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English Earrings Sort Worn 7080.Earring 英 ɪərɪŋ]美 ɪrɪŋ

正面 7080.earring
英 ['ɪərɪŋ]美 ['ɪrɪŋ]

背面
释义:
n. 耳环,耳饰v. 抽穗;听见(ear的ing形式)
例句:
1. She is wearing a small ruby earring.她戴着一枚红宝石小耳环.

1. over "above" + view.2. 高瞻远瞩,在上面、高处表示、引申为:全局、大局、整体。由此引申为:概述,概观,总的印象。

earring (n.)also ear-ring, Old English earhring, from ear (n.1) + hring (see ring (n.)). Another Old English word was earspinl. Now including any sort of ornament in the ear; the pendant sort originally were ear-drops (1720). Worn by Romanized Britons and Anglo-Saxons alike; their use declined in the Middle Ages and was reintroduced in England 16c., but after 17c. were worn there almost exclusively by women.The two groups which had formerly a near monopoly on male earrings were Gypsies and sailors. Both has the usual traditions about eyesight, but it was also said that sailors' earrings would save them from drowning, while others argued that should a sailor be drowned and washed up on some foreign shore, his gold earrings would pay for a proper Christian burial. ["Dictionary of English Folklore"]"

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