wharf
英 [wɔːf]
美 [wɔrf]
- vt. 使靠码头；为…建码头；把货卸在码头上
- vi. 靠码头
- n. 码头；停泊处
助记提示
1. Wharf has relatives in German werft 'wharf, shipyard' and Dutch werf 'shipyard'. All three appear to go back to a prehistoric Germanic base *(kh)werb-, *(kh)warb- 'turn', which also produced German werfen 'throw' and English warp.
2. 也许是因为堤岸、码头对循环往复的波浪、波涛其防护、拦阻作用，然后就由此引申而来。
中文词源
wharf 码头来自古英语hwearf,河岸，船停靠点，来自PIE*kwerp,转，转开，来自PIE*sker,转，词源同ring,carpal。引申词义船的临时停靠点，码头。
英文词源
- wharf
- wharf: [OE] Wharf has relatives in German werft ‘wharf, shipyard’ and Dutch werf ‘shipyard’. All three appear to go back to a prehistoric Germanic base *(kh)werb-, *(kh)warb- ‘turn’, which also produced German werfen ‘throw’ and English warp.
=> version, warp - wharf (n.)
- late Old English hwearf "shore, bank where ships can tie up," earlier "dam, embankment," from Proto-Germanic *hwarfaz (cognates: Middle Low German werf "mole, dam, wharf," German Werft "shipyard, dockyard"); related to Old English hwearfian "to turn," perhaps in a sense implying "busy activity," from PIE root *kwerp- "to turn, revolve" (cognates: Old Norse hverfa "to turn round," German werben "to enlist, solicit, court, woo," Gothic hvairban "to wander," Greek kartos "wrist," Sanskrit surpam "winnowing fan"). Wharf rat is from 1812 as "type of rat common on ships and docks;" extended sense "person who hangs around docks" is recorded from 1836.
双语例句
- 1. At Dorset Wharf go left to rejoin the river.
- 在多塞特码头向左返回河道。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. We fetch up at the wharf exactly on time.
- 我们准时到达码头.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 3. The ship lies alongside the wharf.
- 那艘船停靠在码头边.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- 4. Canary Wharf was set to provide 10 million square feet of office space.
- 金丝雀码头计划要提供1,000万平方英尺的办公面积。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. They'd already driven along the wharf so that she could point out her father's boat.
- 他们已经开车沿码头走了一遍，好让她指出哪艘是她父亲的船。
来自柯林斯例句
