beech: [OE] Like many other tree-names, beech goes back a long way into the past, and is not always what it seems. Among early relatives Latin fāgus meant ‘beech’ (whence the tree’s modern scientific name), but Greek phāgós, for example, referred to an ‘edible oak’. Both come from a hypothetical Indo-European *bhagos, which may be related to Greek phagein ‘eat’ (which enters into a number of English compounds, such as phagocyte [19], literally ‘eating-cell’, geophagy [19], ‘earth-eating’, and sarcophagus).
If this is so, the name may signify etymologically ‘edible tree’, with reference to its nuts, ‘beech mast’. The Old English word bēce’s immediate source was Germanic *bōkjōn, but this was a derivative; the main form bōkō produced words for ‘beech’ in other Germanic languages, such as German buche and Dutch beuk, and it survives in English as the first element of buckwheat [16], so named from its three-sided seeds which look like beech nuts.
It is thought that book may come ultimately from bōk- ‘beech’, on the grounds that early runic inscriptions were carved on beechwood tablets. => book, buckwheat, phagocyte, sarcophagus
beech (n.)
Old English bece "beech," from Proto-Germanic *bokjon (cognates: Old Norse bok, Dutch beuk, Flemish boek, Old High German buohha, German Buche, Middle Dutch boeke "beech"), from PIE root *bhagos "beech tree" (cognate with Greek phegos "oak," Latin fagus "beech;" see fagus).
Formerly with adjectival form beechen. Also see book (n.).
beech 英文释义
1. any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth gray bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs; north temperate regions
2. wood of any of various beech trees; used for flooring and containers and plywood and tool handles
beech 双语例句
1. The furniture is made of sycamore, beech and leather.
这套家具是由西卡莫木材、山毛榉木材以及皮革制成的。
来自柯林斯例句
2. They were sitting on the lawn under a large beech tree.
他们坐在一棵高大的山毛榉树下的草坪上。
来自柯林斯例句
3. The worktop is made of solid beech.
操作台是由结实的山毛榉木做成的。
来自柯林斯例句
4. forests planted with beech
山毛榉林
来自《权威词典》
5. Foxworth shivered as the wind rose up and roared through the beech trees.
风势渐大，在山毛榉树间呼呼吹过，福克斯沃思瑟瑟发抖。
来自柯林斯例句
beech 实用场景例句
beech hedges
山毛榉树篱
牛津词典
The great beeches towered up towards the sky.
一棵棵山毛榉高耸入云。
牛津词典
forests planted with beech
山毛榉林
牛津词典
The worktop is made of solid beech.
操作台是由结实的山毛榉木做成的。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
...the branch of a huge beech.
一棵巨型山毛榉的树枝
柯林斯高阶英语词典
Autumn is the time to see the beech woods in all their glory.
秋天是观赏山毛榉林的最佳时期.
《简明英汉词典》
Over three decades the hermit had planted 90 square miles thick with oak, beech, and trees.
那位隐士在三十年的时间里种了90平方英里茂密的橡树 、 山毛榉和桦树.
期刊摘选
The insects have hibernated in beech mast on the ground.
一些昆虫在地上的山毛榉果实中冬眠.
期刊摘选
Chalazogamy is seen in certain trees and shrubs, e . g . beech.
在一些树木和灌木中比较常见, 例如山毛榉.
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Here is a beech by the side of a hemlock, with three pines at hand.
这儿有株山毛榉和一株铁杉长在一起,旁边还有三株松树.
辞典例句
She comes to the old beech tree. She climbs.
她来到了一棵老橡树面前. 她爬了上去.
期刊摘选
In a kind of intoxication he would watch the pinkwhite buds of some backward beech tree.
在一种沉醉的状态中,他注视着晚开的山毛榉的淡红花蕾.
辞典例句
The wood is natural wood of beech or similar.
木材是榉木或是功能近似的木材.
期刊摘选
The woods were all of oak and beech.
树林里长的都是橡树和山毛榉树.
辞典例句
Exasperated, he leaped the stream, and strode towards beech clump.
他满腔恼怒, 跳过小河, 大踏步向毛榉林子走去.
辞典例句
A squirrel barked at him from a beech tree.
一只松鼠在山毛榉树上向他吱吱地叫.
期刊摘选
Beech leaves shimmered in the moonlight.
山毛榉树叶在月光下闪烁.
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A tree related to but quite distinct from the European beech.
一棵与欧洲山毛榉有关但又完全不相同的树.
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Even those leafless beech trees would outlast him.
甚至那些光秃秃的山毛榉树也会比他活得长久.
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New Zealand beech with usually pale silvery bark.
新西兰的假山毛榉属的一种植物,通常有银白色树皮.
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The hills slope gently; the woods are of oak and beech and ash and birch.
山坡缓缓倾斜, 树林里种满了橡树、岑树和桦树.
期刊摘选
Chestnut is in the family Fagaceae which also includes oak and beech.
栗属植物属山毛榉科,此科还包括橡属和山毛榉属.
辞典例句
forests planted with beech
山毛榉林
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
Foxworth shivered as the wind rose up and roared through the beech trees.
风势渐大，在山毛榉树间呼呼吹过，福克斯沃思瑟瑟发抖。
柯林斯例句
The worktop is made of solid beech.
操作台是由结实的山毛榉木做成的。
柯林斯例句
The furniture is made of sycamore, beech and leather.
这套家具是由西卡莫木材、山毛榉木材以及皮革制成的。
柯林斯例句
They were sitting on the lawn under a large beech tree.
