英文词源
- eerie
- eerie: [13] Eerie seems to come ultimately from Old English earg ‘cowardly’, a descendant of prehistoric Germanic *arg-, although the connection has not been established for certain. It emerged in Scotland and northern England in the 13th century in the sense ‘cowardly, fearful’, and it was not until the 18th century that it began to veer round semantically from ‘afraid’ to ‘causing fear’. Burns was one of the first to use it so in print: ‘Be thou a bogle by the eerie side of an auld thorn’. In the course of the 19th century its use gradually spread further south to become general English.
- eerie (adj.)
- also eery, c. 1300, "timid, affected by superstitious fear," north England and Scottish variant of Old English earg "cowardly, fearful, craven, vile, wretched, useless," from Proto-Germanic *argaz (cognates: Old Frisian erg "evil, bad," Middle Dutch arch "bad," Dutch arg, Old High German arg "cowardly, worthless," German arg "bad, wicked," Old Norse argr "unmanly, voluptuous," Swedish arg "malicious"). Sense of "causing fear because of strangeness" is first attested 1792. Finnish arka "cowardly" is a Germanic loan-word.
实用例句
- 1. This eerie calm is an illusion.
- 这种怪诞的平静是一种假象。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. an eerie yellow light
- 神秘兮兮的黄灯
来自《权威词典》
- 3. It's eerie to walk through a dark wood at night.
- 夜晚在漆黑的森林中行走很是恐怖.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 4. As I entered the corridor which led to my room that eerie feeling came over me.
- 走进通往我房间的走廊时，那种怪异恐怖的感觉包围了我。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. The film has eerie parallels with the drama being played out in real life.
- 这部电影和现实生活中发生的一系列戏剧性事件有着诡异的巧合之处。
来自柯林斯例句
