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cottage是什么意思

cottage

英 ['k?t?d?] 美 ['kɑt?d?]

n. 小屋；村舍；（農舍式的）小別墅

中文詞源

cottage 村舍，小別墅

來自古英語cote，村舍，小屋。

英文詞源

cottage: cottage: [14] The Old English words for a small house or hut were cot and cote, both of which survive – just: cot as an archaic term for ‘cottage’ and cote in dovecote and sheepcote. (Cot ‘child’s bed’ [17], incidentally, is of Hindi origin.) They both derive ultimately from a Germanic base *kut-. Then, probably in the 12th century, one or both of them seem to have been taken up by the language of the gentry, Anglo- Norman, and had the suffix -age added, giving *cotage, which was eventually adopted by English as cottage.

Originally this simply denoted any small humble country dwelling; it was not until the mid-18th century that it began to acquire modern connotations of tweeness.
=> cot, cote
cottage (n.): late 13c., from Old French cote "hut, cottage" + Anglo-French suffix -age (probably denoting "the entire property attached to a cote"). Old French cot is probably from Old Norse kot "hut," cognate of Old English cot, cote "cottage, hut," from Proto-Germanic *kutan (cognates: Middle Dutch cot, Dutch kot).

Meaning "small country residence" (without suggestion of poverty or tenancy) is from 1765. Modern French cottage is a 19c. reborrowing from English. Cottage industry is attested from 1921. Cottage cheese is attested from 1831, American English, earliest in reference to Philadelphia:
There was a plate of rye-bread, and a plate of wheat, and a basket of crackers; another plate with half a dozen paltry cakes that looked as if they had been bought under the old Court House; some morsels of dried beef on two little tea-cup plates: and a small glass dish of that preparation of curds, which in vulgar language is called smear-case, but whose nom de guerre is cottage-cheese, at least that was the appellation given it by our hostess. ["Miss Leslie," "Country Lodgings," Godey's "Lady's Book," July 1831]

雙語例句

1. The studio is midway between his aunt's old home and his cottage.: 工作室就在從他姑姑的老宅到他的小屋的中途。

2. Curtis got behind the wheel and they started back toward the cottage.: 由柯蒂斯開車，他們啟程返回小屋。

3. My sister Yvonne also came to live at Ockenden Cottage with me.: 姐姐伊馮娜也來到奧克肯登小屋和我一起住了。

4. Tony had risen early and gone to the cottage to work.: 托尼很早就起來去小屋干活了。

5. He is incommunicado in a secluded cottage in Wales.: 他隱居在威爾士一個偏僻的小村舍里。

cottage是什么意思

cottage

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