词族 · shipwreck
中文词源
shipwreck 船舶失事，海难，沉船
ship,船，wreck,破坏，毁坏。
英语词源
- shipwreck (n.)
- mid-15c., from ship (n.) + wreck (n.). Earlier it meant "things cast up from a shipwreck" (c. 1100). The earlier word for "shipwreck" in the modern sense was Middle English schipbreke, "'ship-break,'" from a North Sea Germanic word; compare West Frisian skipbrek, Middle Dutch schipbroke, German Schiffbruch, Old English scipgebroc. Old English scipbryce meant "right to claim goods from a wrecked ship."
- shipwreck (v.)
- 1580s, "cause to wreck;" c. 1600, "to suffer shipwreck," from shipwreck (n.). Related: Shipwrecked.
权威例句
- 1. He was drowned in a shipwreck off the coast of Spain.
- 他在西班牙海岸附近的一次海难中溺水身亡。
- 2. They narrowly escaped shipwreck in a storm in the North Sea.
- 他们在北海遇到风暴，船险些失事。
- 3. They offered a thanksgiving to God for their escape from the shipwreck.
- 他们因从海难中得以生还向上帝作了感恩祈祷.
- 4. The danger of shipwreck is much greater in dense fog.
- 在浓雾中船只失事的危险要大得多.
- 5. He walked away from the shipwreck.
- 他船难中平安地脱险了.