喜樂美語
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    A fjord is a long, narrow arm of the sea that cuts deep between high, steep sides — often cliffs or mountains. Ice the valley long ago; when the ice melted, the sea filled it. Norway is famous for fjords, but you also find them in places like New Zealand, Chile, and Alaska. The word came into English from Norwegian and kept its foreign look: fj- at the start. People say it “fyord” or “fee-ord.” Though actually, a fjord is not just any pretty bay. A wide, gentle bay is not a fjord; the steep walls and the ice-made past are the point.

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組成Taken as it is from Norwegian fjord, from Old Norse fjǫrðr, from an old root meaning a crossing or inlet.

同家族的字

  • firtha Scottish cousin: a sea inlet, from the same old root
  • fordan old cousin: a shallow place to cross a river, from the same root for a crossing
  • porta distant doublet: a harbour, from the same ancient “crossing” root
  • fjarda related kind of sea inlet, from the same family of words

原始詞典資料1 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。

fjordnoun/ˈfiːɔːd/

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    A long, narrow, deep inlet between cliffs.

    • About 20 English miles beyond this river, which is the largest in Norway, the road crosses the fjord which forms the boundary of the two kingdoms [Norway and Sweden]; and whose waters but too often in former days were dyed with the life-blood of many a bold mountaineer who crossed the "border stream" never to return.
    • At last one gave a deep groan, and another declared that the spirits of the fiord were against them, and there was no doubt that their boat was now lying twenty fathoms deep, at the bottom of the creek; drawn down by the strong hand of an angry water-spirit. [...] Another said he would not go till he had looked abroad over the fiord, for some chance of seeing the boat.

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。