shire
英 ['?a??]
美['?a??]
- n. 郡
- 休息
低頻詞暢通詞匯
詞態變化
復數:?shires;
助記提示
1. sheriff => shire, reeve.
2. 如Yorkshire：即“約克郡”。
2. 如Yorkshire：即“約克郡”。
中文詞源
shire 郡
來自古英語 scir,區域，郡，縣，司法管轄區，來自 Proto-Germanic*skizo,可能來自 PIE*sker, 切，分開，詞源同 share,shear.
英文詞源
- shire
- shire: [OE] The original meaning of shire, which did not survive beyond the Old English period, was ‘official charge, administrative office’, and it has been suggested that the word is related ultimately to Latin cūra ‘care, charge’ (source of English curate, cure, etc). Already by the 9th century it was being used for an ‘administrative area ruled by a governor’, and over the next hundred years the application to what is now known as a county emerged. (County itself was introduced in the 14th century, and gradually ousted shire.) Sheriff is a compound based on shire.
=> sheriff - shire (n.)
- Old English scir "administrative office, jurisdiction, stewardship, authority," also in particular use "district, province, country," from Proto-Germanic *skizo (cognates: Old High German scira "care, official charge"). Ousted since 14c. by Anglo-French county. The gentrified sense is from The Shires (1796), used by people in other parts of England of those counties that end in -shire; sense transferred to "hunting country of the Midlands" (1860).
雙語例句
- 1. My family home is in York-shire and they don't want to move.
- 我家人住在約克郡，他們不打算搬家。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. I don't suppose you've seen Entwives in the Shire?
- 我想你們在夏爾沒有看到樹人妻子吧?
來自電影對白
- 3. Richard Bowen of Will shire Fashion, the United States.
- 伯恩:我是美國威爾榭時裝公司的理查德.伯恩.
來自互聯網
- 4. Whatlose in the hundred will be found in the shire.
- 失之東偶,收之桑榆.
來自互聯網
- 5. Pray, Miss Eliza , are not shire militia removed from Meryton?
- 請問你, 伊麗莎白小姐, 麥里屯的民兵團不是開走了 嗎 ?
來自互聯網