broad

将“broad”与“road”组合记忆，想象一条宽阔的路（broad road），这样就可以通过视觉形象帮助记忆单词的含义是“宽阔的”。

broad 宽的

词源不详。可能来自break, 分开。比较wide, 宽，来自PIE *wi, 分开，原义见widow, 寡妇。

broad

broad: [OE] Broad’s close relatives are widespread in the Germanic languages (German breit, for example, Dutch breed, and Swedish bred), pointing to a prehistoric Germanic ancestor *braithaz, but no trace of the word is found in any non-Germanic Indo-European language. The original derived noun was brede, which was superseded in the 16th century by breadth. The 20th-century American slang noun use ‘woman’ may come from an obsolete American compound broadwife, short for abroadwife, meaning ‘woman away from her husband’; this was a term applied to female slaves in relation to their new ‘masters’.
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broad (adj.)

Old English brad "broad, flat, open, extended," from Proto-Germanic *braithaz (cognates: Old Frisian bred, Old Norse breiðr, Dutch breed, German breit, Gothic brouþs), which is of unknown origin. Not found outside Germanic languages. No clear distinction in sense from wide. Related: Broadly. Broad-brim as a style of hat (1680s, broad-brimmed) in 18c.-19c. suggested "Quaker male" from their characteristic attire.

broad (n.)

"woman," slang, 1911, perhaps suggestive of broad (adj.) hips, but it also might trace to American English abroadwife, word for a woman (often a slave) away from her husband. Earliest use of the slang word suggests immorality or coarse, low-class women. Because of this negative association, and the rise of women's athletics, the track and field broad jump was changed to the long jump c. 1967.

1. The hills rise green and sheer above the broad river.

这些小山碧绿陡峭，矗立在这条宽阔的河流之上。

2. It rapidly became apparent that rock'n'roll was a very broad church indeed.

摇滚乐实际无所不包，这一点很快就显而易见了。

3. A girl was attacked on a train in broad daylight.

光天化日之下，一个女孩在火车上遭到了袭击。

4. The fat, broad tyres had a good depth of tread.

这种宽大的轮胎有很深的胎面花纹。

5. He was following a broad trail through the trees.

他沿着林间的一条阔路行进。

【broad, wide】
broad: 侧重于幅面的宽广broad shoulders
wide: 侧重于一边到另一边的距离,

【aboard, broad, abroad, board】
aboard: 在船(或飞机，车)上。如：I never went aboard a ship.
broad: 为形容词，宽广的。如：He has very broad shoulders.
abroad: 副词，在国外或海外。如：He often goes abroad.
board: 为动词，上(船，飞机，车)。如：The passengers are boarding the plane now.