bridge
bridge 英 [brɪdʒ] 美 [brɪdʒ]
n. 桥;桥牌;
进行时:bridging 过去式:bridged 过去分词:bridged 第三人称单数:bridges 名词复数:bridges
- A bridge is what gets you from one side of the river to the other. A bridge connects things. The bridge of your nose connects your nose to your head — it's where the bridge of your eyeglasses rests.
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- n. 桥;桥牌;
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1. The bridge buckled in the storm.
那座桥在暴风雨中塌陷了。
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2. The bridge broke down in last earthquake.
那座桥在上次地震中坍塌了。
- bridge (n.1) "any structure that affords passage over a ravine or river," Old English brycge, from Proto-Germanic *brugjo (source also of Old Saxon bruggia, Old Norse bryggja, Old Frisian brigge, Dutch brug, Old High German brucca, German Brücke), from PIE root *bhru "log, beam," hence "wooden causeway" (source also of Gaulish briva "bridge," Old Church Slavonic bruvuno "beam," Serbian brv "footbridge").
- bridge (n.2) card game, 1886 (perhaps as early as 1843), an alteration of biritch, but the source and meaning of that are obscure. "Probably of Levantine origin, since some form of the game appears to have been long known in the Near East" [OED]. One guess is that it represents Turkish *bir-üç "one-three," because one hand is exposed and three are concealed. The game also was known early as Russian whist (attested in English from 1839).
- bridge (v.) "build a bridge on or over, span with a bridge," Old English brycgian "to bridge, make a causeway," from bridge (n.). Figurative use by 1831. Related: Bridged; bridging.
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