eve

英 [i?v]

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復數:?eves;

eve 前夕，黃昏

來自even, 黃昏，字母n誤脫落，詞源同evensong, evening.

eve (n.): c. 1200, eve "evening," especially the time between sunset and darkness, from Old English ?fen, with loss of terminal -n (which, though forming part of the stem, perhaps was mistaken for an inflection), from Proto-Germanic *?bando- (cognates: Old Saxon aband, Old Frisian ewnd, Dutch avond, Old High German aband, German Abend, Old Norse aptann, Danish aften), which is of uncertain origin. Now superseded in its original sense by evening.

Specific meaning "day before a saint's day or festival" is from late 13c. Transferred sense of "the moment right before any event, etc." is by 1780. Even (n.), evening keep the original form.
Eve: fem. proper name, Biblical first woman, Late Latin, from Hebrew Hawwah, literally "a living being," from base hawa "he lived" (compare Arabic hayya, Aramaic hayyin).
Like most of the explanations of names in Genesis, this is probably based on folk etymology or an imaginative playing with sound. ... In the Hebrew here, the phonetic similarity is between hawah, "Eve," and the verbal root hayah, "to live." It has been proposed that Eve's name conceals very different origins, for it sounds suspiciously like the Aramaic word for "serpent." [Robert Alter, "The Five Books of Moses," 2004, commentary on Gen. iii:20]

2. Eve walked briskly down the corridor to her son's room.: 伊芙步履輕快地穿過走廊來到兒子的房間。

4. Eve, squinting at the clock, saw it was just on 7 a.m.: 伊夫瞇著眼瞥了一下鐘，看到差不多是早上7點鐘。