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Burg English Burrow Bourg Protect Fortress Source Place

正面 12466.burrow
英 ['bʌrəʊ]美 ['bɝro]

背面
释义:
vi. 探索,寻找;挖地洞,挖通道;住入地洞,躲藏起来;钻进某处;偎依著vt. 挖掘,挖出;在…挖洞(或通道);使躲入洞穴n. (兔、狐等的)洞穴,地道;藏身处,住处n. (Burrow)人名;(英)伯罗
例句:
1. As soon as the two chicks hatch, they leave the nest burrow.两只小鸟一出壳就离开了巢穴。

1. *burg- / *bourg- 'protect, fortress' (whence also bury), a variant of *berg- (source of English barrow 'mound' and German berg 'mountain, hill') and *borg- (source of English borrow).2. *burg- / *bourg- meaning began to change from 'fortress', through 'fortified town', to simply 'town'.3. *burg- 'protect, fortress' => burrow.4. => the place used to protect or fortress.5. burrow:扒肉。肉埋在洞里了,挖开洞把肉扒出来——挖洞;地洞。6. 谐音“扒喽,扒露”----扒开洞穴喽,扒开泥土露出洞穴。7. bury => burrow.
burrow 打洞词源同bury, 保护,埋藏。
burrowburrow: see boroughburrow (n.)"rabbit-hole, fox-hole, etc.," c. 1300, borewe, from Old English burgh "stronghold, fortress" (see borough); influenced by bergh "hill," and berwen "to defend, take refuge."burrow (v.)c. 1600, "to place in a burrow, from burrow (n.). Figuratively (such as to burrow (one's) head) by 1862. Intransitive sense, "to bore one's way into, penetrate" is from 1610s, originally figurative (literal sense, of animals, attested by 1771). Related: Burrowed; borrowing."

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