boat

英 [b??t] 美[bot]

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復數:?boats;

boat 船

來自PIE *bheid, 砍，劈。反映古老的鑿樹為船的歷史。詞源同bite.

boat: boat: [OE] In origin, the word boat seems to be restricted to northern parts of Europe: Old English bāt and Old Norse beit are the only early examples (German boot was borrowed from them, and French bateau comes from the English word). They point to a common Germanic origin in *bait-. It has been speculated that this may be related to bitt ‘post for fastening ship’s cables’. If true, this could mean that boat originally referred to one or other of the structural members of a wooden vessel.
boat (n.): Old English bat "boat, ship, vessel," from Proto-Germanic *bait- (cognates: Old Norse batr, Dutch boot, German Boot), possibly from PIE root *bheid- "to split" (see fissure) if the notion is of making a boat by hollowing out a tree trunk; or it may be an extension of the name for some part of a ship. French bateau "boat" is from Old English or Norse. Spanish batel, Italian battello, Medieval Latin batellus likewise probably are from Germanic.

2. They had almost reached the boat when a figure shot past them.: 他們差不多快到船邊時，一個人影從他們旁邊飛奔而過。

3. He found the binoculars and focused them on the boat.: 他找到雙筒望遠鏡，然后調焦對準那艘船看。

5. The boat was anchored off the northern coast of the peninsula.: 這艘船停泊在離該半島北部海岸不遠的地方。