thousand
英 ['θa?z(?)nd]
美['θa?znd]
- n. 一千；一千個；許許多多
- adj. 成千的；無數的
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詞態變化
復數:?thousands;
中文詞源
thousand 一千
來自古英語thusend,千，來自Proto-Germanic*thusundi,千，詞首*thu 可能來自PIE*teue,膨脹， 鼓起，詞源同thigh,thumb,-sundi,來自Proto-Germanic*hundam,百，詞源同hundred.該詞字面 意思為好幾百，后在翻譯拉丁語mille(千，詞源同million）的過程中逐漸確定為固定數詞。
英文詞源
- thousand
- thousand: [OE] Thousand is a compound noun of some antiquity, which seems to mean etymologically ‘several hundreds’. Its first element probably comes from a base denoting ‘increase’ or ‘multiplicity’, which also produced Latin tumēre ‘swell’ (source of English tumour) and Sanskrit tuvi ‘much’; its second element is the same as the first element of English hundred. The combination resulted in a prehistoric Germanic *thusundi, which evolved into German tausend, Dutch duizend, Swedish tusen, Danish tusind, and English thousand. It is shared by the Slavic languages – Russian, for instance, has tysjacha.
=> hundred, thigh, thumb, tumour - thousand (adj.)
- Old English tusend, from Proto-Germanic *thusundi (cognates: Old Frisian thusend, Dutch duizend, Old High German dusunt, German tausend, Old Norse tusund, Gothic tusundi).
Related to words in Balto-Slavic (Lithuanian tukstantis, Old Church Slavonic tysashta, Polish tysi?c, Russian tysiacha, Czech tisic), and probably ultimately a compound with indefinite meaning "great multitude, several hundred," literally "swollen-hundred," with first element from PIE root *teue- (2) "to swell" (see thigh).
Used to translate Greek khilias, Latin mille, hence the refinement into the precise modern meaning. There was no general Indo-European word for "thousand." Slang shortening thou first recorded 1867. Thousand island dressing (1916) presumably is named for the region of New York on the St. Lawrence River.
雙語例句
- 1. English has hurt me a thousand times, but I still regard it as my first love.
- 英語傷我千百遍，我待英語如初戀。
來自金山詞霸 每日一句
- 2. A thousand supporters packed into the stadium to cheer them on.
- 1,000名支持者擠進體育館里為他們加油。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. The one thousand pound bomb was triggered by a wire.
- 那顆重達1,000磅的炸彈是由一根導線引爆的。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. "How much is he paying you?" — "Oh, five thousand." —"Not bad."
- “他給你多少錢？”——“哦，5,000。”——“挺不錯嘛。”
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. The cost of repairing earthquake damage could be more than seven-thousand-million dollars.
- 彌補地震造成的損失需要超過70億美元。
來自柯林斯例句