英汉词典

east 基本解释

• n. 东方；东风；东方国家
• adj. 东方的；向东的；从东方来的
• adv. 向东方，在东方
• n. (East)人名；(英)伊斯特

east 中文词源

来自PIE*aus, 光照，照耀，词源同aurora, aureate.

east 英文词源

east

east: [OE] Etymologically, east is the point of the compass at which the sun rises (and hence is a parallel formation to orient, which comes from a Latin word originally meaning ‘rising’). It goes back to an Indo-European base *aus-, source of a range of terms meaning not only ‘east’ but also ‘dawn’; Latin aurora, for instance, and Greek aúōs, had both senses.

Its Germanic descendant, *austo-, produced German ost, Dutch oosten, Swedish öster, and English east (which was subsequently borrowed by French as est). It was also the source of *Austron, the name of a goddess of the prehistoric Germanic peoples, originally the dawn-goddess, whose festival occurred in spring. In Old English her name was Ēastre, which is generally taken to be the ultimate source of English Easter (German Ostern ‘Easter’ has a parallel origin).
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east

Old English east, eastan (adj., adv.) "east, easterly, eastward;" easte (n.), from Proto-Germanic *aust- "east," literally "toward the sunrise" (cognates: Old Frisian ast "east," aster "eastward," Dutch oost Old Saxon ost, Old High German ostan, German Ost, Old Norse austr "from the east"), from PIE *aus- (1) "to shine," especially of the dawn (cognates: Sanskrit ushas "dawn;" Greek aurion "morning;" Old Irish usah, Lithuanian auszra "dawn;" Latin aurora "dawn," auster "south;" see aurora). The east is the direction in which dawn breaks. For theory of shift in the geographical sense in Latin, see Australia.

As one of the four cardinal points of the compass, from c. 1200. Meaning "the eastern part of the world" (from Europe) is from c. 1300. Cold War use of East for "communist states" first recorded 1951. French est, Spanish este are borrowings from Middle English, originally nautical. The east wind in Biblical Palestine was scorching and destructive (as in Ezek. xvii:10); in New England it is bleak, wet, unhealthful. East End of London so called by 1846; East Side of Manhattan so called from 1871; East Indies (India and Southeast Asia) so called 1590s to distinguish them from the West Indies.

east 英文释义

1. the cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees

east 双语例句

1. Big credits were given to East Germany by successive West German governments.

历届西德政府给予东德大量的贷款。

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2. Middle East peace talks in Washington showed signs of progress yesterday.

昨天在华盛顿举行的中东和谈有了取得进展的迹象。

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3. The river widens considerably as it begins to turn east.

河流转向东流时河道大幅度变宽。

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4. We drove east to Rostock, where my map led me astray.

我们驱车向东去罗斯托克，但地图却给我指错了方向。

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5. The agent spied for East Germany for more than twenty years.

该特工人员为东德做了20多年的间谍。

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east 实用场景例句

Which way is east?

哪边是东？

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A gale was blowing from the east.

大风从东面吹来。

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a town to the east of (= further east than) Chicago

芝加哥以东的一个城镇

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I was born in the East, but now live in San Francisco.

我出生在东部，但现住在旧金山。

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East-West relations

东西方关系

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East Africa

东非

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They live on the east coast.

他们住在东海岸。

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The house faces east.

房子朝东。

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...a low line of hills running along the east coast.

沿东海岸延伸的低矮丘陵

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He had been on safari in East Africa with his son.

他曾和他儿子到东非游猎。

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Every so often, a new martial art arrives from the East.

时而会从东方传来一种新的武术。

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...just east of the center of town.

刚好在市中心以东

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To drive, go east on Route 9.

如果开车，在9号公路向东行驶。

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They are said to control large parts of the east and south of the country.

据说他们控制了该国东部和南部的大片地区。

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...a village in the east of the country...

这个国家东部的一个村庄

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The principal range runs east to west.

主体山脉呈东西走向。

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...the vast swamps which lie to the east of the River Nile...

尼罗河东面广阔的沼泽

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This room faces east.

这间房子向东.

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The news was beamed to East Africa by satellite.

新闻通过卫星向东非广播.

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In the east, the air is humid in summer.

在东方, 夏季空气潮湿.

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The Changjiang River empties into the East China Sea.

长江注入东海.

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The wind has worked around to the east.

风向已逐渐转东.

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Red flags flow in the east wind.

红旗在东风中飘扬.

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