edged stock", Early 20th century (originally US): from the blue chip used in gambling games, which usually has a high value. 中文词源 blue-chip ：蓝筹的 来自于历史上赌场筹码的颜色，如果白筹值1美元，则红筹值5美元，蓝筹值25美元。 该
• blue-blooded 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random throw throw: [OE] Old English thrāwan meant ‘twist, turn’. It came from a prehistoric Germanic * thrējan , which also produced German drehen ‘turn’. This in turn went back to the Indo- European base * ter -, whose other descendants include Greek teírein ‘wear out’, Latin terere ‘rub’ (source of English attriti
• bludgeon 英文词源 bludgeon (v.) 1802, from earlier noun bludgeon "short club" (1730), which is of unknown origin. Related: Bludgeoned ; bludgeoning . bludgeon (n.) "short club," 1730, of unknown origin. 中文词源 bludgeon ：短棍 词源不详。可能同bole, 树干。-on, 小词后缀。-dge, 模仿budge, dodge, judge, nudge等。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： bludgeon 词源
• bludge 英文词源 bludge (v.) "shirk responsibility," 1919, Australian and New Zealand slang, earlier "be a prostitute's pimp," from bludger "pimp." 中文词源 bludge ：乞讨 来自bludgeon的逆构词，原指威逼利诱。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： bludge 词源， bludge 含义。
• blubber 英文词源 blubber blubber: [14] The original notion underlying blubber is of ‘bubbling’ or ‘foaming’, particularly in relation to the sea, and it may, like bubble itself, be an onomatopoeic creation, imitative of the sound of spluttering or popping water. This sense died out in the mainstream language in the 16th century (though it survived longer dialectally), but it lies behind the ve
• blub 英文词源 blub (n.) "fit of weeping," 1894, imitative. As a verb by 1843. Related: Blubbed ; blubbing . 中文词源 blub ：哭泣 拟声词。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： blub 词源， blub 含义。
• blow 英文词源 blow blow: There are three distinct blows in English. The commonest, the verb ‘send out air’ [OE], can be traced back to an Indo-European base * bhlā -. It came into English (as Old English blāwan ) via Germanic * blǣ -, source also of bladder . The Indo-European base also produced Latin flāre ‘blow’, from which English gets flatulent and inflate . The other verb blow , ‘
• bloviate 英文词源 bloviate (v.) 1857, American English, a Midwestern word for "to talk aimlessly and boastingly; to indulge in 'high falutin'," according to Farmer (1890), who seems to have been the only British lexicographer to notice it. He says it was based on blow (v.) on the model of deviate , etc. It seems to have been felt as outdated slang already by late 19c. ("It was a leasure for him to hear
• blouson 英文词源 blouson "A short loose-fitting jacket, typically bloused and finishing at the waist", Early 20th century: from French, diminutive of blouse. 中文词源 blouson ：束腰短上衣 blouse的小词。-on，小词后缀。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： blouson 词源， blouson 含义。
• blouse 英文词源 blouse (n.) 1828 (from 1822 as a French word in English), from French blouse , "workman's or peasant's smock" (1788), origin unknown. Perhaps akin to Provençal (lano) blouso "short (wool)" [Gamillscheg]. Another suggestion [Klein] is that it is from Medieval Latin pelusia , from Pelusium , a city in Upper Egypt, supposedly a clothing manufacturing center in the Middle Ages. In Paris,
• blotto 英文词源 blotto (adj.) "drunk," c. 1905, from some signification of blot (v.) in its "soak up liquid" meaning. 中文词源 blotto ：烂醉 来自blot, 形容喝醉酒后的惨状。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： blotto 词源， blotto 含义。
• blot 英文词源 blot (n.) late 14c., originally "blemish," perhaps from Old Norse blettr "blot, stain," or from Old French blot , variant of bloc "block," or blestre "blister, lump, clump of earth." blot (v.) early 15c., "to make blots;" mid-15c. "to blot out, obliterate" (words), from blot (n.). Related: Blotted ; blotting . 中文词源 blot ：污渍，墨渍 词源不确定，可能同blemish, 污渍
• blossom 英文词源 blossom blossom: [OE] Blossom probably comes ultimately from an Indo-European base * bhlōs -, which was also the source of Latin flōs , from which English gets flower . It seems reasonable to suppose, in view of the semantic connections, that this * bhlōs - was an extended form of * bhlō -, from which English gets blade , bloom , and the now archaic verb blow ‘come into flower’
• bloop 英文词源 bloop (n.) 1931, from bloop (v.), 1926, a word from the early days of radio (see blooper ). Related: Blooped ; blooping . 中文词源 bloop ：出错，出丑 拟声词，模仿电台信号噪音，后指其它尴尬的错误。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： bloop 词源， bloop 含义。
• bloomers 英文词源 bloomers (n.) 1851, named for U.S. feminist reformer Amelia Jenks Bloomer (1818-1894), who promoted them. The surname is attested from c. 1200, said to mean literally "iron-worker," from Old English bloma (see bloom (n.2)). 中文词源 bloomers ：灯笼裤 来自美国19世纪女权运动领导者Amelia Bloomer 的名字，其促进了灯笼裤在美国的流行。某种程度上灯笼
• bloom 英文词源 bloom bloom: [13] The Old English word for ‘flower’ was the probably related blossom , and English did not acquire bloom until the 13th century, when it borrowed it from Old Norse blómi . This came from Germanic * blōmon , a derivative of the Indo-European * bhlō - which also produced Latin flōs (whence English flower ), the now archaic English verb blow ‘come into flower’
• blood 英文词源 blood blood: [OE] Blood is a Germanic word, occurring as German blut , Dutch bloed , Swedish blod , etc. as well as in English (the Romance languages take their words from Latin sanguis , whence English sanguine [14], while Greek had haima , as in English haemorrhage , haemoglobin , etc). The ultimate source of all these was Germanic * blōtham , a derivative of which, * blōthjan , p
• blonde 英文词源 blonde late 15c.; see blond (adj.). 中文词源 blonde ：金发女郎 词源同blend, 混合。指金色和棕色的混合颜色。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： blonde 词源， blonde 含义。
• bloke 英文词源 bloke (n.) "fellow," 1851, London slang, of unknown origin, perhaps from Celtic ploc "large, stubborn person;" another suggestion is Romany (Gypsy) and Hindi loke "a man." 中文词源 bloke ：家伙 词源不详。可能来自block的变体，指大块头的家伙。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： bloke 词源， bloke 含义。
• blog 英文词源 blog (n.) 1998, short for weblog (which is attested from 1994, though not in the sense "online journal"), from (World Wide) Web + log . Joe Bloggs (c. 1969) was British slang for "any hypothetical person" (compare U.S. equivalent Joe Blow ); earlier blog meant "a servant boy" in one of the college houses (c. 1860, see Partridge, who describes this use as a "perversion of bloke "), and
• blockbuster 英文词源 blockbuster (n.) also block-buster , big bomb (4,000 pounds or larger, according to some sources), 1942, from block (n.) in the "built-up city square" sense. Entertainment sense is attested from 1957. U.S. sense of "real estate broker who sells a house to a black family on an all-white neighborhood," thus sparking an exodus, is from 1955. 中文词源 blockbuster ：一鸣惊人的事物
• block 英文词源 block block: [14] English borrowed block from Old French bloc , but its ultimate origin appears to be Germanic; French acquired it from Middle Dutch blok ‘tree trunk’. The derived verb block ‘impede’ first crops up in the early 15th century, but was not established until the later 16th century; it originally meant ‘put blocks [of wood] or obstacles in the way of’. Blockade
• bloc 英文词源 bloc (n.) 1903, in reference to alliances in Continental politics, from French bloc "group, block," from Old French bloc "piece of wood" (see block (n.)). 中文词源 bloc ：国家集团 来自block的变体。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： bloc 词源， bloc 含义。
• blob 英文词源 blob (n.) "drop, globule," 1725, from a verb meaning "to make or mark with blobs" (early 15c.), perhaps related to bubble . The same word was used 16c. in a sense "bubble, blister." 中文词源 blob ：一滴 词源同ball, 小球。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： blob 词源， blob 含义。
• bloat 英文词源 bloat bloat: [13] Bloat has a confused and uncertain history. It seems first to have appeared on the scene in the 13th century as an adjective, blout , meaning ‘soft, flabby’, a probable borrowing from Old Norse blautr ‘soft from being cooked with liquid’. This occurs only once, and does not resurface until the early 17th century, in Hamlet as it happens, as blowt : ‘Let the
• blitzkrieg 英文词源 blitzkrieg (n.) "rapid attack," 1939, from German Blitzkrieg , from Blitz "lightning" (from Middle High German blicze , back-formation from bliczen "to flash," from Old High German blecchazzen "to flash, lighten" (8c.), from Proto-Germanic *blikkatjan , from PIE root *bhel- (1) "to shine, flash, burn;" see bleach (v.)) + Krieg "war" (see kriegspiel ). 中文词源 blitzkrieg ：闪电站
• blister 英文词源 blister blister: [13] Blister and its now extinct variant blester first appear in English at the end of the 13th century, possibly borrowed from Old French blestre , blostre . It seems that this in turn may have come from Middle Dutch bluyster ‘swelling’, but further back than that it has not proved possible to trace the word. blister (n.) c. 1300, perhaps via Old French blestre "
• blip 英文词源 blip (n.) 1894, in reference to a kind of popping sound, of echoic origin. Radar screen sense is from 1945. As a verb from 1924. Related: Blipped ; blipping . 中文词源 blip ：变故，短促尖声 拟声词。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： blip 词源， blip 含义。
• blinking 英文词源 blink (v.) 1580s, perhaps from Middle Dutch blinken "to glitter," which is of uncertain origin, possibly, with German blinken "to gleam, sparkle, twinkle," from a nasalized form of base found in Old English blican "to shine, glitter" (see bleach (v.)). Middle English had blynke (c. 1300) in the sense "a brief gleam or spark," perhaps a variant of blench "to move suddenly or sharply; t
• blinkered 英文词源 blinkered (adj.) in the figurative sense, 1867, from horses wearing blinkers to limit the range of their vision (see blinker ). 中文词源 blinkered ：目光狭窄的 来自blinker, 指马戴上眼罩后只能向前看，因而目光狭窄。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： blinkered 词源， blinkered 含义。
• blinker 英文词源 blinker (n.) 1630s, "one who blinks," agent noun from blink (v.). As a type of horse eye screen to keep the animal looking straight ahead, from 1789. Slang meaning "the eye" is from 1816. Meaning "intermittent flashing light" is from 1923. 中文词源 blinker ：马眼罩 来自blink, 眨眼。后指戴在马眼睛上的罩子。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：
• blink 英文词源 blink (v.) 1580s, perhaps from Middle Dutch blinken "to glitter," which is of uncertain origin, possibly, with German blinken "to gleam, sparkle, twinkle," from a nasalized form of base found in Old English blican "to shine, glitter" (see bleach (v.)). Middle English had blynke (c. 1300) in the sense "a brief gleam or spark," perhaps a variant of blench "to move suddenly or sharply; t
• blini 英文词源 blini "Pancakes made from buckwheat flour and served with sour cream", Russian (plural). 中文词源 blini ：俄式薄煎饼 来自俄语。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： blini 词源， blini 含义。
• bling 英文词源 bling (n.) also bling-bling , by 1997, U.S. rap slang, "wealth, expensive accessories," a sound suggestive of the glitter of jewels and precious metals (compare German blinken "to gleam, sparkle"). 中文词源 bling ：闪亮的装饰 拟声词，指金属装饰相互碰撞发出的声音。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： bling 词源， bling 含义。
• blind trust 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random pursue pursue: [13] Pursue is first cousin to prosecute . Both go back ultimately to Latin prōsequī ‘follow up, pursue’. This led fairly directly to English prosecute , but it also seems to have had a Vulgar Latin descendant * prōsequere , which passed into English via Old French porsivre and Anglo-Norman pursuer as pursu
• blindfold 英文词源 blindfold blindfold: [16] The original term for covering someone’s eyes with a bandage was blindfell [OE], which survived until the 16th century. This meant literally ‘strike someone blind’, the second element being the fell of ‘felling trees’. It appears that its past form, blindfelled , came to be mistaken for a present form, and this, together with some perceived connecti
• blind 英文词源 blind blind: [OE] The connotations of the ultimate ancestor of blind , Indo-European * bhlendhos , seem to have been not so much ‘sightlessness’ as ‘confusion’ and ‘obscurity’. The notion of someone wandering around in actual or mental darkness, not knowing where to go, naturally progressed to the ‘inability to see’. Related words that fit this pattern are blunder , po
• blimp 英文词源 blimp blimp: [20] The original blimp was a sort of small non-rigid military airship used in World War I. Its name is said to have come from its official designation as ‘type B (limp)’ (as opposed to ‘type A (rigid)’). Its rotund flaccidity suggested it in 1934 to the cartoonist David Low (1891– 1963) as a name for a character he had invented, a fat pompous ex-army officer (i
• blimey 英文词源 blimey by 1889, probably a corruption of (God) blind me! First attested in a slang dictionary which defines it as "an apparently meaningless, abusive term." 中文词源 blimey ：天啦 来自感叹词god blind me. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： blimey 词源， blimey 含义。
• Blighty 英文词源 blighty blighty: [20] Blighty is a legacy of British rule in India. Originally a term used by British soldiers serving in India for ‘home, Britain’, it is an anglicization of Hindi bilāyatī , which meant ‘foreign’, and particularly ‘European’. This was actually a borrowing from Arabic wilāyat ‘district, country’, which was independently acquired by English in the 19
• blend 英文词源 blend blend: [13] Old English had a verb blendan , but it meant ‘make blind’ or ‘dazzle’. Modern English blend appears to come from blend -, the present stem of Old Norse blanda ‘mix’ (a relative of Old English blandan ‘mix’). The ultimate source of this is not clear, but it does not seem to be restricted to Germanic (Lithuanian has the adjective blandus ‘thick’ in
• blench 英文词源 blench (v.) Old English blencan "deceive, cheat," from Proto-Germanic *blenk- "to shine, dazzle, blind," from PIE root *bhel- (1) "to shine, flash, burn" (see bleach (v.)). Sense of "move suddenly, wince, dodge" is from c. 1300. Related: Blenched ; blenching . 中文词源 blench ：惊悸 词源同bleach, 漂白。指由于惊悸而脸色苍白。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词
• bleep 英文词源 bleep (n.) "electronic noise," 1953, imitative. bleep (v.) 1957, from bleep (n.); specific sense of "edit a sound over a word deemed unfit for broadcast" is from 1968 (earliest reference seems to be to the "Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" on U.S. television). Related: Bleeped ; bleeping . 中文词源 bleep ：哔哔声 拟声词。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：
• bleed 英文词源 bleed bleed: [OE] As its form suggests, bleed is a derivative of blood , but a very ancient one. From Germanic * blōtham ‘blood’ was formed the verb * blōthjan ‘emit blood’, which came into Old English as blēdan , ancestor of bleed . = blood bleed (v.) Old English bledan "to let blood," in Middle English and after, "to let blood from surgically;" also "to emit blood," from
• bleat 英文词源 bleat (v.) Old English blætan , from West Germanic *bhle- (source also of Dutch blaten "to bleat"), of imitative origin (compare Greek blekhe "a bleating; the wailing of children," Old Church Slavonic blejat "to bleat," Latin flere "to weep"). Related: Bleated ; bleating . bleat (n.) c. 1500, from bleat (v.). 中文词源 bleat ：羊叫 拟声词。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词
• bleary 英文词源 bleary (adj.) late 14c., from blear + -y (2). Related: Blearily ; bleariness . 中文词源 bleary ：模糊的 同blur, 模糊。可能同bleak, 暗淡的。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： bleary 词源， bleary 含义。
• bleachers 英文词源 bleacher (n.) 1540s, "one who bleaches," agent noun from bleach (v.). The "bench for spectators at a sports field" sense (usually bleachers ) is attested since 1889, American English; so named because the boards were bleached by the sun. 中文词源 bleachers ：露天看台 来自bleach, 指露天看台由于风吹日晒而发白。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：
• blazer 英文词源 blazer (n.) "bright-colored jacket," 1880, British university slang, from blaze (n.1), in reference to the red flannel jackets worn by the Lady Margaret, St. John College, Cambridge, boating club. Earlier it had been used in American English in the sense "something which attracts attention" (1845). 中文词源 blazer ：（带有标志的）夹克 来自blaze, 指一种色彩艳丽的红
• blaze 英文词源 blaze blaze: There are three distinct words blaze in English. The commonest, meaning ‘fire, flame’ [OE], comes from a prehistoric Germanic * blasōn . Its original signification was ‘torch’ (in the sense, of course, of a burning piece of wood or bunch of sticks), but by the year 1000 the main current meaning was established. The precise source of blaze ‘light-coloured mark o
• blaxploitation 英文词源 blaxploitation (n.) 1972, from black + exploitation . 中文词源 blaxploitation ：黑人利用 合成词，来自black, 黑人。exploitation, 利用。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： blaxploitation 词源， blaxploitation 含义。
• blather 英文词源 blather (v.) 1520s, Scottish, probably from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse blaðra "mutter, wag the tongue," perhaps of imitative origin. Related: Blathered ; blathering . blather (n.) 1787, from blather (v.). 中文词源 blather ：喋喋不休的说 拟声词，类似于巴拉巴拉。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： blather 词源， blather 含义。
• blaspheme 英文词源 blaspheme blaspheme: [14] Blaspheme has maintained a remarkable semantic and formal stability since its origins in Greek blásphēmos , which meant ‘speaking evil or profane things’ ( blas - is related to blaptikós ‘hurtful’; the - phēmos element denotes ‘speaking’, and is related to phēmí ‘I say’). The derived Greek verb blasphēmein was transmitted via ecclesiast
• blase 英文词源 blase (adj.) "bored from overindulgence," 1819, from French blasé , past participle of blaser "to satiate" (17c.), which is of unknown origin. Perhaps from Dutch blazen "to blow" (related to English blast ), with a sense of "puffed up under the effects of drinking." blase see blasé . 中文词源 blase ：厌烦的 词源不详。可能同blow, 指喝酒喝吐了的，喝到烦的。
• blare 英文词源 blare (v.) late 14c., bleren "to wail," possibly from an unrecorded Old English *blæren , or from Middle Dutch bleren "to bleat, cry, bawl, shout." Probably echoic, either way. Related: Blared ; blaring . As a noun from 1809, from the verb. 中文词源 blare ：发出响亮的声音 拟声词。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： blare 词源， blare 含义。
• blankety-blank 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random livid livid: see sloe 中文词源 blankety-blank ：该死的 blank用于代指一些禁忌词。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： blankety-blank 词源， blankety-blank 含义。
• blank 英文词源 blank blank: [15] Although English got blank from French blanc ‘white’, its ultimate source is Germanic. Forms such as Old High German blanc ‘white’ suggest a prehistoric Germanic * blangkaz , which could have been borrowed into Romanic, the undifferentiated precursor of the Romance languages, as * blancus – hence French blanc , Italian bianco , Spanish blanco , and Portugue
• blandishments 英文词源 blandishment (n.) "flattering speech," 1590s, from blandish + -ment . Sense of "attraction, allurement" (often blandishments ) is from 1590s. 中文词源 blandishments ：讨好 来自词根mel, 软的，见melt, 熔化。指说软话的，奉承，讨好。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： blandishments 词源， blandishments 含义。
• blancmange 英文词源 blancmange blancmange: [14] Blancmange means literally simply ‘white food’. It comes from a French compound made up of blanc ‘white’ and manger , a noun derived from the verb manger ‘eat’ (related to English manger ). Originally it was a savoury dish, of chicken or similar white meat in a sauce made with cream, eggs, rice, etc and often sugar and almonds. Gradually the mea
• blame 英文词源 blame blame: [12] Blame and blaspheme are ultimately the same word. Both come from Greek blasphēmein ‘say profane things about’, but whereas blaspheme has stuck to the path of ‘profanity’, blame has developed the more down-to-earth sense ‘reproach, censure’. The radical change of form seems to have come via blastēmāre , a demotic offshoot of late Latin blasphēmāre , w
• blag 英文词源 blag "Manage to obtain (something) by using persuasion or guile", Late 19th century: perhaps from French blaguer 'tell lies'. 中文词源 blag ：哄骗 拟声词。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： blag 词源， blag 含义。
• bladder 英文词源 bladder bladder: [OE] Old English blǣdre came from a hypothetical West and North Germanic * blǣdrōn , a derivative of the stem * blǣ -, from which we get blow . The name perhaps comes from the bladder’s capacity for inflation. It was originally, and for a long time exclusively, applied to the urinary bladder. = blow bladder (n.) Old English blædre (West Saxon), bledre (Anglian)
• black sheep 英文词源 black sheep (n.) by 1822 in figurative sense of "member of some group guilty of offensive conduct and unlike the other members," supposedly because a real black sheep had wool that could not be dyed and was thus worth less. But one black sheep in a flock was considered good luck by shepherds in Sussex, Somerset, Kent, Derbyshire. Baa Baa Black Sheep nursery rhyme's first known publica
• Black Marie 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random custom custom: [12] Custom comes ultimately from Latin consuēscere , a compound verb formed from the intensive prefix com - and suēscere ‘become accustomed’. This in turn was derived from suī , the genitive singular of the reflexive pronoun suus ‘oneself’; the notion underlying its formation was therefore ‘that whic
• blackjack 英文词源 blackjack (n.) used in many senses since 16c., earliest is possibly "tar-coated leather jug for beer" (1590s), from black (adj.) + jack in any of its many slang senses. The weapon so called from 1889; the card game by 1900. 中文词源 blackjack ：21点纸牌游戏，警棍 1. 21点纸牌游戏，来自该游戏初介绍进入美国时，赌场老板为刺激彩头，拿到黑桃J和黑
• blackball 英文词源 blackball (v.) also black-ball , "to exclude from a club by adverse votes," 1770, from black (adj.) + ball (n.1). Black balls of wood or ivory dropped into an urn during secret ballots. 中文词源 blackball ：反对票 black, 黑。ball, 球。来自旧时一种以黑白球投票的习俗。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： blackball 词源， blackball 含义。
• blackamoor 英文词源 Blackamoor (n.) "dark-skinned person," 1540s, from black (adj.) + Moor , with connecting element. 中文词源 blackamoor ：黑人 black, 黑。moor, 摩尔人。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： blackamoor 词源， blackamoor 含义。
• black 英文词源 black black: [OE] The usual Old English word for ‘black’ was sweart (source of modern English swart and swarthy , and related to German schwarz ‘black’), but black already existed (Old English blæc ), and since the Middle English period it has replaced swart . Related but now extinct forms existed in other Germanic languages (including Old Norse blakkr ‘dark’ and Old Saxo
• blabber 英文词源 blabber (v.) mid-14c., "to speak as an infant speaks," frequentative of blabben , of echoic origin (compare Old Norse blabbra , Danish blabbre "babble," German plappern "to babble"). Meaning "to talk excessively" is from late 14c. Related: Blabbered ; blabbering . 中文词源 blabber ：胡说 拟声词，巴拉巴拉。-er, 表反复。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文
• blab 英文词源 blab (v.) mid-15c., apparently from Middle English noun blabbe "one who does not control his tongue" (late 13c.), probably echoic. Related: Blabbed ; blabbing . The exact relationship between the blabs and blabber is difficult to determine. The noun was "[e]xceedingly common in 16th and 17th c.; unusual in literature since c 1750" [OED]. 中文词源 blab ：告密 拟声词，巴拉巴
• bivvy 英文词源 bivvy "A small tent or temporary shelter", Early 20th century: abbreviation of bivouac. 中文词源 bivvy ：帐篷 来自bivouac的简称。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： bivvy 词源， bivvy 含义。
• bivouac 英文词源 bivouac bivouac: [18] Bivouac appears to be of Swiss- German origin. The early 19th-century writer Stalder noted that the term beiwacht ( bei ‘additional’ + wacht ‘guard’ – a relative of English watch and wake ) was used in Aargau and Zürich for a sort of band of vigilantes who assisted the regular town guard. Beiwacht was borrowed into French as bivac , and came to English
• bivalve 英文词源 bivalve (adj.) 1660s in reference to mollusks with double shells; 1670s in reference to shutters or doors; from bi- + valve . The noun is 1680s in the mollusk sense. 中文词源 bivalve ：双壳软体动物 前缀bi-, 两。valve, 阀。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： bivalve 词源， bivalve 含义。
• bitzer 英文词源 bitzer "A contraption made from previously unrelated parts", 1920s: abbreviation of the phrase bits and pieces . 中文词源 bitzer ：杂烩 来自短语bits and pieces 缩写。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： bitzer 词源， bitzer 含义。
• bitumen 英文词源 bitumen bitumen: see cud bitumen (n.) mid-15c., from Latin bitumen "asphalt," probably, via Oscan or Umbrian, from Celtic *betu- "birch, birch resin" (compare Gaulish betulla "birch," used by Pliny for the tree supposedly the source of bitumen). 中文词源 bitumen ：沥青 来自拉丁词。bit, 桦树。-men, 名词后缀。原指桦树流出的松脂，后指沥青。 该词的英语
• bittern 英文词源 bittern bittern: [14] The Latin word for ‘bittern’ (a marsh bird) was būtiō , but by the time it reached Old French it had become butor . The discrepancy has been accounted for by proposing a Vulgar Latin intermediate * būtitaurus , literally ‘bittern-bull’ (Latin taurus is ‘bull’), coined on the basis of the bittern’s loud booming call, supposedly reminiscent of a bu
• bitter 英文词源 bitter bitter: [OE] Old English biter appears to have come from * bit -, the short-vowel version of * bīt -, source of bite . Its original meaning would thus have been ‘biting’, and although there do not seem to be any traces of this left in the historical record, the sense development to ‘acrid-tasting’ is fairly straightforward (compare the similar case of sharp ). It seems
• bite 英文词源 bite bite: [OE] The Old English verb bītan came from prehistoric Germanic * bītan , which also produced German beissen and Dutch bijten . The short-vowel version of the base, * bit -, was the source of bit , beetle , and probably bitter , and is also represented in various non-Germanic forms, such as Latin fidere ‘split’ (from which English gets fission ). Bait came via Old Nors
• bitch 英文词源 bitch bitch: [OE] The antecedents of Old English bicce ‘female dog’ are obscure. It may come from a prehistoric Germanic * bekjōn -, but the only related form among other Germanic languages appears to be Old Norse bikkja . The superficially similar French biche means ‘female deer’, and is probably not related. The use of the word as a derogatory term for ‘woman’ seems to
• bistro 英文词源 bistro (n.) 1906, from French bistro (1884), originally Parisian slang for "little wineshop or restaurant," which is of unknown origin. Commonly said to be from Russian bee-stra "quickly," picked up during the Allied occupation of Paris in 1815 after the defeat of Napoleon; but this, however quaint, is unlikely. Another guess is that it is from bistraud "a little shepherd," a word of
• bisque 英文词源 bisque (n.1) soup, 1640s, bisk , from French bisque "crayfish soup" (17c.), said to be an altered form of Biscaye "Biscay." Gamillscheg says: "Volkstümliche Entlehnung aus norm. bisque 'schlechtes Getränk.'" Modern form in English from 1731. bisque (n.2) "unglazed porcelain," 1660s, alteration of biscuit . 中文词源 bisque ：海鲜汤 词源不详，来自法语，指龙虾汤。
• bison 英文词源 bison bison: [14] Bison appears to be of Germanic origin, from a stem * wisand - or * wisund -. This became Old English wesand , which did not survive; and it was acquired again in the 19th century as wisent , borrowed from German wisent , applied to the ‘aurochs’, an extinct species of European wild ox. The b - form came into English via Latin bison , a borrowing from the Germani
• bismuth 英文词源 bismuth (n.) 1660s, from obsolete German Bismuth , also Wismut , Wissmuth (early 17c.), which is of unknown origin; perhaps a miner's contraction of wis mat "white mass," from Old High German hwiz "white." Latinized 1530 by Georgius Agricola (who may have been the first to recognize it as an element) as bisemutum . According to Klein, not from Arabic. 中文词源 bismuth ：铋 来自古
• bisexual 英文词源 bisexual (adj.) 1824, "having both sexes in one being, hermaphroditic," from bi- + sexual . Meaning "attracted to both sexes" is from 1914; the noun in this sense is attested from 1922, and compare bisexuality . Not in general use until 1950s. Ambisexual was proposed in this sense early 20c. I suggest that the term ambisexuality be used in psychology instead of the expression "bisexua
• bisect 英文词源 bisect bisect: see section bisect (v.) "to cut in two," 1640s, from Modern Latin bisectus , from Latin bi- "two" (see bi- ) + secare "to cut" (see section (n.)). Related: Bisected ; bisecting . 中文词源 bisect ：两部分 前缀bi-, 二。词根sect, 切，见section, 部分。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： bisect 词源， bisect 含义。
• bis 英文词源 bis "(As a direction) again", Via French and Italian from Latin, literally 'twice'. 中文词源 bis ：重复 来自前缀bi-, 二。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： bis 词源， bis 含义。
• biryani 英文词源 biryani "An Indian dish made with highly seasoned rice and meat, fish, or vegetables", Urdu, from Persian biryāni , from biriyān 'fried, grilled'. 中文词源 biryani ：比亚尼饭，印度炒饭 来自印度语。印度少数与中餐做法类似的食物。印度非常出名的一家比亚尼餐厅Paradise位于海德拉巴，一份mutton biryani 约40元人民币。 该词的英