brian

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n. 布莱恩（男子名）

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词形变化

brianed brianing brians 三单 brians brianing 现在分词 brianed 过去式 brianed 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To keep fire at the mouth of (as of an oven), to give light or to preserve heat.

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词源

From dialectal English, probably variant of brine (“to burn”), from brine (“a burning”), from Middle English brüne (“a burn, a burning”), from Old English bryne (“a burning, conflagration, fire, flame, heat, inflammation, burn, scald, torch, fervor, passion”), from Proto-Germanic *bruniz (“fire, burning”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenu- (“burn, fire”). Cognate with Scots brin (“a flash”), Scots brin, bryne (“to be on fire, be inflamed, burn”), Old Norse bruni (“fire, burning”). More at burn.

来源：wiktionary