nightingale: [OE] The nightingale’s name, appropriately enough, means literally ‘nightsinger’. It represents a 13th-century alteration of an earlier nihtgale, which goes back to a prehistoric Germanic compound formed from *nakht ‘night’ and *galan ‘sing’ (a relative of English yell [OE] and possibly of gale). Related Germanic forms include German nachtigall, Dutch nachtegaal, Swedish näktergal, and Danish nattergal.
nightingale (n.)
Old English næctigalæ, nihtegale, compound formed in Proto-Germanic (cognates: Dutch nachtegaal, German Nachtigall) from *nakht- "night" (see night) + *galon "to sing," related to Old English giellan "yell" (see yell (v.)). With parasitic -n- that appeared mid-13c. Dutch nightingale "frog" is attested from 1769. In Japanese, "nightingale floor" is said to be the term for boards that creak when you walk on them.
French rossignol (Old French lousseignol) is, with Spanish ruiseñor, Portuguese rouxinol, Italian rosignuolo, from Vulgar Latin *rosciniola, dissimilated from Latin lusciniola "nightingale," diminutive of luscinia "nightingale."
实用例句
1. I had promised Nightingale to attend the lecture.
我已答应南丁格尔参加演讲.
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2. Let me introduce you to my friend Nightingale.
让我把你介绍给我的朋友南丁格尔.
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3. Men don't buy the Florence Nightingale garbage they teach in nursing school.
男性不会接受护理学校传授的弗洛伦斯·南丁格尔那陈旧的一套.
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4. I fired that question right back at the nightingale.
我是直接向夜莺提问的.
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5. Even from the first, the words went wrong , the catbird pecked away the nightingale.
