bight
英 [ba?t]
美[ba?t]
- n. 海灣，繩圈；曲線
暢通詞匯
中文詞源
bight 海灣
詞源同bow, 彎，形容海灣諸多彎彎角角。
英文詞源
- bight
- bight: see bow
- bight (n.)
- Old English byht "bend, angle, corner" (related to bow), from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz (cognates: Middle Low German bucht, German Bucht, Dutch bocht, Danish bught "bight, bay"), from PIE root *bheug- (3) "to bend," with derivatives referring to bent, pliable, or curved objects (cognates: Old English beag, Old High German boug "ring;" see bow (v.)). Sense of "indentation on a coastline" is from late 15c.
雙語例句
- 1. the Great Australian Bight
- 大澳大利亞灣
來自《權威詞典》
- 2. A country of west - central Africa on the Bight of Biafra.
- 喀麥隆靠近比夫拉灣的一個中西非國家.
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