英文词源
- depth
- depth: [14] Depth is not as old as it looks. Similar nouns, such as length and strength, existed in Old English, but depth, like breadth, is a much later creation. In Old English the nouns denoting ‘quality of being deep’ were dīepe and dēopnes ‘deepness’.
=> deep - depth (n.)
- late 14c., apparently formed in Middle English on model of length, breadth; from Old English deop "deep" (see deep) + -th (2). Replaced older deopnes "deepness." Though the English word is relatively recent, the formation is in Proto-Germanic, *deupitho-, and corresponds to Old Saxon diupitha, Dutch diepte, Old Norse dypð, Gothic diupiþa.
实用例句
- 1. Mr Gibson is clearly intellectually out of his depth.
- 吉布森先生显然才智不逮。
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- 2. White wines tend to gain depth of colour with age.
- 白葡萄酒年头愈久，颜色愈深。
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- 3. The smaller lake ranges from five to fourteen feet in depth.
- 小一些的湖深度从5英尺到14英尺不等。
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- 4. Both housings are waterproof to a depth of two metres.
- 两个机罩的防水深度均为两米。
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- 5. 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。
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