border

英 ['b??d?] 美['b?rd?]

反義詞

CET4TEM4IELTS考研CET6中高頻詞核心詞匯

復數:?borders;第三人稱單數:?borders;過去式:?bordered;過去分詞:?bordered;現在分詞:?bordering;

1. b (保護) + order (命令) => 接受命令，保護邊界。

border 邊界

來自PIE *bherdh , 切，砍。指分開的。詞源同board, break.

border: border: [14] English acquired border from Old French bordure. This came from the common Romance verb *bordāre ‘border’, which was based on *bordus ‘edge’, a word of Germanic origin whose source, *borthaz, was the same as that of English board in the sense ‘side of a ship’.
=> board
border (n.): mid-14c., from Old French bordure "seam, edge of a shield, border," from Frankish *bord or a similar Germanic source (compare Old English bord "side;" see board (n.2)). The geopolitical sense first attested 1530s, in Scottish (replacing earlier march), from The Borders, name of the district adjoining the boundary between England and Scotland.
border (v.): c. 1400, "to put a border on;" 1640s as "to lie on the border of," from border (n.). Related: Bordered; bordering.

1. The stock market is convinced more cross-border deals will take place.: 股市相信跨境交易會越來越多。

2. This very careful attitude to money can sometimes border on meanness.: 這種對待金錢的過分謹慎的態度有時幾近于吝嗇。

4. Currency-conversion costs remain one of the biggest obstacles to cross-border trade.: 貨幣兌換成本仍是跨境貿易的最大障礙之一。

5. Hungary's opening of the border was a turning point for the refugees.: 匈牙利開放邊境對難民來說是個轉機。