记忆方法
将“burke”与“burn”联想，记忆为“燃烧的名字”。想象这个名字像一团火焰一样燃烧，或者“burke”这个名字本身与燃烧的概念有关，从而帮助记忆这个单词。
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词族 · burke
英语词源
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burke: [19] In present-day English burke means ‘avoid’, as in ‘burke an issue’, but it can be traced back semantically via ‘suppress, hush up’ to ‘suffocate so as to provide a body for surgical dissection’. In this sense it was a macabre adoption of the name of William Burke (1792– 1829), an Irishman who with his colleague William Hare set up a profitable but nefarious business in early 19th-century Edinburgh providing cadavers for surgeons to dissect.
To begin with they obtained their supplies by robbing graves, but eventually, in order to get higher-quality material, they took to murdering people, generally by suffocation or strangling. Burke was executed.
- Burke (v.)
- family name (first recorded 1066), from Anglo-Norman pronunciation of Old English burgh. Not common in England itself, but it took root in Ireland, where William de Burgo went in 1171 with Henry II and later became Earl of Ulster. As shorthand for a royalty reference book, it represents "A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the United Kingdom," first issued 1826, compiled by John Burke (1787-1848). As a verb meaning "murder by smothering," it is abstracted from William Burk, executed in Edinburgh 1829 for murdering several persons to sell their bodies for dissection.
权威例句
- 1. Burke cast a cursory glance at the menu, then flapped it shut.
- 伯克匆匆地瞥了一眼菜单，然后啪地合上了。
- 2. Burke's sentiments undoubtedly struck a responsive chord in Parliament.
- 伯克的观点无疑引起了议会的积极回应。
- 3. Mr Burke, pleading poverty, changed his mind.
- 伯克先生以自己穷为由改变了主意。
- 4. Burke later admitted he had lied.
- 伯克后来承认自己撒了谎。
- 5. Burke was asleep, sprawled obliviously against the window.
- 伯克无意识地摊开四肢靠着窗户睡着了。