bun: [14] The word bun first crops up in 1371, in an Anglo-Latin document relating to different types of bread. Its origins, however, are completely shrouded in mystery. Equally obscure, but presumably unrelated, is another word bun, which in the 16th century meant ‘squirrel’. By the 19th century we find it being used for ‘rabbit’, and it survives in its familiar form bunny.
bun (n.)
late 14c., origin obscure, perhaps from Old French buignete "a fritter," originally "boil, swelling," diminutive of buigne "swelling from a blow, bump on the head," from a Germanic source (compare Middle High German bunge "clod, lump"), or from Gaulish *bunia (compare Gaelic bonnach). Spanish buñelo "a fritter" apparently is from the same source. Of hair coiled at the back of the head, first attested 1894. To have a bun in the oven "be pregnant" is from 1951.
The first record of buns in the sense of "male buttocks" is from 1960s, perhaps from a perceived similarity; but bun also meant "tail of a hare" (1530s) in Scottish and northern England dialect and was transferred to human beings (and conveniently rhymed with nun in ribald ballads). This may be an entirely different word; OED points to Gaelic bun "stump, root."
bun 词组搭配
have a bun in the oven
(informal)be pregnant
(非正式)怀孕
bun 英文释义
1. small rounded bread either plain or sweet
bun 双语例句
1. She had pale thin yellow hair she pulled back into a bun.
她把一头稀疏的浅黄色头发向后梳，挽成了个圆髻。
来自柯林斯例句
2. She was sitting at the kitchen table eating a currant bun.
她正坐在餐桌旁，吃着葡萄干圆面包。
来自柯林斯例句
3. You cannot eat a bun in one bite.
你不能一口吃下一个面包。
来自柯林斯例句
4. She wore her hair in a bun.
她盘了个发髻。
来自《权威词典》
5. John, I've something to tell you. I've a bun in the oven.
约翰, 我有事要告诉你, 我有喜了.
来自《简明英汉词典》
bun 实用场景例句
She had pale thin yellow hair she pulled back into a bun.
她把一头稀疏的浅黄色头发向后梳，挽成了个圆髻。
柯林斯例句
She was sitting at the kitchen table eating a currant bun.
她正坐在餐桌旁，吃着葡萄干圆面包。
柯林斯例句
She wore her hair in a bun.
她盘了个发髻。
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
John, I've something to tell you. I've a bun in the oven.
约翰, 我有事要告诉你, 我有喜了.
《简明英汉词典》
I had a cup of tea and a bun at four o'clock.
我在四点钟时喝了一杯茶,吃了个小甜面包.
《简明英汉词典》
She had her fair hair done up in a bun.
她把自己漂亮的头发做成了个圆髻.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
Her wiry hair was pushed up on top of her head in an untidy bun.
她粗硬的头发向上梳起，在头顶乱糟糟地盘成了个发髻。
柯林斯例句
Grace had long straight dark hair which she wore in a bun.
格雷斯把一头长长的黑色直发盘成发髻。
辞典例句
He kept drinking till he got a bun on.
他不停地喝酒,一直到醉.
辞典例句
Her hair, also as usual, had escaped from its bun.
她的头发也象往常一样, 从发髻里松了下来.
辞典例句
He nibbled his own bun as though he grudged it to himself.
