• n. 涼亭；樹陰處
• n. (Bower)人名；(英、西)鮑爾

來自PIE *bheue, 存在，居住，詞源同be. 原指簡易住所，后指涼亭，樹陰。詞源同booth.

bower

bower: [OE] A bower was originally simply a place where one lived; the modern connotation of a ‘secluded arbour’ did not become fully established until the 16th century. Old English būr came from West and North Germanic *būraz or *būram, a derivative of the prolific base *bü- ‘dwell’, which also produced be, boor, booth, bound ‘intending to go’, build, burly, byelaw, byre, and the -bour of neighbour.
=> be, boor, booth, build, burly, byre, neighbour

bower (n.)

Old English bur "room, hut, dwelling, chamber," from Proto-Germanic *buraz (cognates: Old Norse bur "chamber," Swedish bur "cage," Old High German bur "dwelling, chamber," German Bauer "birdcage"), from *bu- "to dwell," from PIE root *bheue- "to be, exist, dwell" (see be). Modern spelling developed after mid-14c. Sense of "leafy arbor" (place closed in by trees) is first attested 1520s. Hence, too, Australia's bower-bird (1847).

1. They sat under the leafy bower at the end of the garden and watched the sun set.

他們坐在花園盡頭由葉子搭成的涼棚下觀看落日.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

2. Mrs. Quilp was pining in her bower.

奎爾普太太正在她的閨房里度著愁苦的歲月.

來自辭典例句

3. She rolls the curtain up and light comes in her bower.

玉戶簾中卷不去.

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4. To enclose in or as if in a bower; embower.

處于或似處于涼亭中; 用涼亭遮茵.

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5. Lucy arranged her bower and put on her best white frock.

露西整理好閨房,然后穿上她最好的白色連衣裙.

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