單詞
Beguine
英 [be?'gi?n]
美[b?'ɡin]
基本信息
- n. 比津舞（西印度群島的馬提尼克島和圣盧西亞島上的一種土風(fēng)舞，略似倫巴）
英文詞源
- Beguine (n.)
- late 15c., from French béguine (13c.), Medieval Latin beguina, a member of a women's spiritual order said to have been founded c.1180 in Liege in the Low Countries. They are said to take their name from the surname of Lambert le Bègue "Lambert the Stammerer," a Liege priest who was instrumental in their founding, and it's likely the word was pejorative at first.
The order generally preserved its reputation, though it quickly drew imposters who did not; nonetheless it eventually was condemned as heretical. A male order, called Beghards founded communities by the 1220s in imitation of them, but they soon degenerated (compare Old French beguin "(male) Beguin," also "hypocrite") and wandered begging in the guise of religion; they likely were the source of the words beg and beggar, though there is disagreement over whether Beghard produced Middle Dutch beggaert "mendicant" or was produced by it.
Cole Porter's "Begin the Beguine" (1935) refers to a kind of popular dance of West Indian origin, from French colloquial béguin "an infatuation, boyfriend, girlfriend," earlier "child's bonnet," and before that "nun's headdress" (14c.), from Middle Dutch beggaert, ultimately the same word.
雙語例句
- 1. Beguine: a member of any of several lay sisterhoods founded in the Netherlands in the 13 th century.
- 貝居安: 女修士會修女13世紀(jì)建于荷蘭的幾個(gè)凡人修女團(tuán)體的成員.
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