spring

          英 [spr??]美[spr??]
          • n. 春天;彈簧;泉水;活力;跳躍
          • adj. 春天的
          • vi. 生長;涌出;躍出;裂開
          • vt. 使跳起;使爆炸;突然提出;使彈開
          • n. (Spring)人名;(德)施普林;(英、芬、瑞典)斯普林

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          詞態變化


          復數:?springs;第三人稱單數:?springs;過去式:?sprang;過去分詞:?sprung;現在分詞:?springing;

          中文詞源


          spring 蹦,跳,躍

          來自古英語 springan,蹦,跳,躍,來自 Proto-Germanic*springana,彈,跳,沖出,來自 PIE*spergh, 彈,跳,快速移動,可能來自 PIE*sper,播撒,展開,詞源同 spread,spark.

          英文詞源


          spring
          spring: [OE] The noun spring and the verb spring come from the same source: the Indo-European base *sprengh-, which denoted ‘rapid movement’. Of its Germanic verbal descendants, German and Dutch springen, like English spring, have moved on semantically to ‘jump’, but Swedish springa ‘run’ has stayed closer to its roots. The noun spring in Old English times denoted the place where a stream ‘rises’ from the ground, which soon evolved metaphorically into ‘source, origin’ in general.

          The notion of ‘rising’ was also applied figuratively to the ‘beginning of the day’ and to the ‘emergence of new growth’, and the latter led in the 16th century, via the expression spring of the year, to the use of spring for the ‘season following winter’ (replacing the previous term Lent).

          spring (v.)
          Old English springan "to leap, burst forth, fly up; spread, grow," (class III strong verb; past tense sprang, past participle sprungen), from Proto-Germanic *sprengan (cognates: Old Norse, Old Frisian springa, Middle Dutch springhen, Dutch Related: springen, Old Saxon and Old High German springan, German springen), from PIE *sprengh-, nasalized form of root *spergh- "to move, hasten, spring" (cognates: Sanskrit sprhayati "desires eagerly," Greek sperkhesthai "to hurry").

          In Middle English, it took on the role of causal sprenge, from Old English sprengan (as still in to spring a trap, etc.). Meaning "to cause to work or open," by or as by a spring mechanism, is from 1828.Meaning "to announce suddenly" (usually with on) is from 1876. Meaning "to release" (from imprisonment) is from 1900. Slang meaning "to pay" (for a treat, etc.) is recorded from 1906.
          spring (n.1)
          season following winter, the vernal season, c. 1400, earlier springing time (late 14c.), which replaced Lent, the Old English word. From spring (v.); also see spring (n.3). The notion is of the "spring of the year," when plants begin to rise (as in spring of the leaf, 1520s), from the noun in its old sense of "action or time of rising or springing into existence." It was used of sunrise, the waxing of the moon, rising tides, etc.; compare 14c. spring of dai "sunrise," spring of mone "moonrise," late Old English spring "carbuncle, pustule."

          Other Germanic languages tend to take words for "fore" or "early" as their roots for the season name (Danish voraar, Dutch voorjaar, literally "fore-year;" German Frühling, from Middle High German vrueje "early"). In 15c. English, the season also was prime-temps, after Old French prin tans, tamps prim (French printemps, which replaced primevère 16c. as the common word for spring), from Latin tempus primum, literally "first time, first season."

          Spring fever is from 1843 as "surge of romantic feelings;" earlier of a type of disease or head-cold prevalent in certain places in spring; Old English had lenctenadle. First record of spring cleaning in the domestic sense is by 1843 (in ancient Persia, the first month, corresponding to March-April, was Adukanai?a, which apparently means "Irrigation-Canal-Cleaning Month;" Kent, p.167). Spring chicken "small roasting chicken" (usually 11 to 14 weeks) is recorded from 1780; transferred sense of "young person" first recorded 1906. Baseball spring training attested by 1889, earlier of militias, etc.
          spring (n.2)
          "source of a stream or river, flow of water rising to the surface of the earth from below," Old English spring "spring, source, sprinkling," from spring (v.) on the notion of the water "bursting forth" from the ground. Rarely used alone in Old English, appearing more often in compounds, such as wyllspring "wellspring," espryng "water spring." Figurative sense of "source or origin of something" is attested from early 13c. Cognate with Old High German sprung "source of water," Middle High German sprinc "leap, jump; source of water."
          spring (n.3)
          "act of springing or leaping," late 14c., from spring (v.). The elastic wire coil that returns to its shape when stretched is so called from early 15c., originally in clocks and watches. As a device in carriages, coaches, etc., it is attested from 1660s.

          雙語例句


          1. I let the horse drop his head to crop the spring grass.
          我讓馬低下頭啃吃春天的青草。

          來自柯林斯例句

          2. The blustery winds of spring had dropped to a gentle breeze.
          呼嘯的春風已經減弱,成了習習的微風。

          來自柯林斯例句

          3. If unused, winter radishes run to seed in spring.
          如果不去動的話,冬蘿卜會在春天開花結籽。

          來自柯林斯例句

          4. In the spring, the meadow is a mass of daffodils.
          春天,草地上開滿了黃水仙。

          來自柯林斯例句

          5. And all the time next spring's elections are drawing closer.
          明年春天的選舉即將來臨。

          來自柯林斯例句

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