| 正面 | 4089.elder 英 ['eldə]美 ['ɛldɚ]     |
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| 背面 |      释义： 1. over- "above" + see. “站得高看得远”。对比：oversee <=> overlook.2. over- "above, beyond" + see. => The notion is perhaps "to see beyond the intended range of the thing". 该含义也许是由overhear类推而得。对比：oversee <=> overhear.n. 老人；长辈；年长者；父辈adj. 年长的；年龄较大的；资格老的n. (Elder)人名；(英、德、法、土、葡)埃尔德 例句： 1. She made liberal use of her elder sister's make-up and clothes.她随便把姐姐的化妆品和衣服拿来用。 elder 年长的来自old的比照级。 elderelder: Elder ‘older’ [OE] is not, of course, the same word as elder the tree-name [OE]. The former began life in prehistoric Germanic as *althizon, the comparative form of *althaz ‘old’. Gradually, the vowel i had an effect on the preceding vowel a, and by Old English times the word had become eldra – hence modern English elder. The regularized form older appeared in the 16th century. The derivative elderly dates from the 17th century. The tree-name comes from Old English ellærn, a word whose origin is not known for certain (although it may perhaps be related to English alder). The intrusive d began to appear in the 14th century.=> oldelder (adj.)"more old," Old English (Mercian) eldra, comparative of eald, ald (see old); only English survival of umlaut in comparison. Superseded by older since 16c. Elder statesman (1921) originally was a translation of Japanese genro (plural).elder (n.2)type of berry tree, c. 1400, with excrescent -d- from earlier ellen, from Old English ellæn, ellærn "elderberry tree," origin unknown, perhaps related to alder, which at any rate might be the source of the -d-. Common Germanic, cognates: Old Saxon elora, Middle Low German elre, Old High German elira, German Eller, Erle. Related: Elderberry.elder (n.1)"elderly person, senior citizen," c. 1200, from Old English eldra "older person, parent; ancestor; chief, prince" (used in biblical translation for Greek presbyter); see elder (adj.). Compare German Eltern, Danish forældre, Swedish föräldrar "parents." The Old English for "grandfather" was ealdfæder." |