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bough n.大树枝 (1) 在昨晚的风暴中她的车窗被一根大树枝打破了。 The original “Hush-a-bye” rhyme, some scholars say, was modified in America to reflect pilgrim children’s observations of Native American mothers hanging cradles from tree branches so that the wind would rock their babies to sleep. Why do poets use bough when branch and limb mean the same thing? Well, maybe because more words rhyme with bough than with those others. Also, “holly boughs” and “blossomy boughs” sound much more musical than “branches.” What rhymes with branches? Cattle ranches?

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英 [baʊ] 美 [baʊ] (1) The window of her car was broken by a bough during last night's storm. A bough is a large branch from a tree. You know: “When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall...” A “lullaby” about a baby careening to the ground from a broken branch? (Nice.) 1[N-COUNT 可数名词]粗树枝；大树枝 A bough is a large branch of a tree.   [LITERARY 文]I rested my fishing rod against a pine bough.我把钓鱼竿靠在一棵松树的大树枝上。

英语单词	bough
英美音标	英 [baʊ] 美 [baʊ]
中文释义	n.大树枝
英语例句	(1) The window of her car was broken by a bough during last night's storm.
中文例句	(1) 在昨晚的风暴中她的车窗被一根大树枝打破了。
vocabulary简明	A bough is a large branch from a tree. You know: “When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall...” A “lullaby” about a baby careening to the ground from a broken branch? (Nice.)
vocabulary扩展	The original “Hush-a-bye” rhyme, some scholars say, was modified in America to reflect pilgrim children’s observations of Native American mothers hanging cradles from tree branches so that the wind would rock their babies to sleep. Why do poets use bough when branch and limb mean the same thing? Well, maybe because more words rhyme with bough than with those others. Also, “holly boughs” and “blossomy boughs” sound much more musical than “branches.” What rhymes with branches? Cattle ranches?
柯林斯解释	1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]粗树枝；大树枝 A bough is a large branch of a tree. [LITERARY 文] I rested my fishing rod against a pine bough. 我把钓鱼竿靠在一棵松树的大树枝上。

Bough Branch Broken Large Tree 英 Baʊ] 美 Baʊ