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maroon 1 AHD[mə-ro͞onʹ] D.J.[məˈruːn]K.K.[məˈrun]v.tr.（及物动词）ma.rooned, ma.roon.ing, ma.roons - To put ashore on a deserted island or coast and intentionally abandon.放逐：将…置于一个荒凉的岛上或海岸边并有意抛弃
- To abandon or isolate with little hope of ready rescue or escape:使孤立无援：因无太大获救或逃脱的希望而放弃或孤立：The travelers were marooned by the blizzard.暴风雪使旅客们孤立无援
n.（名词）- Often Maroon 常作 Maroon
- A fugitive Black slave in the West Indies in the 17th and 18th centuries.逃亡黑奴：17或18世纪西印度群岛的逃亡黑奴
- A descendant of such a slave.逃亡黑奴后裔
- A person who is marooned, as on an island.被放逐者：被放逐在荒岛上的人
- From French marron [fugitive slave] 源自 法语 marron [逃亡黑奴]
- from American Spanish cimarrón [wild, runaway] 源自 美国西班牙语 cimarrón [野生的，逃跑的]
- perhaps from cima [summit] 可能源自 cima [顶峰]
- from Latin cȳma [sprout] * see cyma 源自 拉丁语 cȳma [嫩芽] * 参见 cyma
注释- The history of the wordmaroon, which we associate with desert islands, takes us back to the days of slavery, when the nounmaroon was a term in English for a Black person who lived in the mountains and forests of Dutch Guiana (Suriname) and the West Indies, a term that is still used in parts of the Caribbean.These were plantation slaveswho had run away to live free in uncultivated parts.The English word is taken from the French wordmarron, "runaway Black slave,”which in turn was an alteration of American Spanishcimarrón, meaning "runaway slave.”Cimarrón is perhaps from cima, "summit.” Having come into English (first recorded in 1666),maroon took on a life of its own and came to be used as a verbmeaning "to be lost in the wilds,”from which our sense "to put ashore on a deserted island or coast" evolved.单词maroon 与荒岛有关联，其历史可追溯到奴隶制时代， 当时英语中的maroon 这个词指的是生活在荷属圭亚那（苏里南）和西印度群岛的黑人， 在加勒比的某些地区这个词仍在使用。这些人本是种植园里的奴隶，他们逃到未开发的土地上自由自在地生活。英语中的这个词源于法语中的marron ， 意思是“逃亡的黑奴”，它又是美洲西班牙语cimarron 的变形， 其意为“逃亡的奴隶”。Cinmarron 可能源于 cima ，“顶峰”。 进入英语之后（最早的记载在1666年），maroon 具有了自己的内涵， 而且开始被作为动词使用，意思是“在荒野中迷失方向”，我们的“将…置于一个荒凉的岛上或海岸边”这个意思就是从这里发展而来
maroon 2 AHD[mə-ro͞onʹ] D.J.[məˈruːn]K.K.[məˈrun]n.Color（名词）【色彩】- A dark reddish brown to dark purplish red.栗色：暗红棕色到暗紫红色
- French marron [chestnut] 法语 marron [栗子]
- from Italian marrone 源自 意大利语 marrone
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