bough: [OE] Bough is a word of some antiquity, dispersed far and wide throughout the Indo- European languages, but it is only in English that it has come to mean ‘branch’. It comes ultimately from an Indo-European *bhāghūs; the meaning this had is not altogether clear, but many of its descendants, such as Greek pakhus and Sanskrit bāhús, centre semantically round ‘arm’ or ‘forearm’ (a meaning element which can be discerned in the possibly related bosom).
Germanic adopted the Indo-European form as *bōgus, with apparently a shift in signification up the arms towards the shoulders (Old English bōg, bōh, Old Norse bógr, and Middle Dutch boech all meant ‘shoulder’, and the Dutch word later came to be applied to the front of a ship – possibly the source of English bow). => bosom, bow
bough (n.)
Old English bog "shoulder, arm," extended in Old English to "twig, branch" (compare limb (n.1)), from Proto-Germanic *bogaz (cognates: Old Norse bogr "shoulder," Old High German buog, German Bug "shoulder, hock, joint"), from PIE *bhagus "elbow, forearm" (cognates: Sanskrit bahus "arm," Armenian bazuk, Greek pakhys "forearm"). The "limb of a tree" sense is peculiar to English.
雙語例句
1. I rested my fishing rod against a pine bough.
我把釣魚竿靠在一棵松樹的大樹枝上。
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2. I hitched the rope round a bough of the tree.
我把繩子套在樹枝上.
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3. He hitched a rope round a bough of a tree.
他把一根繩子繞系在一棵樹枝上.
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4. Every bough was swinging in the wind.
每條樹枝都在風里搖擺.
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5. Not a bough waved, not the gleam of a musket - barrel betrayed the presence of our foes.