park

• n. 公園；[交] 停車場
• vt. 停放；放置；寄存
• vi. 停放車輛
• n. (Park)人名；(英、芬、瑞典)帕克

來自中古法語parc,狩留場，來自Proto-Germanic*parrukaz,圍欄，圍場，來自PIE*spar,柱子，柵欄，詞源同spear,spar.后用于指公園，花園。動詞詞義泊車來自軍事術語，原指軍事訓練場或軍用車輛存放調轉地，后詞義通用化。

park

park: [13] The origins of park are Germanic. It goes back to a prehistoric Germanic base, meaning ‘enclosed place’, which has also given English paddock. This reached English by direct descent, but park took a route via medieval Latin. Here it was parricus, which passed into English via Old French parc. The verbal use of park, for ‘place a vehicle’, began to emerge in the early 19th century, and was based on the notion of putting military vehicles, artillery, etc in an ‘enclosure’. Parquet [19] comes from a diminutive of French parc, in the sense ‘small enclosed place’.
=> paddock, parquet

park (n.)

mid-13c., "enclosed preserve for beasts of the chase," from Old French parc "enclosed wood or heath land used as a game preserve" (12c.), probably ultimately from West Germanic *parruk "enclosed tract of land" (cognates: Old English pearruc, root of paddock (n.2), Old High German pfarrih "fencing about, enclosure," German pferch "fold for sheep," Dutch park).

Internal evidence suggests the West Germanic word is pre-4c. and originally meant the fencing, not the place enclosed. Found also in Medieval Latin as parricus "enclosure, park" (8c.), which likely is the direct source of the Old French word, as well as Italian parco, Spanish parque, etc. Some claim the Medieval Latin word as the source of the West Germanic, but the reverse seems more likely. Some later senses in English represent later borrowings from French. OED discounts notion of a Celtic origin. Welsh parc, Gaelic pairc are from English.

Meaning "enclosed lot in or near a town, for public recreation" is first attested 1660s, originally in reference to London; the sense evolution is via royal parks in the original, hunting sense being overrun by the growth of London and being opened to the public. Applied to sporting fields in American English from 1867.

New York's Park Avenue as an adjective meaning "luxurious and fashionable" (1956) was preceded in the same sense by London's Park Lane (1880). As a surname, Parker "keeper of a park" is attested in English from mid-12c. As a vehicle transmission gear, park (n.) is attested from 1949.

park (v.)

1812, "to arrange military vehicles in a park," from park (n.) in a limited sense of "enclosure for military vehicles" (attested from 1680s). General non-military meaning "to put (a vehicle) in a certain place" is first recorded 1844. Related: Parked; parking. Park-and-ride is from 1966.

1. The car park was absolutely packed solid with people.

停車場被人擠得水泄不通。

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2. He staggered on the uneven surface of the car park.

他搖搖晃晃地行走在停車場凹凸不平的地面上。

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3. I found a place to park beside a station wagon.

我在一輛旅行車旁邊找到了一個車位。

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4. Exmoor National Park stretches over 265 square miles of moor.

埃克斯穆爾高地國家公園位于高原貧瘠之地，占地265平方英里。

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5. Helicopters with searchlights swept the park which was sealed off.

直升飛機的探照燈來回掃射這個被封鎖的公園。

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