jewel
英 ['d?u??l]
美['d?u?l]
- n. 寶石；珠寶
- vt. 鑲以寶石；飾以珠寶
CET4TEM4考研TOEFLCET6中低頻詞常用詞匯
詞態(tài)變化
復(fù)數(shù):?jewels;
助記提示
jewel “珠”寶
1. 諧音“珠哦”----珠寶哦。
1. 諧音“珠哦”----珠寶哦。
中文詞源
jewel 珠寶
來(lái)自古法語(yǔ)jouel,裝飾品，寶石，來(lái)自拉丁語(yǔ)jocus,娛樂(lè)，歡樂(lè)，詞源同joke.字面意思即讓人歡樂(lè)的，讓人愉悅的，引申詞義珠寶。
英文詞源
- jewel
- jewel: [13] Originally, jewel meant ‘costly adornment made from precious stones or metals’ – a sense now largely restricted to the collective form jewellery [14]. The main modern sense ‘gem’ emerged towards the end of the 16th century. The word comes from Anglo-Norman juel, but exactly where that came from is not known for certain. It is generally assumed to be a derivative of jeu ‘game’, which came from Latin jocus (source of English jocular, joke, etc).
=> jeopardy, jocular, joke - jewel (n.)
- late 13c., "article of value used for adornment," from Anglo-French juel, Old French jouel "ornament, jewel" (12c.), perhaps from Medieval Latin jocale, from Latin jocus "pastime, sport," in Vulgar Latin "that which causes joy" (see joke (n.)). Another theory traces it to Latin gaudium, also with a notion of "rejoice" (see joy).
Sense of "precious stone" developed early 14c. Meaning "beloved person, admired woman" is late 14c. Colloquial family jewels "testicles" is from 1920s, but jewel as "testicle" dates to late 15c.
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. Alan, you're a jewel.
- 艾倫，你真是出類拔萃呀。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 2. He spent important money on a small jewel for his wife.
- 他花大筆錢購(gòu)買小小的寶石給太太.
來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》
- 3. Doesn't he look like that man who's wanted for the jewel robbery?
- 他不是很像那個(gè)因搶劫珠寶而受到通緝的罪犯 嗎 ?
來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》
- 4. The lowest estimate would put the worth of the jewel at ＄200.
- 按最低的評(píng)估這塊寶石也值200美元.
來(lái)自《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》
- 5. This painting is the jewel of my collection.
- 這是我藏畫(huà)中最珍貴的一幅.
來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》