canary: [16] Small green finches (Serinus canarius) native to the Canary Islands were introduced as cage birds in England in the 16th century (the domestic breed is now for the most part yellow). They were called, naturally enough, canary birds, and by the mid 17th century this had become simply canary. The Canaries, a group of Spanish islands in the Atlantic off the northwest coast of Africa, got their name because one of them was famous in Roman times for a large breed of dog found there (Latin canārius ‘of dogs’ was a derivative of canís, source of English canine, chenille, and kennel and related to English hound). => canine, chenille, hound, kennel
canary (n.)
type of small songbird, 1650s (short for Canary-bird, 1570s), from French canarie, from Spanish canario "canary bird," literally "of the Canary Islands," from Latin Insula Canaria "Canary Island," largest of the Fortunate Isles, literally "island of dogs" (canis, genitive canarius; see canine (n.)), so called because large dogs lived there. The name was extended to the whole island group (Canari? Insul?) by the time of Arnobius (c.300). As a type of wine (from the Canary Islands) from 1580s.
雙語例句
1. His body was found at sea in waters off the Canary Islands.
他的尸體在離加那利群島不遠(yuǎn)的海上被發(fā)現(xiàn)。
來自柯林斯例句
2. My canary has laid an egg.
我的金絲雀生了一個蛋。
來自柯林斯例句
3. The canary has escaped from the cage.
那只金絲雀已從籠子里跑掉了.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
4. Canary Wharf was set to provide 10 million square feet of office space.
金絲雀碼頭計劃要提供1,000萬平方英尺的辦公面積。
來自柯林斯例句
5. He said he would try to write or call as soon as he reached the Canary Islands.