barley

英 ['bɑ?l?] 美['bɑrli]

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barley?????????大麥???????“大麥在跳芭蕾舞”

barley 大麥

bar, 來自PIE *bhars, 刺，硬毛，同bristle, 剛毛，硬毛。-ley, 同like, 像。因麥穗如硬毛而命名。

barley: barley: [OE] The Old English word for ‘barley’ was b?re or bere. It came from an Indo- European base *bhar- which also gave Latin farīna ‘flour’ (from which English gets farinaceous [17]) and Old Norse farr ‘barley’. Barley (Old English b?rlic) was in fact originally an adjective formed from this (like princely based on prince), and it was not until the early twelfth century that it came to be used as a noun. A barn [OE] was originally a building for storing barley. The Old English word ber(e)n was a compound formed from bere and ern or ?rn ‘house’ (which may be related to English rest).
=> barn, farinaceous, farrago
barley (n.): Old English b?rlic, originally an adjective, "of barley," from bere "barley" (from Proto-Germanic *bariz, *baraz) + -lic "body, like." First element is related to Old Norse barr "barley," and cognate with Latin far (genitive farris) "coarse grain, meal;" probably from PIE *bhars- "bristle, point, projection" (see bristle (n.)).

1. The aphid is now laying waste to the wheat and barley fields.: 蚜蟲正在毀掉一片片的小麥和大麥田地。

2. By cereals we mean wheat, oats, rye, barley, and all that.: 談到谷物,我們指的是小麥、燕麥、黑麥、大麥之類的東西.

3. They looked out across the fields of waving barley.: 他們朝田里望去,只見大麥隨風(fēng)搖擺.

4. The best - known grains are wheat, barley, oats, rye and maize.: 最為人們所熟知的糧食是小麥、大麥、燕麥、黑麥和玉米.

5. The substance that's causing the problem comes from the barley.: 引起該問題的物質(zhì)來自大麥。