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正面 1409.broad
英 [brɔːd]美 [brɔd]

背面
释义:
adj. 宽的,辽阔的;显著的;大概的n. 宽阔部分adv. 宽阔地n. (Broad)人名;(英、德)布罗德
例句:
1. The hills rise green and sheer above the broad river.这些小山碧绿陡峭,矗立在这条宽阔的河流之上。

move 移动——movie电影(电影通过移动画面来放映)
broad 宽的词源不详。可能来自break, 分开。比较wide, 宽,来自PIE *wi, 分开,原义见widow, 寡妇。
broadbroad: [OE] Broad’s close relatives are widespread in the Germanic languages (German breit, for example, Dutch breed, and Swedish bred), pointing to a prehistoric Germanic ancestor *braithaz, but no trace of the word is found in any non-Germanic Indo-European language. The original derived noun was brede, which was superseded in the 16th century by breadth. The 20th-century American slang noun use ‘woman’ may come from an obsolete American compound broadwife, short for abroadwife, meaning ‘woman away from her husband’; this was a term applied to female slaves in relation to their new ‘masters’.=> breadthbroad (adj.)Old English brad "broad, flat, open, extended," from Proto-Germanic *braithaz (cognates: Old Frisian bred, Old Norse breiðr, Dutch breed, German breit, Gothic brouþs), which is of unknown origin. Not found outside Germanic languages. No clear distinction in sense from wide. Related: Broadly. Broad-brim as a style of hat (1680s, broad-brimmed) in 18c.-19c. suggested "Quaker male" from their characteristic attire.broad (n.)"woman," slang, 1911, perhaps suggestive of broad (adj.) hips, but it also might trace to American English abroadwife, word for a woman (often a slave) away from her husband. Earliest use of the slang word suggests immorality or coarse, low-class women. Because of this negative association, and the rise of women's athletics, the track and field broad jump was changed to the long jump c. 1967."

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