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An arbour is a shelter in a garden made by growing plants over a frame, often shaped like an arch. Roses, grapes, or other vines climb it and become the roof, or a big part of the roof. People sit in the shade. It is not a wooden hut with a solid top. Americans usually spell the same garden word arbor. Though actually, the word did not start from “tree.” In Middle English it was a changed form of herber or erber, a pleasure garden or herb garden; later the spelling was pulled toward Latin arbor, “tree.” So it looks like a tree-word now, and the thing itself is often covered in climbing plants, but that tree-look in the letters is a later twist. Do not mix it up with harbour, the place for ships; they only look like cousins.
涼亭;花架(藤蔓棚架)。英式拼法;美式寫 arbor。不是停船的 harbour。
arbor 是 arbour 的美式拼法,意思一樣。多益(TOEIC)用美式拼法。
arbor · arbour
組成From Middle English arbere / arber, an alteration of herber / erber (a pleasure garden or herb garden), later influenced by Latin arbor (tree). That is why it looks like a tree word now.
同家族的字
- herbarbour started as herber, a herb garden; the spelling later changed
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
arbornoun詞源 1/ˈɑːbə/
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A shady sitting place or pergola usually in a park or garden, surrounded by climbing shrubs, vines or other vegetation.
- Our tacit treaty with Miss Maudie was that we could play on her lawn, eat her scuppernongs if we didn’t jump on the arbor, and explore her vast back lot,
- Children swung from the branches of the banyan tree, teenagers climbed into the arbours of orchids and gourds into which the abandoned cars had been transformed.
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A grove of trees.
arbornoun詞源 2/ˈɑːbə/
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An axis or shaft supporting a rotating part on a lathe.
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A bar for supporting cutting tools.
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A spindle of a wheel.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。