正面 | 12897.thunder 英 ['θʌndə]美 ['θʌndɚ] ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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背面 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 释义: 1. ton- "thunder" 与 thunder 同源。2. ton- "thunder" => thun- "thunder" + -d- (intrusive -d-) + -er.3. 谐音“闪的、声大”。n. 雷;轰隆声;恐吓vi. 打雷;怒喝vt. 轰隆地发出;大声喊出 例句: 1. The rolls of distant thunder were growing more ominous.远处隆隆的雷声听着愈发惊心,要变天了。 thunder 打雷,雷电,雷声来自古英语 thunor,雷电,雷声,雷神索尔,来自 Proto-Germanic*thunraz,打雷,来自 PIE*stene, 回响,打雷,可能为拟声词,词源同 astonish,Thursday.插入字母 d,可能是受 sound 影响。 thunderthunder: [OE] Etymologically, thunder is nothing more than ‘noise’. In common with German donner, Dutch donder, and Danish torden, it goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *thonara-. This was descended from the Indo- European base *ton-, *tn- ‘resound’, which also produced the Latin verb tonāre ‘thunder’ (source of English astound, detonate, and stun) and the Latin noun tonitrus ‘thunder’ (source of French tonnerre ‘thunder’). Thursday is etymologically the ‘day of thunder’.=> astound, detonate, stun, thursday, tornadothunder (n.)mid-13c., from Old English þunor "thunder, thunderclap; the god Thor," from Proto-Germanic *thunraz (cognates: Old Norse þorr, Old Frisian thuner, Middle Dutch donre, Dutch donder, Old High German donar, German Donner "thunder"), from PIE *(s)tene- "to resound, thunder" (cognates: Sanskrit tanayitnuh "thundering," Persian tundar "thunder," Latin tonare "to thunder"). Swedish tordön is literally "Thor's din." The intrusive -d- also is found in Dutch and Icelandic versions of the word. Thunder-stick, imagined word used by primitive peoples for "gun," attested from 1904.thunder (v.)13c., from Old English þunrian, from the source of thunder (n.). Figurative sense of "to speak loudly, threateningly, or bombastically" is recorded from mid-14c. Related: Thundered; thundering. Compare Dutch donderen, German donnern." |
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