喜樂美語

Picture a band tied around a waist, all the way round, meeting itself again at the front. That closed ring is what this word carries everywhere. Pull the band tight against the body and you get the shaping underwear. Make the band out of stone and put a town inside it and you get a ring of walls. Make it out of trees and put a lake inside it and the trees girdle the lake. The point is never 'beside' or 'along one side'. It is always 'right the way round, and back to the start'.

可以想成一條帶子繞著腰綁了一整圈，頭尾在身前接了起來。這個閉合的圈，就是這個字帶著走的東西。把帶子拉緊貼著身體，就是那件塑身內著。把帶子換成石頭、裡面圍一座城，就是一圈城牆。換成樹、裡面圍一座湖，樹就 girdle 了那座湖。它的重點從來不是「在旁邊」或「沿著一邊」，而是「繞滿一整圈，回到原點」。

From the word’s history

The source traces the word to Old English gyrdel, from gird plus -le, so it began as the thing you gird yourself with — the band itself.

來源把這個字接到古英語 gyrdel，拆開來是 gird（束起來）加上 -le。也就是說，它一開始指的就是「用來把自己束起來的那個東西」——那條帶子本身。後來的每一個用法，都還留著那條帶子的形狀。

Wiktionary, "girdle"

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同家族的字

  • 動詞gird

n girdles

v girdled girdled girdling girdles

意思相反

dividecut through

原始詞典資料10 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。

girdlenoun詞源 1/ˈɡɝdl̩/

  • 1

    That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference.

    • the girdle of the world
    • Suppose within the girdle of these walls Are now confin'd two mighty monarchies
  • 2

    A belt or sash at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery.

    • And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and having their breasts girded with golden girdles
    • O Queen, most exalted of Persia's deep-girdled women, venerable mother of Xerxes, wife of Darius, all hail!
  • 3

    A garment used to hold the abdomen, hips, buttocks, and/or thighs in a particular shape.

  • 4

    The line of greatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting.

  • 5

    businessminingA thin bed or stratum of stone.

  • 6

    The clitellum of an earthworm.

  • 7

    The removal or inversion of a ring of bark in order to kill or stunt a tree.

girdleverb詞源 1/ˈɡɝdl̩/

  • 1

    To gird, encircle, or constrain by such means.

    • The Equator, as everyone knows, is an imaginary line or circle girdling the Earth half-way between the North and South poles.
  • 2

    To kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark.

    • The ordinary large reddish "hen hawks," which circle high above meadows, are doing great good to the farmer by feeding upon the mice and other creatures which steal his grain and girdle his trees.

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