- 1山楊、白楊（葉片會顫動的那種）
An aspen is a tree whose leaves shake and flicker in even a small wind. The stem of each leaf is long and flat, so the whole tree seems to — people say quaking aspen for that. The famous groves grow in western North America and turn bright gold in autumn. Though actually, close cousins grow in Europe and Asia too; English just uses aspen most often for this kind. You meet the word in nature writing and in place names (Aspen is also a town in Colorado). The wood is light. It is an ordinary tree-name, not a rare scientific one.
組成From Old English æspe, the aspen tree. The form aspen is asp + -en, “of the asp tree.” More at the tree-word asp — not the snake.
同家族的字
- aspan older English name for this same tree; a homonym of asp the snake, not a relative of it
原始詞典資料10 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
Aspenname
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A ski-resort town, the county seat of Pitkin County, Colorado.
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A small community in Guysborough County, Nova Scotia.
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A female given name from English of modern usage, denominated for the aspen tree.
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A surname.
aspenadj詞源 1/ˈæspən/
- 1
Pertaining to the aspen tree.
- 2
obsoleteTremulous, trembling.
- And then poore Aspen wretch, neglected thou / Bath'd in a cold quicksilver sweat wilt lye / A veryer ghost than I […].
- 3
obsoleteResembling an asp in some way
- 4
obsoleteResembling an asp in some way
aspennoun詞源 2/ˈæspən/
- 1
A poplar tree, especially of section Populus sect. Populus, of medium-size trees with thin, straight trunks of a greenish-white color.
- Above a certain elevation, the aspens gave way to scrubby, gnarled pines.
- ſtaggering like a quiuering Aſpen leafe, Fearing the force of Boreas boiſtrous blaſts.
- 2
The wood of such a tree; usually pale, lightweight and soft.
- She claimed that aspen was the only "proper" material from which to make a wicker basket.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。