browse

英 [bra?z] 美[bra?z]

近義詞feed graze

CET4TEM4IELTSGRE考研低頻詞核心詞匯

第三人稱單數(shù):?browses;過去式:?browsed;過去分詞:?browsed;現(xiàn)在分詞:?browsing;

browse 瀏覽，牛羊吃草

來自PIE *bhreus, 膨脹，生長(zhǎng)。詞源同breast, 胸部。指長(zhǎng)出來的嫩芽，蓓蕾，后引申為牛羊吃草，瀏覽。

browse: browse: [16] Although the noun has now largely died out, browse was originally both a verb and a noun, and appears to come from Old French broust, brost ‘young shoots, twigs’ (hence the verb meant originally ‘feed on such shoots’). The source of the French word is not clear, but it is probably ultimately Germanic; a certain similarity in form and meaning has suggested a connection with the Old Saxon verb brustian ‘bud’ which, if it were so, would mean that browse is related to breast. The modern figurative sense, applied to shops, libraries, etc seems to be 19th-century.
browse (v.): mid-15c., "feed on buds," from Middle French brouster, from Old French broster "to sprout, bud," from brost "young shoot, twig," probably from Proto-Germanic *brust- "bud, shoot," from PIE *bhreus- "to swell, sprout" (see breast (n.)). Lost its final -t in English on the mistaken notion that the letter was a past participle inflection. Figurative extension to "peruse" (books) is 1870s, American English. Related: Browsed; browsing.

1. Slow music encourages supermarket-shoppers to browse longer but spend more.: 舒緩的音樂會(huì)促使超市購(gòu)物者花更長(zhǎng)的時(shí)間瀏覽商品的同時(shí)花更多的錢。