英文词源
- boulder
- boulder: [13] Boulder is an abbreviated form of the original compound noun boulder-stone, which was a partial translation of a Scandinavian word which survives in Swedish dialect bullersten ‘large stone in a stream’. Sten is ‘stone’, of course, and buller is usually identified with Swedish buller ‘rumbling noise’, on the basis presumably of the sound of a stream gurgling over rocks. Boulder first appears on its own, outside the compound boulder-stone, in the 17th century.
- boulder (n.)
- 1670s, variant of Middle English bulder (c. 1300), from a Scandinavian source akin to Swedish dialectal bullersten "noisy stone" (large stone in a stream, causing water to roar around it), from bullra "to roar" + sten "stone." Or the first element might be from *buller- "round object," from Proto-Germanic *bul-, from PIE *bhel- (2) "to inflate, swell" (see bole).
中文词源
boulder：巨石
发音释义：['bəʊldə] n.巨石；大圆石；大卵石；冰砾（冰川所携带的大石头）；漂砾
词源解释：boulder←中古英语bulder stone←北欧日耳曼语系。与它类似的是瑞典方言bullersten，是bullra sten（轰鸣的石头）的缩写，表示河中的大石头，因为引发河水的轰鸣声而得名。
Boulder city：美国科罗拉多州波尔德市，有名的风光秀美的城市，位于落基山麓，丹佛市以北大约35英里。
词组习语：glacial boulder（冰川漂砾）；boulder clay（泥砾）
助记窍门：boulder→shoulder（肩膀）→用肩膀扛巨石→巨石
衍生词：bouldery（巨石的、多石的）
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：boulder 词源，boulder 含义。
boulder：大石头
词源同ball, 膨胀的，球。插入字母d.