flower:有花堪折直须折
ba-是bi-的变体,表“二”,-ance是后缀,L形表木棒、平衡木,这里指两边相当的,即平衡、抵消。
例句:
Now you are ready to set up the secure register balance accounting system.
现在您已经准备好安装安全的收银机结算系统。
B形表柱子、棍棒,比喻指栏杆,这里指栏杆隔离出来的阳台、包厢等。
例句:
Floral dream, in the moonlight, sitting in the balcony, facing the garden flowers,as if touched my heart what.
花香如梦,在月光下,坐在露台上,面对着满园花开,我的心仿佛触到了什么。
B形表柱子的形状,这里比喻指田埂,后抽象指障碍。与balcony同根。
例句:
Needless to say, Republicans won't go along with anything like this. They balkeven at the president's modest plan.
不必说,共和党人是不会同意的。他们会阻碍奥巴马政府计划。
B形表柱子形状,比喻指光线、梁、平衡木。
例句:
The high intensity of a laser beam makes it a convenient drill .
激光束的强度极高,这就使它成为一种方便的钻孔工具。
拟声词,属于次要拟声,即无声的动作引起人们对声音的联想。指迅速爆开或膨胀的动作,如开花等,引申指“被迅速踢出的球”。
例句:
on countless occasions he was in no mans land, running all over the box butnowhere near the ball.
我无数次看到他象只无头苍蝇一样在禁区横冲直撞,却总是碰不到球。
拟声词,与ball同根,指开花的。
例句:
Perhaps we have had such an agreement: to be turned together to see cirrusclouds, the flowers bloom.
也许我们有过这样的约定:要一起去看云卷云翻,花开花落。
拟声词,花儿无声却迅速开放的瞬间,引起声音的联想,如:我们可能会说:花儿,唰地开了。
例句:
I've heard that all flowers are in blossom in Beihai, let me push you to have alook.
听说北海的花儿都开了,我推着你去走走。
拟声词。源自原始印欧语词根 *bhel-(膨胀、开花)。至于B如何变成F,词源里没有给出合理解释。魔法师猜测,可能是清浊辅音字母通知,即F=Ph=P=B。不过,这个解释,就否定了笔者早期的研究结果,即F表木栓、木钉,flower即指拴住枝头、掉不下来的花朵。各位读者,把这种解释看作速记的方法吧。
其他同根的拟声词还有: blade; bleed; bless; blood; blow (v.) bloom; blossom; cauliflower; chervil; cinquefoil; deflower; defoliation; effloresce; exfoliate; feuilleton; flora; floral; floret; florid; florin; florist; flour; flourish; flower; foil (n.) ; foliage; folio; folium; gillyflower; Phyllis; phyllo-; portfolio; trefoil.
(标红部分,表示前期研究中,造词理据的解释可能有误)