weir: [OE] A weir is etymologically a structure for ‘hindering’ the flow of water. The word’s Old English ancestor was derived from the verb werīan ‘defend, protect’, also ‘hinder’, and hence by extension ‘dam up’, which was distantly related to Sanskrit vr ‘cover’ and vāraya ‘stop, hinder’, and came ultimately from the Indo-European base *wer- ‘cover, shut’.
weir (n.)
Old English wer "dam, fence, enclosure," especially one for catching fish (related to werian "dam up"), from Proto-Germanic *wer-jon- (cognates: Old Norse ver, Old Frisian and Middle Dutch were, Dutch weer, Old High German wari, German Wehr "defense, protection," Gothic warjan "to defend, protect"), from PIE *wer- (5) "to cover, shut" (cognates: Sanskrit vatah "enclosure," vrnoti "covers, wraps, shuts;" Lithuanian u?veriu "to shut, to close;" Old Persian *pari-varaka "protective;" Latin (op)erire "to cover," (ap)erire "open, uncover" (with ap- "off, away"); Old Church Slavonic vora "sealed, closed," vreti "shut;" Old Irish feronn "field," properly "enclosed land").
雙語例句
1. Weir broke his leg in a freak accident playing golf.
韋爾因為一次打高爾夫時發生的離奇事故折斷了腿。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The discharge from the weir opening should be free.
從堰開口處的瀉水應暢通.
來自辭典例句
3. If I want Martin Weir, I go get Martin Weir.
如果我需要馬丁·威爾, 我就去找馬丁·威爾.
來自電影對白
4. It'says here you're getting Martin Weir for the part of Lovejoy?
聽說你要讓馬丁·威爾扮演勒沃喬伊?
來自電影對白
5. You can't make a Martin Weir into a Mel Gibson.