wharf: [OE] Wharf has relatives in German werft ‘wharf, shipyard’ and Dutch werf ‘shipyard’. All three appear to go back to a prehistoric Germanic base *(kh)werb-, *(kh)warb- ‘turn’, which also produced German werfen ‘throw’ and English warp. => version, warp
wharf (n.)
late Old English hwearf "shore, bank where ships can tie up," earlier "dam, embankment," from Proto-Germanic *hwarfaz (cognates: Middle Low German werf "mole, dam, wharf," German Werft "shipyard, dockyard"); related to Old English hwearfian "to turn," perhaps in a sense implying "busy activity," from PIE root *kwerp- "to turn, revolve" (cognates: Old Norse hverfa "to turn round," German werben "to enlist, solicit, court, woo," Gothic hvairban "to wander," Greek kartos "wrist," Sanskrit surpam "winnowing fan"). Wharf rat is from 1812 as "type of rat common on ships and docks;" extended sense "person who hangs around docks" is recorded from 1836.
实用例句
1. At Dorset Wharf go left to rejoin the river.
在多塞特码头向左返回河道。
来自柯林斯例句
2. We fetch up at the wharf exactly on time.
我们准时到达码头.
来自《简明英汉词典》
3. The ship lies alongside the wharf.
那艘船停靠在码头边.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
4. Canary Wharf was set to provide 10 million square feet of office space.
金丝雀码头计划要提供1,000万平方英尺的办公面积。
来自柯林斯例句
5. They'd already driven along the wharf so that she could point out her father's boat.
