bubble: [14] Several Germanic languages have words that sound like, and mean the same as, bubble – Swedish bubla, for instance, and Dutch bobbel – but all are relatively modern, and there is no evidence to link them to a common source. As likely as not, the whole family of bubble words represents ultimately an attempt to lexicalize the sound of bubbling, by blowing through nearly closed lips.
bubble (n.)
early 14c., perhaps from Middle Dutch bobbel (n.) and/or Middle Low German bubbeln (v.), all probably of echoic origin. Bubble bath first recorded 1949. Of financial schemes originally in South Sea Bubble (1590s), on notion of "fragile and insubstantial."
bubble (v.)
mid-15c., perhaps from bubble (n.) and/or from Middle Low German bubbeln (v.), probably of echoic origin. Related: Bubbled; bubbling.
实用例句
1. As she spoke she felt a bubble of optimism rising inside her.
当她讲话时，她感到内心的乐观情绪越来越高涨。
来自柯林斯例句
2. a bubble of oxygen
氧气泡
来自《权威词典》
3. News of the defeat quickly burst the bubble of our self - confidence .
失败的消息使我们的 自信心 迅速破灭了.
来自《简明英汉词典》
4. The bubble has burst.
气泡破了.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
5. The bombing plane bristled with machine - gun bubble s.
