yard是什么意思_yard怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings);"they opened a repair yard on the edge of town"

the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100

a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)

a tract of land where logs are accumulated

an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines

a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen

an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)

中英词源

yard 庭院

来自PIE*gher,围，围场，词源同garden.字母g,y的音变来自旧时书写混淆的产物。

yard 桁，桅横杆，码

来自PIE*ghazdh,杆，棍，来自PIE*ghei,刺，击，词源同gad,goad。后该词用以指船上的桅杆以及用做固定的长度单位。比较fathom.

yard: yard: Yard ‘enclosed area’ [OE] and yard ‘three feet’ [OE] are distinct words, both of ancient ancestry. The former probably goes back ultimately to Indo-European *ghorto-, which also produced Latin cohors ‘court’ (source of English cohort and court) and hortus ‘garden’ (source of English horticulture) and Russian gorod ‘town’ (as in Leningrad).

Its prehistoric Germanic descendant was *gard-, which, as well as providing English with yard, has produced garden, garth [14] (via Old Norse), and the second syllable of orchard. Yard ‘three feet’ originally meant ‘stick, rod’ (a sense preserved nautically, as in yardarm [16]). It goes back ultimately to prehistoric Germanic *gazdaz ‘pointed stick’ (source of the gad of gadfly [16], etymologically the fly with the ‘sting’).

From this was derived West Germanic *gazdjō, which evolved into German gerte ‘sapling, riding cane’, Dutch gard ‘twig, rod’, and English yard. The Anglo-Saxons used the term as a unit of measurement of land, equal to about five metres (what later became known as a rod, pole, or perch), but its modern use for ‘three feet’ did not emerge until the 14th century.
=> cohort, court, garden, garth, horticulture, orchard; gadfly
yard (n.1): "patch of ground around a house," Old English geard "fenced enclosure, garden, court; residence, house," from Proto-Germanic *gardaz (cognates: Old Norse garðr "enclosure, garden, yard;" Old Frisian garda, Dutch gaard, Old High German garto, German Garten "garden;" Gothic gards "house," garda "stall"), from PIE *ghor-to-, suffixed form of root *gher- (1) "to grasp, enclose," with derivatives meaning "enclosure" (cognates: Old English gyrdan "to gird," Sanskrit ghra- "house," Albanian garth "hedge," Latin hortus "garden," Phrygian -gordum "town," Greek khortos "pasture," Old Irish gort "field," Breton garz "enclosure, garden," and second element in Latin cohors "enclosure, yard, company of soldiers, multitude").

Lithuanian gardas "pen, enclosure," Old Church Slavonic gradu "town, city," and Russian gorod, -grad "town, city" belong to this group, but linguists dispute whether they are independent developments or borrowings from Germanic. As "college campus enclosed by the main buildings," 1630s. In railway usage, "ground adjacent to a train station or terminus, used for switching or coupling trains," 1827. Yard sale is attested by 1976.
yard (n.2): measure of length, Old English gerd (Mercian), gierd (West Saxon) "rod, staff, stick; measure of length," from West Germanic *gazdijo, from Proto-Germanic *gazdjo- "stick, rod" (cognates: Old Saxon gerda, Old Frisian ierde, Dutch gard "rod;" Old High German garta, German gerte "switch, twig," Old Norse gaddr "spike, sting, nail"), from PIE root *ghazdh-o- "rod, staff, pole" (cognates: Latin hasta "shaft, staff"). The nautical yard-arm retains the original sense of "stick."

Originally in Anglo-Saxon times a land measure of roughly 5 meters (a length later called rod, pole, or perch). Modern measure of "three feet" is attested from late 14c. (earlier rough equivalent was the ell of 45 inches, and the verge). In Middle English and after, the word also was a euphemism for "penis" (as in "Love"s Labour"s Lost," V.ii.676). Slang meaning "one hundred dollars" first attested 1926, American English. Middle English yerd (Old English gierd) also was "yard-land, yard of land," a varying measure but often about 30 acres or a quarter of a hide.

词态变化

复数 yards;

权威造句

1. The train backed out of Adelaide Yard on to the Dublin-Belfast line.: 火车倒出了阿德莱德调车场，开上了都柏林-贝尔法斯特线。

2. I stumbled through mud to a yard strewn with straw.: 我跌跌撞撞地趟过泥地来到一个堆满麦秆的场院。

3. He was frog-marched through the kitchen and out into the yard.: 他被扭住双臂强推着走过厨房，来到院子里。

4. She sat on a chair in the flagged yard.: 她坐在铺着石板的庭院里的一把椅子上。

5. Scotland Yard had assured him he was not under suspicion.: 伦敦警察厅已经向他保证，他没有被视为可疑分子。

近反义词

court

garden

enclosure

playground

square

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by the yard 论码计算,按码出售

the Yard 伦敦警察厅

The Yard 伦敦警察厅, 伦敦警察厅刑事部

church yard 教堂墓地

cubic yard n. 立方码

vine yard 葡萄园

yard sale 旧家具旧衣物的拍卖

yard up v. 集居

bloom yard 初轧方坯仓库

navy yard n.海军工厂,海军船坞

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