| 单词 | 灯芯草 |
| 释义 | 〔rushlight〕A candle consisting of a rush wick in tallow. Also called rush candle 灯心草蜡烛：一种由动物脂油里的灯芯草组成的蜡烛 也作 rush candle〔tule〕Any of several bulrushes of the genusScirpus, growing in marshy lowlands of the southwest United States. 软茎蔗草：生长于美国西南部沼泽低地的任一种莞草 属灯芯草 〔junket〕Middle English jonket [rush basket, a kind of food served on rushes, feast] 中古英语 jonket [用灯芯草茎编织的篮子，在社交活动上供应的食物，宴会] 〔junket〕perhaps from Old North French jonquette [rush basket] probably from jonc [rush] 可能源自 古法国北方方言 jonquette [用灯芯草茎编织的篮子] 可能源自 jonc [灯芯草茎] 〔tule〕Low, swampy land istules or tule land in the parlance of northern California. When the Spanish colonized Mexico and Central America,they borrowed from the native inhabitants the Nahuatl wordtollin, "bulrush.” The English-speaking settlers of the West in turn borrowed the Spanish wordtule to refer to certain varieties of bulrushes native to California.Eventually the meaning of the word was extended to the marshy land where the bulrushes grew.北加利福尼亚的说法中，潮湿洼地叫做tules 或 tule land 。 当西班牙人殖民于墨西哥和中美洲时，他们从土著居民那里借来了那瓦特语tollin （“灯心草”）。 接着西方讲英语的定居者又借用了西班牙语tule ， 用来表示原产于加利福尼亚的各种灯芯草。最后该词的意义又扩展到这种灯芯草所生长的沼泽地〔junket〕both from Latin iuncus [rush] 都源自 拉丁语 iuncus [灯芯草茎] 〔junket〕or from Medieval Latin iuncāta [rush basket] 或源自 中世纪拉丁语 iuncāta [用灯芯草茎编织的篮子] |
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