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    A bower is a pleasant, shady place under trees or climbing plants — a little room made of leaves. Think of a garden corner where branches meet overhead and the air is cooler.

    A bower is a pleasant, shady placeBower是一個宜人、有樹蔭的地方 under trees or climbing plants在樹下或攀藤植物下面 a little room made of leaves一個用葉子搭成的小房間 Think of a garden corner想像一個花園的角落 where branches meet overhead樹枝在頭頂交會 and the air is cooler空氣也比較涼爽

    The word is old and literary. You will meet it in poems, fairy tales, and older novels far more than in speech; a gardener today is more likely to say shade, , or a spot under the tree.

    The word is old and literary這個字既古老又帶有文學氣息 You will meet it in poems, fairy tales, and older novels far more than in speech你會在詩、童話故事、和比較舊的小說裡遇到它，比在口語裡多得多 a gardener today is more likely to say shade, arbour, or a spot under the tree現在的園丁比較可能會說shade、arbour，或就說樹下的一個地方

    Though actually, in much older English a bower could also be a private room, especially a woman’s sitting room in a house — that use has almost gone, but it is why “lady’s bower” turns up in ballads. The garden-shade meaning is the one will still see. It feels gentle, a bit romantic, never technical.

    Though actually不過，其實 in much older English a bower could also be a private room在更古老的英文裡，bower也可以指一個私人房間 especially a woman's sitting room in a house尤其是家裡女性的起居室 that use has almost gone──這個用法幾乎已經消失了 but it is why "lady's bower" turns up in ballads但這就是為什麼「lady's bower（貴婦的閨房）」會出現在民謠裡 The garden-shade meaning is the one learners will still see花園樹蔭的這個意思，才是學習者現在還會看到的意思 It feels gentle, a bit romantic它給人的感覺是溫柔的、有點浪漫 never technical絕不會是技術性的

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組成From Middle English bour, from Old English būr, from Proto-West Germanic *būr, from Proto-Germanic *būrą, “room, abode.” Related in other Germanic languages to words for a small room, a store-room, or a cage (for example German Bauer “birdcage,” and the Scandinavian words bur). The old “room where you live” sense softened, in English, into a leafy shelter.

原始詞典資料14 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。

Bowername/ˈbaʊə(ɹ)/

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    A surname.

    • Snowdon climbed to the top floor of the house opposite George's in Pimlico to observe the artist in one window and his model, the painter Natalie Bower, in the adjacent.

bowernoun詞源 1

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    A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.

    • Give me my lute in bed now as I lie, / And lock the doors of mine unlucky bower.
    • Rosa refused to return to the lair of the raper, but was induced to give Tudy what his mother described as ‘his last bit of happiness’ in a bower hastily got ready at Montrose, the La Plante mansion on Greenock Heights.
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    literaryA dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.

    • While friends arrived in circles gay, To visit Damon's bower
    • A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: / Its loveliness increases; it will never / Pass into nothingness; but still will keep / A bower quiet for us, and a sleep / Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
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    A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.

    • […]say that thou overheard'st us, And bid her steal into the pleached bower, Where honey-suckles, ripen'd by the sun, Forbid the sun to enter;[…]
    • That night Tarzan built a snug little bower high among the swaying branches of a giant tree, and there the tired girl slept, while in a crotch beneath her the ape-man curled, ready, even in sleep, to protect her.
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    biologynatural-sciencesornithologyA large structure made of grass, twigs, etc., and decorated with bright objects, used by male bower birds during courtship displays.

bowerverb詞源 1

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    To embower; to enclose.

    • O nature, what hadst thou to do in hell / When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend / In mortal paradise of such sweet flesh?
    • […]belts of thin white mist streaked the brown plough land in the hollow where Appleby could see the pale shine of a winding river. Across that in turn, meadow and coppice rolled away past the white walls of a village bowered in orchards,[…]
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    obsoleteTo lodge.

    • Flora now calleth forth each flower, And bids make readie Maias bower

bowernoun詞源 2

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    A peasant; a farmer.

bowernoun詞源 3

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    Either of the two highest trumps in the card games euchre and five hundred (where the joker is omitted).

    • Yet the cards they were stocked / In a way that I grieve, / And my feelings were shocked / At the state of Nye's sleeve, / Which was stuffed full of aces and bowers, / And the same with intent to deceive.

bowernoun詞源 4

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    nauticaltransportA type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow.

bowernoun詞源 5

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    One who bows or bends.

    • The bower aims his display straight at the dominant figure, who may reciprocate with a milder version of the same action.
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    A muscle that bends a limb, especially the arm.

    • His rawbone armes, whose mighty brawned bowrs / Were wont to riue steele plates, and helmets hew

bowernoun詞源 6

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    One who plays any of several bow instruments, such as the musical bow or diddley bow.

bowernoun詞源 7

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    falconryhobbieshuntingA young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.

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。