caravan

来自波斯语。

caravan

caravan: [16] Caravans have no etymological connection with cars, nor with char-a-bancs. The word comes ultimately from Persian kārwān ‘group of desert travellers’, and came into English via French caravane. Its use in English for ‘vehicle’ dates from the 17th century, but to begin with it referred to a covered cart for carrying passengers and goods (basis of the shortened form van [19]), and in the 19th century it was used for the basic type of thirdclass railway carriage; its modern sense of ‘mobile home’ did not develop until the late 19th century. Caravanserai ‘inn for accommodating desert caravans’ [16] comes from Persian kārwānserāī: serāī means ‘palace, inn’, and was the source, via Italian, of seraglio ‘harem’ [16].
=> caravanserai, van

caravan (n.)

1580s, from Middle French caravane, from Old French carvane, carevane "caravan" (13c.), or Medieval Latin caravana, picked up during the Crusades from Persian karwan "group of desert travelers" (which Klein connects to Sanskrit karabhah "camel"). Used in English for "vehicle" 17c., especially for a covered cart. Hence, in modern British use (from 1930s), often a rough equivalent of the U.S. mobile home.

1. Pendergood had shovelled the sand out of the caravan.

彭德古德把旅行拖车里的沙子铲了出来。

2. Each caravan is equipped for four persons.

每个活动房的设备可供4人使用。

3. The caravan was raked with bullets.

车队遭到了子弹扫射。

4. The community adviser gave us a caravan to live in.

社区顾问给了我们一间活动住房栖身.

5. He packed off his wife and children to stay in a caravan in Wales.

他把妻儿打发到在威尔士的一辆旅行拖车上去住。