stork

英 [st??k] 美[st?rk]

暢通詞匯禽鳥

復數(shù):?storks;

stork 鸛

來自古英語 storc,鸛，來自 Proto-Germanic*sturkaz,鸛，來自 PIE*ster,固定的，僵硬的，詞源同 stark,sterile.可能因這種鳥站立的姿勢或因其瘦長的腿而得名。

stork: stork: [OE] The stork may get its name from its rather stiff-legged gait. The word comes from a prehistoric Germanic *sturkaz, which also produced German storch and Dutch, Swedish, and Danish stork. This may have been formed from the base *sturk-, *stark-, *sterk- ‘rigid’, which also produced English starch and stark.
=> starch, stare, stark, starve, stereo
stork (n.): Old English storc "stork," from Proto-Germanic *sturkaz (cognates: Old Norse storkr, Swedish and Danish stork, Middle Dutch storc, Old High German storah, German Storch "stork"), from PIE *ster- "stiff" (cognates: Old English stear "stiff, strong;" see stark). Perhaps so called with reference to the bird's stiff or rigid posture. But some connect the word to Greek torgos "vulture."

Old Church Slavonic struku, Russian sterkhu, Lithuanian starkus, Hungarian eszterag, Albanian sterkjok "stork" are said to be Germanic loan-words. The children's fable that babies are brought by storks (told by adults who aren't ready to go into the details) is in English by 1854, from German and Dutch nursery stories, no doubt from the notion that storks nesting on one's roof meant good luck, often in the form of family happiness.

3. He was flown out in a tiny Stork spotter plane to Rome.: 他乘著一架怪鳥式小型偵察機飛抵羅馬.

4. One night his ship, the Stork; pursued and rammed a U - boat in the darkness.: 某夜,他的坐艦“ 鸛鳥”號在黑夜之中追逐一艘潛艇并和它相撞.

5. We airfreight the shipment because our agent has run out of stork.: 我們空運了這批貨物,是因為我們的代理商已用完庫存了.