broom

词源同bur, 毛刺果，bristle, 刺毛。原指一种灌木，后指灌木扎的清扫工具。

broom

broom: [OE] Broom was originally the name of the yellow-flowered bush; its application to the long-handled brush did not come about until the 15th century (the underlying notion is of a brush made from broom twigs tied to a handle). The plant-name occurs throughout the Germanic languages, but it is applied to quite a wide range of plants: Old High German brāmma, for instance, is a ‘wild rose’; Old Saxon hiopbrāmio is a ‘hawthorn bush’; and English bramble probably comes from the same source.
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broom (n.)

Old English brom "broom, brushwood," the common flowering shrub whose twigs were tied together to make a tool for sweeping, from Proto-Germanic *bræmaz "thorny bush" (cognates: Dutch braam, German Brombeere "blackberry"), from PIE root *bh(e)rem- "to project, a point."

Traditionally, both the flowers and sweeping with broom twigs were considered unlucky in May (Suffolk, Sussex, Wiltshire, etc.). The witch's flying broomstick originally was one among many such objects (pitchfork, trough, bowl), but the broomstick became fixed as the popular tool of supernatural flight via engravings from a famous Lancashire witch trial of 1612.

1. Get a broom and sweep up that glass will you?

拿扫帚把那些玻璃清扫干净好吗？

2. I couldn't afford more than a broom cupboard to set up office in.

我的钱也就够搞一间鸡窝大的办公室。

3. She is sweeping with a broom.

她在用扫帚扫地.

4. He stood his broom behind the door.

他把扫帚立在门后.

5. I can't sweep without a broom.

没有扫帚我无法扫.