- 1冷杉。台灣口中的「杉木」多半是另一種樹，不要對上這個英文。
A fir is a tall tree that keeps its leaves in winter. The leaves are thin like needles, not broad and flat. People plant firs as Christmas trees, and the wood is used for building. To a , firs, pines and spruces all look like “Christmas trees,” and even English speakers mix them in casual talk. Though actually they are different trees: a fir’s needles are usually soft and sit one by one on the twig, and its cones often stand up on the branch rather than hang down. It is an ordinary nature-and-Christmas word, not technical until you get into the exact tree names. It is not related to fur (animal hair), even though the two can sound the same.
From the word’s history
From Middle English firre, from Old English fyrh, ultimately from a Proto-Indo-European word for 'oak'.
源自古英文 fyrh，更古老的源頭原指「橡樹」。
組成It does not split. From Middle English firre, from Old English fyrh / furh (as in furhwudu, “pine-wood”), from an old Germanic tree-name (German still has Föhre for a kind of pine). Scholars trace it further back to a very old word for oak — tree names often drift from one tree to another. In Middle English it may also have mixed with a similar Old Norse word for pine-wood.
原始詞典資料7 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。
firnoun/fɜː/
- 1
A conifer of the genus Abies.
- A beech wood with silver firs in it rolled down the face of the hill, and the maze of leafless twigs and dusky spires cut sharp against the soft blueness of the evening sky.
- 2
Any pinaceous conifer of related genera, especially a Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga) or a Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris).
- we shall find a spot that is sheltered and snug enough, sir. There is a dry fir-wood just ahead, if I remember rightly.
- I can almost smell the fir scent… resinous, pungent.
- 3
Wood of such trees.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- finite impulse response
- flight information region
- first information report
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