strand
strand 英 [strænd] 美 [strænd]
n. 线；缕；海滨 v. 搁浅，滞留
进行时:stranding 过去式:stranded 过去分词:stranded 第三人称单数:strands 名词复数:strands
- A single hair, a noodle, even a line of thought — any of these things could be called a strand, a long thin length of something.
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- n. 线；缕；海滨
- v. 搁浅，滞留
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1. a strand of wool
一股羊毛
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2. a few strands of dark hair
几绺黑发
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3. She wore a single strand of pearls around her neck.
她脖子上戴着单串珍珠。
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4. We heard every strand of political opinion.
各派的政治观点我们都听到了。
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5. The author draws the different strands of the plot together in the final chapter.
作者在最后一章把不同的情节线索归拢到了一起。
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6. The strike left hundreds of tourists stranded at the airport.
这场罢工使成百上千的游客滞留在机场。
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7. The ship was stranded on a sandbank.
船在沙洲上搁浅了。
- strand (n.1) "shore, beach," Old English strand "sea-shore," from Proto-Germanic *strandaz (source also of Danish and Swedish strand "beach, shore, strand," Old Norse strönd "border, edge, shore," Old Frisian strond, Middle Dutch strant, Dutch strand, Middle Low German strant, German Strand "beach"), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from PIE root *ster- "to stretch out." Strictly, the part of a shore that lies between the tide-marks. Formerly also used of river banks, hence the London street name (1246).
- strand (n.2) "individual fiber of a rope, string, etc.," late 15c., probably from a continental Germanic source akin to Old High German streno "lock, tress, strand of hair," Middle Dutch strene "a skein, hank of thread," German Strähne "a skein, strand," of unknown connection. Perhaps to English via an Old French form.
- strand (v.) 1620s, "to drive aground on a shore," from strand (n.1); figurative sense of "leave helpless," as of a ship left aground by the tide, is first recorded 1837. Related: Stranded; stranding.
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