branch

英 [brɑ?n(t)?] 美[br?nt?]

反義詞

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復(fù)數(shù):?branches;第三人稱(chēng)單數(shù):?branches;過(guò)去式:?branched;過(guò)去分詞:?branched;現(xiàn)在分詞:?branching;

branch 分枝

詞源不詳。可能來(lái)自break, 分開(kāi)的。

branch: 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.

1. When in danger, the anteater lashes its tail round a branch.: 遇有危險(xiǎn)，食蟻獸會(huì)迅速用尾巴卷住樹(shù)枝。

3. The local branch of Bank of America is handling the accounts.: 美國(guó)銀行在當(dāng)?shù)氐姆中姓谔幚磉@些賬目。

4. The forces of National Socialism were transforming Germany root and branch.: 納粹主義勢(shì)力當(dāng)時(shí)正在徹底改變德國(guó)。

5. Oncology is the branch of medicine dealing with tumors.: 腫瘤學(xué)是研究腫瘤的醫(yī)學(xué)分支。