jade
jade 英 [dʒeɪd] 美 [dʒed]
n. 翡翠；[宝] 碧玉；
进行时:jading 过去式:jaded 过去分词:jaded 第三人称单数:jades 名词复数:jades
- Jade is a deep green gemstone that's used in jewelry and ornaments. Your most beloved possession might be an antique jade brooch that belonged to your great-grandmother.
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- n. 翡翠；[宝] 碧玉；
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1. The statue was carved out of jade.
这座塑像是玉雕的。
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2. a jade necklace
翡翠项链
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3. a collection of Chinese jade
一批中国玉器
- jade (n.1) ornamental stone, 1721, earlier iada (1590s), from French le jade, misdivision of earlier l'ejade, from Spanish piedra de (la) ijada or yjada (1560s), "(stone of) colic or pain in the side" (jade was thought to cure this), from Vulgar Latin *iliata, from Latin ileus "severe colic" (see ileus). As an adjective from 1865.
- jade (n.2) "worn-out horse," late 14c., apparently originally "cart horse," a word of uncertain origin. Barnhart and Century Dictionary suggests a variant of yaid, yald "whore," literally "mare" (c. 1400), from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse jalda "mare," and ultimately from Finno-Ugric (compare Mordvin al'd'a "mare"). But OED finds the assumption of a Scandinavian connection "without reason." As a term of abuse for a woman, it dates from 1550s; in early use also of mean or worthless men, and sometimes simply "a young woman."
- jade (v.) "to weary, tire out, make dull," c. 1600, from jade (n.2). Related: Jaded; jading.
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