narrow

英['n?r??] 美['n?ro]

第三人稱單數:?narrows;過去式:?narrowed;過去分詞:?narrowed;現在分詞:?narrowing;比較級:?narrower;最高級:?narrowest;名詞:?narrowness;

narrow 狹窄的

來自古英語nearu,狹窄的，壓抑的，來自PIE*sner,彎，轉，扭曲。引申詞義狹窄的。

narrow: narrow: [OE] Narrow comes from a prehistoric Germanic *narwaz, whose only other modern representative is Dutch naar ‘unpleasant, sad’ (although it also occurs in Norva-sund, the Old Norse term for the ‘Straits of Gibraltar’). It is not known for certain where it comes from, but a connection has been suggested with Latin nervus ‘sinew, bowstring’ (source of English nerve) and Old High German snuor ‘string’, which might point back to an ancestral sense ‘tying together tightly’.
narrow (adj.): Old English nearu "narrow, constricted, limited; petty; causing difficulty, oppressive; strict, severe," from West Germanic *narwaz "narrowness" (cognates: Frisian nar, Old Saxon naru, Middle Dutch nare, Dutch naar); not found in other Germanic languages and of unknown origin. The narrow seas (c. 1400) were the waters between Great Britain and the continent and Ireland. Related: Narrowness.
narrow (n.): c. 1200, nearewe "narrow part, place, or thing," from narrow (adj.). Old English nearu (n.) meant "danger, distress, difficulty," also "prison, hiding place."
narrow (v.): Old English nearwian "to force in, cramp, confine; become smaller, shrink;" see narrow (adj.). Related: Narrowed; narrowing.

3. He was criticised for being boring, strait-laced and narrow-minded.: 他被指無趣乏味，古板守舊，心胸狹窄。