thorn

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復數(shù):?thorns;

thorn 刺，荊棘

來自古英語 thorn,刺，荊棘，來自 Proto-Germanic*thurnuz,刺，來自 PIE*stei,尖刺，尖木棍，詞源同 stick,thistle.

thorn: thorn: [OE] Thorn is an ancient word, which goes all the way back to an Indo-European *trnus. The Germanic descendant of this was *thurnuz, which evolved into German dorn, Dutch doorn, Swedish and Danish torn, and English thorn.
thorn (n.): Old English torn "sharp point on a stem or branch," earlier "thorny tree or plant," from Proto-Germanic *thurnuz (cognates: Old Saxon, Old Frisian thorn, Dutch doorn, Old High German dorn, German Dorn, Old Norse torn, Gothic taurnus), from PIE *trnus (cognates: Old Church Slavonic trunu "thorn," Sanskrit trnam "blade of grass," Greek ternax "stalk of the cactus," Irish trainin "blade of grass"), from *(s)ter-n- "thorny plant," from root *ster- (1) "stiff" (see stark).

Figurative sense of "anything which causes pain" is recorded from early 13c. (thorn in the flesh is from II Cor. xii:7). Also an Anglo-Saxon and Icelandic runic letter (t), named for the word of which it was the initial (see -th-).

1. Richard Chamberlain has agreed to make a sequel to "The Thorn Birds".: 理查德·張伯倫已經(jīng)同意接拍《荊棘鳥》的續(xù)集。

2. The Party was a thorn in the flesh of his coalition.: 該黨是他所在聯(lián)盟的眼中釘、肉中刺。

5. Thorn's electronics operation employs around 5,000 people.: 索恩的電子公司雇用了約5,000名員工。