bone

英[b??n] 美[bon]

反義詞flesh

復數:?bones;第三人稱單數:?bones;過去式:?boned;過去分詞:?boned;現在分詞:?boning;

bone 骨頭

詞源不詳。

bone: bone: [OE] Somewhat unusually for a basic body-part term, bone is a strictly Germanic word: it has no relatives in other Indo-European languages. It comes from a presumed Germanic *bainam, which also produced for example German bein and Swedish ben. These both mean ‘leg’ as well as ‘bone’, suggesting that the original connotation of *bainam may have been ‘long bone’.
bone (n.): Old English ban "bone, tusk," from Proto-Germanic *bainam (cognates: Old Frisian ben, Old Norse bein, Danish ben, German Bein). No cognates outside Germanic (the common PIE root is *os-; see osseous); the Norse, Dutch, and German cognates also mean "shank of the leg," and this is the main meaning in Modern German, but English never seems to have had this sense.
bone (v.): especially in bone up "study," 1880s student slang, probably from "Bohn's Classical Library," a popular series in higher education published by German-born English publisher Henry George Bohn (1796-1884) as part of a broad series of "libraries" he issued from 1846, totaling 766 volumes, continued after 1864 by G. Bell & Sons.

1. A vicious price war between manufacturers has cut margins to the bone.: 制造商之間的惡性價格戰已將利潤削減到了最低。

2. Our bone marrow contains fat in the form of small globules.: 我們的骨髓中含有小球狀的脂肪。

3. The bullet lodged in the sergeant's leg, shattering his thigh bone.: 子彈嵌進了中士的腿里，使其股骨碎裂。

4. The body is made up primarily of bone, muscle, and fat.: 人體主要是由骨骼、肌肉和脂肪構成。