bard

英 [bɑːd] 美 [bɑrd]

bard 游吟诗人

词源同词根grat, 感激，歌颂。见congratulations, 祝贺。字母b,g音变。

bard: bard: [14] Bard is of Celtic origin. A prehistoric Old Celtic *bardos produced Scottish and Irish Gaelic bárd and Welsh bardd, which meant ‘poet-singer’. It appears to have been the Scottish form which introduced the word into English, in the sense ‘strolling minstrel’. The modern, more elevated meaning ‘poet’ is 17thcentury.
bard (n.): mid-15c., from Scottish, from Old Celtic bardos "poet, singer," from PIE root *gwer- "to lift up the voice, praise." In historical times, a term of contempt among the Scots (who considered them itinerant troublemakers), but one of great respect among the Welsh.
All vagabundis, fulis, bardis, scudlaris, and siclike idill pepill, sall be brint on the cheek. [local Scottish ordinance, c. 1500]
Subsequently idealized by Scott in the more ancient sense of "lyric poet, singer." Poetic use of the word in English is from Greek bardos, Latin bardus, both from Gaulish.

1. So he sent him to a branch of the great Florentine banking house of the Bard.: 所以送他进了Bard的大佛罗伦萨银行机构的一个分部.

4. Lamartine was her favourite bard from the period when she first could feel.: 从她开始懂得感情的时候起,拉马丁已成为她心爱的诗人.

5. A gnome bard has enchanted several locals and then disappeared with them.: 72一个侏儒诗人魅惑了几个当地人,并与他们一同消失了.