gossamer
英 ['g?s?m?]
美['ɡɑs?m?]
- n. 蛛絲；薄紗；小蜘蛛網
- adj. 輕飄飄的；薄弱的
GRE暢通詞匯
中文詞源
gossamer 蛛絲，薄紗
gos, 鵝。-samer, 來自summer的變體，指深秋的短暫的陽氣回升時節(jié)，小陽春。因這個時候常會出現形似鵝毛的蛛絲，或因這個時節(jié)為吃鵝正當令而得名。后指一種絲織品。
英文詞源
- gossamer
- gossamer: [14] It would be pleasant to think that gossamer, originally ‘fine cobwebs’, is a descendant of an earlier goose-summer, but unfortunately there is not enough evidence to make this more than a conjecture. The theory goes as follows: mid-autumn is a time when geese for the table are plentiful (November was once known as g?nsemonat ‘geese-month’ in German), and so a warm period around then might have been termed goose-summer (we now call it an Indian summer); the silken filaments of gossamer are most commonly observed floating in the air on such warm autumnal days; and so the spiders’ webs were christened with the name of the season.
- gossamer (n.)
- c. 1300, "filmy substance (actually spider threads) found in fields of stubble in late fall," apparently from gos "goose" (see goose (n.)) + sumer "summer" (see summer (n.)). Not found in Old English. The reference might be to a fancied resemblance of the silk to goose down, or more likely it is shifted from an original sense of "late fall; Indian summer" because geese are in season then. Compare Swedish equivalent sommartrad "summer thread," Dutch zommerdraden (plural). The German equivalent m?dchensommer (literally "girls' summer") also has a sense of "Indian summer," and there was a Scottish go-summer "period of summer-like weather in late autumn" (1640s, folk-etymologized as if from go). Thus the English word originally might have referred to a warm spell in autumn before being transferred to a phenomenon especially noticeable then. Compare obsolete Scottish go-summer "period of summer-like weather in late autumn." Meaning "anything light or flimsy" is from c. 1400; as a type of gauze used for veils, 1837. The adjective sense "filmy, light as gossamer" is attested from 1802.
雙語例句
- 1. a gown of gossamer silk
- 絲綢女裙服
來自《權威詞典》
- 2. Gossamer is floating in calm air.
- 空中飄浮著游絲.
來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》
- 3. The prince helped the princess, who was still in her delightful gossamer gown.
- 王子攙扶著仍穿著那套美麗薄紗晚禮服的公主。
來自辭典例句
- 4. The Gossamer Conder, a human - powered airplane, flew into aviation history on Aug. 23,1977.
- 1977年8月23日, “飄忽禿鷹”式人力飛機載入了航空史冊.
來自辭典例句
- 5. Binding wire yarn Gossamer Threads, flaxen thread, etrieve and etc.
- 裝訂用線有蠟線 、 絲線 、 麻線、合成纖維線等.
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