icicle

英 ['a?s?k(?)l] 美['a?s?kl]

TEM8GRETOEFL暢通詞匯

復數:?icicles;

icicle 冰錐，冰柱

來自中古英語，ice,冰，-icle,來自ickle,古英語方言，冰柱，冰晶。

icicle: icicle: [14] Historically, icicle is a tautology, meaning literally ‘ice icicle’. It originated in Middle English as a compound of ice and ickel ‘icicle’. This word, which survived dialectally into the 20th century as ickle, goes back to Old English gicel, which in turn was descended from a prehistoric Germanic *jakulaz (source also of modern Icelandic j?kull ‘glacier’).
icicle (n.): early 14c., isykle, from is "ice" + ikel "icicle," from Old English gicel "icicle, ice" (rel. to cylegicel "cold ice"), from Proto-Germanic *jekilaz (cognates: Old Norse jaki "piece of ice," diminutive j?kull "icicle, ice, glacier;" Old High German ihilla "icicle"), from PIE *yeg- "ice." Dialectal ickle "icicle" survived into 20c.

1. She walked in, as chill as an icicle, and as high as a princess.: 她走進來了, 跟個冰柱似的,冷冰冰的, 又象個公主似的高不可攀.

2. The drops fell very slowly, as they fall from an icicle after the sun has gone.: 血滴得很慢很慢, 仿佛是太陽落山后的冰柱滴下的水珠.

4. This passionless girl was like an icicle in the sunshine.: 這個冷靜的女孩猶如陽光下的冰柱.

5. A large ice floe in the Arctic Ocean bears an icicle - trimmed cave.: 北冰洋上的一片巨大浮冰支撐起一個由冰柱裝飾的洞窟.