Hun
英[h?n]
美
- n. 匈奴人；野蠻人；德國兵
中文詞源
Hun 德國佬
來自古英語Hun,中亞地區(qū)游牧部落，來自土耳其語Hun-yu,即中國漢朝時北方少數(shù)民族匈奴，在公元4世紀(jì)時橫掃歐洲，被成為野蠻的代名詞。在一戰(zhàn)時期該詞用來指德國佬。
英文詞源
- Hun
- Old English, person from a tribe from central Asia that overran Europe in the 4c. and 5c., from Medieval Latin Hunni, apparently ultimately from Turkic Hun-yü, the name of a tribe (they were known in China as Han or Hiong-nu). Figurative sense of "reckless destroyer of beauty" is from 1806. Applied to the German in World War I by their enemies because of stories of atrocities, but the nickname originally was urged on German soldiers bound for China by Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1900, which caused a scandal.
雙語例句
- 1. Hun-garian businessmen have had a head start over most of their Eastern European neighbors.
- 匈牙利商人已經(jīng)領(lǐng)先于東歐鄰國的大多數(shù)同行了。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Prime Minister Hun Sen has sought to steer a course between the two groups.
- 洪森首相設(shè)法游走于兩個集團(tuán)之間。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. The fifth century was the Hun's century.
- 5世紀(jì)是匈奴的世紀(jì).
來自英漢非文學(xué) - 歷史
- 4. Let the Hun do that.
- 讓德國佬去干那種事兒.
來自演講部分
- 5. But these great Hun raids practically consummated the end of the Latin Roman Empire.
- 不過這些大規(guī)模的匈奴襲擊實際上促成了拉丁語系羅馬帝國的滅亡.
來自英漢非文學(xué) - 歷史