英汉词典

girl 基本解释

• n. 女孩；姑娘，未婚女子；女职员，女演员；（男人的）女朋友
• n. （捷）吉尔

girl 词态变化

girl 中文词源

词源不详。

girl 英文词源

girl

girl: [13] Where girl comes from is one of the unsolved puzzles of English etymology. What is at least clear is that originally it meant ‘child’ in general rather than specifically ‘female child’ (a mid 15th-century text refers to knave-gerlys ‘male children’), but where it came from is not known. Among suggestions for words that may be connected are Low German göre ‘child, kid’ and Norwegian dialect gurre ‘lamb’.

girl (n.)

c. 1300, gyrle "child, young person" (of either sex but most frequently of females), of unknown origin. One guess [OED] leans toward an unrecorded Old English *gyrele, from Proto-Germanic *gurwilon-, diminutive of *gurwjoz (apparently also represented by Low German gære "boy, girl," Norwegian dialectal gorre, Swedish dialectal gurre "small child," though the exact relationship, if any, between all these is obscure), from PIE *ghwrgh-, also found in Greek parthenos "virgin." But this involves some objectionable philology. Liberman (2008) writes:

Girl does not go back to any Old English or Old Germanic form. It is part of a large group of Germanic words whose root begins with a g or k and ends in r. The final consonant in girl is a diminutive suffix. The g-r words denote young animals, children, and all kinds of creatures considered immature, worthless, or past their prime.

Another candidate is Old English gierela "garment" (for possible sense evolution in this theory, compare brat). A former folk-etymology derivation from Latin garrulus "chattering, talkative" is now discarded. Like boy, lass, lad it is of more or less obscure origin. "Probably most of them arose as jocular transferred uses of words that had originally different meaning" [OED]. Specific meaning of "female child" is late 14c. Applied to "any young unmarried woman" since mid-15c. Meaning "sweetheart" is from 1640s. Old girl in reference to a woman of any age is recorded from 1826. Girl next door as a type of unflashy attractiveness is recorded by 1953.

Doris [Day] was a big vocalist even before she hit the movies in 1948. There, as the latest movie colony "girl next door," sunny-faced Doris soon became a leading movie attraction as well as the world's top female recording star. "She's the girl next door, all right," said one Hollywood admirer. "Next door to the bank." ["Life" magazine, Dec. 22, 1958]

Girl Friday "resourceful young woman assistant" is from 1940, a reference to "Robinson Crusoe." Girl Scout is from 1909. For the usual Old English word, see maiden.

girl 英文释义

1. a young woman;

"a young lady of 18"

2. a youthful female person;

"the baby was a girl"

"the girls were just learning to ride a tricycle"

3. a female human offspring;

"her daughter cared for her in her old age"

4. a girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically involved;

"his girlfriend kicked him out"

5. a friendly informal reference to a grown woman;

"Mrs. Smith was just one of the girls"

girl 同义词解析

girl, maid, maiden, daughter

这些名词都含有"姑娘，女孩子"之意。

girl： 指7岁到12岁左右的女孩，与boy相对，广义指未婚的女孩。

maid： 指闺女，女佣人。

maiden： 指少女，处女或未婚女子。

daughter： 指女子对父母而言的概称，不涉及年龄的大小。

girl 双语例句

1. The word " girl " is derived from Middle English " girle ".

“ girl ” 这个词是由中世纪英文中的 “ girle ” 来的.

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2. She was a shy, delicately pretty girl with enormous blue eyes.

她是一个害羞、娇美的女孩，长着一双大大的蓝眼睛。

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3. Derek is now the proud father of a bouncing baby girl.

德里克现在为有一个健康活泼的女宝宝而骄傲。

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4. They saw the man with a little girl skipping along behind him.

他们看见那个男人身后还跟着一个蹦蹦跳跳的小姑娘。

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5. Anyone would think you were in love with the girl.

谁都会以为你和那个姑娘恋爱了。

来自柯林斯例句

girl 实用场景例句

a baby girl

女婴

牛津词典

a little girl of six

六岁的小女孩

牛津词典

Hello, girls and boys!

孩子们好！

牛津词典

Our youngest girl is at college.

我们的小女儿在大学读书。

牛津词典

Alex is not interested in girls yet.

亚历克斯对女孩子还不感兴趣。

牛津词典

He married the girl next door.

他与隔壁的一个年轻女子结了婚。

牛津词典

an office girl

女办事员

牛津词典

I'm having a night out with the girls.

我今晚要和女友们外出。

牛津词典

Good morning, girls!

姑娘们，早上好！

牛津词典

How is the old girl these days?

老母亲近来好吗？

牛津词典

...an eleven year old girl...

11岁的女孩

柯林斯高阶英语词典

I must have been a horrid little girl.

我一定是个人见人烦的小女孩。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

We had a little girl.

我们有一个小女儿。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...a pretty twenty-year-old girl.

20岁的漂亮姑娘

柯林斯高阶英语词典

I've been with my girl for nine years.

我同我女朋友交往9年了。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Get me confirmation on the first available flight.

替我确定最优先的班机.

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The boss took a shine to the new girl.

老板喜欢上了新来的姑娘.

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The girl twined her arms about her mother's neck.

女孩搂住母亲的脖子.

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Unhappily, he never saw that girl again.

遗憾的是他再也没有见到过那女孩.

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Place the girl as a typist.

让这个女孩做打字员吧.

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