bubble: [14] Several Germanic languages have words that sound like, and mean the same as, bubble – Swedish bubla, for instance, and Dutch bobbel – but all are relatively modern, and there is no evidence to link them to a common source. As likely as not, the whole family of bubble words represents ultimately an attempt to lexicalize the sound of bubbling, by blowing through nearly closed lips.
bubble (n.)
early 14c., perhaps from Middle Dutch bobbel (n.) and/or Middle Low German bubbeln (v.), all probably of echoic origin. Bubble bath first recorded 1949. Of financial schemes originally in South Sea Bubble (1590s), on notion of "fragile and insubstantial."
bubble (v.)
mid-15c., perhaps from bubble (n.) and/or from Middle Low German bubbeln (v.), probably of echoic origin. Related: Bubbled; bubbling.
雙語例句
1. As she spoke she felt a bubble of optimism rising inside her.
當她講話時，她感到內心的樂觀情緒越來越高漲。
來自柯林斯例句
2. a bubble of oxygen
氧氣泡
來自《權威詞典》
3. News of the defeat quickly burst the bubble of our self - confidence .
失敗的消息使我們的 自信心 迅速破滅了.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
4. The bubble has burst.
氣泡破了.
來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》
5. The bombing plane bristled with machine - gun bubble s.