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• better 英文词源 better (adj.) Old English bettra , earlier betera , from Proto-Germanic *batizo- , from PIE *bhad- "good;" see best . Comparative adjective of good in the older Germanic languages (compare Old Frisian betera , Old Saxon betiro , Old Norse betr , Danish bedre , Old High German bezziro , German besser , Gothic batiza ). In English it superseded bet in the adverbial sense by 1600. Better
• betrothal 英文词源 betrothal (n.) 1844, from betroth + -al (2). Earlier in same sense were betrothment (1580s), betrothing (14c.). 中文词源 betrothal ：订婚 前缀be-, 强调。troth, 订婚，词源同tree, true,truth. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： betrothal 词源， betrothal 含义。
• betide 英文词源 betide (v.) "to happen, befall," late 12c., from be- + tiden "to happen" (see tide ). 中文词源 betide ：发生 前缀be-, 强调。tide, 潮汐，音讯。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： betide 词源， betide 含义。
• bete noire 英文词源 bete noire (n.) "insufferable person," 1844, from French bête noire "personal aversion," as an adjective, "stupid, foolish;" literally "the black beast." 中文词源 bete noire ：特别讨厌的人 来自法语。bete, 野兽，同beast. noire, 黑，同night. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： bete noire 词源， bete noire 含义。
• betel 英文词源 betel (n.) 1550s, probably via Portuguese betel , from Malayalam vettila , from veru ila "simple leaf." 中文词源 betel ：槟榔 词源不详。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： betel 词源， betel 含义。
• beta-carotene 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random meet meet: [OE] English has two words meet , although one of them has almost died out. The verb comes from a prehistoric Germanic * gamōtjan , a derivative of the noun * mōtam ‘meeting’ (from which English gets moot ). Its Germanic relatives include Dutch moeten , Swedish mōta , and Danish møde . The adjective, ‘suitab
• beta 英文词源 beta (n.) second letter of the Greek alphabet, c. 1300, from Greek, from Hebrew/Phoenician beth (see alphabet ); used to designate the second of many things. Beta radiation is from 1899 (Rutherford). Beta particle is attested from 1904. 中文词源 beta ：字母B 希腊字母表第二个字母，字母B的原型。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： beta 词源，
• bet 英文词源 bet bet: [16] Since its comparatively late arrival, bet has ousted the earlier lay , wager , and game as the main term for ‘risking money on an uncertain outcome’ ( gamble is later still). It is by no means clear where it came from; the usual explanation is that it is short for the noun abet , in the sense ‘instigation, encouragement, support’ – that is, one is giving one’
• bestride 英文词源 bestride (v.) Old English bestridan "to bestride, mount," from be- + stridan "to stride" (see stride ). Compare Middle Dutch bestryden . 中文词源 bestride ：跨 前缀be-, 强调。stride, 跨。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： bestride 词源， bestride 含义。
• bestir 英文词源 bestir (v.) Old English bestyrian "to heap up," from be- + stir . Related: Bestirred ; bestirring . 中文词源 bestir ：振作 前缀be-, 强调。stir, 苏醒，振动。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： bestir 词源， bestir 含义。
• best 英文词源 best best: [OE] Best and better , the anomalous superlative and comparative of good , go back to a prehistoric Germanic base * bat -, which is related to the archaic English boot ‘remedy’ (as in to boot ) and meant generally ‘advantage, improvement’. Its comparative and superlative were * batizon and * batistaz , which came into Old English as respectively betera and betest (g
• bespectacled 英文词源 bespectacled (adj.) 1742, past participle adjective from be- + spectacles . 中文词源 bespectacled ：戴眼睛的 前缀be-, 强调。词根spect, 看，同spectacle,眼镜。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： bespectacled 词源， bespectacled 含义。
• bespatter 英文词源 bespatter (v.) 1640s, from be- + spatter (v.). Related: Bespattered ; bespattering . 中文词源 bespatter ：溅洒 前缀be-, 强调。spatter, 洒。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： bespatter 词源， bespatter 含义。
• besom 英文词源 besom (n.) Old English besma "bundle of twigs" (used as a broom or a flail), from West Germanic *besmon (cognates: Old Frisian besma , Old Saxon besmo , Old High German besmo , German Besen , Dutch bezem ), which is of unknown origin. Perhaps "something bound or twisted," from PIE *bheidh- . 中文词源 besom ：扫帚 来自PIE *bhes, 刺，指用灌木枝扎的扫帚。词源同bro
• besotted 英文词源 besotted (adj.) past participle adjective from besot . 中文词源 besotted ：着迷 前缀be-, 强调。sot, 变傻，着迷。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： besotted 词源， besotted 含义。
• besan 英文词源 bezant (n.) gold coin, c. 1200, from Old French besant (12c.), from Latin byzantius , short for Byzantius nummus "coin of Byzantium ." Huguenot 1562, from Middle French Huguenot , according to French sources originally political, not religious. The name was applied in 1520s to Genevan partisans opposed to the Duke of Savoy (who joined Geneva to the Swiss Confederation), and it is prob
• beryllium 英文词源 beryllium (n.) metallic element, 1863, so called because it figures in the composition of the pale green precious stone beryl and was identified in emerald (green beryl) in 1797 by French chemist Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763-1829) and first isolated in 1828. At first and through 19c. also sometimes called glucinum or glucinium . 中文词源 beryllium ：铍 从绿宝石beryl中提炼出
• beryl 英文词源 beryl (n.) hard, lustrous mineral, c. 1300, from Old French beryl (12c., Modern French béryl ), from Latin beryllus , from Greek beryllos , perhaps from Prakrit veruliya , from Sanskrit vaidurya- , of Dravidian origin, perhaps from the city of Velur (modern Belur) in southern India. Medieval Latin berillus also was applied to any precious stone of a pale green color, to fine crystal,
• berth 英文词源 berth berth: [17] Like birth , berth appears to be based on the verb bear , although it is a separate and much later formation. At first it meant ‘safe manoeuvring distance at sea’ (from which we get the metaphorical ‘give a wide berth to’); this seems to have come from the nautical sense of bear ‘steer in a particular direction’ as in bear away (from which we get bear dow
• berry 英文词源 berry berry: [OE] Berry is a strictly Germanic word, not found in other branches of Indo-European (German has beere , Dutch bes , and Danish bær ). Its earliest application seems to have been specifically to grapes; the only record of it in Old Saxon and Gothic is in the compound ‘wineberry’, and around 1000 Aelfric translated Deuteronomy 23:24 into Old English as ‘If you go in
• berm 英文词源 berm (n.) "narrow ledge," 1729, from French berme (17c.), from Old Dutch baerm "edge of a dike," probably related to brim (q.v.). In U.S., 19c., also the name for the bank of a canal opposite the tow path. 中文词源 berm ：护道 词源同brim, 边。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： berm 词源， berm 含义。
• berkelium 英文词源 berkelium "The chemical element of atomic number 97, a radioactive metal of the actinide series. Berkelium does not occur naturally and was first made by bombarding americium with helium ions", 1949: from Berkeley (where it was first made) + -ium. 中文词源 berkelium ：锫 以加利福利亚大学伯克利（Berkeley）分校命名的化学元素。 该词的英语词源请访问趣
• berk 英文词源 berk (n.) "fool," 1936, abbreviation of Berkshire Hunt (or Berkeley Hunt ), rhyming slang for cunt but typically applied only to contemptible persons, not to the body part. This is not an objective, anatomical term, neither does it imply coitus. It connects with that extension of meaning of the unprintable, a fool, or a person whom one does not like. ["Dictionary of Rhyming Slang," 19
• beriberi 英文词源 beriberi (n.) also beri-beri , paralytic disease prevalent in much of India, 1703, literally "great weakness," intensifying reduplication of Sinhalese beri "weakness." 中文词源 beriberi ：脚气病 来自印度语beri, 病，弱。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： beriberi 词源， beriberi 含义。
• bergschrund 英文词源 bergschrund "A crevasse at the junction of a glacier or snowfield with a steep upper slope", Mid 19th century: from German, from Berg 'mountain' + Schrund 'crevice'. 中文词源 bergschrund ：冰后隙 来自德语。berg, 山。schrund, 缝隙，词源同shear，切开，-sch同-sh. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： bergschrund 词源， bergschrund 含义。
• bergamot 英文词源 bergamot (n.) type of citrus tree, also its fruit, both similar to bitter orange, and the essence prepared from the oil of the rind of the fruit, 1690s, from French bergamote (17c.), from Italian bergamotta , named for Bergamo , town in Italy. The name is Roman Bergamum , from a Celtic or Ligurian berg "mountain," cognate with the identical Germanic word. Earlier (1610s) as a kind of
• berg 英文词源 berg (n.) short for iceberg , attested from 1823. 中文词源 berg ：群山 来自PIE *bhergh, 高，高山，同iceberg, 冰山。borough, 自治市。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： berg 词源， berg 含义。
• beret 英文词源 beret beret: [19] The beret originated in the southwestern corner of France, worn by the farmers and peasants of Gascony, and the word for it comes from the south-western dialect term berret (it reached English via mainstream French béret ). It derives from Latin birrus ‘hooded cloak’, which is probably of Celtic origin (Middle Irish berr ‘short’ has been compared), and is th
• bereave 英文词源 bereave bereave: see rob bereave (v.) Old English bereafian "to deprive of, take away, seize, rob," from be + reafian "rob, plunder," from Proto-Germanic *raubojanan , from PIE *reup- "to snatch" (see rapid ). A common Germanic formation (compare Old Frisian birava "despoil," Old Saxon biroban , Dutch berooven , Old High German biroubon , German berauben , Gothic biraubon ). Since mid
• benzene 英文词源 benzene benzene: [19] The original name given to this hydrocarbon, by the German chemist Eilhardt Mitscherlich in 1833, was benzine . He based it on the term benzoic acid , a derivative of benzoin , the name of a resinous substance exuded by trees of the genus Styrax . This came ultimately from Arabic lubān-jāwī , literally ‘frankincense of Java’ (the trees grow in Southeast As
• Bengali 英文词源 Bengali "A native of Bengal", From Hindi baṅgālī . 中文词源 Bengali ：孟加拉邦 来自印度语，民族名。现分为东西两支，West Bengali, 指印度西孟加拉邦，其首府城市加尔各答为印度前首都。East Bengali，现已成为独立国家，即Bangladesh, 孟加拉国。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： Bengali 词源， Bengal
• benefit 英文词源 benefit benefit: [14] The element bene - occurs in a wide variety of English words. It comes from Latin bene ‘well’, a close relative of Latin bonus ‘good’. Amongst its combinations are benediction [15], literally ‘saying well’, hence ‘blessing’, benefaction ‘doing well’ [17], and benevolent ‘wishing well’ [15]. Benefit is related to benefaction , since it too
• beneficial 英文词源 beneficial (adj.) mid-15c., "helpful, advantageous," from Middle French bénéficial and directly from Latin beneficialis "pertaining to a favor," from beneficium (see benefice ). Related: Beneficially . 中文词源 beneficial ：有益的 词根bene, 好。fic, 做，同fact. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： beneficial 词源， beneficial 含义。 beneficial ：
• benefaction 英文词源 benefaction "A donation or gift", Mid 17th century: from late Latin benefactio(n-) , from bene facere 'do good (to)', from bene 'well' + facere 'do'. 中文词源 benefaction ：善举 词根bene, 好。fact, 做。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： benefaction 词源， benefaction 含义。 benefaction ：善行；慈善捐款 词根词缀： bene-好 + -fact-做
• beneath 英文词源 beneath beneath: [OE] Beneath is a compound adverb and preposition, formed in Old English from bi ‘by’ and nithan or neothan ‘below’. This came originally from Germanic * nith - (also the source of nether [OE]), a derivative of the base * ni - ‘down’. = nether beneath (adv., adj.) Old English beneoðan "beneath, under, below," from be- "by" + neoðan "below," originally "f
• benchmark 英文词源 benchmark (n.) also bench-mark , "surveyor's point of reference," 1838, from a specialized surveyors' use of bench (n.) + mark (n.1); figurative sense is from 1884. 中文词源 benchmark ：基准 bench, 堤岸。mark, 记号。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： benchmark 词源， benchmark 含义。
• bench 英文词源 bench bench: [OE] Old English benc goes back to Germanic * bangk -, also the source of English bank (the related German bank means ‘bench’). The Northern and Scottish English versions of the word were benk and bink . The specific application to the seat on which a judge sits arose in the 13th century. = bank bench (n.) Old English benc "long seat," from Proto-Germanic *bankiz "ban
• bemused 英文词源 bemused (adj.) 1735, past participle adjective from bemuse (v.). Related: Bemusedly . 中文词源 bemused ：困惑的 前缀be-, 强调。muse, 沉思，冥想。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： bemused 词源， bemused 含义。
• bemoan 英文词源 bemoan (v.) Old English bemænan "to bemoan, wail, lament;" see be- + moan (v.). Related: Bemoaned ; bemoaning . 中文词源 bemoan ：抱怨 前缀be-, 强调。moan, 抱怨，呻吟。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： bemoan 词源， bemoan 含义。
• beluga 英文词源 beluga (n.) 1590s, from Russian beluga , literally "great white," from belo- "white" (from PIE *bhel-o- , from root *bhel- (1) "to shine, flash, burn;" see bleach (v.)) + augmentative suffix -uga . Originally the great sturgeon, found in the Caspian and Black seas; later (1817) also the small white whale ( Delphinapterus leucas ) found in northern seas. 中文词源 beluga ：白鲟鱼
• belt 英文词源 belt belt: [OE] Old English belt and related Germanic forms such as Swedish bälte point to a source in Germanic * baltjaz , which was borrowed from Latin balteus , possibly a word of Etruscan origin. The verbal idiom belt up ‘be quiet’ appears to date from just before World War II. belt (n.) Old English belt "belt, girdle," from Proto-Germanic *baltjaz (cognates: Old High German
• belong 英文词源 belong belong: [14] Old English had a verb langian , meaning ‘pertain to’. It had no immediate connection with the other Old English verb langian , modern English long , ‘desire’, but came from the Old English adjective gelang ‘pertaining, belonging’ (although ultimately this gelang and the modern English adjective and verb long come from the same Germanic source, * langga
• belly 英文词源 belly (n.) Old English belg , bylig (West Saxon), bælg (Anglian) "leather bag, purse, bellows," from Proto-Germanic *balgiz "bag" (cognates: Old Norse belgr "bag, bellows," bylgja "billow," Gothic balgs "wineskin"), from PIE *bholgh- , from root *bhelgh- "to swell," an extension of *bhel- (2) "to blow, swell" (see bole ). Meaning shifted to "abdomen of a human or animal" (late 13c.)
• bellows 英文词源 bellows bellows: [OE] Bellows and belly were originally the same word, Old English belig , which meant ‘bag’. This was used in the compound blǣstbelig , literally ‘blowing bag’, a device for blowing a fire, which was replaced in the late Old English period by the plural form of the noun, belga or belgum , from which we get bellows . Meanwhile the meaning of belly developed fr
• base jumping 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random distance distance: [13] Etymologically, things that are distant stand far apart from each other. The word comes via Old French from Latin distantia , an abstract noun formed from distāns , the present participle of distāre ‘be remote’. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix dis - ‘apart’ and stāre ‘stand’
• Britain 英文词源 Britain (n.) c. 1300, Breteyne , from Old French Bretaigne , from Latin Britannia , earlier Brittania , from Brittani "the Britons" (see Briton ). The Old English place-name Brytenlond meant "Wales." If there was a Celtic name for the island, it has not been recorded. 中文词源 Britain （不列颠）：布列吞人的土地 我们知道，英国所在的地方被称为“大不列颠
• bellow 英文词源 bellow (v.) apparently from Old English bylgan "to bellow," from PIE root *bhel- (4) "to sound, roar." Originally of animals, especially cows and bulls; used of human beings since c. 1600. Related: Bellowed ; bellowing . As a noun from 1779. 中文词源 bellow ：吼叫 来自PIE *bhel-(3), 发声，怒吼，拟声词，同bell. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：
• belles-lettres 英文词源 belles-lettres (n.) "elegant literature, aesthetics," 1710, French, literally "fine letters," from belles , plural of belle , fem. of beau "fine, beautiful" (see beau ) + lettres , plural of lettre "letter" (see letter (n.)). The literary equivalent of beaux arts . 中文词源 belles-lettres ：美文 法语短语。belles, 美丽的。lettres, 文字。 该词的英语词源请访问趣
• bellhop 英文词源 bellhop (n.) also bell-hop , by 1906, American English, shortening of slang bellhopper (1899), from bell (n.) + hop (v.). The notion is one who "hops" into action when the bell is rung. 中文词源 bellhop ：门童 bell, 钟，铃。hop, 跳。因门童听到前台召唤就须跑过去当差，因而得名。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： bellhop 词源， b
• belle 英文词源 belle belle: see beauty belle (n.) "beautiful woman well-dressed; reigning beauty," 1620s, from French belle , from Old French bele , from Latin bella , fem. of bellus "beautiful, fair" (see bene- ). 中文词源 belle ：美女 来自词根bel, 好的，美丽的，词源同beauty. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： belle 词源， belle 含义。
• bellboy 英文词源 bellboy (n.) from bell (n.) + boy ; originally (1851) a ship's bell-ringer, later (1861) a hotel page. 中文词源 bellboy ：门童 bell, 钟，铃。boy, 男孩。在步话机广泛使用之前，宾馆前台通常用摇铃来通知门童或其它服务员。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： bellboy 词源， bellboy 含义。
• bell 英文词源 bell bell: [OE] The Old English word was belle . Apart from Dutch bel it has no relatives in the other main European languages (many of them use words related to English clock for ‘bell’: French cloche , for instance, and German glocke ). It has been speculated that it may be connected with the verb bell , used of the baying call made by a hound or stag, which itself is perhaps re
• Belisha beacon 英文词源 Belisha beacon "(In the UK) an orange ball containing a flashing light, mounted on a striped post on the pavement at each end of a zebra crossing", 1930s: named after Leslie Hore- Belisha (1893–1957), British politician, Minister of Transport when the beacons were introduced. 中文词源 Belisha beacon ：斑马线指示灯 由英国交通部长Leslie Belisha在1934年发明的一种
• believe 英文词源 believe believe: [OE] Believing and loving are closely allied. Late Old English belēfan took the place of an earlier gelēfan ‘believe’ (with the associative prefix ge -), which can be traced back to a prehistoric West and North Germanic * galaubjan (source also of German glauben ‘believe’). This meant ‘hold dear, love’, and hence ‘trust in, believe’, and it was forme
• belfry 英文词源 belfry belfry: [13] Etymologically, belfry has nothing to do with bells ; it was a chance similarity between the two words that led to belfry being used from the 15th century onwards for ‘bell-tower’. The original English form was berfrey , and it meant ‘movable seige-tower’. It came from Old French berfrei , which in turn was borrowed from a hypothetical Frankish * bergfrith
• beleaguered 英文词源 beleaguer (v.) 1580s, from Dutch or Low German belegeren "to besiege," from be- "around" (see be- ) + legeren "to camp," from leger "bed, camp, army, lair," from Proto-Germanic *leg-raz- , from PIE *legh-to- "lie" (see lie (v.2)). A word from the Flemish Wars (cognates: Swedish belägra , Dutch belegeren "besiege," German Belagerung "siege"). Spelling influenced by league . Related: B
• belch 英文词源 belch belch: [OE] Belch first appears in recognizable form in the 15th century, but it can scarcely not be related to belk ‘eructate’, which goes back to Old English bealcan and survived dialectally into the modern English period. Belch itself may derive either from an unrecorded variant of bealcan , * belcan (with the c here representing a /ch/ sound), or from a related Old Engli
• bel canto 英文词源 bel canto 1894, Italian, literally "fine song." 中文词源 bel canto ：美声唱法 bel, 美丽，同belle, 美女。canto, 唱，同chant, 咏唱。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： bel canto 词源， bel canto 含义。
• bel 英文词源 bel (n.) unit of power level in measuring sound, 1929, named for Scottish-born telephone pioneer Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922). Bel heaven-and-earth god of Babylonian religion, from Akkadian Belu , literally "lord, owner, master," cognate with Hebrew ba'al . bel (adj.) "beautiful," early 14c., from Old French bel , belle "beautiful, fair, fine" (see belle ). "Naturalized in ME.; b
• beige 英文词源 beige (n.) 1858, "fine woolen fabric," from dialectal French beige "yellowish-gray, brownish-gray," from Old French bege "the natural color of wool and cotton; raw, not dyed" (13c.), of obscure origin. "Das Wort lebt namentlich in der Bourgogne und Fr. Comté, daneben aber auch im Südwesten" [Gamillscheg]. As a shade of color, it is attested from 1879. As an adjective by 1879. 中文词
• beholden 英文词源 beholden (adj.) "under obligation," mid-14c., originally past participle of behold (and preserving the original past participle of hold ), but a sense directly related to this usage is not recorded among the many and varied meanings attested for behold . 中文词源 beholden ：感激 前缀be-, 强调。hold, 维持，持有。-en, 使。使长期维持的，感激的。 该词的英语
• behold 英文词源 behold behold: see hold behold (v.) Old English bihaldan (West Saxon behealdan ) "give regard to, hold in view," also "to keep hold of, to belong to," from be- + haldan, healdan (see hold ). Related: Beheld ; beholding . A common West Germanic compound, compare Old Saxon bihaldan "hold, keep," Old Frisian bihalda , Old High German bihaltan , German behalten , but "[t]he application to
• behest 英文词源 behest (n.) Old English behæs "a vow," perhaps from behatan "to promise" (from be- + hatan "command, call;" see cite ) and confused with obsolete hest "command," which may account for the parasitic -t as well as the Middle English shift in meaning to "command, injunction" (late 12c.). 中文词源 behest ：召唤 前缀be-, 强调。hest, 命令，召唤，词源同cite, 引用， 传
• behind 英文词源 behind behind: [OE] Behind was compounded in Old English times from the prefix bi - ‘by’ and hindan ‘from behind’. This second element, and the related Old English hinder ‘below’, have relatives in other Germanic languages (German hinten and hinter ‘behind’, for example), and are connected with the English verb hinder , but their ultimate history is unclear. Modern Eng
• behemoth 英文词源 behemoth (n.) late 14c., huge biblical beast (Job xl:15), from Latin behemoth , from Hebrew b'hemoth , usually taken as plural of intensity of b'hemah "beast." But the Hebrew word is perhaps a folk etymology of Egyptian pehemau , literally "water-ox," the name for the hippopotamus. Long before Jumbo was dreamed of, a hippo was exhibited by George K. Bailey, who invented the tank on wh
• behead 英文词源 behead (v.) Old English beheafdian , from be- , here with privative force, + heafod (see head (n.)). Related: Beheaded ; beheading . 中文词源 behead ：斩首 前缀be-的特殊用法，表示除去。head, 头。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： behead 词源， behead 含义。
• behave 英文词源 behave behave: [15] To ‘behave oneself’ originally meant literally to ‘have oneself in a particular way’ – have being used here in the sense ‘hold’ or ‘comport’. The be - is an intensive prefix. Of particular interest is the way in which the word preserves in aspic the 15th-century pronunciation of have in stressed contexts. For much of its history behave has been us
• behalf 英文词源 behalf behalf: [14] Behalf was compounded from the prefix be - ‘by’ and the noun half , in the sense ‘side’. The latter had been used in such phrases as on my half , that is, ‘on my side, for my part’, since late Old English times, and the new compound began to replace it in the 14th century. (That particular use of half had died out by the end of the 16th century.) The mo
• begum 英文词源 begum "A Muslim woman of high rank", From Urdu begam , from eastern Turkish bigim 'princess', feminine of big 'prince'. 中文词源 begum ：（穆斯林）贵夫人 来自土耳其语，beg, 王子，贵族。-um, 表阴性。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： begum 词源， begum 含义。
• beguile 英文词源 beguile (v.) early 13c., from be- + guile (v.). Related: Beguiled ; beguiling . 中文词源 beguile ：哄骗 前缀be-, 强调。guile, 欺骗。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： beguile 词源， beguile 含义。
• begorra 英文词源 begorra 1839, antiquated Anglo-Irish form of expletive By God . 中文词源 begorra ：天啦 来自感叹语 by god 的变体。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： begorra 词源， begorra 含义。
• begonia 英文词源 begonia (n.) 1751, from French begonia (1706), named by Plumier for Michel Bégon (1638-1710), French governor of Santo Domingo (Haiti) and patron of botany, + abstract noun ending -ia . 中文词源 begonia ：秋海棠 以17世纪法国植物学家Michel Begon命名的花名。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： begonia 词源， begonia 含义。 begonia ：秋海
• begin 英文词源 begin begin: [OE] Begin comes from a prehistoric West Germanic compound verb * biginnan , which also produced German and Dutch beginnen ; the origin of the second element, * ginnan , is not known for certain. The form gin was common in the Middle Ages and up until about 1600; this was a shortening, perhaps not so much of begin as of the now obsolete ongin ‘begin’, which was far mo
• beget 英文词源 beget (v.) Old English begietan "to get by effort, find, acquire, attain, seize" (class V strong verb, past tense begeat , past participle begeaton ), from be- + get (v.). Sense of "to procreate" is from c. 1200. Related to Old High German pigezzan , Gothic bigitan "to get, obtain." Related: Begot ; begotten . 中文词源 beget ：成为...之父 前缀be-, 强调。get, 古义，生育
• begad 英文词源 begad "Used to express surprise or for emphasis", Late 16th century: altered form; compare with bedad and gad 2 . 中文词源 begad ：天啦 来自感叹语 by god 的变体。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： begad 词源， begad 含义。
• beg 英文词源 beg beg: [OE] Beg first turns up in immediately recognizable form in the 13th century, as beggen , but it seems likely that it goes back ultimately to an Old English verb bedecian ‘beg’. This came from the Germanic base * beth -, from which English also gets bid . = bid beg (v.) c. 1200, perhaps from Old English bedecian "to beg," from Proto-Germanic *beth- ; or possibly from Angl
• befuddled 英文词源 befuddle (v.) "confuse," 1873, from be- + fuddle ; originally "to confuse with strong drink or opium" (by 1832). An earlier word in the same sense was begunk (1725). Related: Befuddled ; befuddling . 中文词源 befuddled ：迷糊的 前缀be-, 强调。fuddle, 喝醉，晕。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： befuddled 词源， befuddled 含义。
• beetle 英文词源 beetle beetle: English has three separate words beetle . The commonest, beetle the insect, comes from Old English bitula , which was a derivative of the verb bītan ‘bite’: beetle hence means etymologically ‘the biter’. Beetle ‘hammer’, now largely restricted to various technical contexts, is also Old English: the earliest English form, bētel , goes back to a prehistoric
• before 英文词源 before before: [OE] Before is a Germanic compound, made up of * bi - ‘by’ and * forana ‘from the front’ (the resulting * biforana entered Old English as beforan ). The second element, * forana , is a derivative of * fora , source of English for ; this originally meant ‘before’, and only gradually developed the senses we are familiar with today. = for before (adv., prep.) O
• beer 英文词源 beer beer: [OE] Originally, beer was probably simply a general term for a ‘drink’: it seems to have come from late Latin biber ‘drink’, which was a derivative of the verb bibere ‘drink’ (from which English gets beverage , bibulous , imbibe , and possibly also bibber ). The main Old English word for ‘beer’ was ale , and beer (Old English bēor ) is not very common until
• beep 英文词源 beep (interj.) 1927, imitative of automobile horns (originally of the sound of a certain type of automobile horn among several types in use in the years after the klaxon horn was brought into use c. 1910). Used as a noun and verb by 1929. Related: Beeped ; beeping . 中文词源 beep ：哔哔声 拟声词。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： beep 词源， beep 含
• beef 英文词源 beef beef: [13] Like mutton , pork , and veal , beef was introduced by the Normans to provide a dainty alternative to the bare animal names ox , cow , etc when referring to their meat. Anglo-Norman and Old French boef or buef (which of course became modern French boeuf ) came from Latin bov -, the stem of bōs ‘ox’, from which English gets bovine [19] and Bovril [19]. Bōs itself
• beech 英文词源 beech beech: [OE] Like many other tree-names, beech goes back a long way into the past, and is not always what it seems. Among early relatives Latin fāgus meant ‘beech’ (whence the tree’s modern scientific name), but Greek phāgós , for example, referred to an ‘edible oak’. Both come from a hypothetical Indo-European * bhagos , which may be related to Greek phagein ‘eat’
• bee 英文词源 bee bee: [OE] Old English bēo ‘bee’ came from a prehistoric West and North Germanic * bīōn , source also of German biene , Dutch bij , and Swedish bi , which may all be traceable back to an Indo-European base * bhi - ‘quiver’. This, if it is true, means that the bee was originally named as the ‘quivering’, or perhaps ‘humming’ insect. Latin fucus ‘drone’ appears
• bedrock 英文词源 bedrock (n.) also bed-rock , 1850, from bed (n.) + rock (n.). Figurative use by 1869; as an adjective by 1881. 中文词源 bedrock ：基石 bed, 河床。rock, 岩石。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： bedrock 词源， bedrock 含义。
• bedraggled 英文词源 bedraggled (adj.) 1727, past participle adjective from bedraggle . 中文词源 bedraggled ：弄湿的 前缀be-, 强调。draggle, 湿的，脏的。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： bedraggled 词源， bedraggled 含义。
• Bedouin 英文词源 Bedouin (n.) c. 1400, from Old French bedüin (Modern French bédouin ), from colloquial Arabic badawin "desert-dwellers," plural of badawi , from badw "desert, camp." The Arabic plural suffix was mistaken for part of the word. A word from the Crusades, it probably was lost in English and then reborrowed from French c. 1600. As an adjective from 1844. 中文词源 Bedouin ：贝都因人
• bedevil 英文词源 bedevil (v.) 1768, "to treat diabolically, abuse," from be- + verbal use of devil (q.v.). Meaning "to mischievously confuse" is from 1755; that of "to drive frantic" is from 1823. Related: Bedeviled (1570s, in a literal sense, "possessed"); bedeviling . 中文词源 bedevil ：长期搅扰 前缀be-, 强调。devil, 魔鬼。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： bede
• bedding 英文词源 bedding (n.) later Old English beddinge "bedding, bed covering," from bed . Meaning "bottom layer of anything" is from c. 1400. 中文词源 bedding ：床具 bed, 床。-ing, 集合名词后缀，见boarding, flooring. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： bedding 词源， bedding 含义。
• bedazzle 英文词源 bedazzle (v.) 1590s, from be- + dazzle (v.). Related: Bedazzled ; bedazzling . 中文词源 bedazzle ：着迷 前缀be-, 强调。dazzle, 眩晕。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： bedazzle 词源， bedazzle 含义。