ebony是什么意思

ebony

英 ['eb(?)n?] 美 ['?b?ni]

ebony 烏木

來自拉丁詞ebenus, 烏木。

ebony: ebony: [15] Ebony is ultimately of Semitic origin. The Greeks took it from some Middle Eastern source, perhaps Egyptian hbnj, and turned it into ébenos. This made its way via Latin ebenus, later ebanus, and Old French eban into English. At first English simply used the French form (which as ebon survived into modern times as an archaism), but from the 16th century forms ending in -y began to supersede it.
ebony (n.): dark, hard wood favored for carving, musical instruments, etc., 1590s, perhaps an extended form of Middle English ebon, or from hebenyf (late 14c.), perhaps a Middle English misreading of Latin hebeninus "of ebony," from Greek ebeninos, from ebenos "ebony," probably from Egyptian hbnj or another Semitic source. Figurative use to suggest intense blackness is from 1620s. As an adjective, "of ebony, made of ebony," from 1590s; in reference to skin color of Africans, by 1813. French ébène, Old High German ebenus (German Ebenholz) are from Latin ebenus.

2. The straight white part in her ebony hair seemed to divide the back of her head in half.: 她烏黑的頭發中有條筆直的白色分縫，仿佛將她的后腦勺一分為二。

3. Inside the ebony case was a magnificent silver casket, about twelve inches square by eight high.: 在這個黑檀箱子里, 有一個十二寸見方,八寸高的精美絕倫的銀匣子.

5. A queen sat at her window and embroidered on an ebony frame.: 有一位皇后坐在窗邊在黑檀木的框上刺繡.