單詞
welkin
英 ['welk?n]
美['w?lk?n]
基本信息
- n. 天空；蒼穹；天宮
中文詞源
welkin 天空，蒼穹
來自PIE*welg,濕的，降水，引申詞義云彩，天空，現(xiàn)該詞主要見于古文。詞義演變比較sky,原義為云彩。
英文詞源
- welkin (n.)
- "sky" (poetic), Old English wolcen "cloud," also "sky, heavens," from Proto-Germanic *welk- (cognates: Old Saxon wolkan, Old Frisian wolken, Middle Dutch wolke, Dutch wolk, Old High German wolka, German Wolke "cloud," from PIE *welg- "wet" (cognates: Lithuanian vilgyti "to moisten," Old Church Slavonic vlaga "moisture," Czech vlhky "damp").
雙語例句
- 1. He danced , howled, raved , and otherwise disturbed the welkin.
- 他又跳, 又吼,又叫, 使盡各種伎倆來攪擾這蒼穹.
來自英漢文學(xué) - 歐亨利
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