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正面 12050.beaver
英 ['biːvə]美 ['bivɚ]

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释义:
n. 海狸;海狸皮毛n. (Beaver)人名;(英)比弗
例句:
1. Ask young Harry to do it — he's still an eager beaver and wants to impress by his willingness.请年轻的亨利干吧——他仍然是个雄心勃勃的人,并努力使人对他的投入留下深刻印象.

1. glass => glaze.2. 类推对比:brass => braze.
beaver 海狸来自PIE *bhebhrus, 词根重复构词,来自词根bher, 棕色的,见bear, 熊。
beaverbeaver: [OE] Like bear, beaver appears to mean etymologically ‘brown animal’. Old English beofor or befor came from a prehistoric West and North Germanic *bebruz, which in turn went back to an Indo-European *bhebhrús, a derivative of the base *bhru- ‘brown’. Other words for ‘beaver’ from the same source include Czech bobr, Lithuanian bebrùs, and Latin fiber.beaver (n.)Old English beofor, befer (earlier bebr), from Proto-Germanic *bebruz (cognates: Old Saxon bibar, Old Norse bjorr, Middle Dutch and Dutch bever, Low German bever, Old High German bibar, German Biber), from PIE *bhebhrus, reduplication of root *bher- (3) "brown, bright" (cognates: Lithuanian bebrus, Czech bobr, Welsh befer; see bear (n.) for the likely reason for this). Gynecological sense ("female genitals, especially with a display of pubic hair") is 1927 British slang, transferred from earlier meaning "a bearded man" (1910), from the appearance of split beaver pelts."

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