stove

英 [st??v] 美[stov]

CET4TEM4考研CET6低頻詞常用詞匯

復(fù)數(shù):?stoves;

stove 爐子，爐具

可能來自中古低地德語 stove,暖室，沐浴室，來自 Proto-Germanic*stubo,暖室，起居室，加熱的屋子，詞源同 stew.該詞義為該詞原義。后引申詞義爐子，爐具。

stove: stove: [15] Stove probably goes back ultimately to Vulgar Latin *extūfāre ‘take a steam bath’ (source also of English stew). From this was derived a noun denoting a ‘heated room used for such baths’, which was disseminated widely throughout the Romance and Germanic languages. In its modern German and Danish descendants, stube and stue, the meaning element ‘heat’ has disappeared, leaving simply ‘room’ (Latvian istaba, Serbo-Croat soba, and Polish izba ‘room’ represent borrowings from Germanic), but in the Romance languages (Italian stufa, Spanish estufa, Romanian soba) ‘heated room’ has shrunk to ‘heated cupboard for cooking, oven’.

The English word, borrowed from Middle Low German stove, has taken the same semantic course.
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stove (n.): mid-15c., "heated room, bath-room," from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch stove, both meaning "heated room," which was the original sense in English; a general West Germanic word (Old English stofa "bath-room," Old High German stuba, German Stube "sitting room").

Of uncertain relationship to similar words in Romance languages (Italian stufa, French étuve "sweating-room;" see stew (v.)). One theory traces them all to Vulgar Latin *extufare "take a steam bath." The meaning "device for heating or cooking" is first recorded 1610s.

1. The heady aroma of wood fires emanated from the stove.: 爐子里散發(fā)出木柴燃燒時(shí)的濃烈香味。

2. The stove is on wheels so it can be shuffled around easily.: 這個(gè)爐子底下帶輪子，很容易四處移動(dòng)。

3. A pan of potatoes was boiling away merrily on the gas stove.: 一鍋土豆在煤氣爐上歡快地煮著。

5. "But we might ruin the stove." — "Who cares?": “可我們會(huì)把爐子弄壞的!”——“我才不在乎呢！”