eagle

英 ['i?g(?)l] 美['igl]

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復數:?eagles;

鷹 eagle 翼鉤(嘴成鉤狀、有翼有鉤) --- 鷹鉤

eagle 雕

來自拉丁詞aquila, 鷹，見aquiline.

eagle: eagle: [14] Eagle comes via Old French aigle from Latin aquila (source also of English aquiline [17]). This was presumably a derivative of the adjective aquilus ‘dark-coloured’, suggesting that the eagle’s name originally signified simply ‘dark-coloured bird’ (Greek had the term melanáetos ‘black eagle’). Before the French word was introduced, the English term for ‘eagle’ was erne, which still survives dialectally.
=> aquiline
eagle (n.): mid-14c., from Old French egle, from Old Proven?al aigla, from Latin aquila "black eagle," fem. of aquilus, often explained as "dark colored" (bird); see aquiline. The native term was erne. Golf score sense is by 1908 (according to old golf sources, because it "soars higher" than a birdie). As the name of a U.S. $10 coin minted from 1792 to 1933, established in the 1786 resolution for a new monetary system (but at first only the desperately needed small copper coins were minted). The figurative eagle-eyed is attested from c. 1600.

1. Three cannabis plants were found by eagle-eyed police officers.: 火眼金睛的警官發現了3株大麻。

2. Eagle Star offers a 10% discount to the over-55s.: 鷹星公司給予年齡在55歲以上的顧客10％的折扣。

3. She knew the exact location of The Eagle's headquarters.: 她知道“飛鷹”總部的確切地點。

4. The eagle is the animal most sacred to the Native Americans.: 對印第安人來說，鷹是最神圣的動物。