timber

英 ['tɪmbə] 美['tɪmbɚ]

n. 木材；木料
n. (Timber)人名；(瑞典)廷贝尔

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中文词源

timber 林木，木材，木料

来自古英语 timber,房屋，建筑物，来自 Proto-Germanic*timran,建筑物，来自 PIE*deme,建造，修建，来自 PIE*dom,屋子，住所，词源同 dome,domicile.后引申词义建筑材料，树木，木材，木料等。

词态变化

复数: timbers;

英文词源

timber: timber: [OE] Timber originally denoted a ‘building’ – the Lindisfarne Gospels of around 950 translated Mark 13:1 (‘See what manner of stones and what buildings are here’) as ‘See what stones and what timber’. It comes from a prehistoric Germanic *timram, whose German descendant zimmer ‘room’ has remained closer to its semantic roots (but German zimmermann means ‘carpenter’).

And this in turn went back to Indo-European *demrom, a derivative of the base *dem-, *dom- ‘build’, from which English also gets dome, domestic, etc. The sense ‘building’ gradually developed into ‘building material’, then ‘wood used for building’, and finally ‘wood’ in general.
=> dome, domestic
timber (n.): Old English timber "building, structure," in late Old English "building material, trees suitable for building," and "trees or woods in general," from Proto-Germanic *timran (cognates: Old Saxon timbar "a building, room," Old Frisian timber "wood, building," Old High German zimbar "timber, wooden dwelling, room," Old Norse timbr "timber," German Zimmer "room"), from PIE *deme- "to build," possibly from root *dem- "house, household" (source of Greek domos, Latin domus; see domestic (adj.)).

The related Old English verb timbran, timbrian was the chief word for "to build" (compare Dutch timmeren, German zimmern). As a call of warning when a cut tree is about to fall, it is attested from 1912 in Canadian English. Timbers in the nautical slang sense (see shiver (v.2)) is from the specialized meaning "pieces of wood composing the frames of a ship's hull" (1748).

The timber-wolf (1846) of the U.S. West is the gray wolf, not confined to forests but so-called to distinguish it from the prairie-wolf (coyote).

双语例句

1. These Severn Valley woods have been exploited for timber since Saxon times.: 从撒克逊时代起就开始采伐塞文山谷的这些树林获取木料。

2. A natural timber deck leads into the main room of the home.: 有一个天然的木制平台通到房子的客厅。

3. Half of the north-west's timber land is public property.: 西北部的一半林地是公共财产。

4. It wants timber to come, where possible, from sustainably managed sources.: 其要求木材尽可能来自可持续发展林。

5. They have been bartering wheat for cotton and timber.: 他们一直用小麦交换棉花和木材。

英英释意

1. the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material

2. a beam made of wood

3. a post made of wood

4. land that is covered with trees and shrubs

5. (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound);: "the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely"; "the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet"

考试真题

Co-author Amy Zanne thinks that users probably range from climate-change researchers wanting to estimate how much carbon is stored in biomass, to foresters looking for information on different grades of timber.

Most consist of timber frames that rest on stone blocks.

The reason for constructing the buildings from wood is probably that ideally proportioned straight and slender timber was available in large quantities in Scandinavia's vast pine forests.

Some species of trees have been"read out of the party"by economics-minded foresters because they grow too slowly, or have too low a sale value to pay as timber crops.

实用场景例句

the timber industry: 林木业

houses built of timber: 木屋

roof timbers: 房檩

These Severn Valley woods have been exploited for timber since Saxon times.: 从撒克逊时代起就开始采伐塞文山谷的这些树林获取木料。

...a single-story timber building.: 木质平房

...a bird nestling in the timbers of the roof.: 栖息于屋顶横梁上的鸟

Um, maybe. What's on?: 嗯, 可以吧. 正在上演什么片子?

We found him to be the right sort of timber.: 我们发现他是真正的人才.

Timber is under allocation at present.: 目前木材是调拨供应.

The timber has seasoned well.: 这木材已经干燥可用了.

The timber is graded according to its thickness.: 木材按厚度分级.

He's being talked up as presidential timber.: 人们说他具有当总统的气质.

The crew lashed cargoes of timber down.: 全体船员将木材绑牢.

Clean timber has no knots in it.: 光洁的木料没有节疤.

These trees need more time to grow into useful timber.: 这些树不够年头,还没成材呢.

One quality of this kind of timber is that it can be sawn easily.: 这种木料的一个特点是容易锯开.

This is the cableway which the lumberjacks use to haul out their timber.: 这就是林业工人用以运送木材的空中索道.

The timber has rotted.: 这些木材已经腐朽了.

The timber has started to decay.: 木材已开始腐烂.

We must safeguard forest timber.: 我们必须保护森林.

You'll have to make do with this timber.: 你就可着这块木料做吧.

The usual fabric was timber.: 通常的建筑材料是木材.

Forested areas have been expanding every year, with the increase in standing timber greater than that of felled lumber.: 森林面积每年都在增加,林木生长量大于消耗量.

A timber fell from the roof.: 一根横梁从屋顶落下.

Woollen cloth and timber were sent to Egypt in exchange for linen or papyrus.: 羊毛料和木材送到埃及以换取亚麻布或纸莎草纸.

New timber should be treated with a preservative.: 新采的圆木应进行防腐处理.

roughly hewn timber frames: 粗劈成的木架子

a substructure of timber piles: 木桩下部结构

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