shire: [OE] The original meaning of shire, which did not survive beyond the Old English period, was ‘official charge, administrative office’, and it has been suggested that the word is related ultimately to Latin cūra ‘care, charge’ (source of English curate, cure, etc). Already by the 9th century it was being used for an ‘administrative area ruled by a governor’, and over the next hundred years the application to what is now known as a county emerged. (County itself was introduced in the 14th century, and gradually ousted shire.) Sheriff is a compound based on shire. => sheriff
shire (n.)
Old English scir "administrative office, jurisdiction, stewardship, authority," also in particular use "district, province, country," from Proto-Germanic *skizo (cognates: Old High German scira "care, official charge"). Ousted since 14c. by Anglo-French county. The gentrified sense is from The Shires (1796), used by people in other parts of England of those counties that end in -shire; sense transferred to "hunting country of the Midlands" (1860).
中文解释
1. sheriff => shire, reeve.2. 如Yorkshire：即“约克郡”。
实用例句
1. My family home is in York-shire and they don't want to move.
我家人住在约克郡，他们不打算搬家。
来自柯林斯例句
2. I don't suppose you've seen Entwives in the Shire?
我想你们在夏尔没有看到树**子吧?
来自电影对白
3. Richard Bowen of Will shire Fashion, the United States.
伯恩:我是美国威尔榭时装公司的理查德.伯恩.
来自互联网
4. Whatlose in the hundred will be found in the shire.
失之东偶,收之桑榆.
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5. Pray, Miss Eliza , are not shire militia removed from Meryton?
