ford

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n. 浅滩, 福特汽车 v. 涉过, 涉水

发音

UK /fɔːd/
US /fɔɹd/
/fo(ː)ɹd/
/foəd/
UK /-fəd/
US /-fɚd/

词形变化

fords 复数 fords forded fording fords 三单 fording 现在分词 forded 过去式 forded 过去分词

别名

foorth

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A location where a stream is shallow and the bottom has good footing, making it possible to cross from one side to the other with no bridge, by walking, riding, or driving through the water; a crossing.

    浅滩

    津

  2. 2.

    A stream; a current.

v.
  1. 1.

    To cross a stream by walking through it.

    涉过

    渡

    蹚

    Some who witnessed the 1966 Leonid meteor storm said they felt as if they needed to grip the ground, so strong was the impression of Earth plowing along through space, fording the meteoroid stream.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

crossing fording

上位词 3

water crossing body of water

整体词 2

stream watercourse
动词

上位词 9

cover cross track traverse cut across cut through get across get over pass over

相关短语

Ford Nation Ford County Ford City Ford circle Ford circles Ford and Stoke Prior Ford Green Dinton with Ford and Upton Chandler's Ford Old Ford Valley Ford Eaton Ford Rocky Ford Goodmans Ford

词源

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Indo-European *pértus Proto-Germanic *furduz Proto-West Germanic *furdu Old English ford English ford Inherited from Middle English fōrd, from Old English ford, from Proto-West Germanic *furdu, from Proto-Germanic *furduz, from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”). Doublet of firth, fjord, and fjard, all via Old Norse; and port, distantly via Latin. Cognate with Low German Föörd, Dutch voord, German Furt, Norwegian and Danish fjord. See also forth and Persian پل (pol, “bridge”).

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