branch: [13] Branch comes via Old French branche from late Latin branca ‘paw’, but its ultimate origins are not known. In other Romance languages it retains more of its original Latin sense (Spanish branca ‘claw’, for example, and Romanian brinca ‘hand, paw’). The semantic connection between ‘limb of a tree’ and ‘a(chǎn)ppendage of a person or animal’ is fairly straightforward (compare BOUGH).
branch (n.)
c. 1300, braunch, "limb of a tree" (also used of things analogous to it, especially geographic features), from Old French branche "branch, bough, twig; branch of a family" (12c.), from Late Latin branca "footprint," later "a claw, paw," which is of unknown origin, probably from Gaulish. The connecting notion would be the shape (compare pedigree). Replaced native bough. Meaning "local office of a business" is first recorded 1817, from earlier sense of "component part of a system" (1690s).
branch (v.)
"send out shoots or new limbs," late 14c., also, of blood vessels, family trees, etc., "to be forked," from branch (n.). Meaning "to spread out from a center, radiate" is from c. 1400. Related: Branched; branching.
雙語例句
1. When in danger, the anteater lashes its tail round a branch.
遇有危險，食蟻獸會迅速用尾巴卷住樹枝。
來自柯林斯例句
2. A thrush alighted on a branch of the pine tree.
一只鶇落在松樹的樹枝上。
來自柯林斯例句
3. The local branch of Bank of America is handling the accounts.
美國銀行在當(dāng)?shù)氐姆中姓谔幚磉@些賬目。
來自柯林斯例句
4. The forces of National Socialism were transforming Germany root and branch.
納粹主義勢力當(dāng)時正在徹底改變德國。
來自柯林斯例句
5. Oncology is the branch of medicine dealing with tumors.