hearth

1. an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built;

"the fireplace was so large you could walk inside it"

"he laid a fire in the hearth and lit it"

"the hearth was black with the charcoal of many fires"

2. home symbolized as a part of the fireplace;

"driven from hearth and home"

"fighting in defense of their firesides"

3. an area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room);

"they sat on the hearth and warmed themselves before the fire"

来自PIE*ker,燃烧，词源同carbon,crematorium,-th,名词后缀。引申词义火炉，壁炉。

hearth

hearth: [OE] Etymologically, hearth seems to mean ‘burning place’. It has been suggested that its West Germanic ancestor *kherthaz, which also produced German herd and Dutch haard, may be connected with Latin cremāre ‘burn’ (source of English cremate [19]) and Lithuanian kurti ‘heat’.
=> cremate

hearth (n.)

Old English heorð "hearth, fireplace, part of a floor on which a fire is made," also in transferred use "house, home, fireside," from West Germanic *hertho "burning place" (cognates: Old Saxon and Old Frisian herth, Middle Dutch hert, Dutch haard, German Herd "floor, ground, fireplace"), from PIE *kerta-, from root *ker- (4) "heat, fire" (see carbon). Hearth-rug is from 1824. Hearth-stone is from early 14c.

1. He sat on a tapestry cushion next to the hearth.

他坐在壁炉边上的一块绣花软垫上。

来自柯林斯例句

2. He stoked up the fire in the hearth.

他给壁炉里的火添了点柴。

来自柯林斯例句

3. A log fire crackled in the hearth.

炉中的木柴烧得噼啪作响。

来自《权威词典》

4. The embers still glowed in the hearth.

余烬仍在炉膛里发出暗淡的光。

来自《权威词典》

5. A log fire roared in the open hearth.

柴火在敞开着的壁炉里熊熊燃烧。

来自《权威词典》