rosemary

英 ['r??zm(?)r?] 美['roz'm?ri]

低頻詞暢通詞匯

復(fù)數(shù):?rosemaries;

rosemary 迷迭香

來自中古英語 rosmarine,來自拉丁語 ros marinus,海露花，因生長于海邊而得名，來自 ros,露珠，marinus,海，詞源同 marine.后拼寫俗化為 rosemary,字面意思即獻給圣母瑪麗亞的玫瑰。

rosemary: rosemary: [15] Originally, rosemary had no connection with either ‘roses’ or ‘Mary’. Etymologically it means ‘sea-dew’. It comes, probably via Old French rosmarin, from late Latin rōsmarīnum. This in turn was a conflation of Latin rōs marīnus, rōs meaning ‘dew’ and marīnus ‘of the sea’ (an allusion to the fact that the plant grew near sea coasts). The word originally entered English in the 14th century as rosmarine, but association with rose and Mary (the Virgin Mary, no doubt) led to its alteration to rosemary.
=> marine, mere, mermaid
rosemary (n.): late 14c., earlier rosmarine (c. 1300), from Latin rosmarinus, literally "dew of the sea" (compare French romarin), from ros "dew" + marinus (see marine (adj.)). Perhaps so called because it grew near coasts. Form altered in English by influence of rose and Mary.

Latin ros is from PIE *ers- "to be wet" (cognates: Lithuanian rasa, Old Church Slavonic rosa "dew," Sanskrit rasah "sap, juice, fluid, essence," Hittite arszi "flows," and perhaps also Rha, Scythian name of the River Volga (see rhubarb)).

1. Anna and Rosemary arrived burdened by bags and food baskets.: 安娜和羅斯瑪麗來時提著很多的大包小包和裝了食物的籃子。

3. A nasty surprise awaited them in Rosemary Lane.: 在羅斯瑪麗巷，一起嚴(yán)重的意外事件正等待著他們。

5. They were served lamb and rosemary and she surprised herself by eating greedily.: 給他們上的是迷迭香燜羊肉，令她驚訝的是，自己竟然吃得那么起勁兒。