narrow: [OE] Narrow comes from a prehistoric Germanic *narwaz, whose only other modern representative is Dutch naar ‘unpleasant, sad’ (although it also occurs in Norva-sund, the Old Norse term for the ‘Straits of Gibraltar’). It is not known for certain where it comes from, but a connection has been suggested with Latin nervus ‘sinew, bowstring’ (source of English nerve) and Old High German snuor ‘string’, which might point back to an ancestral sense ‘tying together tightly’.
narrow (adj.)
Old English nearu "narrow, constricted, limited; petty; causing difficulty, oppressive; strict, severe," from West Germanic *narwaz "narrowness" (cognates: Frisian nar, Old Saxon naru, Middle Dutch nare, Dutch naar); not found in other Germanic languages and of unknown origin. The narrow seas (c. 1400) were the waters between Great Britain and the continent and Ireland. Related: Narrowness.
narrow (n.)
c. 1200, nearewe "narrow part, place, or thing," from narrow (adj.). Old English nearu (n.) meant "danger, distress, difficulty," also "prison, hiding place."
narrow (v.)
Old English nearwian "to force in, cramp, confine; become smaller, shrink;" see narrow (adj.). Related: Narrowed; narrowing.
雙語例句
1. Sailing boats lay at anchor in the narrow waterway.
帆船停泊在狹窄的水道上。
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2. He squeezed through a narrow opening in the fence.
他從圍欄上的狹窄缺口里擠了過去。
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3. He was criticised for being boring, strait-laced and narrow-minded.
他被指無趣乏味，古板守舊，心胸狹窄。
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4. The voters gave a narrow win to Vargas Llosa.
投票者使巴爾加斯·略薩險勝.
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5. I hear you had a very narrow escape on the bridge.