| 单词 | 乡间 |
| 释义 | 〔stick〕A remote area; backwoods:小镇，乡间：边远地区；边区：〔rural〕"some rustic phrases which I had learned at the farmer's house" (Jonathan Swift). “我在那个农民家里学会的一些乡间俗语” （约纳森·斯威夫特）。 〔mirth〕"Perhaps [an English pub is] a place of rural jollity with log fires crackling and grinning farm lads slurping pints and squaring up to the dart board" (John Mortimer).“也许 是乡间欢乐的地方——木柴燃烧在发出爆裂声，咧嘴笑着的、咕嘟咕嘟地喝着一品脱一品脱酒的农场工们正围在飞标靶旁边” （约翰·莫蒂默）。〔surround〕"It was the country, the flat agricultural surround, that so ravished me"(Listener)“正是这乡间、这平坦的农田如此令我陶醉”(听众)〔shoot〕To cover (country) in hunting for game.在（乡间）打猎〔oscillate〕The rather dry wordoscillate may become a bit less dry as we learn its story. It is possible that it goes back to the Latin wordōscillum, a diminutive ofōs, "mouth,” meaning "small mouth.” In a passage in theGeorgics, Virgil applies the word to a small mask of Bacchus hung from trees to move back and forth in the breeze.From this wordōscillum may have come another word ōscillum, meaning "something, such as a swing, that moves up and down or back and forth.”And thisōscillum was the source of the verb ōscillāre, "to ride in a swing,” and the noun (from the verb) ōscillātio, "the action of swinging or oscillating.” The words have given us, respectively, our verboscillate, first recorded in 1726, and our noun oscillation, first recorded in 1658. The next time one sees something oscillating,one might think of that small mask of Bacchus swinging from a pine tree in the Roman countryside.当我们了解了与oscillate 有关的传说时，这个较为枯燥的词就会变得不那么干巴巴的了。 此词可被追溯到一个拉丁词oscillum， 可简写成os， “嘴”，意为“小嘴”。 在农事诗集 的一节中， 维吉尔用这个词指挂在树上在微风中来回摆动的酒神巴克斯的小假面具。从oscillum 一词可以得出另一词 oscillum， 指“前后或上下摆动的某物，如秋千。”而这里的oscillum 便是意为“在秋千上摆动”的动词 oscillare 和意为“摆动或摇动的动作”的名词（从动词来） oscillatio 的词源。 从这些单词中分别得出了我们今天所用的动词oscillation （首次记录于1726年）和名词 oscillation （首次记录于1658年）。 以后若看见物体在摆动，就很可能会想起古罗马乡间一棵松树上摇来晃去的巴克斯的小假面具了〔convulse〕tremors that convulsed the countryside; when civil war convulsed the nation.See Synonyms at agitate 使乡间猛烈震动的地震；当内战震撼这个国家时 参见 agitate〔sleepy〕a sleepy rural town.安静的乡间城镇〔treat〕treated herself to a day in the country.她花了一天时间在乡间游玩〔camp〕A place in the country that offers simple group accommodations and organized recreation or instruction, as for vacationing children:乡间宿营区：位于乡村的一个地方，提供简单的成套设备以及有组织的娱乐和教育，比如为度假的孩子们：〔speed〕The train sped through the countryside.火车飞驰而过乡间。 |
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