喜樂美語
  1. 1噓、安靜；hush money＝封口費

    Hush is what you say to tell someone (often a child) to be quiet, gently — softer than 'shut up.' As a noun, 'a hush' is a sudden silence, like when a room goes quiet all at once. 'Hush money' is money paid to someone to keep them quiet about something.

From the word’s history

From Middle English huschen 'to hush'.

源自中古英文 huschen「使安靜」。

Wiktionary

組成An imitative word — it sounds like the quiet sound 'shh' that it's telling you to make.

原始詞典資料8 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。

hushverb詞源 1/hʌʃ/

  • 1

    To become quiet.

  • 2

    To make quiet.

  • 3

    To appease; to allay; to soothe.

    • VVilt thou then / Huſh my Cares thus, and ſhelter me vvith Love?
    • And hush’d my deepest grief of all.

hushnoun詞源 1/hʌʃ/

  • 1

    A silence, especially after some noise.

    • It is the hush of night.
    • And there fell a hush upon the gods when they saw that Māna rested, and there was silence on Pegāna save for the drumming of Skarl.

hushverb詞源 2/hʌʃ/

  • 1

    To rush, to gush.

    • On the fluir, bluid an punch now hush't leyke a stream, […]
    • […] water, far down below, roaring and hushing over the rocks, […]
  • 2

    businessminingTo send forth a rush of water over (some ground) so as to clear off the soil and other materials overlying, and thus uncover or separate out, ore.

    • […] worn its Chanel so deep in some Part of its Course as to work upon some mineral Substance, which gives it the Colour of Water hushed from Lead-mines, and is so strong as to tinge the River Derwent […]
    • The earliest method of searching for lead ore was by collecting the water in dams and hushing the surface of the ground where metalliferous veins existed.

hushnoun詞源 2/hʌʃ/

  • 1

    businessminingWater which has been used to clear the soil off of some (area of) rock or ore.

    • […] the hush from the lead mines on the moors near that place enters the Arkle, and the stream below suffers materially, the fishing being of little good;
    • The great cause of the scarcity of fish in this river is without doubt the "hush" coming down from the lead mines in the upper waters. […]
  • 2

    businessminingA part of a mine or quarry where ore is to be, or has been, excavated by an artificial flow of water.

    • […] lead ore occurs abundantly in the upper crust of the earth, and this phrase would have been quite applicable to the early finds of shoad-stones of lead ore in Weardale, to the importance of which the scars of the "hushes" that still furrow the fell-sides bear conclusive evidence.
    • After the first hush miners loosened the rock in the floor of the hush with picks and crow bars [...] a torrent of water was sent down which swept and tore the loosened stuff over the grate, trapping much of the ore that was being moved. In this method a hush could be used for over a century and could grow […]

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