borough: [OE] Borough (Old English burg or burh) comes from Germanic *burgs ‘fortress’ (whence also German burg ‘castle, stronghold’). It was a derivative of the base *burg- ‘protect’ (whence also bury), a variant of *berg- (source of English barrow ‘mound’ and German berg ‘mountain’) and *borg- (source of English borrow).
At some time during the prehistoric Germanic period a progression in meaning began to take place from ‘fortress’ (which had largely died out in English by 1000), through ‘fortified town’, to simply ‘town’. Romance languages borrowed the word, giving for instance French bourg, from which English gets burgess [13] and bourgeois [16]. Burrow [13] is probably a variant form. => bourgeois, burgess, burrow, bury
borough (n.)
Old English burg, burh "a dwelling or dwellings within a fortified enclosure," from Proto-Germanic *burgs "hill fort, fortress" (cognates: Old Frisian burg "castle," Old Norse borg "wall, castle," Old High German burg, buruc "fortified place, citadel," German Burg "castle," Gothic baurgs "city"), from PIE root *bhergh- (2) "high," with derivatives referring to hills, hill forts, fortified elevations (source also of Old English beorg "hill;" see barrow (n.2)).
In German and Old Norse, chiefly as "fortress, castle;" in Gothic, "town, civic community." Meaning shifted in Middle English from "fortress," to "fortified town," to simply "town" (especially one possessing municipal organization or sending representatives to Parliament). In U.S. (originally Pennsylvania, 1718) often an incorporated town; in Alaska, however, it is the equivalent of a county. The Scottish form is burgh. The Old English dative singular byrig survives in many place names as -bury.
borough 英文释义
1. one of the administrative divisions of a large city
2. an English town that forms the constituency of a member of Parliament
borough 双语例句
1. The Department is inviting applications from groups within the Borough.
该部门欢迎本行政区内各团体提出申请。
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2. Families of six or seven are the norm in Borough Park.
在区公园住宅区六口或七口之家十分普遍。
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3. The borough is twinned with Kasel in Germany.
该自治市与德国的卡瑟尔市结成了友好城市。
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4. the London borough of Westminster
伦敦的威斯敏斯特自治市
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5. Oradell is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.
奥拉德尔是美国新泽西州卑尔根县中的小镇.
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borough 实用场景例句
The Department is inviting applications from groups within the Borough.
该部门欢迎本行政区内各团体提出申请。
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Families of six or seven are the norm in Borough Park.
在区公园住宅区六口或七口之家十分普遍。
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The borough is twinned with Kasel in Germany.
该自治市与德国的卡瑟尔市结成了友好城市。
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the London borough of Westminster
伦敦的威斯敏斯特自治市
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That's what happened to Harry Barritt of London's Bromley borough.
住在伦敦的布罗姆利自治市的哈里.巴里特就经历了此事.
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The the city of Oxford now matched the parliamentary borough.
牛津市现在已经可以与这座国会选区相提并论了.
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A borough of west - central England on the Dee River south - southeast of Liverpool.
英国中西部市镇,位于利物浦东南偏南处迪河上.
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A borough of southwest - central England on the Severn River west - northwest of London.
格洛斯特英格兰中西南部一 自治 市,在伦敦西北偏西的塞文河上.
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The borough of Queens offers a great variety of ethnic residential neighborhoods.
皇后区则有各个不同种族的住宅区.
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A freehold property situates in the borough of Richmond.
位于里士满行政区的完全保有房产.
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Collingham is located in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London.
伦敦克林汉姆学院坐落在伦敦皇家行政区的肯辛顿与切尔西.
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The head of government of a city, town, borough, or municipal corporation.
许多市政规划者认为,城市, 至少是市中心, 不应该有车辆通过.
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He lives in the Borough of Brooklyn.
他住在布鲁克林区.
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A borough of central England north of Leicester.
英格兰中部莱斯特北部的自治区.
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Borough Councils were also granted the power to buy reading material for their libraries.
