burgess
英 ['b??d??s]
美 ['b?d??s]
- n. （英）自由民；市民；議員；（美）鎮(zhèn)行政官
- n. (Burgess)人名；(德)布格斯；(英)伯吉斯
助記提示
1. *burg- / *bourg- 'protect, fortress' (whence also bury), a variant of *berg- (source of English barrow 'mound' and German berg 'mountain') and *borg- (source of English borrow).
2. *burg- / *bourg- meaning began to change from 'fortress', through 'fortified town', to simply 'town'.
3. *burg- + -ess (variant of French suffix -eis, or contracted from Latin suffix -ensis) => burgess.
4. => citizen of a borough.
英文詞源
- burgess
- burgess: see borough
- burgess (n.)
- c. 1200, burgeis "citizen of a borough," from Old French borjois (Modern French bourgeois), from Late Latin burgensis (see bourgeois). Applied from late 15c. to borough representatives in Parliament and used later in Virginia and other colonies used to denote members of the legislative body, while in Pennsylvania, etc., it meant "member of the governing council of a borough."
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. In 1998 Burgess and Fuller discuss the problem again and showed the more inclusive result.
- 1998年Burgess和Fuller又 進(jìn)一步證明了此問(wèn)題,并得到了更廣泛的結(jié)果.
來(lái)自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
- 2. " Well , Burgess deserves it -- he will never get another congregation here.
- " 可伯杰斯遭人恨是活該呀 -- 在這塊地方,他再也別想有人聽他布道了.
來(lái)自英漢文學(xué) - 敗壞赫德萊堡
- 3. There was another puzzled man, too -- the Rev. Mr. Burgess.
- 還有一個(gè)人百思不得其解 -- 這就是伯杰斯牧師.
來(lái)自英漢文學(xué) - 敗壞赫德萊堡
- 4. You know the thing that was charged against Burgess years ago.
- 你們都知道好多年以前大家怪罪伯杰斯的那件事.
來(lái)自英漢文學(xué) - 敗壞赫德萊堡
- 5. Burgess was taxed with this and stoutly denied it.
- 伯杰斯為此受到了責(zé)難,但是他自己堅(jiān)決否認(rèn)有這回事.
來(lái)自英漢文學(xué) - 敗壞赫德萊堡