英文词源
- thwaite (n.)
- "cleared land," 1620s, from Old Norse or Old Danish þveit "a clearing, meadow, paddock," literally "a cutting, cut-piece" (related to Old English þwitan "to cut, cut off;" see whittle). Always a rare word and now obsolete, but frequently encountered in place names, but "It is unclear whether the base meaning was 'something cut off, detached piece of land,' or 'something cut down, felled tree' ..." [Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names].
实用例句
- 1. Straddling this trio is the celebrated journalist himself, Marina's father, Murray Thwaite, the emperor.
- 横跨在这三重唱之上的还是那位记者本人, 马莲娜的父亲, 莫里斯维特, 书中的国王.
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