east

      英[i?st] 美[ist]
      • n. 東方;東風;東方國家
      • adj. 東方的;向東的;從東方來的
      • adv. 向東方,在東方
      • n. (East)人名;(英)伊斯特

      中文詞源


      east 東方的

      來自PIE*aus, 光照,照耀,詞源同aurora, aureate.

      英文詞源


      east
      east: [OE] Etymologically, east is the point of the compass at which the sun rises (and hence is a parallel formation to orient, which comes from a Latin word originally meaning ‘rising’). It goes back to an Indo-European base *aus-, source of a range of terms meaning not only ‘east’ but also ‘dawn’; Latin aurora, for instance, and Greek aúōs, had both senses.

      Its Germanic descendant, *austo-, produced German ost, Dutch oosten, Swedish ?ster, and English east (which was subsequently borrowed by French as est). It was also the source of *Austron, the name of a goddess of the prehistoric Germanic peoples, originally the dawn-goddess, whose festival occurred in spring. In Old English her name was ēastre, which is generally taken to be the ultimate source of English Easter (German Ostern ‘Easter’ has a parallel origin).

      => easter
      east
      Old English east, eastan (adj., adv.) "east, easterly, eastward;" easte (n.), from Proto-Germanic *aust- "east," literally "toward the sunrise" (cognates: Old Frisian ast "east," aster "eastward," Dutch oost Old Saxon ost, Old High German ostan, German Ost, Old Norse austr "from the east"), from PIE *aus- (1) "to shine," especially of the dawn (cognates: Sanskrit ushas "dawn;" Greek aurion "morning;" Old Irish usah, Lithuanian auszra "dawn;" Latin aurora "dawn," auster "south;" see aurora). The east is the direction in which dawn breaks. For theory of shift in the geographical sense in Latin, see Australia.

      As one of the four cardinal points of the compass, from c. 1200. Meaning "the eastern part of the world" (from Europe) is from c. 1300. Cold War use of East for "communist states" first recorded 1951. French est, Spanish este are borrowings from Middle English, originally nautical. The east wind in Biblical Palestine was scorching and destructive (as in Ezek. xvii:10); in New England it is bleak, wet, unhealthful. East End of London so called by 1846; East Side of Manhattan so called from 1871; East Indies (India and Southeast Asia) so called 1590s to distinguish them from the West Indies.

      雙語例句


      1. Big credits were given to East Germany by successive West German governments.
      歷屆西德政府給予東德大量的貸款。

      來自柯林斯例句

      2. Middle East peace talks in Washington showed signs of progress yesterday.
      昨天在華盛頓舉行的中東和談有了取得進展的跡象。

      來自柯林斯例句

      3. The river widens considerably as it begins to turn east.
      河流轉向東流時河道大幅度變寬。

      來自柯林斯例句

      4. We drove east to Rostock, where my map led me astray.
      我們驅車向東去羅斯托克,但地圖卻給我指錯了方向。

      來自柯林斯例句

      5. The agent spied for East Germany for more than twenty years.
      該特工人員為東德做了20多年的間諜。

      來自柯林斯例句


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