喜樂美語
  1. 1福音；很大的幫助（常用 a boon to/for…）。

    A boon is something that helps you a lot and makes life easier or better — a real gift to daily life. We nearly always say “a boon” or “a boon to/for someone”: a night bus can be a boon to nurses; cheap water can be a boon to a dry village. It is a little formal, more at home in news and essays than in chat with friends. Though actually, the old meaning was a prayer, or a favour you asked a king or a fairy for (“grant me a boon”). The word slid from “the thing you asked for” to “any big help,” even when nobody asked. There is another, older adjective boon, as in “a boon companion” (a cheerful close friend). That one means “good” and is a different word, even though the spelling matches.

From the word’s history

From Middle English boon 'prayer', from Old Norse bón 'prayer, petition'; influenced by the adjective boon 'good'.

源自古諾斯語 bón「祈求、請求」。

Wiktionary

組成From Middle English boon (“prayer”), from Old Norse bón (“prayer, request”). The meaning moved from “a prayer / a favour asked” to “a welcome help.” An English adjective boon (“good”), from Old French bon and Latin bonus, later coloured the sense, but that adjective is a different word. Doublet of ben.

同家族的字

  • benolder English doublet: both come from the same “prayer” root

原始詞典資料12 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。

Boonname

  • 1

    A surname

  • 2

    A township in Warrick County, Indiana, United States, named after settler Ratcliff Boon.

  • 3

    A township and unincorporated community therein, in Wexford County, Michigan, United States.

boonnoun詞源 1/buːn/

  • 1

    A good thing; a thing to be thankful for or to appreciate duly.

    • Near-synonyms: gift; blessing, benefit; see also Thesaurus:gift
    • Finding the dry cave was a boon to the weary travellers.
  • 2

    That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift or benefaction.

    • I gave you life. Can you not return the boon by giving me death, my lord?
    • Every good gift and every perfect boon is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, neither shadow that is cast by turning.
  • 3

    obsoleteA prayer; petition.

    • The wofull husbandman doth lowd complaine, / To ſee his whole yeares labor loſt ſo ſoone, / For which to God he made ſo many an idle boone.
  • 4

    dialectalAn unpaid service due by a tenant to his lord.

  • 5

    A blessing, typically a supernatural power, granted to an ascetic by a god or goddess.

    • A telling story is that of Vikra, who, after practicing severe tapas for many years, called on Śiva, asking him to grant the boon that whosoever's head he would touch, that person would die instantly.

boonadj詞源 2/buːn/

  • 1

    Gay; merry; jovial; convivial.

    • Greedily ſhe ingorg’d without restraint, / And knew not eating Death: Satiate at length, / And hight’nd as with Wine, jocond and boon, / Thus to herſelf ſhe pleaſingly began.
    • I knovv the Infirmity of our Family; vve are apt to play the Boon-Companion, and throvv avvay our Money in our Cups: […]
  • 2

    archaicKind; bountiful; benign.

    • With mazie error under pendant ſhades / Ran Nectar, viſiting each plant, and fed /Flours worthy of Paradiſe which not nice Art / In Beds and curious Knots, but Nature boon / Powrd forth profuſe on Hill and Dale and Plaine, / […]
  • 3

    obsoleteGood; prosperous.

    • boon voyage

boonnoun詞源 3/buːn/

  • 1

    The woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.

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