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Wicker Weak Weik Bend Twine Notion Pliant Swedish

正面 12011.wicker
英 ['wɪkə]美 ['wɪkɚ]

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释义:
n. 柳条;枝条;柳条制品adj. 柳条编织的;装在柳条编织物里的n. (Wicker)人名;(英、德)威克
例句:
1. The living room is furnished simply with wicker furniture.客厅里简单地摆放着几件柳编家具。

1. weak => wicker.2. vice-, vicar, weak => *weik- (4) "to bend, wind, turn, twine" => wicker.3. The notion is of pliant twigs.4. 英国电影《柳条人》:《The Wicker Man》:被誉为与《驱魔人》、《凶兆》并驾齐驱的三大经典恐怕片。5. 谐音“苇客儿”------编织芦苇的人。
wicker 柳条来自PIE*weik,弯,转,编织,词源同wicket,vicarious.用于指柳条。
wicker (n.)mid-14c., "wickerwork," from a Scandinavian source (compare Danish viger, Middle Swedish viker "willow, willow branch"), from Proto-Germanic *wik- (cognates: Old Norse vikja "to move, turn," Swedish vika "to bend," Old English wican "to give way, yield"), from PIE root *weik- (4) "to bend, twine" (see weak). The notion is of pliant twigs. As an adjective, "made of wicker," from c. 1500."

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