會響的鐘與鈴
核心這一家:那個會發出響聲的金屬物,以及專門拿它的聲音來當信號的器材。重點都在「一動就響、用聲音叫人注意」。
bell (cup-shaped object) · noun · B1
A hollow metal object shaped like a cup that rings when it moves or is shaken.
鐘 / 鈴鐺
Picture a hollow metal cup, turned mouth-down, that rings out when it is struck or swung. That ringing hollow shape is the heart of bell — everything else grows from either its sound or its shape.
The noun is possibly linked to Old English bellan 'to roar, make a loud sound' (the same root behind 'bellow') — though the connection is not certain. If so, a bell is named for the loud sound it throws out, which fits its ringing heart.
這個名詞可能和古英語 bellan「吼叫、發出巨響」有關(bellow 也出自同一個根),不過這層關聯並不確定。若真是如此,bell 是以它拋出的響亮聲音命名的,正好對上它「會響」的核心。
etymonline.com/word/bell
Three branches
會響的鐘與鈴
核心這一家:那個會發出響聲的金屬物,以及專門拿它的聲音來當信號的器材。重點都在「一動就響、用聲音叫人注意」。
bell (cup-shaped object) · noun · B1
A hollow metal object shaped like a cup that rings when it moves or is shaken.
鐘 / 鈴鐺
打一通電話(英式口語)
從「鈴響」借來的口語:電話一撥,對方那頭就響起鈴聲,所以 give someone a bell 就成了「打給某人」。
phone someone (informal) · noun · B1
To telephone someone. (British and informal)
打電話
鐘的形狀
撇開聲音,只借鐘的外形:上窄下寬、開口圓圓外張的輪廓。凡是長成這個樣子的東西,都可以叫 bell。
bell-shaped thing · noun · B1
A thing that has the wide, rounded shape of a bell.
鐘形物
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。
Bellname/bɛl/
A surname of Scottish and northern English origin for a bell ringer, bellmaker, or from someone who lived "at the Bell (inn)."
The Bell telephone company (after Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone.)
A male given name transferred from the surname, of occasional usage.
A female given name, variant of Belle; mostly used as a middle name in the 19th century.
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A village in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
A village in the City of Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia.
A rural town in Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia.
A municipality of Mayen-Koblenz district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
A municipality of Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis district, Rhineland-Palatinate.
Bellnoun/bɛl/
a telephone utility; a Baby Bell.
bellnoun詞源 1/bɛl/
entertainmentlifestylemusicA percussive instrument made of metal or other hard material, typically but not always in the shape of an inverted cup with a flared rim, which resonates when struck.
An instrument that emits a ringing sound, situated on a bicycle's handlebar and used by the cyclist to warn of their presence.
The sounding of a bell as a signal.
informalA telephone call.
A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.
entertainmentlifestylemusicThe flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
nauticaltransportAny of a series of strokes on a bell (or similar), struck every half hour to indicate the time (within a four hour watch)
The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.
computingengineeringmathematicsThe bell character.
Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.
architectureThe part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital.
The rounded upper part of a jellyfish.
archaicA bubble.
bellverb詞源 1/bɛl/
To attach a bell to.
To shape so that it flares out like a bell.
slangTo telephone.
To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.
To ring a bell.
bellverb詞源 2/bɛl/
To bellow or roar.
To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth.
bellnoun詞源 2/bɛl/
The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
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。