weir: [OE] A weir is etymologically a structure for ‘hindering’ the flow of water. The word’s Old English ancestor was derived from the verb werīan ‘defend, protect’, also ‘hinder’, and hence by extension ‘dam up’, which was distantly related to Sanskrit vr ‘cover’ and vāraya ‘stop, hinder’, and came ultimately from the Indo-European base *wer- ‘cover, shut’.
weir (n.)
Old English wer "dam, fence, enclosure," especially one for catching fish (related to werian "dam up"), from Proto-Germanic *wer-jon- (cognates: Old Norse ver, Old Frisian and Middle Dutch were, Dutch weer, Old High German wari, German Wehr "defense, protection," Gothic warjan "to defend, protect"), from PIE *wer- (5) "to cover, shut" (cognates: Sanskrit vatah "enclosure," vrnoti "covers, wraps, shuts;" Lithuanian užveriu "to shut, to close;" Old Persian *pari-varaka "protective;" Latin (op)erire "to cover," (ap)erire "open, uncover" (with ap- "off, away"); Old Church Slavonic vora "sealed, closed," vreti "shut;" Old Irish feronn "field," properly "enclosed land").
weir 双语例句
1. Weir broke his leg in a freak accident playing golf.
韦尔因为一次打高尔夫时发生的离奇事故折断了腿。
来自柯林斯例句
2. The discharge from the weir opening should be free.
从堰开口处的泻水应畅通.
来自辞典例句
3. If I want Martin Weir, I go get Martin Weir.
如果我需要马丁·威尔, 我就去找马丁·威尔.
来自电影对白
4. It'says here you're getting Martin Weir for the part of Lovejoy?
听说你要让马丁·威尔扮演勒沃乔伊?
来自电影对白
5. You can't make a Martin Weir into a Mel Gibson.