burly

英 ['b??l?] 美['b?li]

英英釋義實用場景例句

暢通詞匯低頻詞

比較級:?burlier;最高級:?burliest;

burly 高大強壯的

詞源不詳。可能來自PIE *bhergh, 高，高山，同burg, 城堡。

burly: burly: [13] Burly has come down in the world over the centuries. Originally it meant ‘excellent, noble, stately’, and it appears to come from an unrecorded Old English adjective *būrlic, literally ‘bowerly’ – that is, ‘fit to frequent a lady’s apartment’. Gradually, connotations of ‘stoutness’ and ‘sturdiness’ began to take over, and by the 15th century the modern ‘heavily built’ had become well established.
=> boor, booth, bower
burly (adj.): c. 1300, perhaps from Old English burlic "noble, stately," literally "bowerly," fit to frequent a lady's apartment (see bower). Sense descended through "stout," and "sturdy" by 15c. to "heavily built." Another theory connects the Old English word to Old High German burlih "lofty, exalted," related to burjan "to raise, lift."

2. The burly brute swaggered forward, towering over me, and shouted.: 五大三粗的惡漢趾高氣揚地走過來，居高臨下地對我咆哮著。

3. No one expects him to get involved in the hurly-burly of campaigning.: 誰也沒有料到他會加入到亂哄哄的競選活動。

5. He has remained largely aloof from the hurly - burly of parliamentary politics.: 他基本上一直對喧囂的議會政治漠不關心.