• n. 墻面板；木瓦；小招牌（尤指醫(yī)生或律師掛的營(yíng)業(yè)招牌）；鵝卵石
• vt. 用蓋板覆蓋

來(lái)自拉丁語(yǔ) scindula,木板，薄板，屋頂板，來(lái)自 scindere,分開(kāi)，切開(kāi)，來(lái)自 PIE*skei,分開(kāi)， 切開(kāi)，詞源同 shin,shed.-le,小詞后綴。引申詞義招牌。

shing-,可能來(lái)自擬聲詞，模仿水流過(guò)小石子的淙淙聲，-le,表反復(fù)。

shingle

shingle: English has two distinct words shingle. The older, ‘roof tile’ [12], was borrowed from Latin scindula, a variant of scandula ‘roof tile’. This was probably derived from scandere ‘a(chǎn)scend’ (source of English ascend, descend, scan, etc), the underlying notion being of rows of tiles rising one above the other like steps. Shingle ‘beach pebbles’ [16] is of unknown origin; it may be related to Norwegian singl ‘coarse sand’ and North Frisian singel ‘gravel’. Shingles [14], incidentally, the name of a viral infection, comes from Latin cingulum ‘girdle’, a close relative of English cincture ‘girdle’: the disease is often characterized by skin eruptions that almost encircle the body.
=> ascend, descend, scan; cincture

shingle (n.1)

"thin piece of wood," c. 1200, scincle, from Late Latin scindula (also the source of German Schindel), altered (by influence of Greek schidax "lath" or schindalmos "splinter") from Latin scandula "roof tile," from scindere "to cleave, split," from PIE root *sked- "to split." Meaning "small signboard" is first attested 1842. Sense of "woman's short haircut" is from 1924; the verb meaning "to cut the hair so as to give the impression of overlapping shingles" is from 1857.

shingle (n.2)

"loose stones on a seashore," 1510s, probably related to Norwegian singl "small stones," or North Frisian singel "gravel," both said to be echoic of the sound of water running over pebbles.

shingle (v.)

"cover with shingles" (of houses), 1560s, from shingle (n.). Related: Shingled; shingling.

1. Then he scraped away the dirt, and exposed a pine shingle.

接著他刨去泥土, 下面露出一塊松木瓦塊.

來(lái)自英漢文學(xué) - 湯姆歷險(xiǎn)

2. He hung out his grandfather's shingle.

他掛出了祖父的行醫(yī)招牌。

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3. On this beach there's too much shingle and not enough sand.

在這個(gè)海灘上,圓卵石太多,沙太少.

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4. Every leaf , brick , shingle and blade of grass is fresh - washed and shining.

每片樹(shù)葉, 每塊磚瓦乃至一 葉小草,都被洗刷一新,閃閃發(fā)光.

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5. We listened to the rain on the shingle roof.

我們聽(tīng)著雨水打在屋頂?shù)哪就呱?

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